The Good Tidings Foundation

“Line 2 explanation - larry harper (executive director/board secretary) is the father of bridgette harper (board member).”

“Board minutes are maintained for all board of directors meetings. Good tidings does not have committees with authority to act on behalf of the governing body.”

“Line 11b explanation - copy of form 990 is distributed to the board of directors electronically before filing. The board responds with any comments or changes.”

“Board members certify annually any conflicts of interest relative to the organization.”

“Board and management review compensation for comparable positions within similar types of organizations before determining employee compensation.”

“PROVIDED UPON REQUEST.”

“Good tidings foundation, founded in 1995, is a 501(c)(3) children's charity that encourage and supports the growth of marginalized youths in the bay area by creating environments for athletics, artistic activities, education, and wonder. We aim to provide opportunities that otherwise would be unavailable to kids regardless of their financial status, ethnic origin, or religion.”

“Good tidings foundation, founded in 1995, is a 501(c)(3) children's charity that encourage and supports the growth of marginalized youths in the bay area by creating environments for athletics, artistic activities, education, and wonder. We aim to provide opportunities that otherwise would be unavailable to kids regardless of their financial status, ethnic origin, or religion.”

“Arts - in 2018, good tidings continued to build two leroy neiman art studios each calendar year. Muhammad ali was a dear friend of leroy neiman, so we traveled to louisville, kentucky and gifted his alma mater's central high, a brand new art studio. Art classes are offered three times a week for 90 minutes, and students are welcome to enroll in this course as often as they would like. In october, we went to sacramento, ca to gift sol collective a new leroy neiman studio. Sol collective is non-profit organization that offers free visual art classes to the sacramento neighborhood and serves as a community safe haven and resource. We continue to purchase all the art supplies annually for the 12 leroy neiman studios we have built. Our visual art studio environment fosters creativity and imagination. Integrating their school curriculum with visual art fundamentals, students experience high-level structured classes while embracing different cultures. These classes enhance critical thinking and develop cognitive, social and personal competencies.”

“Athletics - we built and gifted in san francisco - a basketball court at the salvation army community center, an outdoor basketball court, a track, and a cement baseball court at edgewood center, and 2 outdoor basketball courts at hunter points community youth park. In oakland, we built a basketball court at westlake middle school, and in san jose, a teal top outdoor hockey court at selma olinder elementary school. Each location undergoes a drastic makeover, transforming them from unusable to state-of-the-art. These renovations develop the community structurally and enable impressionable children to develop physically, emotionally and psychologically in a safe environment.”

“Special projects program: for the first time, we built 2 music studios for notes for notes in santa barbara, ca. We filled the room with instruments, and a created a recording studio, so that students can feel encouraged, inspired, and invested in. We also traveled to bronx, new york to build a teen room at the madison square boys & girls club, and build a safe haven for kids in the community to develop, create friendships, and learn. Wonder program: our wonder program includes rock star road trips and our winter wonderland. The rock star road trips program introduces teens to influential professionals and leaders in their respective fields on day-long outings to inspire and encourage them to dream big. In 2018, we flew out alice mizrachi - a new york professional grafitti artist, to help transform our warehouse into a winter wonderland. We invited a group of students from demarillac academy to spend a day in our warehouse learning spray-painting, teamwork, creativity, and received time to chat with alice. The renovated warehouse served as our location for our 10 day winter wonderland in december. Winter wonderland is our toy giveaway program, where we partnered with local business, schools, and organizations across the bay area to collect donated toys for the holiday. And, for 10 days - we invited 500 families from homeless shelters, boys & girls clubs, food banks, and more - to attend our winter wonderland and receive toys for the holiday. Our mission of this program was that child deserved a christmas present, and every parent deserve to give their a child a christmas present.”