North Carolina Community Development Initiative Inc

“Organization's process to review form 990 for 2020, the officers of nccdi will coordinate the form 990 review on behalf of the board of directors and contact the external cpa firm as needed for any inquiries raised during the review process.”

“Enforcement of conflicts policy on an annual basis, the conflict of interest policy is distributed to the board of directors. A full explanation of the policy is given followed by a discussion of what items could constitute a conflict of interest. All in attendance are asked if they have or know of a conflict of interest. If yes, that member is asked to recuse themselves from the discussion and the vote. The chief executive officer follows up with any board member not in attendance. All discussions are documented in the minutes.”

“Compensation process for top official on an annual basis, the performance and compensation of the chief executive officer are evaluated by the personnel and executive committees of the board of directors. The personnel and executive committees meet with the chief executive officer to review the year's activities and then further discussion is held in a closed session (without the presence of the chief executive officer) to determine whether a compensation adjustment (whether via salary or benefits) is merited. Prior to the meeting with the chief executive office, the finance department provides the personnel committee with a copy of the most recent salary schedule and relevant market data (compensation research report) to ensure the chief executive officer's compensation is comparable to other similar organizations. After the evaluation, the personnel and executive ccommittees report to the full board and this report is documented in the minutes of the meeting.”

“Compensation process for officers on an annual basis, the performance and compensation of the staff is evaluated by the chief executive office. The chief executive officer meets with the staff, individually to review the year's activities and discuss goals. Prior to the meeting, the finance department provides the chief exective officer with a copy of the most recent staff salary schedule and relevant market data (compensation research report) to ensure staff compensation is comparable to other similar organizations.”

“Governing documents disclosure explanation the organization's governing documents, conflicts of interest policy and financial statements are available to the public upon request.”

“North carolina community development initiative is a statewide public- private partnership that provides leadership and capital investment to high-performance community development corporations (cdcs) as well as other comminity based economic development endeavors, (i.e. Social enterprises) to improve the well being and quality of life for people in low resource communities.”

“Part iv, line 28c - certain board members of this organization are also board members of the related organization north carolina community development initiative capital, inc. ("nccdic"), ein: 56-2142717 and whose respective businesses or organizations with which they hold executive positions were party to business transactions with the consolidated tax exempt group. These transactions are listed in detail on the schedule l disclosures included on the 12/31/20 form 990 of the related organization. It is the position of both organizations that these business transactions were conducted at "arms-length- and in the normal course of business. Form 990, part vi - additional information line 13 - whistleblower policy the whistleblower, electronic communications, document retention, confidentiality and confllict of interest policies are distributed and discussed with each employee upon hire. Each employee reads and signs the policies. Copies of the signed policies are kept in the employee's personnel file and a copy is provided to the employee. Form 990, part vii - additional information section a - officers, directors, trustees, key employees, highest compensated employees the compensation reported on part vii represents amounts reported on the employee's w-2 as reported to the irs. These compensation amounts differ from the compensation amount reported on part ix. The amounts reported on part ix reflect the organization's share of allocated salaries between the organization and its affiliate, north carolina community development initiative capital, inc. Which in aggregate equal the total compensation expenses for the two related organizations. See schedule r for details.”

“Effective 6/19/20, the organization was merged into the north carolina institute for minority economic development (the institute). All assets were transferred to the institute as of that date with the institute recognizing the activity of the organization for the remainder of the year. The reduction in assets is reflected in part xi of form 990.”

“Consultant 854 18,698 0 consultant - capital 3,881 84,933 0 payroll fee 0 1,253 0 total 4,735 104,884 0”

“Transfer of assets to institute -7,432,923”