Wyoming Community Foundation

“CHERYL WELEGALA”

“Yes. The wyoming community foundation does have written policies and procedures governing the activities of affiliates to ensure their operations are consistent with those of the organization and with the certified national standards for community foundations.”

“The chief financial officer emails and/or mails a copy of the form 990 to all directors for review. Shortly thereafter, and before the form 990 is filed, a conference call that is open to the entire board of directors is held. This call gives all directors a chance to ask questions and voice any potential concerns before the form 990 is finalized and filed with the irs.”

“Upon acceptance as a member of the board of directors, all new members must review the conflicts of interest policy and complete a conflicts of interest disclosure form. Annually at its third quarter board meeting, all board members are asked to update their conflicts of interest disclosure form. Further, at every meeting of the full board or its committees, the board chair and committee chairs ask all present whether they have a conflict with respect to items on the agenda and remind attendees of their continued obligation to disclose any potential conflict. Any such conflict is noted in the meeting minutes and that person is recused from that particular agenda topic and any motion / vote on the topic.”

“The board of directors approved the hiring of a professional employer organization at is december 2011 board meeting for the 2012 fiscal year. This peo organization was paid to conduct an independent salary survey for all staff positions including the president. The finance committee considered all staff salaries for 2012 when reviewing and approving the annual operating budget by considering the results of the salary survey and each staff memeber's current year performance.”

“The board of directors approved the hiring of a professional employer organization at is december 2011 board meeting for the 2012 fiscal year. This peo organization was paid to conduct an independent salary survey for all staff positions including the president. The finance committee considered all staff salaries for 2012 when reviewing and approving the annual operating budget by considering the results of the salary survey and each staff memeber's current year performance.”

“The foundation posts links to information on its website. Also, anyone may call or e-mail in requests for this information at anytime and foundation staff will make any of this information available either electronically or in hard copy.”

“The organization's mission is to connect people who care with causes that matter to build a better wyoming. The wyoming community foundation is a charitable organization which builds and preserves funds established by individuals, families, corporations, agencies and private foundations. The wyoming community foundation uses the earnings from these funds to benefit community needs across the state of wyoming. For more information call (307) 721-8300 or visit the website at www.wycf.org.”

“Invitational turkey shoot, the wwtf has started to take asset and program- develpoment initiatives in support of its mission.”

“Necessity and value of afterschool programs in wyoming. 5. Working to create additioanl resources, sustainable funding, and policies that protect, strengthen and expand school-based and school-linked afterschool programs. To complement ongoing research and assessment processes, wyaa has successfully implemented the use of the afterschool prpogram assessment tool (apas), which includes the survey of afterschool youth outcomes (sayo) and the assessing afterschool program practices tool (apt). A cadre of 25 pilot coordinators who have been trained as "quality advisors" to provide coaching and support to the programs during each school year. Wyaa has collected pre-post date for teh school year 2011/2012, and are now collecting pre-post date for the school year 2012/2013. This information collected over two consecutive school years will provide wyaa the date necessary to determine the effetiveness of this training and the assessment of their expectations of increased student outcomes. We anticipate that the data will sugggest increaseed student outcomes based on their first year of data collection. Concurrently, wyaa has worked with cypherworx, an organization focused on the nonprofit sector to provide e-learning solutions, to test and evaluate a series of online learning modules developed and cross-walked with the naa coreknowledge and competencies for afterschool and youth develpment professionals through an online professional learning community called "collabornation". Wyaa also held a two-day professional development conference for 180 "out of school time program providers" in october 2012.”

“Ability to economically succeed through both granting (as mentioned above) and advocacy work. This is a large area including, but not limited to, health care, transportation, safety, housing and a job that pays a livable wage. This large body of work is encompassed by the wywf motto-"when women and girls prosper-communities thrive" wywf launched wage training programs in 2008 and continues these today to help women recognize the wage gap given that wyoming has the largest one in the u.s. The objective of these programs is to help women learn to benchmark a wage or salary in a specific geographic location, to make a realistic budget and to negotiate for a competitive wage. Wywf also continued its leap into leadership program to encourage women to participate in civic and community leadership in the state expanding the events to various cities around the state in 2012.”

“The wyoming community foundation manages over 300 funds. By conducting three competitive grant cycles a year, these funds made grants of over 3.7 million in 2012 to support charitable projects and initiatives throughout the state.”

“PRIOR PERIOD 9”