The Pearl Group Inc.

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“The tax exempt non-profit charitable mission of the pearl group, inc. Is to create, implement, and provide sustainable programs whereby single parent families find hope and skills necessary to build an economically and emotionally stable home environment.”

“And program. Volunteers provide and serve the single moms a fun and nutricious dinner, volunteer mentors are at each table, paid staff is available for one on one mentoring. Professional programs are presented each week, a safe welcoming enenvironment encourages open discussion and resultant problem solving.”

“Reliable transportaion means for the single parents and families assuring them access to jobs, child care, medical, grocery, and other self sufficiency needs. Repairs were made to over 150 vehicles this past fiscal year.”

“Form 990, part iii, line 4d: program service expenses: 0, grants and allocations: 0, revenue: 0 the closet is a gently used clothing store providing no cost season appropriate clothing for single parents and their children. Over 5,000 items of donated clothing were received, cleaned, sized, and displayed for participants to select from. Participants must sign up for access allowing for an informal needs assessment assuring that those in need are those served. Over 200 families have been approved for a passport giving store access. The closet program promotes self sufficiency by providing job appropriate clothing, social acceptance for school age children by providing in style season appropriate attire, and generally promotes greater self esteem to those in need of good clean stylish clothing. The closet is staffed by 7-10 volunteers providing over 600 volunteer hours of service annually. All clothing is received from donations. The store facility operates in donated space rent free. Form 990, part iii, line 4d: program service expenses: 38,984, grants and allocations: 0, revenue: 0 the p.e.a.r.l.s program includes adopt a pearl, pearls of hope, and focus pearl. This programming involves pairing single parent families with volunteer adults with the goal of promoting healthy relationships. These relationships are designed to grow into familial style friendships allowing for mentoring, listening, guidance, problem solving, respite outings, and familial type examples of self sufficieny. The focused pearl program is a program wherein a select group of motivated single parents were interviewed and selected to receive a more intense level of guidance and assistance including job skills assessment and training, tuition reimbursement, tuition scholarships, child care assistance, and any other form of assistance needed to remove any possible impediment to their achieving self sufficiency. Initial results of this multi year project are encouraging with moderate success achieved to date with a full objective analysis of efforts and resulting success currently in process. Over 250 hours of volunteer time is provided annually by over 25 volunteers. Form 990, part iii, line 4d: program service expenses: 0, grants and allocations: 0, revenue: 0 the pearl group, inc. Has been privileged to have over 150 volunteers contributing over 5,000 service hours to the selected programs. These annual volunteer service hours have been valued at over 125,000. Contributions of clothing to the closet is estimated to exceed 50,000 in value. Discounted and donated car parts used in the car care clinic has been valued at over 10,000. 20+ cars valued at over 30,000 were received as contributions to the car care clinic. Facility usage provided rent free for the organization's admin offices, the closet and car care clinics exceeds 36,000 in value annually. Software and professional services received has been valued at over 5,000 annually. The independent board of directors have contributed in excess of 1,000 hours of time. Food and beverages provided by hundreds of volunteers to the single mom's dinners and mentoring programs exceeds 10,000 in value. It is estimated that the value of in-kind services and goods received exceeds 250,000 per annum. Form 990, part iii, line 4d: program service expenses: 0, grants and allocations: 0, revenue: 0 the pearl group, inc. Employs one full time staff person who serves as the executive director. The staff compensation and benefits are provided through an independent employee leasing arrangement. These staff salary and benefit costs are reimbursed 100% by the pearl group, inc. Full time staff persons are not eligible to serve on the independent board of directors. The board of directors are not allowed to have a business relationship with the organization. Full disclosure and board of director conflict of interest issues are addressed annually and by agreement are to be self reported monthly. No such conflict issues have been p”