Greenroots Inc.

“The organization has members who are engaged in and oversee the work of the organization. Membership shall be open to all persons and entities who share the goals of the organization and support the implementation of its mission and purpose.”

“The organization has members who are engaged in and oversee the work of the organization. Member powers include electing the board of directors, approving the annual work program and budget, approving the strategic plan and amending the bylaws.”

“The annual form 990 is distributed to all of the board members for review comment and approval prior to filing.”

“All staff, directors and officers are required to annually disclose any conflicts of interest. The transactions and activities of the organization are monitored on an ongoing basis by management, the board of directors and board appointed committees. Any conflicts that arise are dealt with according to the organization's detailed conflict of interest policies.”

“The compensation of the executive director is set by the organization's board of directors based upon comparable compensation data for the same position for organizations of similar size within our industry.”

“All of the organizations governing documents, policies, and financial statements are made available to the public upon direct request of the organization.”

“The return is being amended upon completion of its audited financial statements to update financial information in parts i, iii, vii, viii, ix, x, and xi, as well as schedules a, d, and o.”

“Waterfront initiative - greenroots engages dozens of residents in a grassroots effort to revitalize the chelsea creek waterfront. Through this work, we mobilized widespread community engagement in the opposition to the east boston substation; partnered with the boston waterfront partners to bring equity to boston's waterfront; engaged in development discussions regarding key parcels of land in east boston and chelsea; and engaged community members in revitalizing, creating public access to; and being engaged in the redesign of key parcels of land along the chelsea creek and adjacent waterbodies. We also organized weekly caminatas verdes walking groups with east boston residents. Covid-19/equity corps - greenroots played a critical role in addressing the covid-19 pandemic's impact on chelsea. Our work included co-founding and adminstering the one chelsea fund, a cash assistance program for chelsea residents negatively impacted by covid19; creating a new program entitled health equity corps and a related team of vaccine ambassadors who worked to connect residents to information, resources, testing and vaccines and that works to advance health equity policies and programs to dismantle health disparities in chelsea, east boston and beyond; wrote and published a multilingual health equity report; and participated in local and regional coalitions focusing on covid19 impacts and responses. Climate justice / air quality / energy democracy - greenroots works to address climate impacts including heat island effect, flooding and sea level rise throughout chelsea and east boston. Our work also focuses on climate related health impacts including poor air quality and increase respiratory incidents. Our campaigns include launching a cool block initiaitve to implement resident-led solutions to heat island effects; working with c-heat partners to understand residents' perceptions of heat waves personnally and throughout the community; implementing indoor air quality monitoring and air filteration pilot programs; monitoring outdoor air quality and working to share data broadly and accessibly; and proposing new sources of renewable, resilient energy including a community-owned microgrid, solar panels, energy efficiency programs, community choice energy and more.”