Washington State Child Care Resource & Referral Network

“There are six member agencies, each providing services, including coaching and technical assistance to providers in a specific, defined geographic area, under contract with child care of washington. Additionally the family center operates as a state-wide, single center resource for statewide child care resources and referral to parents and the general public. Selection of members is through a competitive request for proposals ("rfp") process a member agencies must be approved for membership by a vote of the board of trustees, pay annual dues, and designate an appropriate representative who attends member council meetings. Each member agency shall have a seat on the member council (as defined below) and will participate in regular meetings of the council. The designated representative of each member agency will be an administrator or program director in the agency with the overarching responsibility for the management of child care resource & referral programs. Member agencies shall have the right to vote for the election of member council representatives as trustees on the board of trustees, the right to approve an annual public policy agenda, and any other purpose set forth in the corporation's bylaws or the articles of incorporation. Each member agency will designate one individual to serve on the member council, as set forth below in child care aware of washington's bylaws. This representative will serve as long as he or she is the representative designated by the member agency and shall have the right to vote on any matter before the member council.”

“Upon appointment or hire and every year thereafter at the annual board of trustees meeting, each board of trustees member, board committee members, executive director, or director level staff is required to complete and sign the organization's conflict of interest disclosure questionnaire and the related conflict of interest statement. Child care aware of wa regularly and consistently monitors and enforces this policy by tracking the items disclosed in each individual questionnaire and ensuring that a conflicted individual has no role in policy or fiscal decision-making that in any way relates to or impacts their conflict issue. The most common monitoring and enforcement method involved in excluding all local ccr&r directors from participating in the discussion and all decisions and votes affecting local ccr&r program contracts and funding allocations. In all cases, the conflicted individuals must recuse themselves from the discussion and vote.”

“The executive committee of the board of trustees conducts a thorough performance evaluation of the executive director each year. The current performance evaluation process includes input from staff, board and a sampling of statewide partners. This process includes an assessment of the executive director's historical compensation package as well as her current compensation package which is then comparted with compensation for similarly qualified persons in functionally comparable positions at similarly situated nonprofit organizations in the puget sound region and like-sized statewide child care resource & referral network offices in other states across the nation. The executive committee requests input from all members of the board.”

“Washington state child care resource and referral network ("child care aware of wa"). Applicable tax forms - form 1023, 990 are available for review upon request in our offices during normal business hours. In addition, child care aware of wa's governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements are also available for review upon request in our offices during normal business hours. Some or all of these documents may also be available on our website at http://wa.childcareaware.org/”

“The board of directors is provided a copy of the form 990 prior to a board meeting, and reviews the form 990 with the outside tax preparer before approving the return for electronic filing.”