St. Johns Center for Opportunity

“The external accounting firm prepares the form 990 and supplemental schedules as soon as possible and forwards a draft of the return to the executive director and governing board for review. The executive director receives all board members' comments (if any) and relays them to the cpa firm for answers. Once the executive director and board has approved 990 and supplemental schedules instructions are given to the external accounting firm to prepare a final version of the return for signature or electronic filing. The executive director receives an electronic copy of the return for record keeping. Every effort will be made to file the return in a timely manner with the internal revenue service.”

“Annually member are asked to disclosed any potential conflicts of interest.”

“The executive director's salary is reviewed annually as part of the budgeting process (starting in april). The board chair performs the annual review based on goals and criteria established previusly. Any adjustments to compensation is based upon performance and financial capacity to do so.”

“Upon written request documents are made available.”

“Volunteers assist in a variety of ways at the community events that take place, including ticket sales, setting-up and taking-down exhibits, clean- up and manning information booths.”

“Community programs and farmers market - we celebrated our 12th season of the st. Johns farmers market. Our daily customer counts averaged over 2,000 shoppers each week. Many households were enrolled in our programs that distribute monthly vouchers to low income families. A high priority for sjco during this time period was maintaining operations for the st. Johns farmers market as it provided support to our district in numerous way. The st. Johns farmers market (sjfm) supports a local, sustainable food supply while providing opportunity for emerging farmers, contributing to the health of all local residents, encouraging cross-cultural connections and dialogue, and enhancing the community and business vitality of st. Johns. With food access at the heart of it all,our increased efforts to bolster our food access programs proved beneficial as we saw the following: a total of 2,664 in snap benefits have been redeemed at the farmers market - we've matched a total of 1,478 in double up food buck so that snap shoppers could really stretch their dollars at the market - we had an average of 26 vendors participating per market day. We distributed 2,880 in veggie vouchers to over 30 households of which 47% were households of color, the highest amount of folks of color to enroll in this program to date. Although covid-19 did not allow us to hold our regularly schedule community closet dates,our no-contact appointment pick-ups for clothing needs still saw over 10 clients per week. Food, clothing, and hygiene access were of high demand during this time and is a crucial component of our community placemaking efforts for our district. Our community programs have continued to grow and thrive by providing essential services to neighbors in-need, including distributing thousands of clothing items to people through our community clothing closet. Our homeless outreach team helped bring together neighbors in support of various community initiatives to alleviate homelessness.”

“Economic development: when the shelter in place order went into effect in march, it posed a major challenge for sjco as an organization since a majority of our programming at tech time were direct service activity that brought quite a bit of foot traffic into the facility. Sjco decided to downsize all of its programming efforts to what was feasible for our staff and the capacity. One of the best services that we kept was the social media marketing services through bizzie lizzy. With a new reality for many of our district's businesses, quite a few shut down, but many others were able to stay open in various capacities. The support provided through these efforts allowed all operating businesses to receive professional consultation on covid-19 messaging and marketing for their goods and services. With sjco fronting the costs, our district's businesses received over 100 hours of consultation at no cost to them and at the benefit of their survival. In addition, approximately 45,000 in storefront grants were issued for community businesses.”

“Prior period adjustments 73,579”