Better Business Bureau Consumer Education Foundation

“Better business bureau of southeast shared costs alloc 14,400 texas, inc. 550 fannin, suite 100 beaumont tx 77701”

“Torch awards photography 400 other 1,756 audiovisual 7,500 speaker/entertainment 1,700 floral/decorating 1,235 cost of goods sold 14,319 senior celebration audiovisual 1,876 other/supplies 139 speaker/entertainment 2,500 expenses bank fees 2,056 total 33,481”

“Furnishings & equipment 51,540 51,540 less accumulated depreciation 51,540 51,540 total 0 0”

“To inform and educate the public as to the difference between honest and legitimate advertising and selling and that which is misleading, dishonest and improper, and to prevent the public, by all proper means, from being mislead by persons, partnerships or corporations using unfair advertising or unfair selling practices. To cooperate with better business bureaus and such other organizations having objectives in common, and to do generally such other things as may be necessary, requisite, convenient or proper to carry out the purposes and objectives of the corporation, as are permitted under article 2.01 of the texas non-profit corporation act.”

“Increased consumer awareness through various events providing resources, including distribution of educational material: 1)served 200 consumers at the annual shred it - protect your identity eventin april of 2018, shredding over 5 tons of paper documents. Media mentions throughout the month of april occurred on iheart and clear channel stations, and on local fox, cbs and abc stations. Social media reached 3,800 consumers, with 81 responses to the event; 2)began monthly accredited business networking events in our region in july of 2018 and presented bbb services to over 80 business professionals. Include collaborating with local chamber members at our events and obtained (2) new acredited businesses as a result of our local events; 3)provided resources to seniors in s. E. Texas at the annual senior expo event in october 2018 with nearly 1,000 attendees receiving educational materials from the bbb and over 50 local business vendors; 4)partnered with bbb ad truth and local media outlets throughout the month of december 2018. Bbb ad truth psa's were on all radio and tv stations throughout the entire month, raising awareness of the new program.”

“The torch award is a fund-raising event that recognizes businesses and organizations in our region committed to maintaining exceptionally high standards of ethical behavior in buyer/seller and provider/supporter relationships. Funds raised benefit lamar university, lamar institute of technolgoy, lamar college - orange and lamar college - port arthur through grants for scholarships for students in the area. The 20th torch award celebration was held in february of 2018 (delayed from our 2017 date due to hurricane harvey). The event was well attended as a "celebration of 20 years of torch' in setx. No awards were given out, but rather the bbb recognized all of our past winners and announced the changes to torch for 2019. Nearly 400 business professionals attended the event and bbb awarded 16,000 to local lamar university, lamar institute of technology, lamar state college - orange and lamar state college - port arthur to be awarded to local students as scholarships from the bbb setx endowment. It should be noted that the majority of the fundraising for the 2018 torch award celebration was recognized in 2017 while the majority of the expenses of the 2018 torch award were recognized in the 2018 calendar year.”

“There was no unrelated business income”