Cultivate Culinary School and Catering Inc.

“All board members and officers receive a copy of the final Form 990 for review prior to its filing. All board members and officers are requested to review and send comments noting approval.”

“The conflict of interest policy is reviewed by the Board of Directors at each annual meeting. To ensure the Corporation operates in a manner consistent with charitable purposes and does not engage in activities that could jeopardize its tax-exempt status, periodic reviews shall be conducted. If the governing board or committee has reasonable cause to believe a member has failed to disclose actual or possible conflicts of interest, it shall inform the member of the basis for such belief and afford the member an opportunity to explain the alleged failure to disclose. If, after hearing the member's response and after making further investigation as warranted by the circumstances, the governing board or committee determines the member has failed to disclose an actual or possible conflict of interest, it shall take appropriate disciplinary and corrective action.”

“Before approving the compensation of the Executive Director, the Executive Committee shall determine that the total compensation to be provided to the Executive Director and that it is reasonable in amount in light of the position, responsibility and qualification of the Executive Director for the position held, including the result of an evaluation of the Executive Director's prior performance. At the time of the discussion and decision concerning the individual's compensation, the individual should not be present in the meeting. The Board shall obtain and consider appropriate data concerning comparable compensation paid to similar Executive Director in like circumstances. The process and decision is documented in the Executive Committee minutes.”

“A copy of the governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements are made available to the public upon request for the same period of disclosure as set forth in the IRC Section 6104(d).”

“DBA: Cultivate Food Rescue”

“Total number of volunteers: Cultivate Culinary School and Catering Inc utilizes a software called Volunteer Local to schedule volunteers. When volunteers arrive, they check in using the software. Volunteer sessions are either two or three hours based on the day of the week. We calculate the hours based on the day of service and the length of the volunteer session. We also have kitchen volunteers. Their hours vary so we use an average time frame for those volunteers.”

“The Cultivate Cares Food Network was officially launched. Since the start of food rescue in July of 2017, we supported pantries, soup kitchens and other social service agencies with food that we recovered that didn't fit well into our frozen meal backpack program. During COVID, this became our third program. We now have a network of 130-140 food recipient partners that we support with rescued food. Our focus is to provide valuable, needed staple perishable food items like milk, cheese, fresh fruits and vegetables and proteins to reduce the purchase cost of food for the agencies that we support and to reduce food waste. Our goal is to build a not-for-profit food hub with food donors and suppliers who donate or sell at a discount food and food recipient agencies who distribute this valuable food to vulnerable people in our community. Our backpack program and the Cultivate Cares Food Network have the ability to repurpose millions of pounds of food with the goal of reducing food insecurity, reducing food waste and improving the educational outcomes of vulnerable children in our community.”