Powerful Schools

“The board of directors has an executive committee that is comprised of all the board officers. The executive committee oversees the executive director functions and has board authority throughout the year.”

“The executive director shares the form 990 with the finance committee, who reviews the return with a representative from our accounting firm. The finance committee then reviews the return with the full board.”

“The conflict of interest policy is reviewed at the beginning of the fiscal year (sept 1). All employees and board members are asked to disclose potential conflict of interest issues then or when they arise during the year.”

“The executive committee sets the executive director's (e.d.) salary. They partially relied upon the united way of king county's (uwkc) compensation guide that compares salaries for similar sized organizations by size, field, and income. The e.d. Uses the uwkc report as well to help set staff salaries.”

“These documents are available upon request”

“Powerful schools discontinued operating all programs effective august 1, 2014. All programs were assumed and subsequently operated by the ymca effective august 1, 2014 outside the powerful schools entity.”

“Contract instructors: program service expenses 225,079. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 225,079. Contract services: program service expenses 19,772. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 19,772. Other professional fees: program service expenses 3,785. Management and general expenses 381. Fundraising expenses 792. Total expenses 4,958.”