National Council of Teachers of English

“The Council offers three types of membership: individual voting membership, emeritus voting membership, and student non-voting membership. Individual voting membership in one section of the Council shall be available to all persons engaged in the teaching or supervision of English at any school level and to all others interested in the improvement of such teaching.”

“The Executive Committee shares public policy making responsibility with the voting membership.”

“Form 990 is prepared by a certified public accounting firm. The form will be shared with the Executive Committee via an online meeting prior to filing.”

“Executive Committee members review the policy each year and fill out new conflict of interest disclosures each year.”

“The Board has an annual review of the Organization's Executive and follows an established process for doing so, including written documentation. Salary was set based on comparative review upon hire and receives annual adjustments commensurate with that of all staff. For staff positions, the Organization uses the independent benchmarking offered through the American Society of Association Executive's compensation & benefits data.”

“Form 990 and financial data are available on Guidestar.org.”

“We make our governing documents available through our website. The constitution and bylaws are featured there, as are council policies on professional matters. Our governance body will have an opportunity to review our 990 prior to submission of tax documents and discuss with staff. Our 990 and financial data are published on Guidestar.org.”

“The Executive Committee is comprised of the council president, president-elect, vice president, the past president, chairs of the sections, representatives at large, and the chairs and associate chairs of the NCTE conferences. The Executive Committee may formulate position statements on educational issues, exercising budgetary responsibility and implement such actions. The Executive Committee shall also have the authority to approve budgets, review annual audits, to enter into contracts, to incur debt, to invest funds, and to sell and acquire property in the best interests of the Council. Such activities shall be reported annually to the membership.”

“Contracted Personnel Costs: Program service expenses 192,135. Management and general expenses 268,430. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 460,565. Other Professional Services: Program service expenses 607,789. Management and general expenses 651,029. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 1,258,818. Member Recruitment/Retention: Program service expenses 90,124. Management and general expenses 125,912. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 216,036.”

“Change in Accumulated Post Retirement Benefit 11,252.”