2019-08-13T12:47:48-07:00 2019-03-31 010523282 Berry Dunn McNeil & Parker LLC PO Box 1100 Portland ME 041041100 990 2018-04-01 010270690 NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL OF MAINE INC NATU 2076223101 3 WADE STREET AUGUSTA ME 04330 Lisa Pohlmann Chief executive Officer 2076223101 2019-08-12 1 Barbara J McGuan CPA P00219457 2077752387 2019-08-12 207.5.168.179 2018 2019-02-21 02:37:17Z Lisa Pohlmann 3 Wade Street Augusta ME 04330 8540897 0 X WWW.nrcm.org X 1959 ME The Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM) is a homegrown organization founded in 1959 by Maine people and local organizations working to protect Maine's Allagash River from a proposed dam. Today, NRCM is the state's leading non-profit environmental group. Our mission is to protect, restore, and conserve Maine's environment, now and for future generations. We use science, outreach, and advocacy to educate and engage our members, supporters, policy makers, businesses, and the public about the most pressing environmental issues facing Maine. Our overarching goal is to inspire people to become better stewards of Maine's natural resources and communities. We focus on five issue areas: 1) Forests & Wildlife; 2) Healthy Waters; 3) Climate and Clean Energy; 4) Sustainable Maine; and, 5) Federal Policy. 22 22 37 40 0 0 3567434 5881596 0 0 252036 401251 28730 32174 3848200 6315021 0 0 0 0 1994570 2231323 90000 185005 543149 785947 793000 2870517 3209328 977683 3105693 9033676 12075077 280905 308361 8752771 11766716 Founded in 1959 by Maine citizens, the Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM) is the state's leading non-profit environmental organization. Our mission is to protect, restore and conserve Maine's environment, now and for future generations. We use science, outreach, and advocacy to educate and engage our members, supporters, policy makers and the public about the most pressing environmental issues facing Maine. Our overarching goal is to inspire people to become better stewards of Maine's natural resources. NRCM focuses on four program areas: 1. Climate and Clean Energy; 2. Healthy Waters; 3. Forests and Wildlife; and, 4. Sustainable Maine. 0 0 501904 0 0 Climate & Clean Energy: NRCM seeks to secure a clean energy future where Maine reduces climate pollution by maximizing energy efficiency, homegrown renewable energy, and electric transportation. Civic engagement and public outreach are at the center of our strategies to boost clean energy and protect Maine's clean air and economy. A top priority this year was advancing a comprehensive solar policy for Maine that would reinstate net metering for residential customers, lift the cap on the number of participants in a community solar project, and eliminate gross metering, an unfair tax on the energy solar users generate and consume themselves. Although these policies were blocked in 2018 by the veto of former Governor Paul LePage, Maine's new Governor Janet Mills has made clean energy a centerpiece of her first term. This spring NRCM led the grassroots and business support that helped enact these policy improvements. Now more people than ever will be able to take advantage of solar energy, including low income communities, and the state will host more homegrown clean energy jobs. NRCM also advocated for the state to spend $3.5 million in Volkswagen (VW) settlement funds on electric vehicle (EV) charging stations along travel corridors, and surveyed 1,300 registered EV owners in Maine, replicating a survey we did in late 2014. The state adopted some of our recommendations on use of the VW funds and has begun installing high-speed EV charging stations. The survey provided valuable insight into key views and behaviors-such as when and where owners charge their cars-to help shape EV policies and programs. NRCM developed a climate vision for Maine based on community meetings, an opinion poll, our analysis of Maine's carbon goals, and economic and messaging analysis. The document, Energy Pathway for Maine, offers guiding principles for climate action and clean energy, considering Maine's housing, infrastructure, public health and workforce challenges. It was released with endorsements from twenty organizations and is a unified vision from multiple groups. It lives on its own website: www.energypathwaymaine.com where more than 40 businesses and organizations have signed on in support. We also led a successful effort to ensure Maine adopted a new carbon pollution cap for power plant emissions under the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). The cap will cut carbon emissions and generate more funds for energy efficiency. 388418 0 0 State House/Emerging Issues: NRCM is Maine's top environmental watchdog. Performing within the allowable lobbying limits for a 501(c)3, NRCM monitors issues related to each of our programs as well as emerging environmental issues that could impact Maine's air, forests, waters, wildlife and community health. Additionally, we represent environmental interests at the Maine Legislature, and before state agencies responsible for managing our state's natural resources. These include the Department of Environmental Protection, the Land Use Planning Commission, and the Public Utilities Commission. 385290 0 0 Communications: NRCM communicates with our members, supporters, policy makers, and the public using email updates and calls to action, community meetings and events, single issue reports, direct mail, radio, videos, social media, and our website. The wide range of tools we regularly use advances our mission and helps to meet the goals of our issue areas. The NRCM website, www.nrcm.org, is an especially critical tool to reach people with facts about our work. During the period April 1, 2018 - March 31, 2019 a total of 135,005 people visited our website. Our printed newsletter, Maine Environment is also extremely popular, and features updates on current environmental issues, upcoming special events, and a column by NRCM Chief Executive Officer Lisa Pohlmann. Social media is an ever-expanding tool to engage our members and the public. NRCM's Facebook page is our most popular social media tool to share information and engage the public. In last year alone, NRCM's Facebook has grown from just over 11,000 followers to an active community of more than 15,300 people. Linked-In, Instagram and Twitter have also seen significant growth in recent years. As a result of these tools and our efforts to continually improve our communications, we have developed a loyal network of supporters and activists in Maine and around the country. 1023826 0 0 Forests & Wildlife: Maine is home to the largest intact temperate forest in the world, supporting unparalleled habitat for many rare plants and animals. Maine forests also offer unique recreation options and provide jobs in the forest products and tourism industries. NRCM supports responsible land development and sustainable forest practices that protect sensitive ecosystems and wildlife. We also seek increased public ownership of Maine lands so future generations will know the Maine we love today. NRCM watchdogged the Land Use Planning Commission (LUPC), the state agency with authority over development permitting and zoning for 10.4 million acres of Maine's unorganized townships. LUPC sought to modify their rule requiring that new development be located within one mile of existing, compatible development to instead allow development up to ten miles from a public road and reinstate large lot subdivisions that fragment habitat and which the state banned in 2001. NRCM generated the intense public opposition that forced LUPC to modify their proposal to seven miles from "rural hubs". We found this change would still threaten 1.3 million acres, incentivize strip development, fragment habitat, and drive up costs for towns to service sprawling development. We organized public comments, used media attention to expose the dangers of this plan, and mobilized hundreds of people to public hearings. Despite overwhelming opposition and 95% of public comments in favor of the one-mile rule, LUPC decided to allow development out to seven miles with some subdivisions allowed three miles from a public road. Because of this campaign, more people than ever support conservation of Maine's special places. NRCM will continue to encourage land conservation and work toward better land use planning rules for Maine. NRCM also intervened in a LUPC proceeding considering rezoning 51,000 acres around the Fish River Chain of Lakes for residential, commercial, and recreational development. We advocated for less development on two of the five lakes and more required conservation to mitigate any approved development. The public pressure recently led the landowner to propose some positive changes to their proposed development plan. LUPC will make a final decision in 2019, and NRCM continues to watchdog the issue. In addition, we promoted the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument (KWW) and participated in public meetings held by the National Park Service as they develop a land management plan for KWW. We advocated for conservation as the highest priority in the plan, along with opportunities for non-motorized recreation. Healthy Waters: Maine's rivers, lakes, and streams are the lifeblood of our state. Our waterways provide food for fish, birds, and wildlife, drinking water for communities, and they support fishing, paddling, and other recreation businesses. Since our founding, NRCM has worked to decrease water pollution, restore free-flowing rivers, and improve native fish passage. Along with our pro bono legal team and conservation partners, NRCM pursued a lawsuit aimed at securing a new fish passage plan for four dams in the upper Kennebec River that block Atlantic salmon and other sea-run fish from reaching historic spawning grounds. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against us on procedural grounds; however, the lawsuit stopped the dam owner from building fish passage at three dams. We are closely following the relicensing process for the Shawmut Dam-the third dam that migrating fish encounter. NRCM is asking the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to require an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) before approving a new license. An EIS will provide an analysis of the collective impacts of all the dams on the health of the river and on fish passage. We believe the EIS will demonstrate that removal of at least some of the dams is necessary to prevent extinction of Atlantic salmon in the Kennebec and restore healthy populations of shad and alewife. NRCM also won changes to a Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) bill to allow the use of soils contaminated with toxic PCBs and heavy metals in road asphalt and other construction materials. Because of our scientific analysis and testimony, the law now requires that any proposed re-use of "asphalt encapsulated soils" for construction fill must go through a full DEP licensing review to ensure the material is safe for the proposed use. The only exception is soil contaminated solely with oil, which Maine is already using safely in road asphalt. Sustainable Maine: NRCM helped Maine develop statewide programs to recycle consumer products that pose a risk to public health and the environment, including programs for beverage containers (the "bottle bill"), computers and TVs ("e-waste"), and unwanted paint. Now we focus on providing citizen groups, schools, and municipal leaders the tools and support they need to reduce waste, increase recycling and composting, and discourage littering. NRCM published our School Food Recovery Handbook: A How-to Guide to Reduce Wasted Food in Maine's K-12 Schools to educate students, teachers and administrators about the environmental and health benefits of reducing food waste. The Handbook includes 13 sections with tips on how to set up waste separation stations in the lunchroom; how to use a "share table" so food is eaten or donated instead of thrown away; and how to make the program student-run so it becomes part of school culture. We also worked with Maine schools to reduce food waste. Thus far we have completed 14 projects in eight schools serving 3,277 students. Projects have included starting food waste separation and composting programs and switching from disposable plastic cutlery and trays to reusable silverware and trays. Since 2014 NRCM has worked with citizens' groups to champion local ordinances to ban polystyrene foam food containers and ban or place a fee on single-use plastic bags, leading to bag policies in 25 Maine towns and foam bans in 15 towns. Due to the success of these local policies, Maine recently became the first state in the U.S. to ban foam food containers and the third to ban single-use plastic bags. The foam ban goes into effect January 1, 2021, while the bag ban will launch on April 22, 2020. NRCM will educate the public about these policies and follow their implementation. Washington Watch/Federal Policy: NRCM cultivates and mobilizes public and business support to urge Maine's Congressional leaders to stand up for the health and well-being of Maine people and oppose federal environmental rollbacks. NRCM produces reports on issues such as the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), generates group sign-on letters, produces compelling print ads, and organizes both high volume and high-quality communications to Maine's Delegation. This year we organized support for the EPA budget, the Clean Water Rule, and the Clean Power Plan. Federal policy oversight is a burgeoning part of our work and we are finding more and more people want to speak up on issues at the federal level that impact Maine. NRCM also launched the Maine Brewshed Alliance to identify, educate, and engage businesses and patrons of Maine's craft beer industry. With their help, we are urging Maine's Congressional leaders to safeguard the vital federal water protections that ensure Maine's waters are clean for the growing brewing industry. 1023826 0 0 2299438 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 25 0 1 37 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 22 22 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 CT MA ME NH PA X X KATHRYN Hyttel 2076223101 3 WADE STREET AUGUSTA ME 04330 BONNIE WOOD DIRECTOR 1 0 X 0 0 0 WILLIAM MESERVE TREASURER 1 0 X X 0 0 0 RUSSELL PIERCE DIRECTOR 1 0 X 0 0 0 ELIZABETH RETTENMAIER DIRECTOR 1 0 X 0 0 0 TONY OWENS DIRECTOR 1 0 X 0 0 0 PETER MILLARD DIRECTOR 1 0 X 0 0 0 SALLY OLDHAM DIRECTOR 1 0 X 0 0 0 NORTON LAMB DIRECTOR 1 0 X 0 0 0 CHARLES CULBERTSON DIRECTOR 1 0 X 0 0 0 SARAH SHORT DIRECTOR 1 0 X 0 0 0 TOM CARR DIRECTOR 1 0 X 0 0 0 MARCIA HARRINGTON DIRECTOR 1 0 X 0 0 0 DAVID KALLIN DIRECTOR 1 0 X 0 0 0 ANNE S WINCHESTER DIRECTOR 1 0 X 0 0 0 DENNIS KING DIRECTOR 1 0 X 0 0 0 MARIA GALLACE VICE PRESIDENT 1 0 X X 0 0 0 KAREN HEROLD SECRETARY 1 0 X X 0 0 0 PATRICIA HAGER PRESIDENT 1 0 X X 0 0 0 KATHRYN OLMSTEAD DIRECTOR 1 0 X 0 0 0 EMILY BECK DIRECTOR 1 0 X 0 0 0 EDWARD SIMMONS DIRECTOR 1 0 X 0 0 0 STEPHANIE SMITH DIRECTOR 1 0 X 0 0 0 LISA POHLMANN Chief Executive Officer 40 0 X 105762 0 31927 KATHRYN HYTTEL DIRECTOR OF FINANCE 40 X 75875 0 21037 181637 0 52964 1 0 0 0 THE COMPASS GROUP INC 2961 A-HUNTER MILL ROAD SUITE 808 OAKTON VA 22124 CONSULTANT FOR CAMPAIGN 210000 1 8343 1745429 0 0 0 4127824 845425 5881596 0 350539 0 0 350539 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2269646 0 2218934 0 50712 0 50712 0 0 50712 31889 0 6942 24947 0 24947 Other Income 900099 7227 0 0 7227 0 0 0 0 7227 6315021 0 0 433425 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 234601 96382 131335 6884 0 0 0 0 1536033 1301131 70525 164377 85491 75068 2731 7692 243762 200301 12027 31434 131436 105200 13257 12979 81024 72105 7680 1239 0 0 0 0 26738 21375 3559 1804 0 0 0 0 185005 185005 35508 0 35508 0 0 0 0 0 43398 43123 275 6552 4504 1660 388 77994 41734 21961 14299 0 0 0 0 56912 45437 7564 3911 41482 34430 1894 5158 0 0 0 0 87326 63354 14849 9123 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 51314 40968 6820 3526 16635 13281 2211 1143 Telephone 17324 14131 1551 1642 Postage 72706 41600 1778 29328 Printing 109427 57612 2170 49645 Dues, fees, and subscriptions 18633 9893 7539 1201 50027 17809 20122 12096 3209328 2299438 366741 543149 X 44946 13733 0 31213 X 103517 100 1592608 1534991 364157 985689 14834 9095 0 0 0 0 0 0 5334 10278 39199 60041 1298931 865667 474768 433264 6213482 8155796 225777 885823 9033676 12075077 280905 308361 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 280905 308361 X 7250702 7985510 1317069 2596206 185000 1185000 8752771 11766716 9033676 12075077 X 3105693 -106138 0 0 0 14390 X 0 1 X 1 0 X 2028794 2304946 2729271 3567434 5881596 16512041 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2028794 2304946 2729271 3567434 5881596 16512041 1337034 15175007 111364 85265 108663 213342 350539 869173 0 0 0 0 0 0 38715 39916 39240 35062 39117 192050 17573264 3325 0.86353 0.90815 X Schedule A, Part II, Line 10 2014 Misc. income $14,915 event income $23,800 total $38,715 2015 Misc. 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The purpose of the Citizen Engagement and Tomorrow's Leader's fund is to strengthen our outreach capacity, and to engage the public in the protection of Maine's environment. Schedule D, Part XI, Line 2d Direct fundraising expense $6,941, increase in gifts of future interest $26,557 decrease in value of charitable gift annuity $12,166 Schedule D, Part XII, Line 2d Direct Fundraising expenses for event space and services X X X X 1 Compass Group Inc 124 Quay Street Alexandria VA 22314 The Compass group was retained to help organize and direct an endowment campaign in support of the Natural Resourced Council of Maine's mission. The Compass group agrees to provide consulting services for a 12 month period or as needed. 0 0 180000 -180000 0 180000 -180000 CT MA ME NH PA Dip and Dash 25089 0 25089 0 0 0 0 0 6372 Auction 6800 0 6800 0 0 0 0 0 570 0 31889 0 31889 0 0 0 0 0 6942 6942 24947 Schedule G, Part II, Line 1 Fundraising event X 25 211936 FAIR MARKET X 1 633489 FAIR MARKET 0 0 1 0 Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 6 Any person interested in the purposes and objectives of NRCM is eligible to become a member upon payment of membership dues. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 7a The nominating committee prepares a slate of candidates which is presented to the board of directors by the chair of the nominating committee, or by the chair's designee. This group of candidates is discussed and voted upon by the board of directors. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The 990 is prepared internally and then reviewed by an outside accounting firm. The completed 990 is sent to all board members for review and comments prior to the final copy submission to the IRS. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c Board members and staff are required to disclose any conflict of interest that arises by virtue of their board service or employment. The organization will monitor the compliance with an annual disclosure statement that is distributed to these individuals. For any conflict of interest, the person involved in the conflict shall take action in consultation with chief executive officer or president of the board to avoid participation in the matter to effectively avoid the conflict. The president and/or chief executive officer will monitor ongoing transactions or other matters affecting the organization for the conflicts of interest and disclose those conflicts immediately to the executive committee or board as appropriate. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15 The organization undertakes a process of compiling a comparison of salaries and benefits to ensure that the compensation is reasonable, given the market in which the organization operates. These comparisons are used to gauge ranges and salaries for staff. The executive director's salary is reviewed and approved by the executive committee of the board of directors. All other staff salary adjustments are recommended by the management team and approved by the finance committee as part of the budgeting process. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 The audited financial statements, form 990, annual report, and the gift acceptance policy is available on our web site, and upon request. The conflict of interest policy is reviewed and signed by all the board members and staff annually. Form 990, Part X, Line 10a Section 1.263(a)-3(n) Election: The Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc. 3 Wade Street Augusta, ME 04330 EIN -01-0270690 The Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc. is electing to capitalize repair and maintenance costs under regulation Section 1.263(a)-3(n) Form 990, Part XI, Line 9 change in value of gift annuities -12,166, increase in future interests $26,557 KATRINA CHAMBERLIN TRUST 105 Front Street Bath ME 04530 Banking ME N/A T 658417 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 KATRINA CHAMBERLIN TRUST c 633489 FAIR MARKET VALUE