2014-01-15T09:11:46-08:00 2013-06-30 Boyle Deveny & Meyer PC 305 South 4th East Suite 200 Missoula MT 59801 990 2012-07-01 810505084 MISSOULA WRITING COLLABORATIVE MISS 4065493348 PO BOX 9237 MISSOULA MT 59808 BECKY HOLDORF 2014-01-15 true KAREN NEEL CPA P00338064 4067213555 2012 2015-11-30 17:44:51Z M mEAGAN McNamer po Box 9237 Missoula MT 59807 203235 false false X WWW.MISSOULAWRITINGCOLLABORATIVE.ORG X 1995 MT TEACHING LITERARY COMPETENCE, CRITICAL THINKING AND CULTURAL AWARENESS THROUGH CREATIVE WRITING. 9 9 19 100 0 132386 141062 37632 57326 0 2971 -4413 172989 193975 0 0 149451 125676 0 2384 32744 69718 182195 195394 -9206 -1419 43083 42013 3929 4278 39154 37735 TEACHING LITERARY COMPETENCE, CRITICAL THINKING AND CULTURAL AWARENESS THROUGH CREATIVE WRITING. false false 173327 ACCOMPLISHMENTS DURING FISCAL YEAR ENDED 6.30.13:The Missoula Writing Collaborative has served over 30,000 children since 1994, encouraging them to find their authentic voices as creative writers. MWC teachers are professional writers -- people who have made writing their life's work. They have written and published many books, poems, stories, essays and articles, receiving prestigious awards and prizes for their work. MWC Artistic Director Sheryl Noethe was honored with a Missoula Cultural Council Achievement Award in 2004 for her teaching in area classrooms, and in 2011 she was named Montana's Poet Laureate. The MWC currently serves children and youth ages 8-18 in twenty-one schools in Montana, thirteen of them in Missoula. During the 2013-14 school year we will teach 996 hours in area classrooms, working during school hours in collaboration with classroom teachers. Additional programs include a six-week writing workshop at Missoula Youth Homes, after-school writing workshops through the Flagship Program, and free Saturday workshops during the months of September, January, and April. We have a residency at Arlee Schools, in Arlee, Montana, on the Flathead Reservation of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, and we bring visiting Native American writers and artists to our classrooms there and in Missoula. Our summer camp, Words With Wings, held annually for two weeks on the University of Montana campus, serves approximately 85 children ages 8-14, with excursions to wilderness areas, art museums, and river habitat. The Missoula Writing Collaborative Writing Lives program emphasizes the intersections between rural and urban environments and teaches young writers to reflect on their place in both the human and the natural world. This teaching occurs throughout our classes, both in and out of school. We have mentored emerging writers-in-the-schools programs in Alaska, Hawaii, and Nicaragua. Students in several of our Missoula, Montana elementary school residencies currently learn to translate their poems into Spanish and are able to share them with Nicaraguan students via Skype video exchanges. We are active in WITSA, a national writers-in-the-schools alliance, keeping abreast of the latest thinking about literacy and creativity for children. 173327 true true false false false false false false false false true false false false 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 false false true 5 0 true 19 true false false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false false false false X 9 9 false false false false false false false true false false false true false false false false false true false false X MEGAN MCNAMER 4065493348 223 WEST RAILROAD ST BLDG 10 MISSOULA MT 59802 JOE NICKELL 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 KATHLEEN MAGONE 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 PETER STARK 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 KIM DAVITT 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 LOIS WELCH 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 BECKY HOLDORF 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 KIM ANDERSON 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 PATSY O'KEEFE 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 MARY WINDECKER 5.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 M mEAGAN McNamer 30.00 0.00 X 36000 0 0 36000 0 false false false 0 141062 1320 141062 SUMMER WRITING CAMPS 17480 17480 SCHOOL PROGRAMS 39846 39846 57326 0 0 0 0 0 3902 9260 -5358 -5358 0 0 MISC REVENUE & REIMB. 945 945 945 193975 58271 -5358 0 0 0 0 36000 32400 3600 0 80345 72311 8034 0 0 9331 7933 1398 0 0 0 0 0 0 12832 10266 2566 2225 2225 3165 2690 475 0 0 3862 3476 193 193 5898 5308 295 295 0 0 0 0 263 224 39 2506 2130 376 OTHER FUNDRAISING EXPESENS 1776 1776 Printing and Publications 4825 3619 1206 REFLECTIONS WEST 6500 6500 SUMMER CAMPS 15984 15984 9882 8261 1501 120 195394 173327 19683 2384 42287 39820 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2556 778 721 1778 0 0 0 0 75 415 43083 42013 3929 4278 3929 4278 X 39154 37735 39154 37735 43083 42013 -1419 X false false false X 119206 119771 146834 132386 141025 659222 0 0 119206 119771 146834 132386 141025 659222 419744 239478 183 1332 545 2060 0 0 661282 0.36210 0.42640 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 1236 515 721 1320 263 1057 1778 PAYROLL LIABILITIES 3714 CREDIT CARD PAYABLE 564 4278 Part VI Section B Policies Line 12a the organization does not have a formal conflict of interest policy but their strategic plan states: "Trustees should recuse themselves from any board vote that represents a conflict of interest and this shall be noted in the minutes" Form 990, Part VI, Line 19 Form 990, Part VI, Line 19: Other Organization Documents Publicly Available AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST Form 990, Part VI, Line 15a Form 990, Part VI, Line 15a: Compensation Review & Approval Process - CEO, Top Management EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SALARY IS REVIEWED AND APPROVED ON BY BOARD OF DIRECTORS Form 990, Part VI, Line 11b Form 990, Part VI, Line 11b: Form 990 Review Process A COPY OF THE FORM 990 IS MADE AVAILABLE TO BOARD MEMBERS