Pacific Education Institute

“The form 990 is reviewed by management, the pei finance committee, who has been tasked by the board with oversight of financial matters, and the board of directors prior to being filed with the irs. Additionally, a cpa financial review was obtained on the organization's annual financial statements. These financial statements, which form the basis for the preparation of form 990, were reviewed by the board upon issuance.”

“Pei adheres to a conflict of interest policy covering any director, officer, or member of any committee authorized to act on behalf of the board. The policy is distributed annually to covered persons, and a questionnaire is kept on file for each covered person disclosing any conflict of interest information as identified by the policy, to include investments, services and interests in transactions.”

“Governing documents, the conflict of interest policy and financial statements are available in paper or electronic format upon request.”

“Regional fieldstem program delivery: pei engaged a professional evaluator to provide a statewide assessment of our program work, the final report for year 4 was available the end of june 20198. This report will inform our decision making and program improvements. Pei worked with e3 washington to lead a project focused on washington's green economy specifically the four sectors: agriculture, natural resources, renewable energy and outdoor recreation to identify exemplars of articulated pathways between k-12, post-secondary and employers for green jobs. Pei's current projects provide additional program services related to climate science literacy, educating for a green economy, career and technical natural resource education and invasive species. Pei continues to be the state coordinator for project learning tree and project wild, national environmental education organizations.”