Utahns Against Hunger

“The executive director reviews the form 990 before it is filed. In addition, the form 990 is provided to all members of the board of directors for review prior to filing.”

“Compensation for officers is determined by the board of directors, independent of the executive director. The organization uses market data for similar positions in the region to establish a reasonable level of compensation. The deliberation and determination of compensation for officers id documented in the board minutes.”

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“Recent snap and child nutrition activities snap: farmers markets - in 2015, utahns against hunger (uah) was awarded a food insecurity nutrition incentives grant through the usda. The purpose of this two year grant is to provide funding to the 21 farmers markets accepting snap. 53,000 was distributed to 21 markets to implement double up food bucks (dufb) at their markets. Dufb incentivizes the purchase of locally grown fruits and vegetables by matching customers' use of snap benefits up to 10 per market day. Snap outreach - senior outreach senior specific brochures distributed to recipients (3,300) of senior meal boxes through the utah food bank, and meals on wheels on a quarterly basis. Phone and in-person application assistance was provided to 26 elderly households in salt lake county. Outreach posters and updated brochures were also delivered to 32 senior centers and housing facilities. - distributed 500 business cards for snap outreach. The card directs individuals to uah's web-site for additional information and a link to both the snap calculator and online application. - uah was recently awarded the state contract for the department of workforce services snap outreach plan. Uah will be responsible for recruiting up to 10 new community partners who will conduct outreach and enrollment activities in their communities. Uah will provide training the on eligibility process, the online application as well as policy support. - in 2015, uah staff conducted 9 snap trainings for community partners, which included information about the eligibility process and how to navigate the online application, and the how agencies can help their clients meet the requirements for both abawd participation and employment and training. Snap policy - after participating in frac's webinar "snap matters for people with disabilities" uah met with dws senior policy staff to discuss how food insecurity impacts people with disabilities and the policy can increase and improve access for this population. Dws will report how they are moving forward on implementation of these policies at an advocates meeting in january 2016. We are using frac's snap matters for people with disabilities report for guidance. Child nutrition: summer food service program - provided outreach information to 84 community partners. - assisted 220 individuals locate summer food sites in their community. - distributed 5,000 books at 2 summer food sites, which encouraged families to increase their summer reading activities. Federal: wrach: in april of 2015 utahns against hunger hosted the wrach meeting in salt lake city. Uah's nutrition initiatives director worked closely with the meeting chair to create the agenda. Topics of discussion & updates included: - child nutrition o community eligibility- maximizing direct certification, o summer meal ebt & streamlining, o child nutrition reauthorization, - snap o abawd strategies o students congressional delegation - in march of 2015 utahns against hunger's nutrition initiative director met with both parker erickson, a legislative correspondent in representative chaffetz's office and stefanie dearie, the legislative director in representative love's office. The purpose of these two meetings was to discuss child nutrition reauthorization. A fact sheet was shared with both staffers that detailed the positive impact the summer meals act and the stop summer hunger act could have for utah's children, if included in reauthorization. Data was specific to each representative's district. The fact sheet also emphasized the successful implementation the improved school nutrition standards have had and why it is so important to continue strengthening them, not weakening them. Uah met with utah's congressional delegation twice in washington dc and once in their districts. We began working with representative stewart's office on improving the fssa and figuring out how he can take a strong leadership position on this issues in the house. - a summer food ser”

“In 2015: - employed 25 youth july- aug 2015 - grew 17,000 of produce - engaged with 908 volunteers - donating 2,217 hours”

“Contract labor 99,872 1,767 406”

“Special event expenses 17,027 fmv donated auction items -7,704 special event expenses -17,027 fmv donated auction items 7,704”