2019-11-14T10:56:21-06:00 2018-12-31 263939360 BOMAN ACCOUNTING GROUP INC 20 UNION AVENUE CAMPBELL CA 95008 990 2018-01-01 943059243 Children Now CHIL 5107632444 1404 Franklin St Suite 700 Oakland CA 94612 Edward Lempert President 5107632444 2019-11-12 1 LYNDA R BOMAN CPA P00135429 4088662004 2019-11-12 96.82.71.186 2019-11-12 22:11:55 PS P E79AFF56644196BD9842CC112B1FB42626D8FE35 C566EFB1198DE22FE4C7A89DCF6FC9E5441E647B 2018 2020-03-31 21:24:44Z Edward Lempert 1404 Franklin St Suite 700 Oakland CA 94612 8289769 0 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 is dedicated to promoting children's health, education and well-being in California. Children Now also coordinates The Children's Movement of California - the member-based Pro-Kid constituency, that represents a network of over 3,400 business, parent, civil rights, and faith- and community-based organizations, and others, as well as thousands of individuals throughout the state, that support children's well-being. 13 12 58 13 0 0 8886848 7312533 732768 735918 62414 161830 108420 79488 9790450 8289769 0 0 0 0 5824366 6326046 0 0 389098 1781583 1739052 7605949 8065098 2184501 224671 12968583 13609325 757454 1173525 12211129 12435800 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. 0 0 1572515 319022 HealthChildren Now's health programs focus on ensuring that children pre-natal through age 26 have meaningful access to high-quality, affordable health care, including physical, mental/behavioral, and oral health services, and other key services like home visiting, and developmental screenings that are vital for California's youngest children. Through our health efforts, we have achieved the following: helped secure California's first-ever statewide investment in evidence-based home visiting; led efforts to improve Medi-Cal access to and quality of care for children and families, including significantly increasing reimbursements for primary pediatric care and preventive dental services, helping to secure approval of a legislative audit of the oversight of children's access to Medi-Cal preventive services, and strengthening the Medi-Cal Children's Health Advisory Panel; continued our leadership efforts to promote developmental screenings and early interventions for California's infants and toddlers; helped expand asthma prevention services; supported local efforts to improve how data about incoming kindergarteners oral health is collected and reported; advocated for improvements to developmental screening rates and better public reporting of developmental screenings supported several efforts to help prevent and mitigate child adversity, including helping to secure funding for provider training to deliver trauma screenings; and helped to establish Trauma-Informed Awareness Day in California to highlight the impact of trauma and the importance of prevention and community resilience through trauma-informed care. 3930298 414896 EducationChildren Now's education program aims to ensure every child has access to high-quality early learning opportunities, a rigorous TK-12 education, and quality afterschool and summer programs. Through research and analysis, policy development, education and outreach, communications, convenings and advocacy, we have achieved the following: helped improve access to child care and preschool programs; supported significant 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; led efforts to expand the state's Multi-Tiered System of Support framework and develop evidence-based tools and training for educators and school systems, including expanding restorative justice, bullying prevention and positive behavior interventions, as well as minimizing the use of emergency interventions; promoted major revisions to education and program standards for all new teachers and administrators, including social-emotional learning, positive classroom environment, restorative justice, discriminatory practices, personal and institutional bias, cultural responsivity, mental health and trauma; engaged school district leaders and developed resources to highlight opportunities to expand investments in early childhood programs, such as pregnant and parenting teen programs, dual language immersion in early learning and family resource centers; led efforts to garner support for improving school climate and help curb the disproportionate rates of suspensions and expulsions among at-risk populations; expanded the membership of the California STEM Network and engaged the Network in key STEM policy 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; worked towards ensuring a System of Support based on the unique needs of schools and districts; built the foundation for state and local level support for education for English Learners and Dual Language Learners; continued work to secure transparent and accessible data in the state's longitudinal student data system, including leading efforts to collect critical attendance data (chronic absence); and promoted increased access to the higher education for all students. 825267 0 Child WelfareChildren Now's child welfare program works to address the comprehensive health, education, and social service needs of children in the child welfare system. Through our efforts, we have achieved the following: led efforts to provide funding to caregivers at the time of placement and ensure children receive the critical services and supports they need and that placements with family members are not disrupted; made progress towards establishing the Family Urgent Response System (FURS), a statewide, 24/7 hotline to support foster youth and their caregivers in times of crises; supported increased funding and implementation for the Emergency Child Care Bridge Program for Foster Children, which provides emergency vouchers for foster families to access child care at the time of placement; led efforts to help improve the state's foster care system, including implementation of Continuum of Care Reform (CCR), which ensures that foster youth living with relative caregivers are eligible for critical supplemental payments; improved implementation of the Level of Care (LOC) Protocol, which ensures foster youth with higher needs receive additional resources, supports and services beyond the basic rate provided to all foster youth; supported efforts to select a standard statewide tool to allow for greater reliability and consistency when assessing foster youth need, which will now be informed by the foster youth themselves, family members, and other trusted adults and caring professionals to ensure youth receive core services; helped develop a "client satisfaction survey" to learn directly from foster youth about their level of satisfaction with their placements, the quality of care provided, and other valuable feedback about foster parents; helped ensured the Foster Parent Recruitment, Retention and Support (FPRRS) was sufficiently funded; improved the Medi-Cal enrollment and retention processes for former foster youth and supported the ongoing provision of health coverage to former foster youth through the Affordable Care Act (ACA); advocated for expanded housing supports for child welfare-involved homeless families and those at risk of homelessness; worked with partners to secure funding to reduce caseloads so dependency counsel can more effectively advocate for appropriate placements and placement stability for foster children. 676264 2000 Research and Data CollectionChildren Now's Research program produces comprehensive reports, fact sheets, infographics, and policy briefs on topics related to each of our program areas and provides data, communications and advocacy support related to children's well-being to a wide range of state and local stakeholders and community members. We produce two marquee publications: 1) the California Report Card, which provides up-to-date data on the status of California's children, addresses recent policy developments, and delivers recommendations for improving children's well-being, and 2) the California County Scorecard of Children's Well Being, which provides policymakers, advocates and community leaders with a much-needed means of measuring and analyzing children's well-being at the county and state level 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 easily understand counties' unique strengths and vulnerabilities in meeting children's needs. Children Now also released several research briefs and data profiles, including: a research brief providing an overview of voluntary evidence based home visiting programs in California; an overview of how children's developmental screenings are provided, measured and reported throughout the 50 states; a report analyzing the chronic absence data, including how chronic absence varies across different types of schools and is distributed geographically; a brief highlighting a series of in-depth interviews with county-level mental health programs providing preventive services for children; and a number of county-level case studies highlighting oral health data. Both of our marquee publications, as well as numerous data reports and briefs, are widely distributed to state and local policy makers, the media, service providers, civic organizations and the general public. Outreach efforts and briefings around these publications and other data reports, as well as the widespread media coverage generated by their release, motivate policymakers and key stakeholders to make children's concerns a top priority. 676264 2000 7004344 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 13 0 1 58 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 13 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 CA X Kathy Skrainar 5107632444 1404 Franklin St Suite 700 Oakland CA 94612 Lenny Mendonca Board Chair 2.00 X 0 0 0 Jane Gardner Chair Emeritus/Audit Chair 2.00 X 0 0 0 John Garcia Vice President/Nominating Cmte Chair 1.00 X 0 0 0 Mark T Johnsen Treasurer/Finance Cmte Chair 1.00 X 0 0 0 Nancy Murray Secretary/Development Cmte Chair 0.75 X 0 0 0 Jason Salzetti Audit Committee 0.50 X 0 0 0 Gay Krause Finance Committee 1.00 X 0 0 0 David G Johnson Finance Committee 0.25 X 0 0 0 Natasha Hoehn Nominating Committee 0.25 X 0 0 0 Grace K Won Nominating Committee 0.25 X 0 0 0 Donna Friedman Meir Nominating Committee 0.25 X 0 0 0 Denise McCain-Tharnstrom Audit Committee 0.25 X 0 0 0 Edward Lempert President 40.00 X 410058 0 105523 Kristen Schutjer-Mance COO and General Counsel 40.00 X 236845 0 72130 Adrienne Bell VP, Development and Communications 40.00 X 199848 0 43644 Brad Strong Senior Director, Education 40.00 X 188557 0 31955 Samantha Tran Senior Managing Director, Education 40.00 X 182995 0 52114 Vincent Stewart Executive Director, STEM Network 40.00 X 182340 0 37462 Susanna Kniffen Senior Director,Child Welfare 40.00 X 162026 0 50141 Eileen Espejo Sr.Mng.Dir. 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Media & Health Policy 143079 0 18000 0 0 0 27895 0 21284 0 210258 0 0 0 Kelly Hardy Sr.Mng.Dir. Health Policy & Research 145539 0 15000 0 0 0 24200 0 21386 0 206125 0 0 0 Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 1 The Executive Committee has the power and authority to act as the full Board except as to those matters reserved to the full Board under its bylaws. The Executive Committee members are also members of the board and their names and titles are: 1) Lenny Mendonca, Chair 2) Jane Gardner, Chair Emeritus 3) John Garcia, Vice Chair 4) Mark T. Johnsen, Treasurer 5) Nancy Murray, Secretary 6) Edward Lempert, President Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11b 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, Section B, line 12c 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, Section B, line 15 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. Last review was in 2018. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 19 Governing documents, conflict of interest policy and financial statements are available to the public upon request. Children Now Action Fund 1404 Franklin Street Suite 700 Oakland CA 94612 943059144 To promote and advocate for the improvement of children's welfare. CA 501(c)(4) CHILDREN NOW 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 CHILDREN NOW P 2486 Invoices and timesheets