Metropolitan Ministries Inc.

“The board of directors shall elect an executive committee. The board chair shall head an executive committee, which shall consist of the duly elected secretary of the corporation and the immediate past chair of the board, and such other board members as shall be designated by the board and/or the by-laws. The chair and chair-elect of the board of directors shall serve as chair and vice-chair respectively of the executive committee. The executive committee shall meet monthly or as deemed necessary by the chair and shall report, as hereinafter provided, its activities to the board of directors at each regularly scheduled meeting of the board. The report by the executive committee shall be given to the board regarding only those activities engaged in by the executive committee at a meeting or meetings thereof outside of the presence of the full board of directors. Subject to any limitations contained in florida law, the executive committee shall have the power and authority to conduct the affairs and business of the corporation as fully and to the same extent as the same may be conducted by the board of directors.”

“The completed form 990 is emailed to each board member individually and reviewed by the audit committee of the board of directors. The audit committee of the board of directors must accept and approve the completed form 990.”

“The organization enforces the conflict of interest policy by having each board member sign an acknowledgement and disclosure form each year in which they are acknowledging the policy and disclosing any potential conflicts. The organization's president and cfo sign a disclosure form each year identifying any potential conflicts, such as transactions with board members or their affiliates, known to them. Any known or reasonably foreseeable actual or potential conflict of interest shall be disclosed to the board of directors, or its committee designee, by the interested person whose interests are, or may appear to be, in conflict with the organization. When any such conflict of interest is relevant to a matter requiring action by the board of directors or any committee of the board, the interested person shall disclose such conflict to the board of directors or such committee, and such interested person shall not vote on the matter. Further, the interested person shall retire from the room in which the board or the committee is meeting and shall not participate in any deliberation or decision regarding the matter under consideration. However, that interested person shall provide the board or committee, upon request, with all information relevant to the matter under consideration. The minutes of the meeting of the board or committee shall reflect that the conflict of interest was disclosed and that the interested person was not present during any discussion of the matter and did not vote on the matter. When there is doubt as to whether a conflict of interest exists, the matter shall be resolved by a vote of the board of directors or the committee, as the case may be, excluding the interested person concerning whom the matter has arisen.”

“Compensation for the president and ceo and his direct reports was reviewed by a committee of independent board members and compared to relevant competitive salary data. Compensation committee then determined compensation levels for all these employees.”

“The organization's governing documents, conflict of interest policy and financial statements are available upon request.”

“Metropolitan ministries (registered trademark of metropolitan ministries, inc.) provides answers for poor and homeless families, faithfully. This has been the cornerstone of the ministries' approach since its founding. Over the past 44 years, as the number of homeless families and hungry people has increased, the ministries has remained committed to reaching out and providing services that help prevent homelessness, ease hunger and offering homeless people life-changing solutions leading to self-sufficiency. Metropolitan ministries strives to alleviate suffering, promote dignity, and instill self-sufficiency to poor and homeless families throughout tampa bay. In may 2014 metropolitan ministries experienced tremendous growth (2x to 5x) in multiple service areas, including doubling the number of residents to 100 families with the reopening of renovated hope hall, and expansion with offsite emergency shelter housing for 16 additional families. In december 2015 a new residential facility for 12 families opened in pasco county. Housing placements grew to 360 due to successful exits by our residents and greater capacity with the reopening of hope hall, completion of the new residential facility in pasco county, as well as community partnerships allowing us to assist non-resident clients. The increase in our on campus residential rooms also provided a positive impact by sharply reducing the need for off campus emergency motel nights to homeless families to 525, a 27% reduction. Additionally, our employment boot camp programs helped 211 of our adult residents find employment. Other significant program outcomes are as follows: alleviating suffering: 57,477 services were provided to nearly 32,000 families helped at our outreach centers in tampa and in pasco. 1,167,448 meals were served throughout tampa bay via our hot meal and pantry programs. At the holidays we supported over 18,000 families and nearly 17,000 children received toys for christmas. We provided water and electricity assistance to over 1,300 families, and provided emergency motel nights to homeless families as noted above. Promoting dignity: our education programs exceled by leveraging deep collaborative partnerships with hillsborough county head start, school district of hillsborough county, and many others. Together we educated 205 children in our early childhood education center, 196 children in our afterschool programs, 647 children in our first hug program and an additional 122 children in the headstart program. Instilling self-sufficiency: we opened miraceplace uplift hall in august 2013 which added 52 two bedroom apartments, and in may 2014 reopened our renovated hope hall with 48 one bedroom apartments providing increased capacity for twice as many families to receive emergency shelter, transitional housing, and permanent supportive housing services, all on our tampa campus. The children's board of hillsborough county provided funding for the first hug program which allows metropolitan ministries case managers to care for over 220 families off-site versus having families come to our front door for services. The hillsborough county emergency bridge housing program provided substantial funding of emergency temporary housing of homeless families at hope hall and for 16 homeless families at 3 off site locations within hillsborough county. In december 2015 we opened our first phase of residential units in pasco county, providing housing for 12 additional families. We witnessed 94 families benefit from our uplift u residential program. 93% of uplift u families are still in stable housing 12 months after graduating, and 80% of families in our long-term uplift u self- sufficiency program exited successfully with stable housing or family reunification. We provided job prep, job training, and employment boot camp programs that helped our adult residents find employment as noted above. 85% of families maintained or increased their employment income one year after exiting the”