Nami Georgia Inc.

“The bylaws were amended in april 2017.”

“YES”

“YES”

“YES”

“Management reviews the form 990 in detail and then it is sent to the organization's finance committee to review. The forms are then submitted on-line to the board members to review and reviewed in bod meeting.”

“The organization has a written conflict of interest policy for its board members and key employees. The forms are required to be completed annually and vendors are reviewed periodically throughout the year.”

“The executive director completes a 360 evaluation, reviews the evaluation with the president of the bod, the president presents a recommendation to the finance committee and then the executive committee votes on the compensation. In 2017, an ad hoc committee was formed to perform research and provide statistics on comparable salaries in our region/size/nature of organization. The data was then presented to the finance and executive committees.”

“Compensation for officers is set by the board of directors. Compensation for staff is set by the executive director.”

“The organization makes its governing documents, conflict of interest policy and financial statements available to the general public upon request and on its website.”

“Illness, family members, parents of children, spouses/partners, adult sons and daughters, and young adults who identify with a mental illness. There were 68 crisis intervention team (cit) trainings across the state for law enforcement agencies resulting in 1,392 law enforcement officers trained in the 40 hour cit training. Nami georgia also held its nami georgia annual meeting and conference in savannah, ga with over 400 georgians affected by mental illness in attendance. This program included four tracks: cit, advocacy, emerging trends, and recovery. The program also included training for volunteer affiliate leaders from across the state. Public awareness and advocacy: advocating, creating public awareness and ending stigma against mental illness are nami georgia's driving passions. Namiwalks is a national awareness and fundraising program. Nami georgia supported three walks: one in atlanta, rome, and moultrie. Our walks had over 1,800 people attend to support building awareness and ending stigma. This represents a 30% increase over the previous year. Nami georgia also offered 244 presentations on mental health in the form of our in our own voice, parents and teachers as allies, and ending the silence presentations to 4,989 people across the state and in all six dbhdd regions. These presentations were done in conjunction with partners such as georgia department of education, georgia bureau of investigation, local law enforcement agencies, hospitals and many community agencies. Nami georgia participated in multiple events promoting mental health across the state. Nami georgia also hired a lobbyist in the form of a consultant in partnership with mental health america georgia, held eight nami smarts classes training 155 people on how to advocate for mental health and sent three people to nami national to become state trainers in nami smarts to increase capacity for next year. Nami georgia also had 30 volunteer members attend the nami national conference with 19 members attending nami hill day. Nineteen constituents together spoke to senator isakson's and perdue's staffs about the importance of mental health and of having insurance coverage for mental health. These constituents then went on to speak to their local representatives from their areas. Affiliate development and member resources: nami georgia answered over 600 calls on its help line. Nami georgia developed an online mental health resource database so people in need could access resources anytime. Namiwalks is a national awareness and fundraising program. Nami georgia supported three walks; one in atlanta, rome and moultrie. Our walks combined raised 276,016 with 50% of the funds raised going back to local communities via their local nami affiliates. Nami georgia offers a full- time employee to help support volunteer affiliate leaders run over 19 successful affiliates across the state. Nami georgia also created a social media tool kit for affiliates to learn how to successfully and effectively utilize social media tools to promote nami and its mission.”

“Contract labor 187,695 19,612 6,537 professional fees 27,488 5,154 1,718 total 215,183 24,766 8,255”