Central Northeast Neighbors Inc

“Form 990 is reviewed by the executive director.”

“Cnn maintains a signed and dated conflict of interest statement and disclosure form that each board member signs yearly. Board members are given a copy of the form.”

“Compensation of the executive and other key employees is reviewed by the entire board each year as the new fiscal year budget is approved.”

“Governing documents, policies, financial statements & form 990 are made available to the general public, (within five days) upon request.”

“Hollywood neighborhood association - 3 grants - 500.00 to the hollywood farmers market to be applied to their s.n.a.p. Program. This would assist in providing local residents with limited income to purchase fresh, high quality, and healthy foods. 500.00 in funds for mother and child education center to assist in installing a vegetable garden on their business site. This garden would provide staff the opportunity to teach their clients some basic skills that would allow them to provide fresh fruit and vegetables for their families. 500.00 in resiliency grant funds be given to the hollywood senior center to apply to the purchase of a commercial freezer. Hollywood senior center is currently seeking funding to purchase a commercial freezer to support our work delivering food boxes, food donations, and farmers market produce (through our gleaning program with the hollywood farmers market). Since the onset of covid-19, more than 55,765 pounds of food, 1,886 emergency food boxes, and 400 thanksgiving meals have been delivered to low-income seniors and veterans in the community. 2,600 grocery bags have been delivered through the asian food pantry, a new monthly program through our partnership with clay street table and the giving tree. The giving tree will be absorbed into our organization in july 2021 with a plan to expand the asian food pantry to more asian elders in ne portland. Beaumont wilshire neighborhood - gave out two resiliency grants- 2,000 ne portland nonprofit community cycling center (ccc). As we reported, those initial funds were used to purchase supplies for care kits (including hand sanitizer, soap, toothbrushes and toothpaste, antibacterial wipes, and other personal care products) to add to cccs ongoing provision of food boxes delivered by bicycle trailers to approximately 200 households in the cully neighborhood each friday. This going the last mile approach supports community members facing multiple challenges whether due to loss of work and income when covid hit, loss of childcare when schools closed, mobility challenges, or tight work schedules that make getting to a food pantry or grocery store difficult, not to mention financially inaccessible. As we worked with the staff at the community cycling center, we learned that this worthwhile project has relied on the mostly-volunteer labor of a group of workers dubbed the abc team, which is for andando en bicicletas y caminando (riding on bicycles and walking). Ccc describes those critical helpers as a group of low-income, immigrant, bipoc community members who work to further active transportation, largely in the cully area. Throughout the pandemic, their support has been critical in our food delivery operations. Each friday, this group gathers to help assemble hundreds of food boxes and care kits before they are delivered. The ccc staff proposes that we contribute this additional grant to the abc groups discretionary funds, which typically have gone toward things that reduce barriers to participation in events for example, providing child care to folks who otherwise would not be able to attend group events, providing meals at events, etc. Over time, this could even help to expand abc as a group, as the biggest issue for expansion is cost; group members are provided a modest stipend each month for their volunteer time to offset some of the financial barriers that traditional volunteering poses. We at bwna have seen the community cycling centers success at pivoting from their core mission of supporting the healthy transportation alternative of bicycling to demonstrating that bicycles can be used to deliver compassionate needs-based services to those especially struggling during the covid crisis. We have been impressed with the aim and delivery of that program--and in particular the way ccc has enlisted targeted community members in participating in this program. In all these ways, we see this endeavor as meeting the equity goals expressed in portlands equitytoolkit f”