St. Hope Foundation Inc.

“A draft of the organization form 990 is first reviewed in detail by top management and board of directors. Once all changes are made a final draft is distributed to approve and submit to the Internal Revenue Service.”

“The conflict of interest policy is required monitoring to be completed by Board of Directors and all employees. Potential conflicts are monitored on a case by case basis annually.”

“A committee of the board of directors is responsible for the review process of the Executive Director and key employees. The process includes the use of reviews of non-profit salary surveys from local and national sources.. The committee then recommends the compensation package to the board of directors who approves it. This process is documented in the board of directors meeting.”

“Annual audited financial statements are available upon request.”

“OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: Prevention/Education/Testing Within the last decade, SHF has implemented effective prevention programs that have worked simultaneously on many levels in Houston area from individual levels, social network and community levels, and at the societal structure level. The goal has been two-prong by targeting both HIV/STI high risk individuals along with those already diagnosed with HIV/STI in support of a continuum of HIV prevention and treatment. Evidenced based interventions employed by the prevention team for high risk populations include: SISTA (Targeting Young African American Women), Voices/Voces (Targeting partners of HIV positive African Americans and positive Latinos), Many Men, Many Voices (3MV - Targeting young Aftrican American Men Who Have Sex With Men (MSMs) between the ages of 16 to 24). The National HIV/AIDS Strategy in the US identified the growing trends of African American MSMs becoming HIV positive, and as a result SHF expanded its prevention targeting services towards men of color who have sex with men. SHF provides rapid testing (Oraquick/Orasure) and conventional testing. The prevention team has built community coalitions for HIV testing at historically Black Universities and has been the largest testing to African American and Hispanic college students. With a positivity rate of 2.33% during the current year, the prevention team successfully linked 62 newly-diagnosed individuals into primary medical care and tested 2,661 people.”