Diversity Richmond Inc

“The organization's draft form 990 was distributed to the members of the board of directors by electronic mail approximately one week prior to the date of filing.”

“Each member of the board signs the organization's conflict of interest policy and makes an annual declaration of any conflicts. The policy is enforced by the board.”

“The compensation for the president is established by the board based on perfomance. The organization's annual budget is prepared using comparative compensation data for all members of management and the annual budget is reviewed and approved by the board of directors.”

“Information is available upon request.”

“-------------------------------------------------------------------------- the organization is the grateful recipient of financial contributions from 100% of its board of directors and executive management. --------------------------------------------------------------------------”

“-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. The organization operates as "diversity richmond". 2. The organization operates a thrift store branded as "diversity thrift". 3. Through july 2018, the organization operated bingo games for the general public branded as "diversity bingo". Since july 2018, the organization operates isolated bingo games solely for fundraising purposes. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- effective april 1, 2021, the organization merged with gay pride virginia dba va pride ("va pride") (41-2212870) a 501(c)(3) organization. For legal, financial and reporting purposes, the organization is the surviving entity and the merger is expected to be accounted for in 2021 as a pooling of interests. At march 31, 2021, va pride held cash and cash equivalents of approximately 230,000 and reported no outstanding liabilities. The terms of the merger agreement include the designation of three (3) board positions for former va pride board members, restriction as to use of va pride's cash and cash equivalents for a period of two (2) years and employment of va pride's former executive director as project manager dedicated to va pride's operating activities. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ other information ------------------------------------------------------------------------- in 2020, the organization's thrift store was named one of the best thrift stores in style magazine's best of richmond annual survey. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- better business bureau accreditation ------------------------------------------------------------------------ the organization is an accredited charity by the better business bureau which requires meeting the better business bureau's twenty (20) standards for charity accountability in categories such as governance, measuring effectiveness, finances, and fundraising/information. The organization's accreditation expires in december 2020. Community relations ------------------------------------------------------------------------ for the last five years, diversity richmond has coordinated a series of events recognizing the leadership and contributions of african american lgbtq+ people and their allies. The series includes community conversations addressing issues of transgender women of color, spirituality and african american lgbtq+ people, black queer politics and the annual recognition of national hiv/aids awareness. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- mission accomplishments ------------------------------------------------------------------------- diversity richmond's primary mission is "awareness". In connection therewith, below are specific examples of mission accomplishments during 2020: diversity richmond's meeting rooms are used at no charge by other organizations such as richmond triangle players, side by side, monument city music, va pride, the virginia anti-violence project and four aa recovery groups; diversity richmond provided incidental storage for multiple lgbtq+ organizations saving them thousands of dollars annually; diversity thrift donated free books to local school teachers; diversity richmond's iridian gallery, the south's only art gallery dedicated to lgbtq+ artists, coordinated five exhibits and special events; four lgbtq+ organizations use diversity richmond as their address, saving hundreds in post office rental spaces; diversity richmond conducted multiple community conversations addressing racism and white privilege; and diversity richmond conducts a monthly radio show on wrir fm, addressing issues of the lgbtq+ community; "diversity richmond speaks" is a top rated wrir-fm broadcast. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -----------------------------------------”

“The organization is the grateful recipient of volunteer services in its: a. Thrift store operations, b. Board roles and committee leadership, and c. Program service.”

“------------------------------------------------------------------------- diversity richmond operates a retail store that receives publicly donated items of clothing, household items, books and furniture. These items are then prepared for sale to the public through the organization's retail store branded as diversity thrift. A significant number of volunteer services are provided in the thrift shop in sorting, organizing and preparing donated items for sale. Revenues produced by diversity thrift are used to fund (a) the operations of diversity richmond, (b) the design and provision of educational, civic and cultural programming, and (c) the provision of direct cash support for agencies and groups that provide services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (lgbtq+) people in central virginia. --------------------------------------------------------------------------”

“Diversity richmond occupies a 47,000 square foot facility in richmond, virginia that provides flexible meeting and programming space for lgbtq+ people, for the groups that provide services to them, and for people and groups in central virginia that support the organization's mission. Diversity richmond also provides support to the community through the operation of its website, social media and networking services that tie together the efforts of groups serving lgbtq+ people. Diversity richmond also hosts a growing schedule of programming events produced in- house, including musical performances, discussion groups and gallery shows. In 2020 over 5,000 people attended events produced or promoted by diversity richmond. Specifically, the organization provides meeting space to four (4) twelve-step recovery programs (e.g., alcoholics anonymous) in addition to local non-profit organizations. Specific programs in 2020 by diversity richmond are described below: 1. The iridian gallery at diversity richmond is one of the few art galleries in the nation solely dedicated to promoting lgbtq+ artists. The gallery committee is comprised of local artists hosting exhibits during 2020 and have scheduled several exhibits during 2021. 2. Diversity richmond, through its program, diversity thrift, partners with approximately 15 social service and recovery programs by donating clothing to their clients in-need. For many of these agencies, diversity thrift is the only source of clothing available to their clients each participant is gifted a 25.00 clothing voucher which will purchase several articles of clothing. Diversity thrift contributes about 175 items of clothing monthly. 3. In response to the impact of the pandemic on the livelihoods of many people, diversity richmond conducted three food drives, providing a week's supply of groceries to over 1,800 local families. The first two drives supported the hispanic community since so many work in the hospitality industry which was especially hard-hit by the pandemic. The third drive was open to everyone with over 800 cars coming through for food. The drivers popped open the trunks of their cars and volunteers loaded the groceries. This effort would not have been possible without the support of feed more. Their generosity included more than 21,000 pounds of vegetables and fruit along with hundreds of frozen turkeys, hams and chicken. Other supporters included diaz foods, laughing gull foundation, virginia pride, genesis consulting, sign scapes, treehouse realty, alpna arora, property investment group, brown-forman brands, big spoon, latinos in virginia empowerment center, glaxosmithkline consumer healthcare, sylvia's sisters and stonewall sports. --------------------------------------------------------------------------”

“------------------------------------------------------------------------- utilizing net revenues from its diversity thrift and from rental income, diversity richmond provided direct cash support to non-profits, agencies and groups serving lgbtq+ people in central virginia. In 2020 diversity richmond distributed 31,000. Recipients included the metropolitan community church richmond, virginia anti-violence project, minority veterans of america; richmond chapter, side by side, the longevity project, twin oaks queer gathering and virginia pride. In addition, during 2020, the organization provided food to thousands of people in need in excess of 12,000. The organization wishes to acknowledge the contributions of feed more for providing approximately 98,000 of food donations. We donate the use our conference rooms and event hall to nonprofits whose mission identifies with ours. Prior to the pandemic, rarely did a night pass that our rooms were not filled with people. In the last few months, groups have begun to return. These programs include many local lgbtq organizations, four twelve-step programs and other programs serving the local community. Since the pandemic, our large event hall was donated to community service in a number of different capacities, as a place where social distancing was possible. In 2020 it was used as a covid-19 testing site by the richmond henrico health district on multiple occasions, testing hundreds of individuals. It was used for three press conferences by richmond mayor levar stoney, two press conferences for the richmond henrico health district and one press conference for the superintendent of richmond schools. It was the site chosen for governor northam's signing of the virginia values act. We provided 100 thanksgiving meals to-go many of which were taken to places where homeless people congregate. Our parking lot hosted outdoor events such as our drive-in drag shows and served as the origination point for the stonewall black lives matter march. Finally, the organization provides equipment to local non-profit theaters for props, sets and costumes at an estimated value of 2,500 to 3,000 for the year ended december 31, 2020. -------------------------------------------------------------------------”

“--------------------------------------------------------------------------- the organization's temporary cash investements and certificates of deposit (totaling 312,715) are board designated to fund future building renovations and operating contingencies. --------------------------------------------------------------------------”

“Rental expenses reported net 109,803 rental expenses reported net -109,803”