2018-11-15T12:12:27-06:00 2017-12-31 263939360 BOMAN ACCOUNTING GROUP INC 20 UNION AVENUE CAMPBELL CA 95008 990 2017-01-01 943059243 Children Now CHIL 5107632444 1404 Franklin St Suite 700 Oakland CA 94612 Edward Lempert President 5107632444 2018-11-14 1 LYNDA R BOMAN CPA P00135429 4088662004 2018-11-14 96.82.71.186 2018-11-14 21:33:31 PS P E79AFF56644196BD9842CC112B1FB42626D8FE35 C566EFB1198DE22FE4C7A89DCF6FC9E5441E647B 2017 2019-02-21 02:37:17Z Edward Lempert 1404 Franklin St Suite 700 Oakland CA 94612 9790450 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(R)constituency, that represents a network of over 2,900 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 53 17 0 0 6309720 8886848 588050 732768 56879 62414 90363 108420 7045012 9790450 0 0 0 0 5352851 5824366 0 0 329621 1668151 1781583 7021002 7605949 24010 2184501 10746122 12968583 719494 757454 10026628 12211129 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 1476051 650 HealthChildren Now's health programs focus on ensuring that children pre-natal through 26 have meaningful access to high-quality, affordable health care, including physical, mental, 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: led efforts to improve Medi-Cal access to and quality of care for children and families, including strengthening the Medi-Cal Children's Health Advisory Panel; worked with our partners to ensure expanded health coverage to nearly 218,000 undocumented children; continued our leadership efforts to promote developmental screenings and early interventions for California's infants and toddlers; built momentum behind expanding and enhancing home visiting programs in California, including coordinating efforts to support reauthorization of the Maternal Infant Early Childhood Home Visiting program and providing significant technical assistance and field engagement to support legislation that would create a home visiting program; coordinated efforts to improve how data about incoming kindergarteners oral health is collected and reported; advocated for the successful release of Medi-Cal developmental screenings data to help identify the barriers to infants and toddlers receiving required health screenings; supported several efforts to help prevent and mitigate child adversity; led advocacy efforts to prevent cuts to the children's mental health crisis continuum. 3959876 722118 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: united hundreds of stakeholders who helped raise income eligibility guidelines for families seeking child care and ensured a multi-year funding commitment to expand the state preschool program for low-income families; made 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; 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; worked with diverse local organizations to strengthen local districts' commitment to quality early childhood programs; led efforts to improve school climate and help curb the disproportionate rates of suspension and expulsion among at-risk populations; expanded the membership of the California STEM Network and engaged the Network in key STEM policy issues, including efforts to make it easier for STEM professionals to become math and science teachers, and supporting the implementation of the state's computer science standards and updating teacher preparation and credentialing requirements to align with the Next Generation Science Standards; led communications and outreach efforts to ensure successful implementation of the Common Core standards; 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). 656821 10000 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 secure funding 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 achieve fundamental improvements to 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; helped secure funding for emergency placements with caregivers who are not yet approved as resource families, given the backlog to process and approve families; advocated for a trauma-informed standard assessment tool of youth's needs and strengths, which will help professionals to ensure youth receive core services and better placement decisions; 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), including conducting surveys to provide insight about youth's experiences accessing and retaining Medi-Cal and helping to prevent enrollment barriers for out-of-state former foster youth; worked with partners to secure funding to reduce caseloads so dependency attorneys can more effectively advocate for appropriate placements and placement stability for foster children. 652613 0 Research and Data CollectionChildren Now produces comprehensive reports, fact sheets, infographics, and policy briefs on topics related to each of our program areas, and provides data 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 online advocacy and data tool includes easy-to-read graphics depicting counties' unique strengths and vulnerabilities in meeting children's needs. We also released several data profiles, including a report on community survey results related to enrolling low-income children- regardless of their immigration status-into Medi-Cal health coverage; 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. 652613 0 6745361 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 12 0 1 53 1 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 Cmte 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 1.00 X 0 0 0 Jason Salzetti Audit Committee 0.50 X 0 0 0 Gay Krause Finance Committee 0.75 X 0 0 0 David Johnson Finance Committee 0.25 X 0 0 0 Natasha Hoehn Nominating Committee 0.25 X 0 0 0 Tracey Monroe Nominating Committee 0.25 X 0 0 0 Grace Won Nominating Committee 0.25 X 0 0 0 Donna Friedman Meir Nominating Committee 0.25 X 0 0 0 Edward Lempert President 40.00 X 536791 0 96938 Kristen Schutjer-Mance COO and VP 40.00 X 217085 0 63865 Adrienne Bell VP, Development and Communications 40.00 X 177715 0 39058 Brad Strong Senior Director, Education 40.00 X 173172 0 50778 Samantha Tran Senior Managing Director, Education 40.00 X 166453 0 49874 Vincent Stewart Executive Director, STEM Network 40.00 X 162692 0 36216 Stephen Blake Senior Advisor 23.00 X 180750 0 0 1614658 0 336729 17 0 1 0 Lucas Public Affairs 1215 K Street Suite 1010 Sacramento CA 95814 Communication campaign reform effort 186380 Viva Strategy & Communications 155 Bovet Road Suite 750 San Mateo CA 94402 Kindergarten Readiness Assessment 150643 Endsight 1440 Fourth Street Suite B Berkeley CA 94710 IT Support 110822 3 41201 8845647 21000 8886848 Fee for service 900099 732768 732768 732768 62414 62414 100895 0 100895 100895 100895 Honorarium 900099 4000 4000 FSA Refund 900099 2150 2150 Unemployment reserve 900099 1375 1375 7525 9790450 740293 0 163309 753876 716439 37270 167 3946035 3312829 447229 185977 807482 694350 81255 31877 316973 271640 32664 12669 9450 9450 19750 19750 741986 586765 144267 10954 154955 59675 75321 19959 12849 176 12673 548790 548790 110416 108063 2225 128 58045 40254 16883 908 27128 27128 25265 25265 Miscellaneous 61425 33644 22860 4921 Bank and payroll fees 11524 11524 Shared allocation 0 921526 -983587 62061 7605949 6745361 530967 329621 9061196 10408377 1340003 2152503 113382 106275 169656 126970 60779 42686 170762 258742 10746122 12968583 331443 312837 388051 444617 719494 757454 X 4134332 4935606 5892296 7275523 10026628 12211129 10746122 12968583 2184501 0 X 0 1 X 1 0 X 5839622 7196658 7501452 6309720 8886848 35734300 5839622 7196658 7501452 6309720 8886848 35734300 14557951 21176349 22175 24478 26537 56879 62414 192483 452 3529 10625 4542 7525 26673 35953456 1846162 0.58900 0.57220 X 17446 96615 114061 7164284 7278345 513917 128479 0 0 430799 466980 488150 513917 1899846 2849769 90356 101304 121980 114061 427701 107700 116745 122038 128479 474962 712443 6674 2901 31970 17446 58991 132539 113049 19490 37117 13921 23196 42686 Deferred rent 34801 Deferred compensation 409816 444617 X 9866466 76016 76016 9790450 0 9790450 7681965 76016 76016 7605949 0 7605949 Part X, Line 2: 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Edward Lempert President 351401 0 47900 0 137490 0 71285 0 25653 0 633729 0 137490 0 Kristen Schutjer-Mance COO and VP 193108 0 23977 0 0 0 36317 0 27548 0 280950 0 0 0 Adrienne Bell VP, Development and Communications 157515 0 20200 0 0 0 25154 0 13904 0 216773 0 0 0 Brad Strong Senior Director, Education 153172 0 20000 0 0 0 29649 0 21129 0 223950 0 0 0 Samantha Tran Senior Managing Director, Education 146453 0 20000 0 0 0 28876 0 20998 0 216327 0 0 0 Vincent Stewart Executive Director, STEM Network 147692 0 15000 0 0 0 9762 0 26454 0 198908 0 0 0 Stephen Blake Senior Advisor 180750 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 180750 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 and Chief Operating Officer. 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 2017. 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 0 0 0 0