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.”

“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 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, as well as all related financials. The community partnerships leveraged over $8.09 for every state dollar of funding in 2014 and generated over 292,974 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 was presented to state leaders by the fact director in the fall of 2014. The final evaluation was shared with the state leaders and will be used as the basis for journal publications by the evaluator. Fact continues to support the statewide reentry conference as one of three sponsors. This fall conference attracts over 350 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 continues to support the technical assistance needs of community partnerships around the state as the needs are identified. Fact continues to support the work of the summer food program (sebtc). 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 is hopeful funding will be available for an additional year with an expansion to a rural area. Fact continues to support the work of the local chapter of zonta by supporting the annual women of achievement award. In 2014, we attended with nine partner agencies. Fact was successful in working with the fraternal order of eagles to seek funding to support literacy and youth in transition efforts with our community partnerships. Fact is seeking $100,000 in funding to support this effort. Fact spearheaded a plot program in partnership with aetna to target childhood obesity. This initiative is called show me better health. As the program unfolds and impact is tracked fact will report it.”

“Kids count: fact completed its first year as the kids count grantee for missouri. A website was launched to support this effort as well as aligning staff and responsibilities to support it.”

“Strengthening family partnerships: 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. This effort with dys continues to support this effort and fact will seek a third year of funding with the annie e. Casey foundation.”

“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.”

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