2014-11-17T20:16:28-06:00 2013-12-31 263939360 BOMAN ACCOUNTING GROUP INC 30 UNION AVENUE SUITE 210 CAMPBELL CA 95008 990 2013-01-01 943059243 Children Now CHIL 5107632444 1404 Franklin St Ste 700 Oakland CA 94612 Edward Lempert President 5107632444 2014-11-17 1 LYNDA R BOMAN CPA P00135429 4088662004 2014-11-17 2013 2015-11-30 17:44:51Z Edward Lempert 1404 Franklin St Ste 700 Oakland CA 94612 5926618 0 X www.childrennow.org X 1988 CA Children Now is the leading, nonpartisan, umbrella research, policy development and advocacy organization dedicted to promoting children's health, education and safety in California and creating national media policies that support child development. 19 18 32 31 0 0 3799561 5839622 63251 54502 15594 21885 8587 4639 3886993 5920648 0 0 0 0 2935821 3322251 0 0 311716 775498 1237612 3711319 4559863 175674 1360785 6867453 8056734 850053 678549 6017400 7378185 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 904240 10166 HealthChildren Now's health programs focus on ensuring that children have affordable health coverage and meaningful access to quality care, including access to home visiting and other key services that are important for California's children. We have helped to ensure that California children have uninterrupted access to health coverage and care, and have supported efforts to monitor timely access, network adequacy and continuity of care for children during and after they were transitioned from enrollment in the Healthy Families program to Medi-Cal; we continued to increase awareness about health homes through our diverse Health Homes Network; we led education efforts around increasing the rate and awareness of child developmental and behavioral screenings for California's infants and toddlers; we analyzed the impact of early mental health intervention strategies in schools; we worked to ensure access to oral health services, including working to implement a medical-dental collaboration pilot project in Los Angeles County to increase the dental utilization rate of children under the age of 6 who are enrolled in Medi-Cal; we co-led the "Healthy Beginnings" workgroup of the Let's Get Healthy California taskforce to help shape the state's goals for improving children's health over the next decade; we engaged a range of diverse stakeholders in the effort to support and expand school based health services in California through leveraging existing relationships across the health and education policy fields; and we continue to address childhood obesity through reducing unhealthy food advertising targeted to children and chaired the Children's Media Policy Coalition's efforts to this end. 2090531 16667 EducationChildren Now's education program aims to ensure every child has access to high-quality early learning opportunities, a rigorous K-12 education, and quality afterschool and summer programs. Through research and analysis, policy development, education and outreach campaigns, and advocacy, we have achieved the following: we conducted the policy development, network building, and education and communications efforts supporting California's new school finance reform, which helps ensure equitable access to a quality education for all kids, regardless of their race and economic status; we co-led policy development and advocacy efforts to strengthen investments in early learning and childcare for California's youngest children; we began a public education and stakeholder engagement effort around supporting California's implementation of the Common Core State Standards; we continued to lead implementation efforts for the state's education data system to improve educational quality and decision making; we played a primary policy development and information sharing role for a statewide readiness tool to be used in all transitional kindergarten and kindergarten classrooms in California; we continued co-leading efforts to improve school climate and reduce disproportionate rates of suspension and expulsion among at-risk populations; we galvanized an array of partners to help lead a policy dialogue across the state regarding adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards; we promoted the effective integration of career pathways with afterschool and summer opportunities in order to help maximize student instructional time and engagement, as well as provide opportunities to expand effective student supports and work-based learning approaches. We also disseminated research, wrote policy briefs and hosted conferences to draw attention to a range of critical topics in education. 561780 25000 Research and data collectionChildren Now produces comprehensive reports, fact sheets and policy briefs on topics related to each of our program areas. 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 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 other data briefs are widely distributed to state and local policy makers, the media, service providers, civic organizations and concerned California residents. Outreach efforts and briefings around these publications as well as the widespread media coverage generated by their release motivate policymakers and key stakeholders to make children's concerns a priority. 296767 2669 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 coordinating advocates, sharing information with stakeholders and policymakers and producing position papers, we have been successful in the following: we helped increase state investments in child welfare services; we worked to ensure former foster youth remained covered through an early expansion of Medi-Cal for former foster youth, up until age 26, and conducted a major outreach campaign to inform foster youth of this coverage and help them access it; we supported academic achievement of youth in the foster care system through advocating for crucial data sharing to ensure school districts can identify students in foster care and better track and report their educational outcomes; we worked for the inclusion of foster youth as a subgroup in the Academic Performance Index, incentivizing districts to better serve students in foster care; we also secured the requirement that school districts develop plans specifying how they will improve the educational outcomes of foster youth; we helped preserve the Foster Youth Services (FYS) program and helped ensure continued coordination of educational services for foster youth. We also hosted convenings and webinars to bring attention to important child welfare topics, including a statewide webinar on maximizing health care coverage for former foster youth. 296767 2669 3853318 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 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 13 0 1 32 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 1.50 X 0 0 0 Jane Gardner Chair Emeritus 2.00 X 0 0 0 Nancy Murray Secretary 1.00 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 Jim Cunneen Audit Committee Chair 0.80 X 0 0 0 Donna Friedman Meir Nominating Cmte Chair 0.30 X 0 0 0 Laura Casas Audit Committee 0.30 X 0 0 0 Hon Cruz Reynoso Audit Committee 0.30 X 0 0 0 Neal Bear MD Development Committee 0.30 X 0 0 0 Susanne Daniels Development Committee 0.30 X 0 0 0 Gloria Tristani Development Committee 0.10 X 0 0 0 Grace Won Development Committee 0.30 X 0 0 0 David G Johnson Finance Committee 0.30 X 0 0 0 Gay Krause Finance Committee 0.80 X 0 0 0 Pete Bewley Finance Committee 0.80 X 0 0 0 Natasha Hoehn Nominating Committee 0.30 X 0 0 0 Jason Salzetti Member 0.50 X 0 0 0 Edward Lempert President 40.00 X X 353220 0 78180 Brian Kennedy VP Marketing & Partnership 40.00 X 169860 0 38395 Kristen Schutjer-Mance VP Operations and Research 40.00 X 183244 0 59615 Kathleen M Skrainar Director, Finance 40.00 X 108965 0 35379 Brad Strong Senior Director, Education 40.00 X 134782 0 50177 Samantha Tran Director, Education 40.00 X 128846 0 23555 Debra Brown Associate Director, Education 40.00 X 106582 0 33352 Jessica Mindnich Director, Research 40.00 X 104000 0 21539 1289499 0 340192 9 0 1 0 Robert Manwaring 1506 Austin Lane Bellingham WA 98229 Education Policy Consultant 160661 1 121095 5718527 15000 5839622 Fee for service 900099 54502 54502 54502 22176 22176 5679 5970 -291 -291 -291 Unemployment reserve 900099 4188 4188 Miscellaneous receipts 900099 451 451 4639 5920648 58850 0 22176 X 706324 576149 82997 47178 1927002 1549975 228934 148093 495986 408349 50297 37340 192939 158999 19011 14929 17191 17191 12000 12000 757041 684437 72604 130916 61207 50682 19027 20454 1451 19003 178583 178583 58280 55932 2152 196 18048 9795 8107 146 11756 11756 20657 20657 Bank and payroll fees 7898 7898 Miscellaneous 4788 1146 3545 97 Shared allocation 0 345878 -390588 44710 4559863 3853318 394829 311716 5154029 6359550 1530045 1465918 80926 85283 125727 85396 35133 40331 67320 105652 6867453 8056734 292343 407159 346274 0 15169 0 196267 271390 850053 678549 X 2308079 2608008 3709321 4770177 6017400 7378185 6867453 8056734 1360785 0 X 0 1 X 1 0 X 3819288 2170128 6674413 3799561 5839622 22303012 3819288 2170128 6674413 3799561 5839622 22303012 10195104 12107908 41490 13146 19114 15594 22175 111519 9923 4575 666 8587 452 24203 22438734 302629 0.53960 0.48040 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 9740 39380 49120 4272945 4322065 366103 91526 0 0 307773 365168 326486 366103 1365530 2048295 54816 54511 70048 49120 228495 76943 91292 81622 91526 341383 512075 1089 851 11921 9740 23601 125727 85396 40331 40331 Deferred rent 248 Deferred compensation 271142 271390 X 5943433 22785 22785 5920648 0 5920648 4582648 22785 22785 4559863 0 4559863 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. X X X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Edward Lempert President 316980 0 36240 0 0 0 57000 0 21180 0 431400 0 0 0 Brian Kennedy VP Marketing & Partnership 154860 0 15000 0 0 0 9937 0 28458 0 208255 0 0 0 Kristen Schutjer-Mance VP Operations and Research 162657 0 20587 0 0 0 31157 0 28458 0 242859 0 0 0 Brad Strong Senior Director, Education 120782 0 14000 0 0 0 21739 0 28438 0 184959 0 0 0 Samantha Tran Director, Education 113846 0 15000 0 0 0 6870 0 16685 0 152401 0 0 0 Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 1 The Executive Committee has the power and authority to act as the full Board except as to those matters reserved to the full Board under its bylaws. 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 initial 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 Vice Presidents. 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 2013. 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 634,437. Management and general expenses 72,604. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 707,041. Fellow: Program service expenses 50,000. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 50,000.