Feeding Our Communities Partners

“The Board of Directors has an Executive Committee made up of the Chair, Vice Chair, Treasurer, and Secretary and this committee may approve expenditures with two approving members.”

“The return is prepared by an accounting firm. The full return is emailed to the entire board of directors for review one week prior to the board meeting. Any questions or concerns are requested before the meeting and given further opportunity at the meeting to discuss. If the return is satisfactory, the board proposes a motion to approve and the return is submitted to the IRS.”

“All board members are required to review and sign a conflict of interest disclosure agreement annually. Copies are kept on file and reviewed as needed. The governing board will determine if a conflict exists. If it is determined a conflict does exist, the individual with the conflict may make a presentation on the topic but must leave the meeting during the discussion and vote.”

“The Board Chair and Vice Chair conduct the annual performance review of the Executive Director. Compensation of the Executive Director is based on comparability data from similar nonprofits in Minnesota and the immediate region (Salary and Benefits Survey, Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, 2016.) The Board Chair and Vice Chair recommend any salary changes for board approval. This process is conducted once per year and is recorded in the board meeting minutes and personnel file. All other employees have comparable compensation reviews annually and pay ranges are established for discretion of management.”

“The annual report (including financial statements), Form 1023, and previous year 990 filings are available on the organization's website. Other documents are available upon request.”

“The Weekend Summer Feeding Program: A free program provided by Feeding Our Communities Partners that was piloted in fiscal year 2019. Based on the success of the pilot program, FOCP will continue to provide a Weekend Summer Feeding Program to students in 2020. Students are eligible if they attend one of the 28 schools currently served by FOCP and are in grades K-8 (incoming kindergarten students included). In fiscal year 2019, weekend food boxes were delivered monthly to 336 children in the greater Mankato area. Youth received a total of 3 boxes throughout the summer, as each box had 4 food packs (one for each weekend of the month) inside. Each food pack contained child-friendly and well-balanced breakfast, lunch and snack items for the weekend, at no cost for the child/parent.”