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 facts 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 sall 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: fact replaced the npass computer system with social solutions new apricot computer system. The general operating funds for fact are used to provide licenses for the apricot 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 partnerships leveraged funding and volunteer hours, as well as all related financials. The community partnerships leveraged over $8.84 for every state dollar of funding in 2015 and generated approximately 251,000 hours of volunteer work across the state. 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) during summer 2015. 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. Funding was received to expand this initiative to the rural area of mississippi county with great success. Fact continues to support the work of the local chapter of zonta by supporting the annual women of achievement award. In 2015, we attended with five partnership agencies. Fact was successful in working with walmart to seek funding to support the purchasing of books for youths in the booheel area of missouri. Fact received $33,000.00 in funding to support this effort. 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 received $81,266.00 in funding to support this effort. Fact was successful in working with aetna on the show me better health initiaitve to target childhood obesity. The partnerships involved have had good success with parental weight loss resulting in better health for themselves and their children. Fact spearheaded a pilot program in partnership with share our strength on the no kid hungry missouri inititative to connect kids to food in their commuities and wipe out childhood hunger in missouri in three years. As the program unfolds and impact is tracked fact will report on it. Fact spearheaded a pilot 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 second year as the kids count grantee for missouri. A website was launched to support this effort. Staff and responsibilities are now in place to support missouri kids count.”

“Strengthening family partnerships: fact director, wiliam dent, coauthored a grant proposal from the annie e. Casey foundation on strenghtening 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 services (dys). The casey foundation has awarded fact an additional $60,000.00 for continued support and services for a third year. Implementation of the f.a.s.t. Model is central to the joint work with dys. This effort with dys continues to support this effort.”

“Promising practice network (ppn) & technical assistance: 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.”

“William dent's w-2 is issued by greater kc linc on behalf of caring communities. The organizations have a memorandum of understanding for greater kc linc to process mr. Dent's payroll and then caring communities reimburses the organization.”

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