Interior Alaska Center for Non-Violent

“The organization has 4 classes of members: (a) individual member,(b) sponsor member, (c) benefactor member, & (d) corporate member.”

“Each member has one vote at the annual membership meeting to elect the members of the board of directors as directors' terms expire. Corporate members can designate one person within the corporation to exercise the privileges of membership.”

“The draft 990 is distributed by email or in person to all board members for review and feedback prior to the return being filed. A signed form 990 is provided to all board members through the board of director's private page on the agency's website.”

“The agency has a standard agenda item at each board meeting where any potential conflicts of interest are disclosed at the beginning of the meeting. A decision is made on how the conflict will be handled prior to addressing the agenda item. Any potential conflicts are noted in the board minutes with the corresponding decision on how the conflict would be handled. Once a year,any issues that could give rise to a conflict are fully disclosed to the board and documented in the minutes of the monthly meeting.”

“The agency has a policy to ensure the salaries of all executive and key employees are within the range of the same type of positions in other agencies in the community. The tresurer gathers comparative data from 990's filed by other local organizations that are comparable in size to the agency and presents it to the board of directors prior to contract negotiations with the executive director. If information cannot be found on forms 990, the average summary produced yearly by the fairbanks north star borough is used and the 25th percentile average is used and wages are set by the board using comparable positions.”

“Forms 990 and 990-t are available to the public on guidestar.”

“All governing documents are provided to the public upon request and made available through the website when appropriate. Governing documents are also filed with the state of alaska and included on the state of alaska corporate database. The agency files the financial statements with the state of alaska and federal single audit clearinghouse and provides the financial statement summary in the annual report. The financial statements are available upon request to the public.”

“The process did not change from the prior year”