Catholic Charities Housing Services Diocese of Yakima

“Cchs contracts with a real estate management group, coast real estate services, to oversee the management of all housing projects developed and acquired by cchs,including george family housing llc and cchs holding company llc. They provide on-site managers, a portfolio manager and property accountants for these properties.”

“The organization has one corporate member which is catholic charities board of trustees. The corporate member shall have and is authorized to exercise all of the authority of the membership in the corporation except as otherwise fixed by law. The corporate member shall have the authority to elect and remove, without cause or for cause, a director of the corporation and shall have the authority to appoint replacement or successor directors.”

“Catholic charities board of trustees are the sole member of catholic charities housing services. They elect all board members.”

“Catholic charities board of trustees are the sole member of catholic charities housing services. They elect all board members.”

“The form 990 is sent to all of the finance and board members for their review before the form 990 is filed.”

“Conflict of interest policies must be reviewed and signed every year.”

“Wage surveys are conducted every two to four years as a contracted professional service through the catholic charities dioceses of yakima human resources department.”

“Request is made to the director of catholic charities housing services diocese of yakima. If approved by the director, a copy is then sent to the person/organization who requested it. Form 990 is also available on guidestar website.”

“Form 990 - organization's mission (continued): to provide low and moderate income persons, elderly persons, and handicapped persons with housing facilities and services specially designed to meet their physical, social and psychological needs, and to promote their health, security, happiness and usefulness in longer living.”

“Line 4b. Our mutual self-help housing program requires families to contribute sixty-five percent of the labor component to build their homes (30 hours per week) and that they agree to a group labor agreement where each family in a build group commits to helping each other build their homes. No family can move in until all homes have been completed. Once completed families have approximately 20,000 - 25,000 of equity in their home. Line 4c. In 2018, at 10 of our housing sites we had a 93% graduation rate and a 90% post-secondary enrollment rate among our high school seniors. In addition, we promote high school completion among our youth residents by providing on-site after school activities such as assistance with homework and activities that address academic skills, gang and bullying prevention, teamwork, creativity and self-esteem. Staff also supports college preparedness by offering college access programming to address the achievement gap in higher education in our resident population, as well as college campus (and vocational school) tours and college mentoring programs.”