Change the Equation Inc

“After approval by change the equation's ceo and coo/director of research, cteq's form 990 is filed with the internal revenue service.”

“Every cteq board member and officer annually signs a statement affirming that he or she (i.) has received a copy of the conflict of interest policy and (ii.) will comply with the policy. With respect to any board discussion or decision involving matters covered by this policy, the minutes of the board meeting at which such discussion or decision take place mustreflect in detail the board deliberations and the voting process, specifically indicating that the director or officer whose situation was considered was not present in the room either during the discussion or for the vote. In addition, any market data or information considered by the board in approving or disapproving a proposed transaction covered by this policy must be attached to the minutes of the board meeting at which such consideration took place.”

“The founding members of cteq retained the services of terra search partners, and executive search firm headquartered in california. Part of the practice of this search firm includes non-profits; the person leading the search for cteq presented comparable salary data for the ceo position to the founding members, who settled on the final amount. The gates foundation donated the services of the monitor group to help conceptualize compensation for each position.once the benchmark salary level was set for the ceo, recommendations from the monitor group, experience and existing compensation levels of the individuals being hired were considered in making salary offers.”

“The board of directors provides the authority to the chief executive officer to determine the salaries for the key employees.”

“Cteq makes its governing documents, conflict of interest policy and financial statements available for public inspection upon request. In addition, change the equation will maintain its form 990 in guidestar's database of information on non-profit organizations.”

“Change the equation works at the intersection of business and education to ensure that all students are stem literate by collaborating with schools, communities, and states to adopt and implement excellent stem policies and programs.”

“Cteq works with its member companies to increase their collective impact of their philanthropy on stem learning in the united states. A major strategy for doing so is rallying companies around programs that are most likely to have a big impact on young people's performance or interest in stem. In 2015, cteq member companies invested tens of millions of dollars in programs cteq had identified as among the most effective in the nation. This investment brought these programs to roughly 545,000 more young people across the country. With cteq support, public/private partnerships scaled these programs to an additional 117,000 young people. This effort began in 2010-2011, when cteq worked with a committee of representatives from member companies to create a set of "design principles for effective stem philanthropy," together with a rubric to help companies apply the principles. These tools help member companies examine their own practice and increase the impact of the resources they devote to improving learning in stem. In 2012, cteq expanded its philanthropy work by creating stemworks, a searchable database of stem learning programs that measure up to the design principles. Cteq contracts with wested, a research and evaluation nonprofit, to evaluate programs against the rubric. Only programs that meet a high bar are admitted to stemworks. There are currently more than 75 programs in stemworks. More than a dozen of these are "promising," which means they have the potential to meet stemworks's high bar if they develop themselves further. Less than 30 percent of stemworks applicants have been admitted as either accomplished or promising programs. Scaling stemworks programs through public/private partnerships in states in 2015, cteq also had partnerships with organizations in three states - arizona, colorado and iowa - to launch state-specific stemworks initiatives. In each case cteq helped state organizations build the capacity to review stem programs in their states for admission to the database. Programs chosen by the iowa governor's stem advisory council through the iowa process received more than 3 million dollars in state funding and hundreds of thousands more dollars from corporate partners in scaling funds. These funds are bringing stemworks programs to nearly 120,000 iowa students and youth. Cteq helped colorado stem use the process to bring seven state programs into the database, and colorado funders awarded grants to help those programs expand through the state. Science foundation arizona completed a second round of stemworks in partnership with change the equation, adding three new programs to the database. In late 2015, cteq began conversations to explore similar partnerships with leading stem organizations in several more states. Providing data to drive decision-making change the equation's robust, state-by-state "vital signs" reports, which present more than 50 indicators for each state in the country, provide the richest, most complete state-by-state information on stem learning ever assembled. They combine publicly available data with new data gleaned from new sources or reanalysis of data in existing sources. The data are available in brief printed reports as well as in an interactive website that allows visitors to explore state-by-state data in more depth. Cteq vital signs data have been cited by dozens of national and state media outlets across the country, and national legislators, state legislators, ceos, and at least two governors have used them to advocate for greater focus on stem learning. In 2015, cteq completed a complete overhaul of the vital signs website, adding new workforce datapoints for each state, making the site easier to use, and drawing stronger connections between the problems highlighted in the data and solutions companies can support. Visitors to vital signs can download custom charts for any state in the nation. In 2015, cteq updated vital signs with new data as they became available. In addit”

“Expansion of stem-focused schools. At the urging of business and school leaders at the meeting, cteq embarked on an effort to connect students at stem-focused schools to work-based learning opportunities with member companies. In the remainder of the year, cteq brokered connections between businesses and major stem school networks in texas and massachusetts. At the end of 2015, cteq member companies pledged 112,000 hours of stem volunteerism for 2016. That amounts to 14,000 days of stem volunteering that will help thousands of young people see clearer pathways to stem careers. Cteq continues to work with these companies to help them fulfill that pledge.”

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