Silver Spruce Academy Inc

“The full board reviews the 990 at a board meeting, and has the opportunity to make edits and suggestions. The final revised copy of the form 990 is provided electronically to board members for final approval prior to filing with the irs.”

“The conflict of interest policy requires directors, officers and key staff to annually disclose interests that could give rise to conflicts. The policy and disclosure form is distributed to and collected from all new staff at the time of hire. Potential conflicts are reviewed by the board of directors.”

“The board of directors, during the executive director's annual performance evaluation and during budget review and approval times, examines compensation information from similar organizations locally and within the state of colorado in conjunction with the available funds expected to be received for each student.”

“Governing and financial documents are available upon written request.”

“Spruce culminated our 10th year of school choice shared school service in the four corners area with our largest student body to date we are greatly valuing our contracts through mountain middle school, animas high school, pueblo community college, san juan college and the charter school institute. We served 71 funded students, benefitted from 102 volunteers w/ over 396 hours to offer 103 classes and 43 educational events to a total of 239 students served our landlords were gracious in working with us to offer our third year at the location of 40 acres of rural outdoor adventures near lakes, rivers, trails and fields to offer classes in entomology, noxious weeds, botany, co history, horse riding, sustainable farms, state parks, measurements, safety town, novel in a year, talents, musical instruments, dance, human acrobats, bringing books to life, sewing, vision boards, quilting, and more spruce has remained a viable and successful non-profit creating financial feasibility and stability for the organization, staff, participants, and community collaborations as we transition into our 11th year with the expectation of planting roots to open our permanent location by aug. 1, 2024 to continue our mission to provide educational enrichment programs and courses to students and families throughout the four corners area, in collaboration with other educational organizations. Spruce up your education using your heart to guide your head & hands”