The Get Schooled Foundation

“The draft form 990 is reviewed by the president/executive director and treasurer. After their review, the draft form 990 is distributed to the officers and the full board for their review and comments. Board members are asked to approve draft form 990 with any suggested corrections/revisions prior to e-filing the form 990.”

“Board members are required to sign a document each year and attorneys retained by the get schooled foundation review/advise if there are any potential questions.”

“The hiring and determination of the appropriate salary level for top management is important to get schooled's health. Top management employees can be invaluable to a modest-sized national nonprofit such as get schooled, and it's important that the organization's financial resources be properly managed. To determine salaries for top management and highly-compensated employees get schooled follows the approach as outlined below: *an ad hoc compensation committee consists of two board members meets at least annually. *the ad hoc compensation committee goes over the following data: *data from other similar roles in other similar national education nonprofits. *data from complimentary roles in the local (seattle) education space. *balance this data against the unemployment rate, talent pool and the opportunity costs. *the ad hoc compensation committee then takes this collection of information and applies it to the candidate(s) to determine a final offer range for new employees and raise for continuing employees *bonus and other compensation for executive director is approved by the board chair and at least one additional board member”

“The organization makes its governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements available to the public upon request.”

“The executive director of the get schooled foundation is an employee of viacomcbs inc. His or her time and services are contributed to the organization and compensation and benefits are set at the vice president level for viacomcbs inc. Employees. This meets the taxable organization employee exception and is not required to be reported on part vii.”

“Get schooled's programs are anchored in three journeys youth take - preparing for college during the last two years in high school, getting and succeeding in a first job, and enrolling and succeeding in the first year in college. For each of these, get schooled provides a combination of curated, research-based content delivered across platforms and channels, direct 1:1 support, and bundles of digital content and activities for partners. Across the three college and career journeys and using these outreach and engagement strategies, get schooled has directly supported almost one million young people. 2020 was a challenging year for every single student, educator, and young job seeker. Get schooled was well positioned to offer digital support as that has been our approach from our founding 10 years ago. We even invested in a more robust text platform, rolled out a modernized website, expanded our social outreach to tiktok, and created more than one hundred new videos for youtube. Additional highlights for 2020 are noted below: incredible reach: * 610,883 unique web visits * 70,559 job searches * 165,939 text exchanges * 216,739 youtube video views * 118,281 social followers real impact in our annual survey of users we see the impact on key milestones in each of our three journeys: * getting to college: 93% accepted into college; 90% completed the fafsa; 86% felt more confident they belong in college * succeeding in college: 86% received help with the transition to college; 93% registered for the second year of college * finding a job: 94% feel prepared in their job search notable highlights * released dozens of articles and videos to support youth with the impacts of covid on school, distance learning, and well-being * doubled-down our outreach and support statewide in texas and oregon, and in detroit. * ran a "we belong in college" scholarship campaign that resulted in hundreds of videos of young people sharing stories of persistence and overcoming challenges on the path to and through college * hosted a virtual hiring fair and connected thousands of youth to jobs and job resources * created more than 100 youtube videos * launched get schooled on tiktok * directly supported thousands of educators as they worked to provide virtual college and career assistance to their students. * updated our website and textline”