Catholic Education Arizona

“The executive committee has the power of the board of directors between meetings of the board provided, however, that the executive committee does not have the power to: (a) fill any vacancy on the board of directors or any committee appointed by the board of directors, (b) terminate any officer, (c) adopt amendments to the articles of incorporation or bylaws, (d) make any grant or award, (e) amend or revoke policies previously established by the board respecting grants or awards or the investment of funds, (f) encumber or authorize the sale or distribution of all, or substantially all, of the organization's assets, or (g) authorized the dissolution of the organization.”

“The superintendent of schools of the diocese and a board liaison designated by the roman catholic bishop of the diocese both serve as voting ex officio members of the board.”

“The president/ceo and the executive committee of the board of directors review the working draft of the 990 from the cpa and all members of the board of directors review the finalized 990 prior to submission.”

“Conflict of interest policy is reviewed annually by officers and governing board. Members are required to sign a conflict of interest statement.”

“Comparability data is utilized. The diocese of phoenix human resource pay grade levels are considered. Arizona state university lodestar center non-profit salary report is also utilized. Salary for the president/ceo is recommended by the executive committee and submitted to the full board of directors for approval. Salary for all other employees is recommended by the president/ceo to the executive committee for approval. Salary for key employees is recommended by the president/ceo to the executive committee for approval.”

“Documents are made available upon request to the president/ceo”

“All families with registered students in a diocese of phoenix catholic school, including dependents and/or relatives of board/staff members, are welcome to apply to catholic education arizona for scholarship support. All applications and tax forms are submitted by the applicant directly to a third-party vendor, financial aid independent review (fair), located out of state. Individual applications are not handled, reviewed, or processed by the board/staff of catholic education arizona for the determination of any awards. Individual award decisions are based on fair's determination of a family's ability to pay tuition. Catholic education arizona staff executes the program, and the board of directors oversees the process and monitors the allocations of funding by school, but not by individual families. At no time do board/staff members have influence on the individual award of a particular applicant. The process is specifically and intentionally designed to be "arms-length" not just for dependents or relatives of board/staff members but for every applicant. Fair methodology: tuition assistance is awarded by catholic education arizona based first and foremost on financial need. Applications are processed by financial aid independent review (fair) of eagan, minnesota. Fair provides a third-party review of all applicants. Scholarships are based on calculated financial need of the applicant; thus tax forms are required. The application requires families to provide information about income and living expenses. Fair methodology incorporates income, expenses, net worth, discretionary income, tuition and the amount of discretionary income available for tuition to calculate family need. Instead of providing a standard allowance based on household income and size, fair takes a different approach by using actual expenses as provided by the family, and determining a family's ability to pay tuition.”