Caring Communities Inc.

“An independent accounting firm prepares and reviews the 990. The 990 is then reviewd by the organization's accounting personnel. It is reviewed by the executive director and staff. The final version is provided to the voting members of the board of directors for review and voting prior to filing the return.”

“The conflict of interest policy for 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 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 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 office of the family and community trust.”

“The mission of the family and community trust (fact) 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.”

“Fact general operating: fact continues to support its network of 20 community partnerships by utilizing some of these funds to provide licenses for the apricot system. This web based system is used by the partnerships and fact staff 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 related financials. The partnerships regularly leverage nearly $9 for every $1 of state funding that supports their core funding. They consistently generate over 250,000 in volunteer hours and serve over half a million clients annually. We continue to provide sponsorship for the statewide reentry conference each year. Covid impacted our in-person model but we hosted a panel of partnerships to share their experience during covid. Fact will continue to be one of the major sponsors for this annual event and the executive director will continue to have a critical role in the planning and keynote development. Fact staff serve as volunteers for the three-day event. Fact continues each year to assess the technical and fund assistance needs of its community partnerships as appropriate. Fact continues to support the work of the local chapter of zonta which highlights the strength of women across missouri. Fact continues as the no kid hungry affiliate for missouri as well as the annie e. Casey kids count affiliate in missouri.”

“Fact general operating: fact continues to support its network of 20 community partnerships by utilizing some of these funds to provide licenses for the apricot system. This web based system is used by the partnerships and fact staff 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 related financials. The partnerships regularly leverage nearly $9 for every $1 of state funding that supports their core funding. They consistently generate over 250,000 in volunteer hours and serve over half a million clients annually. We continue to provide sponsorship for the statewide reentry conference each year. Covid impacted our in-person model but we hosted a panel of partnerships to share their experience during covid. Fact will continue to be one of the major sponsors for this annual event and the executive director will continue to have a critical role in the planning and keynote development. Fact staff serve as volunteers for the three-day event. Fact continues each year to assess the technical and fund assistance needs of its community partnerships as appropriate. Fact continues to support the work of the local chapter of zonta which highlights the strength of women across missouri. Fact continues as the no kid hungry affiliate for missouri as well as the annie e. Casey kids count affiliate in missouri.”

“No kid hungry: fact's no kid hungry (nkh) initiative hosted a virtual summit to convene organizations around the state interested in irradicating childhood hunger in our state. We continue our efforts to focus expansion on our three target areas: school breakfast, after-school programs and summer meals/snacks. In 2020, fact provided grants as follows: breakfast - 19 grants totalling $77,016 after-school - 19 grants totalling $87,500 summer - 36 grants totalling $159,977 fact bifurcated the nkh work with the center for health policy at the university of missouri and continues this strategic relationship.”

“The technical assistance funding is used to provide capacity opportunities to the community partnerships on areas of need and development such as financial management, strategic planning, board development, governance and general operations.”

“All w-2s are issued by greater kc linc on behalf of our organization as we maintain a memorandum of understanding for greater kc linc to process all employees' payroll.”

“The organization changed their method of accounting from accrual basis to cash basis.”