Engineers Without Borders-Usainc

“Engineering students and professionals can become members of the organization.”

“New board members are primarily elected by a majority vote of the existing board of directors. However, student, professional and faculty members of the board are selected by committees of the general membership and then forwarded to the board for concurrence. The board typically accepts these new members.”

“The return is reviewed by the cfo, executive director, treasurer, finance committee and board of directors before the return is filed with the irs.”

“All officers, directors and key emplyees are required to annually disclose potential conflicts of interest to the board of directors by completing the conflict of interest statement form. If the board finds that a conflict of interest exists, the board will determine the appropriate action to address the conflict. Options include: (a) take no action; (b) ask the individual to recuse him/herself from participation in related discussions or decisions within ewb-usa; (c) permit the individual to participate in related discussions, but without voting in the final determination; or (d) ask the individual to resign from his or her position in ewb-usa. Ewb-usa's chief employed executive and chief employed finance executive will monitor proposed or ongoing transactions for conflicts of interest and disclose them to the board of directors in order to deal with potential or actual conflicts, whether discovered before or after the transaction has occurred.”

“The board of directors develops the compensation package for the executive director. The board reviews several sources of data to determine the compensation which includes guidestar and surveys. The last review of key employees' compensation occurred on december 23, 2013.”

“The organization's financial statements, annual reports, irs determination letter and forms 990 are available to the public on the ewb-usa website. The governing documents and conflict of interest policy are not available to the public.”

“The audit oversight process did not change during the year.”

“On october 31, 2007, the organization entered into an affiliation agreement with the american society of civil engineeers, a not-for-profit organization with a mission similar to that of the organization. The agreement provides the asce will provide, in addition to cash donations, certain services to the organization as a charitable contribution, pursuant to a separate services agreement. The services agreement includes managing the membership database, marketing, legal, financial and human resources services. Donations from asce and memberships received through asce have been paid by cash transfers from asce to the organization. As of december 31, 2015, memberships collected by asce resulted in a receivable from asce in the amount of $107,195. The receivable was collected shortly after year end.”