CIVIL Rights Corps

“The draft federal form 990 is first reviewed by the executive director, chief executive officer and operations team. After the review of the draft form 990, it is then circulated to the full board of directors prior to filing with the internal revenue service.”

“The purpose of the conflict of interest policy is to protect civil rights corps interest when it is contemplating entering into a transaction or arrangement that might benefit the private interest of an officer or director or might result in a possible excess benefit transaction. The conflict of interest policy is distributed annually to all directors, officers, members of board committees, and staff. All covered individuals have to sign an annual acknowledgment that they have received a copy of this policy, understand it, and agree to abide by its terms. Whenever a director, officer, or committee member becomes aware of a potential conflict of interest, whether financial or otherwise, s/he makes the situation known to the board or committee as the case might be and provides all facts material to understanding the nature and scope of the conflict, including whether the interested person believes his or her ability to make an independent decision based solely on the best interest of civil rights corps has been compromised. If the interested person involved does not make this disclosure, another director or committee member with knowledge of the potential conflict should draw it to the bodys attention.”

“The board of directors surveyed executive salaries at comparable organizations to determine executive compensation and concluded that the executive directors salary was lower than market. As a result, the committee and the board of diretors adjusted the executive directors salary regimen to increase the salary to market with room to grow.”

“The board of directors surveyed executive salaries at comparable organizations to determine executive compensation and concluded that the executive directors salary was lower than market. As a result, the committee and the board of diretors adjusted the executive directors salary regimen to increase the salary to market with room to grow. The board of directors underwent the same process in setting the salary for the newly created position of ceo.”

“Civil rights corps makes its governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements available to the public upon request.”

“Organizations mission statement continuation civil rights corps engages in advocacy and public education and specializes in innovative, systemic civil rights litigation with the goal of re-sensitizing the legal system and our culture to the injustice and brutality that characterize the contemporary u.s. Legal system.”

“Program description continued even where our litigation is ongoing, we can have an immediate impact. Our litigation has released at least 13,000 people from jail in harris county, texas cut the jail population in cook county, illinois by 22 struck down louisianas court funding system on financial conflict of interest grounds and made it possible for more than 291,000 poor tennesseans whose drivers licenses were revoked for nonpayment of court debt or tickets to have their licenses reinstated. We currently have more than 20 cases in active litigation.”