Rocky Mountain Youth Corps

“Once the rmyc chief financial officer receives the cpa-prepared 990 forms, she reviews them thoroughly. She then provides the return to rmyc's ceo and the treasurer of the board of directors. The treasurer reviews the return, makes comments, poses concerns, and recommends any revisions back to the chief executive officer and chief financial officer. If revisions are recommended, the ceo and the cfo work with the form 990 creators to adjust the report as necessary. Once adjustments are complete, the 990 forms are reviewed by the rmyc board finance committee and the board executive committee.”

“Officers and directors are required to disclose conflicts of interest as they arise, and are required to sign a conflict of interest form.”

“The recommended salary increases and performance incentives are based on three factors: 1.the cost of living; 2.rmyc's current financial standing; 3.performance evaluations of staff members. Salary surveys of comparable positions in non-profit organizations of comparable size, nature and geography are taken into consideration. The relevant salaries are generally derived from the colorado non-profit association oragnization's salary survey results, and the corps network salary survey results.”

“Annual report, financial audit report, and annual 990 are posted on the rmyc website. All other documents are available upon request.”

“Rmyc is unique in the world of service and conservation corps in that we are the only corps in the state of colorado that engages corps members for extended (10 weeks +) 24/7 experiential work and living opportunities. Youth and young adults develop strong, healthy lifestyles by working on meaningful community service projects that protect habitats while maintaining outdoor recreational amenities that coloradoans enjoy. We provide unique project services and training around higher-level hard skills such as chainsaw certification, wildland fire fighting certification, high altitude sites (colorado fourteeners), intricate rock work, historic preservation, and wilderness specialty work such as cross cut saw use. We provide an affordable work force for public lands maintenance with trails, wildlife habitat, fire fuels reduction, beetle kill mitigation, historic preservation, noxious weed control, and more. Rocky mountain youth corps is the largest employer of youth in northwest colorado. Youth corps programs: service learning crew (slc) is a youth community service program that provides education and experience in citizenship, volunteerism, community service, and self-development to routt county youth ages 11-13. Slc sessions are two weeks, monday - friday, eight hour days, with a camping experience on the last day. Slc provides entry-level job skills while enhancing their resiliency and personal development through experiential education and meaningful service projects for public benefit. Slc was created in 2010. Community youth crew (cyc) serves northwest colorado youth ages 14-15 on local projects. Members are paid a wage while completing priority projects on public lands and engaging in the education curriculum. Cyc sessions are two weeks, monday - friday, with two program models: 1) the first week operates five 8-hour days, and the second week operates a residential, 24/7 camping experience; and 2) both weeks operate a residential, 24/7 camping experience. During the session, members live in tents and learn basic independent living skills while working on public lands projects during the day. Cyc was created in 1994. Regional youth crew (ryc) serves youth ages 16-18 from throughout northwest colorado. Members live and work 24/7 for the entire session. Participants can choose between a two-week or a four-week session. The residential nature allows participants to be fully immersed in the experiential impact of the program. Like the slc and cyc programs, members work for public land managers on service projects that benefit the general public. Ryc members are also paid a wage, and some are eligible for americorps education awards for higher education. Ryc was our first program model, created in 1993. Young adult corps programs: conservation corps (cc) serves young adults ages 18-25 through conservation work projects which focus on: trail crew, chainsaw crew, historic preservation crew, and fire crew. Conservation corps members are paid a wage and earn americorps education awards while completing priority projects on public lands and engaging in a comprehensive personal and career development education program. Participants live in groups of 8-10 for 10 to 23 weeks in the outdoors, and work building and maintaining trails, bridges and fences, fire fuels reduction, habitat restoration, wildfire rehabilitation, and mountain pine beetle mitigation. Cc was created in 1999. Natural resource internship program (nrip) is designed to engage youth and young adults ages 16-30 years in valuable work experiences within natural resources management agencies and non-profits. Interns are recruited and managed by rmyc to address priority conservation goals in partnership with the united states forest service, the bureau of land management, the national park service, the colorado youth corps association, the national forest foundation, and a growing circle of additional agency and non-profit partners. Internships are designed to allow participan”