Asheville-Buncombe Sustainable Community Initiatives Inc

“Robin Loew, the organizations Secretary/Treasurer, is an administrative assistant to Mack Pearsall, the organizations President/Director.”

“George Briggs, a member of the Board of Directors, can be reached at - The NC Arboretum, 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, Asheville, NC 28806.”

“Each of the organizations board members review the completed Form 990 for completeness and accuracy before the return is filed.”

“Annually, each director and officer is required to sign an affidavit. The persons covered are any director, principal officer, or member of a committee with governing delegated powers. If the annual affidavit discloses a potential conflict, the president conducts an independent preliminary investigation as to the potential existence of a conflict. If he determines that there is a potential coflict, the policy sets forth procedures to address the conflict.”

“The organizations governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements are made available to the public at its office location, One Page Ave., Ste 215, Asheville, NC 28801.”

“The initial occupants of the space will be an ecosystem of tenants focused on the commercialization of climate data, particularly the development and use of climate data decision support systems. In support of the Collider effort, ABSCI continued to work under the 2013 MOU with the Wells Fargo building owner, Ocean Asheville, LLC OA, to be given another year to develop the plans for The Callen Center and the Collider space and potential tenants for OA. In addition to ABSCI d/b/a the Collider, ABSCI collaborated with its MOU partners, CICS-NC, UNC Asheville and the Partnership for Resilience PfR to collaboratively promote development and programming of that space. ABSCI passed off the lead role in the creation of PfR to CICS-NC which collaboratively with NC State University created an industry consortia related to climate data. With national cache, PfRs authoritative mission is one of education and not advocacy. PfR provides a trusted space for private, public, academic and nonprofit sectors to build social and economic resilience in businesses and communities impacted by a changing climate. continued below”

“continued from above It provides a bridge to federally sponsored climate data, knowledge and tools for the users and provider community needs private sector companies that offer services to climate sensitive businesses and communities, and drives and directs new public and private climate data research to meet those needs. PfR has long-term plans to co-locate with the Collider in the Callen Center. ABSCI worked collaboratively with other community stakeholders to successfully get the American Association of State Climatologists to relocate its national headquarters to Asheville with plans for it to be co-located with the Collider in the Callen Center. ABSCI worked collaboratively with other community stakeholders to successfully get the American Association of State Climatologists to relocate its national headquarters to Asheville with plans for it to be co-located with the Collider in the Callen Center. ABSCI continued in its support of the NC Green Schools Program, which evolved from ABSCIs RRR program. That program received special recognition by EPA which resulted in an EPA documentary that was produced in 2015. ABSCI continued its collaboration with CEOs for Cities in the development of its effort to synthesize, summarize, update and deliver public data in standard, compelling formats to more easily convey the elements of complex public policy issues to the public related to community resilience.”

“These are program service consulting expenses related to the organizations charitable purpose as described on Page 2, Line 4.”