Ja Africa

“ASHEESH ADVANI, CEO - JA WORLDWIDE *SIMISOLA NWOGUGU, CEO - JA AFRICA - Business relationship”

“The form 990 is prepared by a third party, reviewed by the management of ja africa, cfo of ja worldwide and the ja africa finance and audit committee before it is filed with the irs.”

“Process for monitoring compliance with conflict of interest policy: all officers, directors, and employees are required annually to complete and update a conflict of interest declaration as a method of disclosing and ethically resolving potential conflicts of interest. Should any transaction or act of any officer, director, and employee constitute a possible conflict of interest, the individual is required to disclose all the relevant facts for consideration to determine whether a conflict of interest actually exists, and if so, the manner in which it should be resolved.”

“Governing documents available to the public: ja africa makes its financial statements, governing documents, and conflict of interest policy available to the public upon request.”

“Members: the sole member of ja africa, inc. (jaa) shall be ja worldwide, inc. Which has the right to elect and remove directors. The following actions require approval by the member: 1) amendment, modification, or restatement of the certificate or bylaws; 2) merger, consolidation, reorganization, or dissolution of jaa or the sale, lease or exchange, or other disposition, transfer or conveyance of all or substantially all of its assets; 3) any material change in any current nonprofit purpose and objectives of jaa; 4) entering into any operating agreement between jaa and any of its local areas, other than in substantially the form previously approved by the member or modifying or amending to any material extent any such operating agreement in a manner substantially inconsistent with such form.”

“Describe process for determining compensation: the governance process for determining compensation for the organization's ceo and other top management is modeled after the requirements in internal revenue code section 4958 to establish the presumption of reasonable compensation. Compensation was reviewed and approved by the executive compensation subcommittee (the committee) of the board of governors of ja worldwide, inc., which is comprised of independent persons. By engaging an independent compensation consultant, the committee considered comparable market data from published surveys and form 990 of comparable organizations in evaluating the compensation for each individual.”

“Compensation: compensation for asheesh advani is for services as employees of ja worldwide, inc., a related organization. Compensation deliberations take into account services provided to the filing organization and its affiliates. Revenue presented in the form 990 does not include the revenue of over 100 ja affiliates who are part of the global ja network that ja worldwide oversees.”

“work readiness, and entrepreneurship, JA empowers young people to grow their entrepreneurial ideas, hone their work skills, manage their earnings, and secure better lives for themselves, their families, and their communities. JA Africa currently runs programs in 23 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, collectively reaching more than one million youth annually. The organisation works in partnership with local ministries of education and corporate organizations in each country to deliver programs in schools, working in more than 3,000 schools each year. JA Africa recorded 17% increase in impact numbers in FY25.”