Servant Group International

“The board has authorized the executive director responsibility for oversight of the audit/form 990 and selection of an independent accountant to perform the tasks. He is assisted by the company administrator/ bookkeeper.”

“The board of directors annually reviews its conflict of interest policy. Potential conflicts of interest and any actual conflicts of interest would be brought up at periodic staff metings or during periodic meetings with the board.”

“The board of directors annually reviews and approves the compensation of the executive director considering comparable compensation data based upon the board's experience working with non-profits. The approved compensation amounts are commensurate wtih individual's experience, duties and responsibilities within the organization and are comparable to compensation paid in similar level positions in similar sized organizations having similar charitable purposes and activities.”

“The organization's governing documents and its conflict of interest policy are made available upon request. The financial statements are part of the organization's annual report copies of which are made available upon request.”

“Servant group interational (sgi) is a non-profit christian agency serving among at-risk and refugee communities in need. Sgi accomplishes its organizational purpose through outreach, education, and discipleship both locally and abroad. Developing programs to train christians how to meet and befriend their refugee neighbors has been emphasized over the last several years. Sgi serves in tennessee among the population of refugees and immigrants from the middle east and africa by helping to locate housing, schools, health care, jobs and provide english language and sewing training. Sgi maintains and supports ministry among the kurds in northern iraq through training and deploying staff to teach at the (3) school of the medes campuses. In response to the ongoing unrest throughout the middle east and central asia, millions of people have fled their homes, ending up as refugees and/or idps. Sgi has worked to establish and help support a number of relief programs throughout n. Iraq, greece, turkey, and africa.”

“Nashville, tn is home to thousands of refugees and immigrants from the middle east and africa. Sgi is able to provide translation services, citizenship instruction, job placement, medical help, food and other benevolence, ell classes and tutoring, urban gardening, and sewing instruction to numerous refugees. Training and equipping american volunteers to reach out to their refugee neighbors is a primary task of local staff members. With the help of 76 volunteers and 10 employees, sgi was able to grow our scope of services and provide assistance to a growing number of refugees. The number of unique refugees helped was approximately 1700. Nashville-based outreach programs during covid included securing 75,000 in grants to employ 15 local refugees to sew over 10,000 masks, gowns, and caps for community distribution to first responders/hospitals/medical clinics; distribute over 2,200 pounds of produce throughout the refugee community; provide computers for online education; helped numerous unemployed refugee families with rent/utilities/toiletries; helped secure jobs for 10 sewing graduates.”