2016-11-14T11:47:46-06:00 2015-12-31 263939360 BOMAN ACCOUNTING GROUP INC 20 UNION AVENUE CAMPBELL CA 95008 990 2015-01-01 943059243 Children Now CHIL 5107632444 1404 Franklin St Ste 700 Oakland CA 94612 Edward Lempert President 5107632444 2016-11-10 1 LYNDA R BOMAN CPA P00135429 4088662004 2016-10-31 2015 2017-02-10 21:41:12Z Edward Lempert 1404 Franklin St Ste 700 Oakland CA 94612 7882758 0 X www.childrennow.org X 1988 CA Children Now is a nonpartisan umbrella research, policy development, and advocacy organization dedicated to promoting children's health, education and well-being in California. Children Now also leads The Children's Movement of California, a grassroots network of direct service, business, parent, civil rights, and faith- and community-based organizations, as well as individuals, working together to make children a top priority in public policy. 19 18 45 21 0 0 7196658 7501452 127949 342893 24478 26537 5014 11876 7354099 7882758 676875 120000 0 0 3872793 4777347 0 0 290770 1434451 1730958 5984119 6628305 1369980 1254453 9630818 10824976 882653 822358 8748165 10002618 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 1154656 120000 140094 HealthChildren Now's health programs focus on ensuring that children have meaningful access to high-quality, affordable health care, including physical, mental, and oral health services, and other key services like home visiting, developmental screenings and early intervention that are vital for California's youngest children. Through our health efforts, we have achieved the following: worked with our partners to ensure expanded health coverage to more than 170,000 undocumented children; continued to raise awareness around the value of school-based health services in improving outcomes for children, including programs like the California Children's Dental Disease Prevention Program (CCDDPP) and the Early Mental Health Initiative (EMHI); led California based efforts in support of a two-year extension of the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), engaged a range of diverse stakeholders in the effort to make numerous enhancements to the Medi-Cal Children's Health Advisory Panel, which is helping to improve how Medi-Cal works for children and their parents; continued our leadership efforts to promote developmental screenings and early interventions for California's infants and toddlers; led efforts to ensure no service disruption for the critically ill children receiving medical care under the California Children's Services program while stakeholders work to improve the program; built momentum behind expanding and enhancing home visiting programs in California and worked to protect federal funding for the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program; and through managing the Health Homes Network, have continued to promote the value of health homes, a family-centered model of health care delivery that provides comprehensive services in a coordinated and accessible manner. 3449971 202799 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: made significant progress towards building a transparent and student focused accountability system that prioritizes student achievement and the closure of achievement gaps, and includes measures of chronic absence, college and career readiness and school climate; led outreach efforts to ensure successful rollout of the Common Core standards in California by leading a public education, communication and stakeholder engagement effort; continued to provide parents, community groups, district staff and others with information, tools, resources and trainings on California's new school finance reform regulations; united hundreds of stakeholders who helped secure funding for expanded quality preschool and childcare for low-income families; worked with policymakers and key stakeholders to promote adoption of an effective Next Generation Science Standards assessment approach and continued to promote STEM education in California; successfully worked with the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to improve program standards and expectations for teachers and administrators, including to provide training on school climate and effective behavior management; continued work to secure transparent and accessible data in the state's longitudinal student data system, as well as related to the state's new school finance reform regulations; led efforts to improve school climate and help curb the disproportionate rates of suspension and expulsion among at-risk populations; continued to play a primary policy and advocacy role in promoting a universal statewide kindergarten readiness tool in California; and promoted the effective integration of career pathways and expanded learning time by working to ensure college and career indicators are in the state's accountability system. 471042 0 Research and Data CollectionChildren Now produces comprehensive reports, fact sheets 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. Both of these 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. 763059 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: tripled health coverage enrollment for former foster youth in California through CoveredTil26, a multi-faceted advocacy, outreach, and education campaign to make them aware that they now have an extension of health care coverage until the age of 26 under the Affordable Care Act, and to help them access it; supported foster caregivers by educating local and county level stakeholders about the Approved Relative Caregiver (ARC) program, allowing foster children placed with relatives to receive state foster care funding equal to those placed with non-relatives, with a focus on bringing the full spectrum of supports and services to older foster youth and probation youth so they are able to thrive in a family setting; helped ensure that foster youth are now identified through California's student data system, so that school districts can ensure that the new school funding model is implemented in a way that benefits foster youth students as intended; set the groundwork needed to help ensure California's justice system is trauma-responsive and grounded in adolescent development; helped secure additional funding for the Foster Youth Services (FYS) program to allow it to begin serving all foster youth; and strengthened the legal rights of foster youth by securing funding to lower the caseloads of foster youth attorneys to ensure that all foster youth receive effective legal representation. 763059 0 5838728 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 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 9 0 1 45 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 19 18 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 Ste 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 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 Donna Friedman Meir Nominating Cmte Chair 0.25 X 0 0 0 Grace Won Nominating Committee 0.25 X 0 0 0 Natasha Hoehn Nominating Committee 0.10 X 0 0 0 Tracey B Monroe Nominating Committee 0.25 X 0 0 0 Gay Krause Finance Committee 0.75 X 0 0 0 David G Johnson Finance Committee 0.25 X 0 0 0 Peter Bewley Finance Committee 0.10 X 0 0 0 Susanne Daniels Development Committee 0.10 X 0 0 0 Neal Bear MD Development Committee 0.10 X 0 0 0 Arnoldo Avalos Audit Committee 0.25 X 0 0 0 Hon Cruz Reynoso Audit Committee 0.10 X 0 0 0 Laura Casas Audit Committee 0.10 X 0 0 0 Jason Salzetti Audit Committee 0.50 X 0 0 0 Edward Lempert President 40.00 X 387741 0 84350 Kristen Schutjer-Mance COO and VP, Research 40.00 X 206495 0 64364 Adrienne Bell VP, Development and Communications 40.00 X 128490 0 12230 Debra Brown Director, Education 40.00 X 118781 0 36216 Sharyn Church Los Angeles Director 40.00 X 134615 0 15608 Eileen Espejo Senior Managing Director 40.00 X 124193 0 28131 Jessica Mindnich Director, Research 40.00 X 109169 0 26601 Kathleen Skrainar Director, Finance 40.00 X 117802 0 39946 Brad Strong Senior Director, Education 40.00 X 148415 0 52236 Samantha Tran Senior Managing Director, Education 40.00 X 149008 0 42300 Stephen Blake Senior Advisor 20.00 X 163050 0 0 Kelly Hardy Senior Managing Director, Health 32.00 X 108346 0 36404 Jennifer Hoffecker Art Director 40.00 X 100462 0 1572 Susanna Kniffen Director, Child Welfare Policy 40.00 X 109769 0 27803 Rob Manwaring Senior Policy and Fiscal Advisor, Education 32.00 X 118292 0 37812 2224628 0 505573 15 0 1 0 Lucas Public Affairs 1215 K Street Suite 1010 Sacramento CA 95814 Communication campaign reform efforts. 281783 1 154278 7347174 15000 7501452 Fee for service 900099 342893 342893 342893 26537 26537 Miscellaneous receipts 900099 10625 10625 Unemployment reserve 900099 1251 1251 11876 7882758 354769 0 26537 X 120000 120000 594236 541446 50960 1830 3195378 2670165 364593 160620 734323 634037 67498 32788 253410 218117 24073 11220 13883 13883 17500 17500 894190 775613 116702 1875 232278 131252 75884 25142 16722 3190 13532 328604 328604 95795 93079 2411 305 42090 28845 12890 355 25520 25520 24294 24294 Miscellaneous 30199 13657 13493 3049 Bank and payroll fees 9883 9883 Shared allocation 0 609327 -662913 53586 6628305 5838728 498807 290770 6934884 8136525 2219628 2155003 64875 62478 132539 69459 42171 63080 369260 407890 9630818 10824976 318176 287908 250125 220000 314352 314450 882653 822358 X 2762181 3410792 5985984 6591826 8748165 10002618 9630818 10824976 1254453 0 X X 0 1 X 1 0 X 6674413 3799561 5839622 7196658 7501452 31011706 6674413 3799561 5839622 7196658 7501452 31011706 14049719 16961987 19114 15594 22175 24478 26537 107898 666 8587 452 3529 10625 23859 31143463 624139 0.54460 0.54180 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 2901 98403 101304 6238294 6339598 466980 116745 0 0 326486 366103 430799 466980 1590368 2385552 70048 49120 90356 101304 310828 81622 91526 107700 116745 397593 596390 11921 9740 6674 2901 31236 132539 69459 63080 63080 Deferred rent 19642 Deferred compensation 294808 314450 X 7917621 34863 34863 7882758 0 7882758 6663168 34863 34863 6628305 0 6628305 Part X, Line 2: Tax position disclosure 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. 1 Bay Area Legal Aid 1735 Telegraph Avenue Oakland CA 94612 20000 Support Federal foster care reform efforts. Social Change Partners LLC 1341 Valencia Street 11 San Francisco CA 94110 60000 Support Federal foster care reform efforts. Public Counsel 610 S Ardmore Avenue Los Angeles CA 90005 20000 Support Federal foster care reform efforts. Alliance for Children's Rights 3333 Wilshire Blvd Suite 550 Los Angeles CA 90010 20000 Support Federal foster care reform efforts. 3 1 Part I, Line 2: Through re-grant agreements, we establish expectations for the grants, ensure the grantee's eligibility and establish that funds are used as outlined in the original proposal. Grantees are also required to report within time frames designated in the original proposal and agreement. The final report is reviewed by the policy lead and the Executive Leadership. 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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 11 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 2015. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 19 Governing documents, conflict of interest policy and financial statements are available to the public upon request. Form 990, Part IX, line 11g Professional: Program service expenses 775,613. Management and general expenses 116,702. Fundraising expenses 1,875. Total expenses 894,190. FORM 990, PART XII, LINE 2C Organization's auditor selection and oversight process is consistent to prior years.