Community Spoke

“A cpa firm prepares the form 990. The 990 is overviewed upon completion by the president and the finance director and the entire board prior to being filed electronically by the cpa firm.”

“The conflict of interest policy is distributed annually to all board members and staff in order to identify potential conflicts of interest.”

“Executive director salary is determined by an annual review process that the entire board takes part in. Form 990, part vii- compensation of officers, directors, trustees, key employees, highest compensated employees, and independent contractors the total hours reported for the executive director include hours contracted to work with another organization. The executive director's contract and salary is through community spoke. Community spoke receives a fee for providing employees to another organization.”

“Officers are not compensated”

“Governing documents are made available to the public upon request.”

“The mission of community spoke is to enhance the quality of life for all ottawa county residents through a strategic, coordinated, and systemic response to human services needs. Some of the broader health and human service focus areas include poverty, housing, food insecurity, mental health, general health, education, and workforce development.”

“Covid-19 human services response community spoke was responsible for leading ottawa county's human services response to covid-19. This included convening daily, and then weekly, calls with community leaders to deal with the specific human service needs created with the onset of covid-19. This included addressing acute food insecurity, job loss, housing insecurity, childcare, and addressing mental health needs through the intervention of nonprofits, government, churches, schools, and other critical individuals and organizations.”

“Ottawa county human services coordinating council community spoke regularly convened a group of 45+ leaders in the health and human services space in ottawa county to discuss community needs, avoid duplication in services, and look for ways to collaborate. Thrive ottawa county community spoke was responsible for leading a collaborative effort called thrive ottawa county which aimed to provide education and promote awareness of how adverse childhood experiences (aces) impact our long-term physical and mental health, and to help connect people to local resources that can encourage growth and resilience. This effort consisted of training 100 local "community champions" on aces/resilience and deploying them into the community to educate others on this important information.”