Shared Services Alliance

“03. Appointment of board members (part vi, line 7a)greenville county first steps (gfs) has the authority to appoint one member of the organizations board of directors. In addition, gfs executive director served on the organizations board until october 2, 2019.in addition, gfs allowed the organizations employees to participate in gfs group health benefits, and gfs incurred net premium costs of $17,136 related to the organizations two participating employees, including $11,733 for the executive director,”

“04. Form 990 governing body review (part vi, section b, line 11a)the organization provides a draft of the form 990 to the board chair, treasurer and executive director for review before filing the form 990. The form 990 is signed by the board chair.”

“05. Conflict of interests (part vi, section b, line 12 b)the board of directors reviews the conflicts of interest policy and determines compliance during program reviews.”

“06. Executive director compensation (part vi, section b, line 15 a)compensation of the executive director is decided by the board of directors. Pay increases to date have been equal to increases in the executive directors required contributions towards health insurance.”

“07. Governing documents (part vi, section c, line 19)governing documents and financial documents are available from the irs, the sc secretary of state, or upon request to the executive director.”

“01. Significant new program service (part iii, line 2)the organization received a significant new child care resource & referral contract grant, for which it develops business practice trainings for childcare providers across the state of sc. The organization is a sub-recepient of funding received by child development research center at the university of south carolina sc-child care resource and referral network. Revenue recognized for the program constituted 35% of total revenues in fy 19/20.”

“02. Program service accomplishments (part iii, line 4a)virtually all of the organizations programs use the same staff and technology resources. Program accomplishments for fy 19/20 include:a. Secured and implemented child care resource & referral contract grant and developed business practice trainings for childcare providers across south carolinab. Secured a contract with sc program for infant toddler care and provided services to various centers across south carolinac. Launched early care and education job boardd. Enhanced programmatic partnerships with early learning ventures and sc first stepse. Expanded number of counties served throughout south carolinaf. Developed a comprehensive training program and hired a part-time training coordinator”

“08. General explanation re greenville first steps revenues from greenville first steps (gfs) for fy 19/20 totalled $107,859, of which $25,000 was for membership grants to be used to fund memberships for greenville county childcare facilities. These revenues represented 48% of the organizations revenues for fy 19/20. In addition, gfs allowed the organizations employees to participate in gfs group health benefits, and gfs incurred net premium costs of $17,136 related to the organizations two participating employees. Gfs also provided office space to the organization at no charge, with a market value of $7,800. The total financial support provided by gfs, as described above, was $132,795 for fy 19/20.”