Arizona Community Action Association Inc.

“ACAA has three membership categories 1 individual members can be any Arizona resident 18 years of age or older 2 Organizational members are those organizations with an interest in meeting the needs of low-income Arizona residents including but not limited to community action agencies, their subcontractors and other private and public organizations including government agencies and 3 corporate members are private for-profit organizations. Each individual member has one vote at membership meetings, including the annual planning meeting. Each organizational member designates, in writing, one representative who is entitled to cast one vote at all membership meetings. Executive directors of agencies or their alternatives are automatically accepted as representatives of their organizational members and entitled to cast one vote.”

“Individual, organizational, and corporate member representatives who are present at the annual meeting vote on the membership-at-large director positions. No proxy voting is allowed all votes must be cast in person. Persons who are organizational representatives, and who also possess an individual membership, may vote twice -- once as an organizational representative and once as an individual member.”

“The following acts require approval from the membership body 1 amendments to ACCAs bylaws and 2 dissolution of ACAA.”

“A hard copy of the Form 990 is circulated to all board members for review at a regularly scheduled board meeting. The document is then discussed and an opportunity for comments, questions, and concerns is provided. Changes are made as needed from the boards review, and the board ultimately approves the document for filing.”

“At each board and committee meeting, if there is a discussion of selecting or engaging a vendor or service provider, all in attendance are asked to recuse themselves from this discussion if there could be a perceived conflict. Annually, ACAA reviews and discusses the conflict of interest policy and requests that each board member list and acknowledge any known conflicts.”

“ACAA reviews the compensation for the Executive Director by comparing his/her compensation to the compensation of individuals in like positions, in comparable organizations, using Form 990, compensation studies, and other available data. The committee then recommends to the full board of directors, any changes in compensation based on this information. ACAA has no paid officers or employees meeting the IRS definition of a key employee.”

“ACAA will provide in a timely manner, copies of all tax returns, governing documents including its conflict of interest policies and financial statements when requested in writing or in person.”

“Program Service Expenses 0, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 26,180 ACAA Annual Conference Ignite Lasting Change. The conference was attended by over 280 people from across the state and all of Arizonas Community Action Agencies. Sessions included From Separation to Relationships Investing to Close the Wealth Divide Trauma Informed Services A Community Conversation About Consumer Protection Storytelling to Ignite Change Just Us or Justice Building an Inclusive Economy and Why it Matters to the Future of Arizona and Activating Arizona Activists for Lasting Change.”

“Program Service Expenses 140,225, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 CSBG Throughout the year, ACAA staff supported the Community Action Agency network as they implement the CSBG organizational performance standards, the new Results Oriented Management and Accountability Standards- Next Generation, and advocated on their behalf with various state and federal entities. The Community Action Network served approximately 330,820 low income individuals, throughout the year, leveraging 24.13 for every 1 of CSBG received. Our work supports their ability to provide the services necessary, focusing on critical needs and programmatic and community based solutions to poverty in their service territory.”

“Program Service Expenses 10,985, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 The Whiteman Foundation Support from the Whiteman Foundation allowed us to successfully recruit local Arizona businesses paying a living wage, and to launch a community living wage pledge showing broad based community support for businesses paying their employees a living wage. We were also able to monitor legislation related to high cost lending, which fortunately was not introduced in this years legislative session.”

“Program Service Expenses 6,825, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Raise Arizona ACAA continued to work to enroll local Arizona businesses as partners in the Raise Arizona initiative - a partnership to identify, acknowledge and drive customers to businesses paying a living wage in Arizona. The wage varies throughout the state, but in Maricopa County is 15.67 an hour. We currently have 30 businesses certified with 100 as our goal for this year. This year we added an opportunity to have members of the community sign a pledge to support businesses paying a living wage. We know that a living wage is essential to achieving our overall goal of ending poverty. This initiative was initially funded by ASAE and Vitalyst Health Foundation.”

“Program Service Expenses 87,006, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Volunteer Income Tax Assistance VITA ACAA applied for and received an IRS grant to support the Maricopa Volunteer Income Tax Network, a grant that was approved for years 2017 and 2018. This funding supported the deployment of 34 VITA sites across Maricopa County, supported by volunteer tax preparers, who prepared tax returns for no cost for Maricopa County individuals and families. 518 volunteers supported this work, contributing 517,365.13 in volunteer hours. These volunteers completed 13,101 federal tax returns, saving low-mid income families 3,419,361 in tax preparation fees. The program will run again during the 2019 and 2020 tax filing season.”

“Program Service Expenses 134,613, Grants and allocations 12,815, Revenue 0 Various other individual programs provided to our community throughout the year. Please visit our website for additional information.”