Californians for Justice Education Fund

“From the organization bylaws: QUALIFICATION (a) This Corporation shall have one class of voting members, who shall be known as "Leaders, and the membership, voting and other rights, interests and privileges of each such member shall be equal. (b)Membership in this Corporation as a Leader shall be by invitation only, and potential members shall be nominated by the Board or the staff of the Corporation, or by an existing member of the Corporation, pursuant to the criteria adopted by the Board from time to time. (c)The Board may also offer non-voting "memberships" to additional classes of individuals. However, such members shall have no rights to vote or to exercise any of the rights, interests or privileges of the Leaders pursuant to these Bylaws. Such nonvoting members shall have only the rights and privileges adopted by the Board from time to time. Each reference in these Bylaws to a "member" shall refer only to Leaders, and nothing in these Bylaws shall confer any rights or privileges on any nonvoting member described in this Section 5.l(c). Section 4:2: ANNUAL MEETING The annual meeting of members shall be held in the first quarter of each calendar year at a time to be set in advance by the Board of Directors. At the Annual Meeting, the Members shall (a) elect Directors pursuant to Section 8.3(c) (i), (b) approve the annual plan for the Corporation, and (c) conduct such other business as is properly brought before the Members pursuant to these Bylaws. Any action permitted to be taken at the Annual Meeting may instead be taken by written ballot pursuant to Section 6.9.”

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“The tax return is prepared by an outside accounting firm. After completion of said returns, the organization is sent a draft of the tax returns to be reviewed and examined. The organization distributes copies of the returns to those individuals charged with governance. Those individuals at that time can review and if applicable discuss any line items in the return with the accountant who has prepared the return. If all items are found to be acceptable, an authorization is signed and provided to authorize the outside accounting firm to process, sign and provide copies of the returns to be filed (paper or electronically) with the designated governmental agencies. The tax returns are then signed by the organization, stamped and mailed with certified return receipt or the signed form 8879 is provided to the outside accounting firm allowing electronic filing.”

“On an annual basis, during the week of the organizations Annual Meeting, all current board members and key employees are required to review the Conflict of Interest policy. At this time, current board members and key employees are required to disclose any interests that could give rise to conflicts by completing and signing a Disclosure Form. The board Executive Committee reviews and monitors the annually signed Conflict of Interest Disclosure Forms at the subsequent Executive Committee meeting.”

“Californians for Justices Board of Directors reviews salary and benefits data of comparable organizations similar to Californians for Justice, and document the process and decision in board meeting minutes.”

“Federal Tax Returns will be available at guidestar.org & charitynavigator.org.”

“The Governing Documents, Policies, Financial Statements, and Federal 990 are made available upon request.”