2014-12-16T15:46:52-08:00 2014-06-30 Barbara A Borrego PC CPA 3056 Agua Fria Street Santa Fe NM 87507 990 2013-07-01 204396207 Cooking With Kids Inc COOK 5054380098 P O Box 6113 Santa Fe NM 87502 Susan Nelson Blakely Chairman 2014-12-04 true Barbara A Borrego CPA P00148371 5054711354 2013 2015-11-30 17:44:51Z 635577 false false X www.cookingwithkids.net X 2006 NM Cooking with Kids, Inc. is dedicated to providing food and nutritional education to Santa Fe, New Mexico elementary public school children. 6 6 17 1506 0 532130 596857 23907 38301 590 419 0 556627 635577 0 0 358510 416066 0 36425 173957 187465 532467 603531 24160 32046 316475 351178 19791 22448 296684 328730 Cooking with Kids, Inc. is dedicated to providing food and nutritional education to Santa Fe, New Mexico elementary public school children. Cooking With Kids, Inc. educates and empowers children and families to make healthy food choices through hands-on learning with fresh, affordable foods from diverse cultural traditions. false false 508935 635158 2013-2014 Program SummaryCooking with Kids (CWK) motivates and empowers children and youth to make healthy food choices through hands-on learning with fresh, affordable foods from diverse cultural traditions. CWKs bilingual curriculum provides interdisciplinary education in math, science, social studies, and language arts, and links classroom learning with school meals.Program ActivitiesStudent Participation: 5,128 pre-K-6th grade students in 247 classrooms in 13 Santa Fe Public Schools--Agua Fria, Amy Biehl, Aspen, Cesar Chavez, Chaparral, Gonzales, Kearny, Nava, Salazar, Sweeney, Tesuque and Turquoise Trail students participated in ten cooking and tasting classes (15 hours) --Pion students participated in five one-hour fruit and vegetable tastings, taught by classroom teachers (5 hours)Parent Volunteers: 1,506 parents and grandparents (1,140 female, 366 male) volunteered 4,277 hours in cooking classes School-Day Classes: 2,004 total food and nutrition education classes--1,252 cooking classes taught by CWK food educators & classroom teachersIntroductory class with Tomato TastingGreen & White Fettuccine w/ Tomato Basil SauceVegetable Tamales North African Tajine with CouscousFalafel with Tomato Cucumber SaladPotatoes Persillade with Spinach Salad--752 fruit and vegetable tastings taught by classroom teachers: Salad, Root Vegetables, Pears, and Peas Tasting. Pion students tasted 4 varieties of melons instead of tomatoes--27 Life Skills classes --49 Middle School classes--Distributed CWK re-useable grocery bags to and kindergarten studentsSchool/Community Programming --10 family nights at Agua Fria, Chaparral, Ramirez Thomas, Salazar, and Sweeney (93 families, with 298 unique participants: 170 children and 128 adults)--CWK participated in Harvest Festivals at 3 schools (Amy Biehl, Aspen, and Salazar) --CWK school lunches served in 19 school cafeteriasOut-of-School Time Programs--11 Transitional Education Program (TEP) sessions with middle & high school students at Zona del Sol--24 Santa Fe Public Schools Friday cooking afternoons at Nava and Cesar Chavez (48 classes total)--Spring Break Camp in collaboration with ARTsmart--Zona Del Sol 8-week Summer Adventure Camp (4 days per week)Community EngagementCWK Super Chefs: local chefs who donate their time and talent in cooking classes, inspiring students with their skills, sharing their stories, and acting as professional role models. Eleven chefs volunteered at 6 schools, for a total of 14 classroom visits.Farmers in the Schools connects New Mexico farmers with elementary school students. Farmers enrich cooking classes by sharing their expertise and passion for growing and eating a variety of fresh, healthy foods. Five farmers made 17 visits to 6 schools. CollaborationsSanta Fe Public Schools Student Nutrition ProgramSchool Health Advisory Committee (SHAC)Communities in Schools of NMEarth Care Americorps Youth Food Cadre Santa Fe Food Policy CouncilYouthworks Culinary CommitteeResearch PublicationsImpact of a School-Based Cooking Curriculum for Fourth-Grade Students on Attitudes and Behaviors Is Influenced by Gender and Prior Cooking Experience. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior 2013 Nov 19. pii: S1499-4046(13) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24268970Cooking with kids positively affects fourth graders' vegetable preferences and attitudes and self-efficacy for food and cooking. Childhood Obesity. 2013 Dec 9(6):549-56 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24320723MediaTelevision--6 NM KASA Style cooking segments on KASA 2 Channel featuring CWK staff, Super Chefs Andrew Cooper and Patrick Gharitty and students from several schools, including Transitional Education Program http://cookingwithkids.net/category/video-and-audio/Radio--October 19, 2013: Gardens Food and Santa Fe: Lynn Walters and Alena Paisano talking about Food Day Event on October 24, 2013 http://gardensfoodsantafe.libsyn.com/gardens-food-and-santa-fe-with-bob-ross-october-19-2013--October 21, 2013: Santa Fe Radio Caf: Janet Poppendieck Professor Emerita of Sociology at Hunter College, City University of New York, and author of several books, including Free For All: Fixing School Food in America and Lynn Walters Executive Director of Cooking with Kids http://www.santaferadiocafe.org/podcasts/?p=5053Print--February 15, 2014: Santa Fe New Mexican Health and Wellness Magazine featured Cooking with Kids (photos, recipes, article Adventures in Family Cooking)--March 12, 2014: Santa Fe New Mexican, Child Obesity Numbers Drop Statewide (front page article included photo of CWK class) http://cookingwithkids.net/2014/03/childhood-obesity-rates-decline-in-nm/--May 7, 2014: Santa Fe New Mexican editorial: Our View: Keep school meals healthy (positive mention of CWK)--Spring 2014: edible Santa Fe, Women and Food issue (issue 31), Cooking with Kids feature by Lynn Walters.Program EvaluationCWK Teacher Survey Results (61% response rate) --98 % teachers want to participate in CWK next year.--96% reported that CWK addresses CCSS in ways that fit their needs.--70% have participated in CWK for 3 years or more, with 36% for more than 7 years. 508935 true true false false false false false false false false true false false false false true true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 5 0 true 17 true false false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false false false false X 6 6 false false false false false false false true true false false true true true true true true true false false X Eun Hong CPA 5059922906 228 S St Francis Drive Bldg C-1 Santa Fe NM 87501 Susan Nelson Blakely Chairman 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Jodi L Vevoda Secretary/Treas 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Tony Gerlicz Board Member 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Cheryl Alters Jamison Board Member 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Jennifer Fresquez Vice Chair 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Gloria Zamora Board Member 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Lynn M Walters Executive Direc 40.00 0.00 X 69553 0 0 69553 0 false false false 0 481165 115692 11819 596857 Curriculum Sales 451211 9325 9325 Instruction/Workshops 611710 28976 28976 38301 419 419 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 635577 38301 419 0 0 0 0 77515 23255 38757 15503 0 293377 278691 5108 9578 5662 5379 113 170 6821 6480 137 204 32691 27134 3596 1961 0 0 38974 33252 3703 2019 0 0 0 0 7323 2722 4601 4707 4287 420 16766 15907 729 130 0 20512 17025 2256 1231 3471 3471 0 0 0 0 5148 4273 566 309 3657 3036 402 219 Printing and Publications 35539 35539 Food Costs 33882 33882 Program & Cooking Supplies 7633 7633 Telephone & Communications 4367 3625 480 262 5486 3344 1904 238 603531 508935 58171 36425 193446 248972 0 104151 77708 0 0 0 0 0 7417 6182 24155 15323 10194 8832 0 0 0 1267 9484 0 316475 351178 19791 22448 19791 22448 X 286645 308230 10039 20500 296684 328730 316475 351178 32046 X true X true X false false X 485955 500844 505758 532130 596857 2621544 0 0 485955 500844 505758 532130 596857 2621544 12532 2609012 250 583 15 590 419 1857 0 0 2623401 158330 0.99450 0.99930 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 19996 12744 7252 4159 2579 1580 8832 X 646168 10591 10591 635577 635577 614122 10591 10591 603531 603531 Part X : FIN48 Footnote In accordance with FASB Accounting Standards Update No. 2009-6 "Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes and Disclosure Amendments for Nonpublic Entities" there were no uncertain tax positions taken by Cooking With Kids, Inc., as of June 30, 2014 and 2013. Form 990, Part VI, Line 11b: Form 990 Review Process Officers and directors review a draft of the Form 990 prior to submission and filing. Any questions and concerns are discussed during the board of directors meeting. Form 990, Part VI, Line 12c: Explanation of Monitoring and Enforcement of Conflicts Cooking With Kids, Inc., board of directors reviews and monitors all policy requirements, including the conflict of interest policy, with the annual election of officers and is documented in the board minutes. Form 990, Part VI, Line 15a: Compensation Review & Approval Process - CEO, Top Management Executive director compensation is reviewed and approved by the Board of Directors as part of the annual budgeting process.Data acquired for salaries of comparable positions in the Santa Fe area for other similar nonprofit organizations was used to compare compensation.Contemporaneous documentation and records of the Board of Directors' deliberations and decisions regarding the compensation arrangement of the Executive Director are kept in minutes of board meetings where budgeting issues are discussed and approved. Form 990, Part VI, Line 19: Other Organization Documents Publicly Available All governing documents are available for review upon request at the organization's office.