Sheltering Arms Foundation

“The finance committee annually reviews the audit as presented by the independent auditing firm. Once approved by the finance committee, the report is made to the full board of trustees by the treasurer. The 990 return is sent to all trustees via email for full review prior to filing the return.”

“Each trustee receives a conflict of interest policy and annual disclosure statement at the beginning of the fiscal year. The executive director and associate director regularly monitor the activities of the trustees to make sure any voting or discussion of reported conflicts are in compliance with the policy.”

“The executive committee reviews the performance of the executive director over the previous year. The executive director does a self review and the committee seeks trustee input from the full board via a written questionnaire or by conducting phone interviews. Based on this information, the committee and executive director establish a vision for the coming year. The executive director and associate director perform a similar review process. The executive committee recommends any salary adjustments for both key staff, the executive director and associate director. Comparable data (including salary surveys from the council on foundations, exponent philanthropy and peak grantmaking) is used in determining salary adjustments for both key staff.”

“The executive committee recommends any salary adjustments for both key staff, the executive director and associate director. Comparable data (including salary surveys from the council on foundations, association of small foundations and grant managers network) is used in determining salary adjustments for both key staff.”

“The financial statements are available for public viewing on the foundation's website under "about us/annual report." the conflict of interest policy and governing documents of the foundation are available upon request.”

“"the sheltering arms foundation invests in the lives of minnesotas children to help them reach their full potential. The foundation funds not-for-profit organizations and supports policies that benefit children and their families who have the least access to resources."”

“Part ii, line 1, column (h): name of organization or government: ain dah yung center (h) purpose of grant or assistance: to support our culture is prevention culturally responsive programming for indigenous youth who are homeless, unaccompanied, and unsheltered. Through trauma-informed, strengths-based, and person-first approaches, adyc replaces a sense of blame and shame with positive cultural acquisition, helping youth find healthy ways to respond to stress and trauma, while creating foundations for them to establish a strong underpinning for personal growth, skills-building, self-sufficiency, and healing. Name of organization or government: american indian community housing organization (h) purpose of grant or assistance: to support youth food and gardening program that serves primarily youth ages 5-12, and their families. This program exposes youth to food and gardening activities within a cultural context, gives youth the opportunity to learn skills and incentivizes youth building mastery in the tasks necessary to maintain our gardens, indoor growing system, and indoor worm composting system. Name of organization or government: banyan community (h) purpose of grant or assistance: banyans thrive program for youth in grades k-5 involves 72 youth from the phillips neighborhood of south minneapolis. Youth participate in year-round after- school and summer programming at no cost to families. Programming includes academic support, social and emotional learning, community engagement, and planning for college and career. Name of organization or government: big brothers big sisters of the greater twin cities purpose of grant or assistance: the free arts program provides underserved youth in challenging circumstances a safe place for artistic expression and self-discovery with mentor and teaching artist support. Free arts serves 1200 youth each year, and partners with more than 20 organizations in the twin cities, including shelters, transitional housing, schools, and teen treatment programs. Name of organization or government: centro tyrone guzman (h) purpose of grant or assistance: in partnership with the montessori center of minnesota and st. Catherine university, centro tyrone guzman will engage latine parent leaders and community partners in developing and piloting a new, culturally-affirming, montessori-based home visiting program. The new program will proactively provide early childhood development support to latine parents with young children (age 0-3) who speak spanish in the home. Name of organization or government: child care aware of minnesota (h) purpose of grant or assistance: the focus of transforming minnesotas early childhood workforce project is the creation of a qualified, diverse, supported, and equitably compensated early childhood workforce to support the economy and build future academic and life success for minnesotas youngest children as well as working to transform the financing of early care and education in minnesota. Name of organization or government: children's defense fund/minnesota (h) purpose of grant or assistance: cdf-mn will build upon our ongoing capacity building and engagement work with families from low income households, and black, indigenous and people of color (bipoc) communities across the state to ensure community voices are actively informing early childhood education and education (ece) networks advancing policy advocacy. Name of organization or government: commonbond communities (h) purpose of grant or assistance: study buddies serves youth in grades one through six who live in commonbonds family housing communities in the twin cities-metro. Youth are paired with volunteer mentors who meet weekly with youth to develop reading literacy and social-emotional skills. Name of organization or government: creatempls (h) purpose of grant or assistance: expanding programs will build on what students have learned in the current school year with what has been learned from the board's program en”

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