Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County

“The tax return is prepared by an outside accounting firm. After completion of said returns, the organization is sent a draft of the tax returns to be reviewed and examined. The organization makes copies of the returns and distributes to those individuals charged with governance. Those individuals at that time can review and if applicable discuss any line items in the return with the accountant who has prepared the return. If all items are found to be acceptable, an authorization is signed and provided to authorize the outside accounting firm to process, sign and provide copies of the returns to be filed (paper or electronically) with the designated governmental agencies. The tax returns are then signed by the organization, stamped and mailed with certified return receipt or the signed form 8879 is provided to the outside accounting firm allowing electronic filing.”

“The conflict of interest policy agreement form is signed by each board member at the meeting preceding the board elections.”

“The Board of Director meet in a series of meetings to review the ED's performance and set a compensation plan based on comparable regional salary rates.”

“Federal Tax Returns are available at guidestar.org and charitynavigator.org”

“Governing documents are available for public inspection at the principal place of business.The conflict of interest policy and the organization's financial statements are available upon request.”

“RCC Closed thrift store in late 2019 in El Cerrito, CA; moved to remote services in March 2020 due to pandemic.”

“OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: Social and Support Groups Our social and support groups aim to increase a sense of community amongst the LGBTQI+ population and decrease isolation. Our social and support groups include both professionally facilitated and peer-led support groups, recovery groups, and social and activity groups for people with various identities. We host movie nights, game nights, summer picnics, theater outings, and more. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 5: Health and Wellness Services Our health and wellness services support the creation of a healthy, flourishing, and vibrant LGBTQI+ community in Contra Costa County. Services include Rapid Testing HIV clinics, safer sex information and supplies, and domestic violence information and support services. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 6: Kind Hearts Food Pantry has transitioned to our Supply Train Program The Supply Train Program continues to provide essential services to people living with HIV/AIDS and to LGBTQI+ people over the age of 55. Our weekly Supply Train staff and community volunteers deliver food boxes to the homes of people living with HIV/AIDS and qualifying seniors, and weekly we conduct extensive check in calls with all our seniors, especially those who are sick and cannot leave their homes before sheltering in place. Rainbow is a distribution site for the Senior Food Program, Gleanings Program through the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano Counties. Additionally, our community members work with registered dietitians that prescribe nutritional supplements to our HIV positive clients that are enrolled in the Extra Helpings Program. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 7: Community Mental Health Services Rainbows mental health counseling program aims to increase the resiliency of our community, help stabilize high-risk people with acute mental illness, and help our community thrive. Rainbow provides culturally competent virtual services, such as Individual Therapy, Partners Counseling, and Family Counseling. We also offer coaching sessions for Mental Health professionals on how to work with LGBTQI+ folx. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 8: Houseless Transitional Youth Program (HTYP) This program benefits LGBTQI+ youth and young adults from age 12 to 24 who are experiencing houselessness, have been victims of violence, and are in crisis. Client services offered through HTYP are as follows: temporary housing, by providing youth 18 and up with hotel vouchers,furniture,transportation, relocation funds, food,employment, clothing,medication and lock/ window safety. Offers emergency housing to youth that are homeless, at imminent risk of houselessness, and supports their efforts to locate affordable and sustainable housing, and supportive housing. The program supports the whole person by also providing clinical services, (therapy) youth groups continumn of services by following up with youth after they have achieved permanent housing. A HTYP community member shared, If it wasnt for getting in touch with Rainbow I would have killed myself, to be honest. I wouldnt be alive today. Im truly grateful to them for my lifeto be able to speak, to eat, to have a job, to give back to the community that I love and that Im so passionate about.Thats how Rainbow has changed my life: Im still living. Marie, age 24 OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 9: HIV Prevention ProgramThis program consists of various types of outreach that include social media promotion, HIV+ support groups, social groups and special events that have a focus on male identified people of color and Spanish speaking communities in Contra Costa County. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 10: Training, Professional Development & CurriculumWe envision a world where LGBTQI+ peoples dignity is honored and respected in every part of the public and private spheres in which they contribute to society and encounter others. Rainbow facilitates responsive, interactive, hands on, minds on, hearts on learning experiences for all of our participants to grow in their understanding and pract”