Northwest Montana Human Resources Inc DBA Community Action Parnership Nw Mt

“The agency utilizes its finance committee for an in depth review of its form 990. Fiscal staff present the form 990 and are available for questions from the finance committee. When the finance committee has approved the form 990, it is presented to the rest of the board of directors for their approval and is documented in the board minutes.”

“The agency annually has the directors review vendors and subcontractors used by the organization to indicate if any director has a conflict of interest. If so, it is identified and documented. All directors re-sign a conflict of interest statement. Directors are reminded of the board policies regarding conflicts of interest.”

“The personnel committee of the board of directors is responsible for determining the compensation of the executive director. This committee utilizes surveys of comparable salaries for executive directors in comparable organizations with approximately the same size of staff and spending in a location of similar size. The committee documents this information and their decision on the appropriate compensation to offer to the executive director. The full board then approves or disapproves their recommendation.”

“The agency provides copies of its governing documents, conflict of interest policy and financial statements to anyone who requests them within 48 hours of the request. The agency also provides a copy of its form 990 on its website for anyone to read or download.”

“The agency purchases and rehabilitates homes as part of its neighborhood stabilization program. The homes are sub-granted to the community land trust which then sells the homes and returns proceeds from the sales to the agency. Sales of inventory represents the amounts returned from the sales of homes transferred from the community land trust. The cost of goods sold represents the rehabilitation costs and homes purchased during the period. The timing of the return of funds from the sale of the homes may not coincide with the timing of the costs of purchase and rehabilitation. Capnm's relationship with clt terminated 6/25/2019.”

“Other program services 4: community service programs: financial skill building workshop is to provide support to help strengthen and improve an individuals and households financial knowledge and decision-making skills to achieve financial freedom. This is a great program for anyone looking to become more educated about personal financial management. Homebuyer education class and 1:1 housing counseling allows individuals to learn all aspects of the home buying process including credit report and score, shopping for mortgage loan, budgeting to purchase, finding the right home and inspection process, loan process and being a homeowner. 98 individuals were enrolled in these programs. The renting wise workshop is to help renters get into and maintain decent and affordable housing. This is a great program for renters who are struggling to find housing due to blemishes in their past rental history. It is a great opportunity to become a more educated tenant. A number of additional services were offered within this department, including the provision of a variety of essential care kits for participants. 393 various kits were provided which included welcome home kits for homeless households as they move into stable housing and included cleaning supplies/kitchen goods/new sheets/emergency food kits, baby kits, hygiene kites, sleeping bags and emergency cold weather kits. Community services block grant (csbg) is the funding that links all agency programs and provided support for programs that are not self-sustaining on their own. The agency is part of the community action partnership network that receives this funding. Its efforts are focused on community partnerships that promote individual, family and community self-sufficiency. During the year, capnm made over 7,756 referrals to other non-profits/services in our four-county service area. Volunteers contributed over 110 hours to the agency in 2021.capnm viewed ourselves as a first responder for the disadvantage household that may have been affect by covid 19 and although, capnm stayed open the entire time, while other non-profits shut down, we saw a small decrease in some services. 2021 was a challenging year, navigating the ever-changing requirements, funding and service delivery.”

“Investment in sunny slope from prior year = -$100001”

“Sunny slope & teakettle i assets consolidated starting cy = $996949”