2022-11-15T16:04:20-08:00 2021-12-31 680095377 Perotti & Carrade CPAs 1 McInnis Pkwy Ste 200 San Rafael CA 94903 990 2021-01-01 943059243 CHILDREN NOW CHIL 5107632444 1404 FRANKLIN STREET 700 OAKLAND CA 94612 EDWARD LEMPERT President 2022-11-15 true EDWARD LEMPERT 999009999 KATHRYN HARRIS P01460430 4154618500 2 AAL1 IAL1 FAL1 2021 2022-09-23 18:48:47Z EDWARD LEMPERT 1404 FRANKLIN STREET 700 OAKLAND CA 94612 7552139 false X https://www.childrennow.org/ X 1988 CA Children Now is a nonpartisan whole-child research, policy development, communications, and advocacy organization working on all key kids issues, and dedicated to promoting childrens health, education, and overall well-being in California. Children Now also leads The Childrens Movement of California the member-based Pro-Kid constituency, that represents a diverse network of more than 4,600 business, youth, parent, civil rights, and faith- and community-based organizations, and others, as well as thousands of individuals throughout the state, that seek to learn more about how children are faring in California. Members receive information and research about childrens policy issues so that they can better support kids well-being. 9 8 44 0 6729599 7391136 101033 152060 85764 6213 2730 6916396 7552139 0 0 5857155 5512060 0 400314 1604662 1053934 7461817 6565994 -545421 986145 12454996 13432508 1011771 1003138 11443225 12429370 X Children Now's mission is to find common ground among influential opinion leaders, interest groups and policymakers, who together can develop and drive socially innovative, "win-win" approaches to helping all children achieve their full potential. false false 3017090 70801 EducationChildren Nows education program aims to ensure every child has access to high-quality early learning opportunities, a rigorous TK-12 education, including high-quality STEM and quality afterschool and summer programs, and access to affordable higher education. Through research and analysis, policy development, education and outreach, communications, convenings, and advocacy, we have worked to dismantle inequitable and racially discriminatory systems and achieved the following: helped improve access to quality child care and preschool programs; supported increasing and reforming reimbursement rates for preschool and child care providers; played a pivotal role in the expansion of TK for all 4-year-olds in California; supported significant progress, including the development and deployment of a growth measure to better track student progress, towards building a transparent and student-focused education accountability system that helps ensure all children graduate from high school ready for college, career and civic life; ensured a strong equity focus in the allocation of additional funding for K-12 education; advocated for school reopening; ensured all students had the right to independent study, regardless of where they lived; promoted timely processes to inform students and families of their rights, reengage students, and support access to core coursework and supports; ensured minimum requirements for distance learning including ensuring that districts provide all students with devices and connectivity, track student participation and assess progress and communicate with parents; expanded the membership of the California STEM Network and engaged the Network in key STEM issues, including increasing access to STEM education and preparing new STEM teachers, early math instruction and educator professional development, afterschool programs in computer science, and high school to community college pathways in STEM; continued to lead efforts to help ensure the implementation of Next Generation Science Standards, which updated standards and accreditation and testing for teacher preparation and credentialing; continued to play a leadership role around the effective implementation of the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), working to ensure dollars intended for English Learners, students in deep poverty. and youth in foster care actually reach those students; achieved important revisions to the Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) template to promote effective fiscal transparency, including the inclusion of clear tables to track funding at the local level; continued to lead efforts to ensure implementation of the English Learner Roadmap, to provide professional development for educators to learn how to address the unique needs of students who are English Learners; continued to promote transparent and accessible data in the development of the states longitudinal integrated data system, including working to ensure clearer references to early learning data and the creation of a stakeholder engagement process; led a research project to identify evidence-based teacher recruitment, preparation and retention programs that are proven effective at training highly qualified diverse teachers; and promoted substantial improvements to K-12 course access and instructional quality around math and science to increase access to higher education for all students. 1173781 80259 HealthChildren Nows health program focuses on ensuring that children birth to age 26 have meaningful and equitable access to high-quality, culturally responsive, affordable health care, including physical, behavioral, and oral health care services, and other key services like home visiting and developmental screenings that are vital for Californias youngest children. Through our research, analysis, policy development, education, outreach, and advocacy efforts, we have achieved the following: led efforts to improve Medi-Cal access to and quality of care for children and families, including successfully defending against proposed cuts to Medi-Cal that support childrens access to health services; continued our leadership efforts to promote developmental screenings and early interventions for Californias infants and toddlers by strengthening Medi-Cal compliance; secured a $30 million increase for the CalWORKs Home Visiting Program (HVP); helped expand asthma prevention services by improving access to trained community health workers; helped refine the States telehealth policies, especially as they relate to oral health; continued to make progress on integrating medical-dental systems in Medi-Cal; highlighted the need for culturally appropriate screening resources and for providers to adopt trauma-informed practices within a clinical setting; expanded access to trauma screenings and continued to work to maintain and increase statewide investment in trauma screenings; and worked to increase state investment in school-based mental health (school-county partnerships) and mental health services for students. 847821 Child WelfareChildren Nows child welfare program works to address the comprehensive health, education, and social service needs of children in the child welfare system. Through our research, policy development, education, and communication efforts, we have achieved the following: helped secure funds in the Homekey Program for projects serving youth experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness, including current and former foster youth through the age of 25; successfully advocated for continued funding for the Housing Navigators program, to help young people ages 18 to 21 access stable housing, with priority for young people currently or formerly in foster care; secured pandemic assistance for children and youth in foster care; worked with the State and counties on the effective implementation of the Family Urgent Response System (FURS), a statewide, 24/7 hotline to support foster youth and their caregivers in times of crisis; secured changes to the Level of Care Protocol, such as the inclusion of additional resources for all K-12 students in foster care to account for the additional guidance, support, technology, and other requirements that were needed during distance learning; helped ensure foster families did not experience a disruption to their child care by successfully getting the state to augment the Emergency Child Care Bridge Program, which was subject to suspension in 2021; worked to protect the needs of foster children and youth and their caregivers are met when disaster strikes through the Child Welfare Disaster Response Fund; continued to work with the state on the Continuum of Care Reform, an effort to recruit and retain foster parents and ensure all children in foster care are raised in stable, supportive family homes; worked to stabilize foster youth housing and highlighted the need for transitional housing programs to support programming for parenting foster youth in extended foster care and reflect the variability of housing costs across the state; co-sponsored a proposal to support counties in implementing the Family First Prevention Services Act in California and engaging in broader child abuse and neglect prevention activities; and continued to work to highlight barriers and develop solutions to address the disparities in K-12 educational attainment of students in foster care. 460127 1000 5498819 true true false true false false false false false false true false false false true true true false false false false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false true false false false true 6 0 false 44 true false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false X 9 8 false false false false false false false true true false false true true true true true true true false false CA X Elizabeth Birmingham 5107632444 1404 FRANKLIN ST SUITE 700 OAKLAND CA 94612 EDWARD LEMPERT President 40.00 0.00 X 424182 0 100859 KRISTI SCHUTJER-MANCE COO & GENERAL COUNSEL 40.00 0.00 250709 0 73546 VINCENT STEWART ED, STEM NETWORK 40.00 0.00 216004 0 69691 SUSANNA KNIFFEN SR DIR, CHILD WELF 40.00 0.00 236481 0 47259 KATHY SKRAINAR SR FINANCE DIRECT 40.00 0.00 216344 0 64282 ADRIENNE BELL VP, DEVELOPMENT & COMMUNICATIONS 40.00 0.00 248417 0 21522 SAMANTHA TRAN SR MNG DIR-EDUCAT 40.00 0.00 206448 0 54706 STACY LEE SR MANAGING DIRECT 40.00 0.00 187105 0 33983 JASON SALZETTI BOARD CHAIR 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 BRANDON MARTINEZ-LARRAGOITI FINANCE COMMITT 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 JANE GARDNER CHAIR EMERITUS 1.50 0.00 X 0 0 0 JOHN GARCIA Vice Chair 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 MARK T JOHNSEN Treasurer 1.50 0.00 X X 0 0 0 NANCY MURRAY Secretary 0.50 0.00 X X 0 0 0 GARY KRAUSE FINANCE COMMITT 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 DENISE MCCAIN-THARNSTROM AUDIT COMMITTEE 0.25 0.00 X 0 0 0 1985690 465848 8 false true false 0 7391136 20999 7391136 FEE FOR SERVICE 900099 152060 152060 152060 6213 6213 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 OTHER INCOME 2730 2730 2730 7552139 152060 8943 0 0 0 0 1096908 890509 95542 110857 0 3473878 2973000 333658 167220 111647 95697 12712 3238 554142 463906 56552 33684 275485 229720 27871 17894 0 4910 4910 28016 28016 0 0 0 190789 162200 22439 6150 0 59470 50633 4000 4837 46862 42581 2208 2073 0 551947 460110 58341 33496 2310 2185 83 42 0 22262 20943 593 726 0 0 3998 3333 422 243 27840 23208 2942 1690 SUPPLIES 98574 76729 4192 17653 BANK AND PAYROLL FEES 12205 12205 OTHER EXPENSES 4751 4065 175 511 0 6565994 5498819 666861 400314 625640 29876 10172910 10713566 1473122 2508315 0 0 0 0 0 120884 111226 169656 169656 3998 0 0 0 0 0 58442 69525 12454996 13432508 462480 471758 549291 531380 1011771 1003138 X 6337497 6516939 5105728 5912431 11443225 12429370 12454996 13432508 986145 X false true X true false X 8886848 7312533 7173304 6729599 7318510 37420794 0 0 8886848 7312533 7173304 6729599 7318510 37420794 10345338 27075456 163309 237646 271538 81881 6213 760587 0 6150 2482 6651 3883 75356 94522 38275903 2025338 0.70740 0.66690 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED false false 37516 54948 92464 6473530 6565994 478300 119575 false 533800 539660 502181 478300 2053941 3080912 129060 109975 113127 92464 444626 133450 134915 125545 119575 513485 770228 10041 12206 37945 37516 97708 132539 132539 37117 37117 DEFERRED COMPENSATION 468518 DEFERRED RENT 62837 SECURITY DEPOSIT 25 531380 X 7582497 30358 30358 7552139 7552139 6596352 30358 30358 6565994 6565994 Part X : FIN48 Footnote Generally accepted accounting principles provide accounting and disclosure guidance about positions taken by an organization in its tax returns that might be uncertain. Management has considered its tax positions and believes that all of the positions taken by the Organization in its federal and state exempt organization tax returns are more likely than not to be sustained upon examination. X X X false false false false false false false false false ADRIENNE BELL VP, DEVELOPMENT & COMMUNICATIONS 222417 26000 6294 15228 269939 200 EDWARD LEMPERT President 377448 46734 71143 29716 525041 KATHY SKRAINAR SR FINANCE DIRECT 199844 16500 26972 37310 280626 49800 KRISTI SCHUTJER-MANCE COO & GENERAL COUNSEL 225709 25000 39220 34326 324255 SAMANTHA TRAN SR MNG DIR-EDUCAT 186448 20000 31584 23122 261154 STACY LEE SR MANAGING DIRECT 168705 18400 10861 23122 221088 SUSANNA KNIFFEN SR DIR, CHILD WELF 221481 15000 29189 18070 283740 57000 VINCENT STEWART ED, STEM NETWORK 193004 23000 35960 33731 285695 Form 990, Part III, Line 4d: Other Program Services Description OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: Research and Data CollectionChildren Nows research program produces comprehensive reports, factsheets, infographics, and data-driven policy briefs on topics related to our program areas. We produce two marquee publications: 1) the California Childrens Report Card, which is the states most comprehensive report on childrens health, education, and well being, and provides up-to-date data on the status of Californias children, highlights outcomes disparities resulting from decades of institutional racism, addresses recent policy developments, and delivers research and data-driven recommendations for improving childrens well-being, and 2) the California County Scorecard of Childrens Well-Being, which provides policymakers and a diverse range of community leaders and other stakeholders a unique and consumable analysis with county and state level data, over time, by race and ethnicity, and relative to other counties. This interactive online advocacy and data tool provides a user-friendly interface so viewers can understand counties unique strengths and vulnerabilities in meeting childrens needs, as well as serious inequities in child well-being. The organization also released several research briefs and data profiles, including: an infographic (in English and Spanish) to highlight how the pandemic is affecting children and their families, and the steps the State can take to address many of these key issues; a factsheet and blog post analyzing the Preventive Services Report, a first-ever report from the state detailing how different populations of children and youth are accessing preventive care in Medi-Cal; data snapshots comparing Californias performance data (or lack of reporting) to the national median of Medicaid programs for young childrens preventive care covered under the important and comprehensive Early Periodic Screening Diagnosis and Treatment benefit; an issue brief documenting troubling trends in childrens utilization of preventive care and newly recently released state data showing that Medi-Cal health plans are failing to ensure Californias children and youth access to the basic preventive health services that are critical to promoting their overall health and well-being; a report highlighting local education agency planning during COVID-19; an issue brief focused on the rich diversity of very young children and their families in California as well as the systemic underinvestment in supports for infants and pregnant people that drives race- and income-based disparities in outcomes; an issue brief outlining how even though Medi-Cal coverage provides children and families a solid foundation to meet all their health care needs, for some families with children, including pregnant persons, this comprehensive coverage may be out of reach due to monthly payments, called premiums; and a report on the current data metrics collected by the State on childrens mental health and substance use, and the major gaps that must be closed to allow California to not only track its progress, but also be specific in the outcomes it seeks. Our marquee publications and numerous data reports and briefs are widely distributed to the general public, including all state and local policymakers, the media, service providers, coalition partners, and civic organizations. These research publications, as well as the outreach efforts, briefings, and widespread media coverage generated by their release, help motivate key stakeholders and policymakers to make childrens issues a top priority, both locally and at the state level. Form 990, Part VI, Line 11b: Form 990 Review Process The finance committee has the responsibility for reviewing the organization's form 990 (including all pertinent schedules) before it is filed with the Internal Revenue Service.- Once the finance committee has completed its review of the form 990, and conferred, they can choose to discuss with the preparer of the form 990 as needed and request copies of relevant workpapers as needed.- Based on the finance committee recommendations the preparer of the form 990 should make revisions to the form 990 as soon as possible to ensure that the form 990 is filed with the internal revenue service on a timely basis.- All of the questions, comments, and suggested revisions set forth by the finance committee will be documented, along with any responses from the preparer of the form 990, if applicable.- A copy of the form 990 with all attached schedules is provided to each voting member of the Organization's governing body (paper or electronic) prior to the filing with the IRS. Form 990, Part VI, Line 12c: Explanation of Monitoring and Enforcement of Conflicts The executive committee of the Board of Directors annually reviews conflict of interest forms to ensure that a director who has a potential conflict of interest refrains from participation in deliberations concerning the potential conflict.The operations leadership team annually reviews staff conflict of interest forms and alerts the president of any potential conflicts to ensure a staff member with a potential conflict has no substantive involvement in decisions related to the potential conflict. Form 990, Part VI, Line 15a: Compensation Review & Approval Process - CEO, Top Management In an executive session at the Board's annual meeting, the Board reviews compensation of the President.The deliberations are contemporaneously documented by the chair of the board. Salary comparables are reviewed upon setting single or multiple-year compensation packages. The last review was conducted in 2020. Form 990, Part VI, Line 19: Other Organization Documents Publicly Available Governing documents, conflict of interest policy and financial statements are available to the public upon request. CHILDREN NOW ACTION FUND 1404 FRANKLIN ST SUITE 700 OAKLAND CA 94612 PROMOTE & ADVOCATE CHILDREN'S WELFARE CA 501(C)(4) CHILDREN NOW false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true false false CHILDREN NOW ACTION FUND q 22406 INVOICES & TMSH