2017-10-19T12:16:26-07:00 2017-06-30 MANN URRUTIA NELSON CPAs & ASSOC LLP 2901 Douglas Blvd Suite 290 Roseville CA 956613824 990 2016-07-01 680153141 Solar Cookers International Inc SOLA 9164554499 2400 22nd Street Sacramento CA 95818 Julie Greene Executive Dir. 2017-10-19 true Michelle O Nelson CPA P00453363 9167744208 2016 2021-01-29 14:40:06Z Julie Greene 1919 21st Street 203 Sacramento CA 95811 979303 false false X www.solarcookers.org X 1988 CA Solar Cookers Internationals mission is to spread solar thermal cooking technology to benefit people and environments. 11 11 11 75 0 619487 943139 29455 25844 371 10320 2388 0 651701 979303 40054 0 0 349219 458163 0 117278 159514 314867 548787 773030 102914 206273 719994 942508 39896 56137 680098 886371 As the leader of the international solar cooking movement, the non-profit Solar cookers International drives to transition vulnerable people from cooking with wood and other fuels to cooking with free, no-emissions solar energy. SCI works to solve the problem of inadequate household energy facing nearly 3 billion people on our planet. Since human health, quality of life, and environments are affected by cooking fuel choices, SCI offers a solution to the difficult choices nearly half of all families make every day: whether to buy fuel, or to buy food and other family needs. Solar cooker technology is a sustainable and environmentally responsible tool which helps families fight poverty and disease, and changes womens and childrens lives for the better. What distinguishes Solar Cookers International is its combination of projects, partnerships, advocacy and outreach to the global solar cooker community. SCI engages and energizes the global solar cooking movement, supporting more than 500 false false 607482 Because cooking duties fall mostly on the shoulders of women and girls in many parts of the world, SCI weaves a strong network of global partners to empower women, especially in the worlds most vulnerable regions. SCI has a long-term strategy to respond to the accelerating global demand for solar-thermal cooking technologies. Solar Cookers International is the worldwide hub for solar cooking information exchange, partnership development, capacity building, and advocacy. SCI is the worlds premier organization catalyzing conversations and learning for community members in a worldwide movement for sustainable solar cooking. SCI strengthens grassroots solar cooking activities in the worlds poorest communities, and advocates for clean, sustainable alternative cooking solutions through the United Nations and other international forums. SCI connects 500+ partners in 135 countries to amplify global solar cooking adoption and help people in vulnerable regions to build resilience.Partner data and SCIs research and analysis have identified 3.1+ million solar cookers, directly benefiting 11+ million people. These solar cookers could reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 16 - 45 million tons over their lifespans. Global data analyzed by SCI suggests that since 1990, more than 4 billion meals have been prepared in solar cookers, using free solar energy and reducing emissions. SCIs long-term plans focus on scaling up these impacts at an accelerated pace. SCI made significant progress in its goal to develop a performance evaluation process for solar cooker technologies. SCI established testing centers in New York and California, USA. In FY 2016-2017, SCI completed a three-year research and development process. The resulting performance evaluation process (PEP) measures the power of different solar cookers in Watts. Based on the ASAE 580.1 standard that harmonizes with the International Organization of Standards (ISO), these evaluation results will provide customers--such as individuals, other NGOs, and UN agencies--with an objective, reliable evaluation protocol of solar cooking technologies for the first time. As an internationally credible, objective body, SCI promotes all appropriate, high-quality, durable, affordable solar cooking technologies. The PEP will set high quality and performance standards, and provide a scientific process to prove performance ratings locally. In this way, SCI helps build local economies and builds local capacity. In FY 2016-2017, SCI continued working with grassroots partners on two continents in the countries of Kenya, Nepal, and Tanzania. On the Human Development Index (HDI 2016), Nepal ranks 144/188, Kenya ranks 147/188, and Tanzania, 151/188. Working collaboratively with trusted, community-based partners, evaluations of project-based work verified that solar cooks and their families reported 44% fewer smoke-related health problems and saved 25-50% of their household fuel budget. SCI directly supported distribution of 1,000 CooKits with its local partner, Friends of the Old (FOTO) in Lower Nyakach, Kenya. SCI directly supported Nepalese project partner Foundation for Sustainable Technologies (FOST) in training on construction, use, and maintenance of solar cookers to 24 people; solar dryers to 15 people; and heat retention devices to 25 people. FOST, with SCIs support, also taught and demonstrated solar cooking to students, seniors, womens empowerment groups, and people with disabilities. In January 2017, SCI gathered its network of strategic, high-impact grassroots, academic, industry, and advocacy partners at the 6th SCI World Conference on solar cooking in Gujarat, India. Results from this important networking and capacity-building gathering included convening over 200 participants from 30 countries; 58 presentations (now available online); 15 new SCI Associates; and numerous new partnerships. One example: as a result of the SCI-led discussion regarding solar cooking in refugee camps, a Kenyan, an Indian, and an American partner implemented a solar cooking festival in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya, where 1,000 teens made and used solar cookers only four months after the 6th SCI World Conference concluded.SCI provided evidence to the United Nations by right of its special consultative status, identifying how solar cooking helps achieve all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SCI advocated for sustainable clean cooking technologies in national climate action plans under the Paris Agreement. At United Nations events (Commission on the Status of Women, Sustainable Energy for All) in New York, SCI advocated for inclusion of solar cooking in grassroots activities and sustainable energy policy. SCI also advocated to include solar cooking in the Preliminary Action Plan for the Transformation of the Cookstoves and Fuels Market in Haiti (the Human Development Index ranks Haiti 163/188).At the High-Level Political Forum and other United Nations events in New York, SCI advocated for three critical actions to be included in a short list of targeted Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs). These critical actions included training public health practitioners and physicians to address household air pollution (HAP) during individual patient-provider interactions by promoting sustainable clean cooking solutions. Recommended actions included prioritizing the World Health Organization (WHO) survey questions for monitoring household energy use. Solar cooking is prominently featured in the WHO Household Energy Use Survey, which should be used by all countries to track progress towards achieving SDGs 7.1 and 7.2 (ensuring universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services and increasing substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix, by 2030). Groundwork to include solar cooking in the California Science Framework was completed, enabling solar cooking education for 6.3 million students in 10,000 schools. SCI managed and improved the Solar Cooking wiki, the premier source of solar cooking globally www.solarcooking.org. In nine months, SCI made over 74,000 edits in this resource to provide current, high-quality solar cooking resources to partners around the globe in 37 languages capable of being read by 4 billion readers worldwide. SCI published 24 volumes of its online publication, the SCI Digest. With a distribution list of 4,500+ worldwide, this publication provided the most up-to-date news for the solar cooking sector; helped partners to network; and advertised funding, education, and award opportunities to build the capacity of SCI Associates and partners worldwide. SCI also raised awareness and increased capacity through additional publications, communications, and presentations. With evaluation protocol for quality standards and high-impact partners in place, SCI advocated for supportive energy policy.SCI built, and continues to build, capacity of global partners to amplify solar cooking adoption worldwide. With evaluation protocol for quality standards and high-impact partners in place, SCI advocates for supportive energy policy. SCI convenes the global network regularly, cultivating a partnership relationship among participants, and working with NGOs and country leaders at the United Nations to promote solar cooking as an important solution to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Clean, sustainable, no-emissions cooking alternatives help families, especially children, live healthier lives in cleaner environments, and build resilience. This is critical especially in the worlds poorest regions. SCI looks to a future where solar thermal cooking is a familiar, daily activity for people everywhere who need energy for cooking. 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To support the future charitable goals of solar cookers international. Part X : FIN48 Footnote SCI is exempt from income taxes under Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 501(c)(3) and Section 23701(d) of the California Revenue and Taxation Code, and is considered a publicly supported organization. Accordingly, no provision for income taxes has been included in the accompanying financial statements.SCI has accounted for uncertainty of income taxes as required by the Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes topic of the FASB Accounting Standards Codification. SCI uses a comprehensive model for recognizing, and measuring, presenting and disclosing in the financial statements tax positions taken or expected to be taken on a tax return. A tax position is recognized as a benefit only if it is "more likely than not" that the tax position would be sustained in a tax examination, with a tax examination being presumed to occur. 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SCI is no longer subject to income tax examinations by federal authorities for years ending on or before June 30, 2014, and by state authorities for years ending on or before June 30, 2013. true Tanzania 0 0 Grants to recipients in region 7367 Kenya 0 0 Grants to Recipients in Region 4735 Nepal 0 0 Grants to recipients in Region 10500 India 0 0 Program Services Conference expenses 21141 India 0 0 Grants to recipients in Region 900 44643 44643 false false false false false false Part I, Line 2 - Grantmakers Explanation For Monitoring Use of Funds Outside US FINANCIAL REPORTS ARE REQUIRED TO BE SUBMITTED EVERY MONTH INCLUDING EXPENDITURES BY DETAIL AND TOTAL, WITH INVOICES AND RECEIPTS SUPPORTING SUCH EXPENDITURES. ACCURATE AND TIMELY REPORTS ARE REQUIRED FOR ADDITIONAL FUNDS TO BE PROVIDED TO THE GRANTEE. Form 990, Part VI, Line 11b: Form 990 Review Process THE DRAFT COPY OF FORM 990 IS PROVIDED TO THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR TO REVIEW PRIOR TO FILING. Form 990, Part VI, Line 12c: Explanation of Monitoring and Enforcement of Conflicts THE PROCESS IS MONITORED BY THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR IN CONSULTATION WITH THE BOARD PRESIDENT. Form 990, Part VI, Line 15a: Compensation Review & Approval Process - CEO, Top Management THE BOARD OF DIRECTOR DETERMINES COMPENSATION FOR THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR UNDER ADVISEMENT FROM THE COMPENSATION REVIEW CONDUCTED BY THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE. OTHER EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION IS DETERMINED BY RECOMMENDATION OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, REVIEW AND RECOMMENDED BY THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE, BASED ON REGIONAL AVERAGE COMPENSATION SCALES AND COMPARABILITY WITH ORGANIZATION SIZE AND SCOPE OF PROGRAM. Form 990, Part VI, Line 19: Other Organization Documents Publicly Available AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST OR VIA THE WEBSITE AT WWW.SOLARCOOKERS.ORG.