2018-05-14T16:38:20-05:00 2017-06-30 271728945 PKF O'Connor Davies LLP 665 Fifth Avenue New York NY 10022 990 2016-07-01 132899381 NATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES INC NATI 2125457510 32 laight street 2nd floor NEW YORK NY 100132152 Mary C Corcoran president & CEO 2125457510 2018-05-14 1 Garrett M Higgins P00543209 2122862600 2018-05-14 2016 2022-09-23 18:48:47Z mary c corcoran 32 laight street 2nd floor NEW YORK NY 100132152 10015093 0 X WWW.NCLD.ORG X 1977 DE The mission of NCLD is to improve the lives of the one in five children and adults nationwide with learning and attention issues-by empowering parents and young adults, transforming schools and advocating for equal rights and opportunities. We're working to create a society in which every individual possesses the academic, social and emotional skills needed to succeed in school, at work and in life. 24 24 48 60 0 0 10988229 9536291 36500 41500 462 573 176868 132579 11202059 9710943 54284 31000 0 0 4947825 5573873 132500 147808 685991 3127581 3365562 8262190 9118243 2939869 592700 4923548 5627961 714715 870703 4208833 4757258 X The mission of NCLD is to improve the lives of the one in five children and adults nationwide with learning and attention issues-by empowering parents and young adults, transforming schools and advocating for equal rights and opportunities. We're working to create a society in which every individual possesses the academic, social and emotional skills needed to succeed in school, at work and in life. 1 0 6381347 Parent empowerment: We continued to focus on providing high quality information and resources to parents of children with learning and attention issues. We partnered with 14 other non profits on Understood.org, a resource for parents of children with learning and attention issues, with NCLD managing and operating Understood.org on behalf of the founding partners. We now have more than 3,000 pieces of content, including articles, videos, infographics, and five state-of-the-art tools. Understood also provides a safe community for parents to talk to each other and offers daily access to top experts. [See continuation on Schedule O]Since the launch of Understood.org, we have engaged more than 40 million users on the site. Our national campaign in partnership with the Ad Council surpassed $32M in donated media, and our other founding partners have helped to raise awareness about learning and attention issues and attract parents to Understood.org. 824092 Public Policy:We continued to protect and support students with learning and attention issues and lead the field in key areas, by publishing groundbreaking reports, sharing our research, hosting national thought leader convenings and engaging with parents across the country to encourage grassroots advocacy in education. [See continuation on Schedule O]In FY 2017, NCLD advanced federal policy for students with learning and attention issues through the introduction and promotion of the RISE Act in the House and Senate, collaboration with federal partners to develop resources that translate policy to practice, and coverage of and response to critical federal issues such as the Endrew F. Supreme Court decision. We released the fourth edition of the State of Learning Disabilities, and for the first time provided digital state and national data snapshots of how students with learning and attention issues are being supported. We mobilized hundreds of parents across the country around the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) by developing an advocacy toolkit and hosting "bootcamp" trainings. In addition, we worked with national experts and in three states to ensure that students with disabilities are considered from the outset when educators implement personalized learning systems. 511377 31000 41500 School Transformation:In FY2017, our focus was on helping school districts implement multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS) frameworks, which have been demonstrated to be the most effective way to ensure that all students can succeed. [See continuation on Schedule O]We continued a two-year Schools That Work project with Barnstable (MA) Public School District and completed the second year of the Schools That Work project with the Mashpee (MA) Public School District to implement MTSS in a comprehensive, systematic manner throughout each district. The Barnstable project continued work started in the first year to deepen MTSS implementation efforts throughout the district, focusing on tiers 2 & 3 and building sustainability plans for after the grant ended. The Mashpee project continued work with another full year of targeted professional development, strategic planning and mentoring focused on fully implementing MTSS Pre K-12 in both academics and behavior from the district through to the schools. In addition, we began the first year of work on a three-year grant to support MTSS regional implementation and sustainability efforts through the Cape Cod Collaborative. 288943 Young Adults: In FY 2017, NCLD was in the research and development phase of creating programming to help young adults develop self-awareness and self-advocacy skills and empower them to initiate and sustain supportive and meaningful connections and community with parents, peers, educators, and employers. NCLD's program will arm young adults with the necessary tools, resources and information to navigate barriers they face during the transition from high school to post-secondary education or career.In FY 2017, NCLD supported young adults with learning and attention issues through Friends of Quinn, an online community offering resources and video interviews with people with learning differences, and the Anne Ford and Allegra Ford Thomas scholarship program, which engaged over 600 applicants, and uplifts the stories and experience of young adults transitioning from high school to college. 77254 Educator Project:We made significant progress toward defining the mindsets, knowledge and skills educators need to be effective in supporting students with learning and attention issues, and have begun to build out the internal capacity to develop and carry forward this new initiative in 2018 across the areas of research, content, partnership and talent. We conducted a literature review of empirically-driven studies, and vetted articles in comprehensive meta analyses and synthesis studies. These findings helped inform the market research of our learning agenda focused on educator attitudes toward students with learning and attention issues, perspectives on inclusion, and overall attitudes and beliefs around professional learning opportunities. We conducted focus groups with more than 60 K-12 public general educators in three geographies across the U.S. representing urban, rural and suburban districts. The findings from these focus groups informed a large-scale quantitative survey of over 1,000 educators to be fielded in January 2018. To better understand how educators might benefit from and engage with content on learning and attention issues, we conducted a teacher-led audit of nearly 2,000 pieces of existing, parent-facing, content on Understood.org. Lastly, we conducted a landscape analysis of potential partners and key players supporting K-12 professional development for general educators. 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X X X X X X 1 Strong Resource Group PO Box 1075 Portsmouth NH 03802 Fund development 0 0 147808 -147808 147808 -147808 NY AL AK AR CA CO CT DC FL GA HI IL KS KY MA MD ME MI MS MN NC ND NJ NH NM OH OK OR PA RI SC TN VA WA WI WV UT Annual benefit 2946010 2855810 90200 190166 6454 2946010 2855810 90200 190166 6454 196620 -106420 Schedule G, Part I, Line 2b, Column (v) Strong Resource Group (SRG) is engaged by NCLD to perform fund development consulting services consisting of Event Management, Board Development and developing and implementing a strategic fundraising work plan. 1 SCholarships 24 31000 Part I, Line 2: The Ford Scholarships applications are posted on the NCLD website in the Fall of each year, and outreach to a wide audience of educator and parent audiences is conducted; all applications must be postmarked on or before the deadline. Every application is reviewed by an NCLD team member, and second and third round reviews by staff, interns and invited guests (special education and related service professionals) takes place. A pool of 50 "best" applications is prepared for a senior staff person who narrows the number of candidates to twenty, ten for each of the scholarship award categories. Packets with application materials are sent to members of the Scholarship Committee including Anne Ford and other volunteer members of this committee. Once the committee makes its decision, the senior staff person follows up with each winner, their parents, and select individuals who submitted letters of recommendation (e.g., teachers, coaches, employers). feedback is then provided to the committee about their selection, answering any question they raised, confirming their selection or suggesting a reordering of awardees based on new information. The organization monitors the award to assure it is used for its intended purpose, and the payment of scholarship funds is made in one of the following ways: 1. Directly to winner, by check, after receipt of copy of invoice from post-secondary program; or 2. Directly to school/program, upon receipt of copy of invoice from post-secondary program In the organization's records, all expenses are coded to accurately to reflect: 1. Restricted or unrestricted nature of payment 2. Purpose of payment, payee information (including social security #), approval by appropriate NCLD staff X X X X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 james wendorf Executive director until july 2016 142350 0 0 0 36273 0 9231 0 7653 0 195507 0 0 0 kevin hager Managing Dir VP & Chief Digital Officer, NCLD 200005 0 10000 0 0 0 10733 0 13957 0 234695 0 0 0 Lindsay Jones Director Public Policy & Advocacy 166009 0 0 0 0 0 8599 0 23951 0 198559 0 0 0 Hector Lopez Director of Technology 144700 0 0 0 0 0 7547 0 34562 0 186809 0 0 0 Karin Bilich Director of Content Strategy & Manag 142339 0 0 0 0 0 7545 0 6812 0 156696 0 0 0 Kevin Forsyth Director Insight & Innovation until June 2017 136119 0 0 0 0 0 7011 0 11570 0 154700 0 0 0 Kim Woodward Sr Dir Individual Philanthropy until Oct. 2016 135872 0 0 0 0 0 3470 0 19025 0 158367 0 0 0 Robert Thompson Former Chief Development Officer 156178 0 0 0 8056 0 8556 0 18509 0 191299 0 0 0 Part I, Line 7 NCLD OFFERED A DISCRETIONARY PERFORMANCE-BASED BONUS FOR ITS EMPLOYEES WITH GUIDELINES SET BY MANAGEMENT AND APPROVED BY THE PERSONNEL COMMITTEE. IN 2016, THE FOLLOWING BONUS WERE MADE: Kevin Hager - $10,000 THE BONUS IS TAXABLE AND INCLUDED IN THE RECIPIENT'S FORM W-2. X 3 107530 avg. selling price 0 0 0 0 Part I, Column (b): The organization is reporting the number of contributors in Part I, Column (B) of Schedule M. Form 990, Part III, line 2 Educator Project: We made significant progress toward defining the mindsets, knowledge and skills educators need to be effective in supporting students with learning and attention issues, and have begun to build out the internal capacity to develop and carry forward this new initiative in 2018 across the areas of research, content, partnership and talent. We conducted a literature review of empirically-driven studies, and vetted articles in comprehensive meta analyses and synthesis studies. These findings helped inform the market research of our learning agenda focused on educator attitudes toward students with learning and attention issues, perspectives on inclusion, and overall attitudes and beliefs around professional learning opportunities. We conducted focus groups with more than 60 K-12 public general educators in three geographies across the U.S. representing urban, rural and suburban districts. The findings from these focus groups informed a large-scale quantitative survey of over 1,000 educators to be fielded in January 2018. To better understand how educators might benefit from and engage with content on learning and attention issues, we conducted a teacher-led audit of nearly 2,000 pieces of existing, parent-facing, content on Understood.org. Lastly, we conducted a landscape analysis of potential partners and key players supporting K-12 professional development for general educators. The outputs of our research in FY 2017 will be used to inform our program design and implementation efforts. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 2 THE CHAIRMAN, FREDERIC M. POSES AND BOARD MEMBER, NANCY POSES HAVE A FAMILY RELATIONSHIP. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11b The President & CEO and the finance director review the Form 990 for any adjustments and it is compared to the audited financial statements. The President & CEO reviews all the text. After the executive review is complete, the Form 990 is forwarded to the board by e-mail. Paper copies of the Form 990 are also provided to those Board members who prefer them. The organization's officers address any questions that the board may have. When all questions and issues are resolved, the President & CEO approves and the 990 is electronically filed. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 12c Any possible conflict of interest should be promptly disclosed to the board of directors by the person concerned. This policy includes any director, officer, staff member and members of the immediate family thereof, or any party, group or organization that is associated with the organization. Any contract proposed for this organization is reviewed and approved by the Board of directors or a committee thereof. Any interested person bringing a potential conflict of interest to the attention of the board of directors (or its committee) may provide the Board or committee with any and all relevant information, but shall retire from the room in which the board (or committee) is meeting and shall not participate in the final deliberation or decision regarding the matter under consideration. The interested person shall not vote on the matter. The minutes of the board (or committee) shall reflect that the conflict of interest was disclosed and that the interested person was not present during the final decision or vote and did not vote. When there is a doubt that a conflict of interest exists, the matter shall be resolved by a vote of the Board of directors (or committee), excluding the person concerning whose situation the doubt has arisen. A conflict of interest disclosure statement is furnished annually by each director, officer, and staff member who is presently serving the organization, or who may hereafter become associated with it. The conflict of interest policy is reviewed annually for the information and guidance of the directors, officers, and staff members. Any new directors, officers or staff members are advised of the policy and shall furnish a disclosure statement prior to undertaking the duties of such office. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 15 The process for determining compensation for the President & CEO of the organization includes all of the following elements: 1. Review and approval by the board of directors: Executive Compensation is reviewed and approved by the executive committee of the board of directors. All individuals with conflicts of interest with respect to the compensation arrangement are excluded from the room for discussions and decisions regarding executive compensation. 2. Use of comparable compensation data: Compensation data from similarly qualified persons in functionally comparable positions at similarly situated organizations are the Data sources utilized to establish executive compensation. 3. Contemporaneous documentation: there is contemporaneous documentation and recordkeeping with respect to the deliberations and decisions regarding the compensation arrangement in the books and records of the organization. The process for establishing executive compensation was last performed on June 30, 2017. Compensation arrangements for other officers and key employees are determined by the President & CEO, and may include cost of living increases and merit increases, Salary surveys are used to assist the organization in setting compensation arrangements. The President & CEO presents the proposed compensation for the officers and key employees to the Board of directors for review and approval. This process was last performed on June 30, 2017. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 19 The Form 990 is available for public inspection as required under Section 6104 of the internal revenue code. The return is posted on guidestar.org and other similar websites. In addition, forms 990 and 1023, as well as the financial statements, conflict of interest policy, articles of incorporation and bylaws are available upon written request of the organization at 32 Laight Street (2nd Floor), New York, NY 10013-2152; or by calling the organization at 212-545-7510. Form 990, Part IX, line 11g consulting fees: Program service expenses 29,278. Management and general expenses 92,564. Fundraising expenses 132,399. Total expenses 254,241. Other Professional: Program service expenses 31,017. Management and general expenses 4,044. Fundraising expenses 5,866. Total expenses 40,927. Payroll Processing: Program service expenses 8,234. Management and general expenses 516. Fundraising expenses 1,255. Total expenses 10,005. Program and Evaluation Consultants: Program service expenses 879,532. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 879,532. Form 990, Part XI, line 9: BAD DEBT EXPENSES - UNCOLLECTIBLE PLEDGE RECEIVABLES -44,275. Form 990, Part XII, Line 2C: The process for oversight of the audit and selection of an independent accountant has not changed from the process employed in the prior year.