Ready for School

“The accounting firm provides the organization with a draft copy of the form 990. The executive director, treasurer, and the associate director review the form and make any corrections or suggestions as needed. The accounting firm then revises the form and electronically files it.”

“A director, officer or administrative staff will be required to disclose to the board of directors of ready for school any affiliation with an organization seeking to provide services, equipment or facilities to ready for school, or when a director, officer, or administraive staff has any duality of interest or possible conflict of interest, real or apparent, such affiliations or conflict of interest must be disclosed to the board of directors of ready for school and made a matter of record either when the interest becomes a matter of board action or a part of the annual procedure established by the board. To address actual and potential conflicts of interest, any director, officer or administrative staff having a duality of interest or possible conflict of interest will follow the following procedures with regard to matters brought before the board of directors: statement of position, voting, and duty of good faith.”

“The board determines the salary based on comparability studies using national and local non profit data. The board approves the salary, and all changes are shown in the board minutes.”

“Governing documents are made available to the public on request.”

“To prepare children for success in kindergarten by equipping parents and families through the integrated support of the community. As an organization, ready for school sees big potential in all small children. Their focus is making early childhood learning a community priority.”

“ACTUAL COUNT”

“2018 impact hightlights: demonstrating that early childhood is a community priority: - showed a 3% increase in kindergarten readiness to 66%. Since 2009, kindergarten readiness has increased from 43 to 66% per an early literacy measure (dynamic indicators of basic early literacy skills) - catalyzed ottawa community health assessment process to include adverse childhood experiences data collection accelerate access to year round early childhood learning experiences: - awarded 320 access scholarships for preschool tuition during the traditional school year. - supported navigation of early childhood system with 38 referrals to state and federal preschool programs in addition to multiple referrals to ottawa county's help me grow care coordination team - created high quality summer learning opportunities for 112 incoming kindergartners and over 200 of their caregivers. This program, start school ready, is a readiness accelerator that showed statistically significant increases in early literacy and social emotional readiness enhance world-class early childhood professional talent: - enhanced trusted healthcare provider relationships through reach out and read: 12,000 well child visits were enhanced with developmentally appropriate books and healthcare provider conversations - enhanced 115 pre-k and kindergarten educator's approaches to early literacy and social emotional readiness through 3 community offerings: building bridges, the little read, and start school ready - enhanced relationships and peer learning through 10 early educator round tables innovate to expand early learning opportunities: - aligned and connected 115 pre-k and kindergarten educators through professional development that focused on early literacy and social emotional readiness - co-created a 4 week nature based education experience, start school ready. This strategy helped fill the year round need for high quality learning opportunities that accelerate kindergarten readiness - coached 20 pre-k and kindergarten educators on nature based education - expanded start school ready to include 3 school system partners: holland public schools, zeeland public schools, and hamilton community schools. This allows the infrastructure, including transportation, to support our community's youngest learners year round, not just during the traditional school year”