Center for Climate Protection

“990 was prepared by CPC Deputy Director and Accountant and reviewed by the Finance Committee including the Treasurer. It was approved by the Board of Directors. The Form 990 was sent to the full board of directors via e mail prior to being filed with the IRS”

“Each board member must fill out an annual declaration stating that they had no conflicts or identifying the nature of their interested party.”

“The Human Resource Committee of the board directed staff to use the "Fair Pay for Northern California Nonprofits, the 2011 Compensation & Benefits Survey" and do a survey of the compensation levels and position descriptions for 3 similar local nonprofits. Based on this information the HR Committee set salary levels (for all employees including the ED) for this year and goals for a five year period to bring the organization up to the level of the market average.”

“The Human Resource Committee of the board directed staff to use the "Fair Pay for Northern California Nonprofits, the 2011 Compensation & Benefits Survey" and do a survey of the compensation levels and position descriptions for 3 similar local nonprofits. Based on this information the HR Committee set salary levels (for all employees including the ED) for this year and goals for a five year period to bring the organization up to the level of the market average.”

“All are available upon request”

“OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: Sonoma Clean Power is a critical initiative of our Renewable Energy program. It is a public-private partnership where the existing investor-owned utility maintains transmission lines, and Sonoma Clean Power sets electricity rates, procures power to meet the load including developing local renewable energy. This approach promises to provide tremendous advantages in addition to greenhouse gas emission reduction such as rate stability, stimulation of local the economy, a more resilient energy system, green job creation, and an explosion of renewable energy development. In 2013 CPC worked closely with the business community and the wine industry to explain the economic advantages of the program. We also worked with elected officials in 8 cities and did presentations before all of the city councils. This work culminated in five cities voting to join Sonoma Clean Power, which began hiring staff in May. Sonoma Clean Power will begin offering clean energy services to customers in 2014. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 5: ECO2school (formerly Cool Schools): We added a new web component to our successful service learning program in high schools which helps students reduce their carbon footprint associated with their commute to school. Now students can log their walking and biking trips to school during our Commute Challenge, see how they are doing compared to other schools, and see how many calories that they have burned and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that they have reduced. We ran the challenge in seven schools resulting in approximately 18,876 fewer miles driven and a reduction of GHG emissions by an average of 5.3% per school. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 6:”