Caring Communities Inc.

“An independent accounting firm prepares and reviews the 990. The 990 is then reviewed by the organization's accounting personnel. Any questions or concerns the organization's accounting personnel have are addressed and any corrections that need to be made are made. The 990 is then reviewed by the organization's president and any corrections or clarifications that need to be made are made. The final form 990 with all required schedules is then provided to all voting members of the board prior to filing the 990.”

“THE CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY FOR THE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY TRUST (FACT) REQUIRES THAT ALL STAFF MEMBERS, BOARD MEMBERS AND VOLUNTEERS DISCLOSE ANNUALLY AND IN WRITING TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS ALL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST. Following full disclosure of a possible conflict of interest or any condition listed above, the Board of Directors shall determine whether a conflict of interest exists and, if so the Board shall vote to authorize or reject the transaction or take any other action deemed necessary to address the conflict and protect FACT's best interests. Both votes shall be by a majority vote without counting the vote of any interested director, even if the disinterested directors are less than a quorum provided that at least one consenting director is disinterested. An interested Board member, officer, or staff member shall not participate in any discussion or debate of the Board of Directors, or of any committee or subcommittee thereof in which the subject of discussion is a contract, transaction, or situation in which there may be a perceived or actual conflict of interest. contract, transaction, or situation in which there may be a perceived or actual conflict of interest. there may be a perceived or actual conflict of interest.”

“The organization's governing documents, conflict of interest policy and financial statements are available upon request during normal business hours at the offices of the family and community trust.”

“The mission of the family and community trust board is to promote and support effective public/private partnerships and community involvement to develop innovative solutions to achieve missouri's vision for improving the lives of children and families. This mission statement was adopted by the board in 2004 and continues to be the guiding influence of the board's work.”

“Fact director, william dent, coauthored a grant proposal from the annie e. Casey foundation on strengthening family partnerships and community supports while sustaining and replicating missouri model best practices.”

“Fact general operating: the general operating funds for fact are used to provide licenses for the npass system that is utilized by all the community partnerships and the fact staff. This system is used for budgeting, invoicing, and expenditure reporting. Through this system, we are able to track the community partnership's leveraged funding and volunteer hours. The community partnerships leveraged over $8.54 for every state dollar of funding in 2013 and generated over 331,420 hours of volunteer work across the state. The family and community trust parenting from prison pilot officially ended in december 2012. The fact director worked with the department of corrections on the evaluation component of the project. The evaluation has been completed and will be presented to state leaders by the fact director in the fall of 2014. Fact continues to support the statewide reentry conference as one of three sponsors. This fall conference attracts over 300 participants each year. The fact staff director gives one of the keynote addresses and fact staff volunteer to help with the logistics of the three-day conference. Fact supported the technical assistance needs of three of the community partnerships by providing funding to support staff development, strategic planning and board governance. Fact continues to support the work of the summer food program (sebtc) the fall 2013. This program was established with the support of two of the community partnerships: archs in st. Louis and linc in kansas city. The fact director assisted in the successful award of this grant by providing technical assistance and grant writing expertise. Fact sought additional funding to extend the program for an additional year but missouri was not selected. Fact continues to support the work of the local chapter of zonta by supporting the annual women of achievement award. In 2013, we attended with nine partner agencies. In 2013, the fact director made a presentation to the oral health coalition of missouri in jefferson city. The purpose of the presentation was to encourage collaboration on oral health initiatives issues in missouri. Allocation of funds were through casey and division of youth services. In october of 2013, the fact director became aware that the annie e casey foundation was seeking a new missouri partner for the kids count grant. We met with them in early november and hope to have news in 2014 as to their selection.”

“Promising practice network (ppn) & technical assistance: the ppn funding is used to support a national research based site that has best-practice information tailored to the core results utilized by the fact and missouri's community partnerships as well as other partner entities from around the nation. Membership in this organization provides fact recognition at a national level. The technical assistance funding is used to provide training to the community partnerships on areas of interest and need such as financial management and non-profit information.”

“Fact director, william dent, coauthored a grant proposal from the annie e. Casey foundation on strengthening family partnerships and community supports while sustaining and replicating missouri model best practices. Fact was awarded $150,000.00 to use in supporting the transition process and services for youth that are committed to the missouri division of youth serves (dys). The casey foundation has awarded fact an additional $50,000.00 for continued support and services for a second year. Implmetation of the f.a.s.t. Model is central to the joint work with dys.”

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