United Methodist Women Great Plains Conference

“Due to this delinquent filing, the Conference leaders have not had the opportunity to review this Form 990 before filing. In the future, all required filings will be properly reviewed before hand. The 2024 990 will be shared and discussed with the President and shared with the Secretary for record retention.”

“the websites uwfaith.org and greatplainsumc.org/uwf have links to the National handbook and Conference Policies and Procedures respectively. National publishes the financials with a line item for Great Plains yearly in the National organization's magazine, The Response. The Conference financial budge and actual for the current year is published in the Spring member directory. Next year's budget is published at the Fall Annual Meeting.”

“The Conference has 33 voting members and multiple non voting committee members. There are 10 Districts with 4 required officer roles and additional support roles. There are 303 active local units in the Kansas and Nebraska area. The United Methodist Book of Discipline states all churches are to encourage all women of the church to be part of the United Women in Faith for the benefit of their church and development of the female leaders.”

“The Conference Leaders are elected by 33 Conference and District voting members attending the fall meeting. The Conference supports the 10 District Leadership teams. Each District Leadership team is elected by their local unit's members attending the fall meeting. The 303 local unit leaders are elected by each unit's members.”

“Our National Handbook and Conference Policies and Procedures outline the governing duties of the leaders and members. If a special project is not defined, a vote by relevant members is required”

“This is the first year filing Sch 990. However, we continue operating as in past years.”

“The units in each District pay their gifts to the District Treasurer. The District remits 100% of the gifts to the Conference. The Conference pays the District a quarter of their budget quarterly if the District requests funds out of the Conference budget and remits the remainder to National. This allows all the Districts the opportunity to pursue their goals even though their gifts may be less than their budget.”

“Per the National Constitution and Bylaws, the Finance Committee is composed of the treasurer as chairperson, president, secretary, district treasurers, and others as the leadership team may determine. They meet at least semiannually and will analyze the financials, set goals, receive district budgets, study fund requests, oversight of the audit, review, or compilation of its financial statements and selection of an independent accountant.”

“Per the National Constitution and Bylaws, the Finance Committee is composed of the treasurer as chairperson, president, secretary, district treasurers, and others as the leadership team may determine. They meet at least semiannually to analyze the financials, set goals, receive district budgets, study fund requests. We will make it a point to add the following duties: oversight of the audit, review, or compilation of its financial statements and selection of an independent accountant.”