Building Changes

“The executive committee is comprised of the president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, committee chair and immediate past president. The executive committee makes decision on behalf of the board when there are urgent issues that need to be resolved or acted upon.”

“Annual form 990 is presented to the finance committee, then to the board for approval prior to submission to the irs.”

“All board members and key staff are required to review and sign conflict of interest policy annually. Through this process, board members and key staff are reminded of the requirement to disclose all material facts of every actual or potential conflict of interest to the executive director or board chair. Building changes management and the board executive committee have the responsibility to identify related party transactions and real or potential conflicts of interests. All identified related party transactions and real or potential conflicts of interest are presented and discussed by the appropriate committee or full board and are recorded in the minutes of that meeting.”

“Ceo salary is determined by the board. All building changes compensation are based on published salary surveys.”

“These documents are not publicly available.”

“Building changes is a nonprofit organization conducting activities in washington state with the following vision and mission: vision: everyone has a home and the opportunity for a healthy, fulfilling life. Mission: building changes believes everyone in washington can be stably housed. Building changes strengthens the leaders, organizations, and systems that make it possible. Building changes' values are integrity, equity, collaboration, and results. Building changes focuses on families and young people, and our reach is statewide. Building changes' approach building changes has spent nearly a decade working directly with local communities and nonprofits in a concentrated effort to strengthen the ways we serve families and youth experiencing homelessness. Understanding the imperative for a broad-based response to family and youth homelessness, building changes pulls together the resources of government, philanthropy, and nonprofits and unleashes their collective power to affect change. Building changes develops and advances strategies that move families and youth quickly and safely out of homelessness, and empowers them to remain stably housed. Those strategies include: diversion, rapid re-housing, coordinated entry, and permanent supportive housing. Building changes also supports employment strategies for persons experiencing homelessness so they can find a family-sustaining wage job, earn consistent income, obtain housing, and maintain it. Building changes emphasizes families and youth of color because they disproportionately experience homelessness. Building changes tests ideas and strategies that directly target the disparities people of color face in accessing services and closes gaps in outcomes. Building changes functions as a "laboratory" for its field by testing innovative new ideas and promising practices through pilot projects. Building changes offers technical assistance and training to participating counties and nonprofits, including coaching on how to leverage data more meaningfully. Building changes learns through program experience, data analysis, and project evaluation, and shares knowledge with the field. Building changes uses its learnings to help drive counties and nonprofits to make systemic and structural improvements to the practices and policies they use to address family and youth homelessness, including funding decisions. Building changes focuses on cross-sector collaboration by connecting those working in the homeless system to their counterparts in the employment, education, housing, and health systems. This encourages them to work together to deliver coordinated services to families and youth experiencing homelessness. Notable accomplishments in 2018 during 2018, building changes strengthened its impact and influence on the field, contributing to a more equitable, effective, and efficient homeless response system for the tens of thousands of families and young people across washington state who access it for support and services. Building changes administers the washington youth and families fund to improve system performance by building on local strengths and address racial disparities. Building changes also leads the family homelessness initiative, an intensive 11-year effort in king, pierce, and snohomish counties to develop a high-performing, data-driven homeless response system. The initiative also promotes the realignment of resources around strategies known to most positively impact family homelessness. Additionally, building changes leads the schoolhouse washington project, a statewide effort to improve academic outcomes for the more than 40,000 students experiencing homelessness in washington state. Washington youth and families fund: in 2018, building changes approved projects in six washington counties: asotin, clallam, clark, kitsap, pierce, and spokane. Building changes will evaluate performance of these projects in three areas: increasing permanent housing, reducing the duration of exp”

“Knowledge sharing: building changes prioritizes sharing knowledge acquired through our projects and relationships across the state. In 2018, building changes hosted promote progress, a special convening for policymakers, philanthropists, and the media to highlight what was learned over our past decade of work. Partnering with design firm intentional futures, insights were shared through a museum-style exhibit and a keynote presentation that grounded our audience in the common pathways to homelessness and the current experience of those navigating the homeless system in washington. Building changes was able to reach and expose new audiences to our innovative and data-driven solutions for reducing homelessness. About 100 people attended. In 2018, building changes released a public report on the academic outcomes of students experiencing homelessness in washington's k-12 public education system. The report provided analysis never before publicly released. Building changes accompanied the report with online data dashboards allowing users to view summary characteristics and outcome data on students experiencing homelessness at three levels of aggregation: school district, legislative district, and county. Building changes also released two data-rich diversion products publicly showcasing the diversion strategy and a case study on pierce county. Schoolhouse washington: through the schoolhouse washington project, a statewide initiative to improve housing stability and advance educational success for students experiencing homelessness, building changes continued support for three south king county school districts: federal way, kent, and tukwila. In 2018, building changes also facilitated the school/housing network, a peer-learning group with dozens of school administrators and housing providers. The network serves in part as a forum to share knowledge. Additionally, building changes conducted mckinney-vento 101 trainings in king, pierce, and snohomish counties with mckinney-vento liaisons from school districts and staff from shelter and homeless-housing providers. These trainings help educate the nonprofit field about what services the students are entitled to under the law.”

“Technical assistance for the data driven culture initiative: program service expenses 1,201,043. Management and general expenses 91,028. Fundraising expenses 13,112. Total expenses 1,305,183. Other consulting: program service expenses 0. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 25,192. Total expenses 25,192.”

“Cancelled grants and other grant expense adjustments 775,314.”