Children'S Development Academy Inc

“The draft 2015-2016 audit and 2015 form 990 are first reviewed by the finance committee meeting with the independent auditor. The revised documents are then provided electronically to the full board of directors for their review. Questions, comments and concerns are addressed by the finance committee and the auditor prior to the board final review of the documents. The board of directors approves the filing of the audit and form 990.”

“Trustees and key employees complete a disclosure questionnaire annually.”

“Determining the compensation of the executive director begins with a performance evaluation by the chair, immediate past chair, chair-elect and the chair of the human resources committee, which is shared with the full board. The executive director's compensation is reviewed by the human resources committee, which is comprised entirely of independent individuals and includes experienced, senior hr managers. Their review relies upon executive compensation data gathered from other local nonprofit organizations or other comparable bodies, and the cda's own past practice. Their recommendation is presented to the full board for approval.”

“Compensation of all employees begins with a performance evaluation by the supervisor. Compensation is then determined by the quality of performance and a review of market data to ascertain comparable salaries for comparable organizations. The cda strives to maintain competitive compensation rates in order to retain valued employees and to protect our investment in training and professional development of key employees.”

“Governing documents such as our strategic plan, budgets and financial statements, and conflict of interest policy are available for public inspection at our office at 89 grove way, roswell, ga 30075 immediately upon request. The cda also shares these documents electronically when requested, for example in the process of applying for foundation or other funding.”

“Mission: to enable the preschool children of low-income, working families in our community to make a great start toward a bright future by providing outstanding, nationally-accredited early care and learning programs. By providing high quality early childhood education, the child development association (cda) prepares youngsters for success in school. By providing affordable full-day care, the cda strengthens families so they may maintain stable employment, fully contribute to our community and nurture their children. Vision: a. To offer exemplary early care and learning programs in a modern building that is a thriving hub of community programs that benefit children and build families and that garner strong community, corporate, government and endowed support. B. To reach beyond our classrooms to lead the community in advocacy on behalf of young children and their families.”

“Progress -parent-child conferences twice a year to inform parents about their child's progress and to engage them in their son or daughter's education -enrichment activities such as field trips, cultural performances and nature explorations our hardworking parents earned median incomes of only 18,200 in 2015-2016, so market-rate tuition of 250-300 per week would be utterly beyond their reach. With scholarships, our parents' median tuition payment was only 88 per week, but this still represents 20-25% of their household income. Our parents are making tangible sacrifices for their children's education. Scholarships made possible by generous partners are providing enormous opportunities like these: -jacob is a happy, energetic 3-year-old who has been at the cda since he was only one. Early on, our teachers identified a hearing/communication problem and the family advocate reached out to the family regarding a physician referral. Jacob has severe hearing loss but now has been fitted with a hearing aid, and receives fulton county schools' services for speech and language impairment and he is learning sign language. He is doing well in our classroom. Jacob's parents manage their own electrical repair shop, but earn only 15,600/year. -one mother relocated to the area for a good job with first data earning about 37,500. Although her income is above the cda average, market-rate tuition would equal 35-40% of her income, which is out of reach, so she enrolled her two-year-old son at the cda last year. He is described by teachers as 'extremely clever', and he is doing well. -another mother works for a local insurance company, while dad searches for work following a lay-off. They have two children at the cda, one in prek and the other in the one-year-old room. They live in the dunwoody springs elementary neighborhood.”

“Failure without additional support making the transition to kindergarten. And, in the summer of 2013, we were asked by bright from the start to help launch another pilot program-this one providing a six-week summer preparatory curriculum for english language learners entering prek in the fall. This rising prek summer transition program was renewed in 2014, 2015 and 2016 with two classrooms serving a total of 28 children. The prek summer program was also renewed in 2016 to serve 16 children.”

“In 2015-2016, kids express received almost 2,000 visits by more than 1,700 children.”