The Symbol Syndicate

“The President and CEO of the board, the treasurer (where applicable), external legal and financial counsel, as well as at least one Member review the 990 for errors (both grammatical as well as factual) before it is filed. Copies are provided to the Board of Directors upon request, and may be provided to the public upon request.”

“The organizations internal policy requires employees to disclose any conflicts of interest with their manager or an executive director. We define a conflict of interest as any situation in which an employee, member or person of the organization is involved in multiple interests, financial or otherwise, and serving one interest could involve working against another. An example may be an employee holding another full-time (or part-time) position while also working at The Symbol Syndicate. If a conflict of interest is found, an employee may be immediately terminated. If the conflict of interest can be managed within reason, or the conflict of interest can be removed, the employee may remain, subject to the Board of Directors discretion.”

“Review and approval of any executive directors compensation must be determined by an independent committee (the Compensation Committee), as well as cross-referenced with industry-specific sources of payroll data. As of 2022, The Symbol Syndicate did not have an independent compensation committee - thus, any executive director is paid according to their states minimum compensation laws.”

“At this time, governing documents and financial statements are only made available to the public upon request. The organizations intention is to allow these governing documents and financial statements to be accessible via a public website, but as of 2022 a public presence has not yet been established.”

“OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: Client: The organization released multiple security and bug fixes to their client(s). There were no notable achievements. Post-mortem reports on patched security issues were made publicly available on HackMD, an open-source repository for markdown format documentation. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 5: Tooling & Infrastructure: The organization overhauled their public software presence across GitHub; improved documentation; streamlined repositories for code storage and cleaned up any link rot (a term used to denote a dead hyperlink or a hyperlink that no longer points to its originally targeted web file, page, or server).”