Humanities Tennessee

“In preparation for our relocation to new offices, humanities tennessee reviewed and revised its document retention policies to ensure compliance with minimal retention requirements.”

“A copy of form 990 is provided to the audit and finance committee members as well as the executive committee for review and discussion prior to filing.”

“Whenever a director or officer has a financial or personal interest in any matter coming before the board of directors, the affected person shall a) fully disclose the nature of the interest and b) withdraw from discussion, lobbying, and voting on the matter. Any transaction or vote involving a potential conflict of interest shall be approved only when a majority of disinterested directors determine that it is in the best interest of the corporation to do so. The minutes of meetings at which such votes are taken shall record such disclosure, abstention and rationale for approval. The conflict of interest policy is reviewed at least annually with all board and staff. Throughout the year, ht staff monitors all requests for grant funding for any inclusion of board or staff among project personnel.”

“Salaries for executive director and key employees are determined by collating compensation data sets from the federation of state humanities councils (who conduct an annual survey of humanities council salaries and benefits and then organize those data according to multiple categories) and regional/metro salary data from the center for nonprofit management. Ht salaries are then determined according to comparable subsets of these data.”

“The organization makes governing documents available to the public upon request.”

“Third accomplishment chapter 16 in response to the loss of book coverage in newspapers around the state, humanities tennessee founded chapter16.org in 2009 to provide comprehensive coverage of literacy news and events in tennessee. Each weekday the site posts fresh content that focuses on author events across the state and new releases from tennessee authors. In addition, chapter 16 maintains partnerships with newspapers in each major media market statewide, and our content appears in print each week through the memphis commercial appeal, the nashville scene, and the knoxville news sentinel. Through the site, social media, a weekly newsletter, and our newspaper partnerships, chapter 16 reaches more than half a million readers on a good week. The outcome is the ongoing visibility of the tennessee literacy community in newspapers statewide, the support to tennessee writers and independent bookstores via promotion of books and events, and an ever-growing archive of original content.”

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