2013-11-14T16:46:17-06:00 2012-12-31 263939360 BOMAN ACCOUNTING GROUP INC 30 UNION AVENUE SUITE 210 CAMPBELL CA 95008 990 2012-01-01 943059243 Children Now CHIL 5107632444 1404 Franklin St Ste 700 Oakland CA 94612 Edward Lempert 5107632444 2013-11-14 1 LYNDA R BOMAN CPA P00135429 4088662004 2013-11-14 2012 2016-02-24 21:20:13Z Edward Lempert 1404 Franklin St Ste 700 Oakland CA 94612 3886993 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 and education in California and creating national media policies that support child development. 23 22 29 27 0 0 6674413 3799561 35544 63251 19114 15594 666 8587 6729737 3886993 1015190 0 0 0 2690705 2935821 0 0 251643 763018 775498 4468913 3711319 2260824 175674 6778589 6867453 947153 850053 5831436 6017400 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 956623 12267 HealthChildren Now's health programs focus on ensuring that children have affordable heath coverage and meaningful access to quality care, including access to key services like developmental screenings and home visitation that are important for California's youngest children. We also work to improve coverage and access for oral health services and to address childhood obesity through reducing unhealthy food advertising targeted to children. Through our health efforts, we have helped to ensure that more low-income families and children with pre-existing conditions obtain health insurance coverage. We helped educate families on the benefits and eligibility requirements of California's programs for children's health coverage and drew attention to the need for careful oversight of coverage for children transitioning from Healthy Families to Medi-Cal. We have built a stakeholder network to share information about and support child-centered health homes as a means to improve access and health care delivery to children. We have advocated to improve oral health coverage, convening the Children's Oral Health Workgroup, a diverse group of providers, educators, researchers, business groups and others to develop a children's oral health agenda and to serve as a hub of information, and we successfully advocated for local stakeholder processes in Sacramento and Los Angeles to improve children's utilization of dental care. We also host convenings and webinars to bring attention to important children's health topics, including a statewide webinar on increasing health care coverage for California's youngest children. 1477970 5000 EducationChildren Now's education program aims to ensure every child has access to high-quality early learning and development opportunities, a rigorous K-12 education, and quality afterschool, summer and other expanded learning programs. Through research and analysis, policy development, education and outreach campaigns, coalition-building, and state-level advocacy, we have achieved the following: we played a central role in the development and implementation of California's educational data system--planning for its use, governance, linkages to other data systems, and inclusion of essential data elements such as attendance data--to improve education quality and guide decision making; we conducted the policy development and network building to lay the foundation for historic equitable educational funding reform; we co-led coalition efforts to improve school climate and address disproportionate rates of suspension and expulsion among at-risk populations; we helped to secure federal funding for and have vigorously promoted the development and implementation of a state kindergarten readiness assessment tool; we provided trainings and hosted convenings to integrate linked learning career pathways and expanded learning time opportunities; and we continued to lead efforts to improve afterschool and summer program quality. We also disseminate research, write briefs and host conferences to draw attention to critical topics in education. 422172 3500 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 childrens concerns a priority. 228629 42484 Cross Systems ServicesChildren Now's cross systems services program works to improve services that address children's physical, cognitive, emotional and social needs in concert, across multiple systems, in order to maximize service effectiveness and minimize the cost of service delivery. Through these efforts, we are working 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 securing increased funding for child welfare services, extending Medi-Cal coverage for eligible youth up to age 26, supporting academic achievement of youth in the foster care system, and strengthening oversight of child welfare services, particularly as services were realigned from state to county-level control. We have also highlighted models of service delivery such as school based health centers that encourage coordination and information sharing and that benefit children by locating services where children and families are most likely to access them. We have also leveraged the issue of chronic absence to bring health and education agencies together to address this cross-sector issue. By emphasizing the many and varied reasons why children miss school, we are highlighting opportunities for these agencies to work together to improve outcomes for children. 228629 42484 3085394 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 10 0 1 29 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 23 22 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 Jane Gardner 1.00 X 0 0 0 Grace Won 0.80 X 0 0 0 Pete Bewley 1.00 X 0 0 0 Jim Cunneen 0.80 X 0 0 0 Nancy Murray 0.80 X 0 0 0 John Garcia 0.80 X 0 0 0 Allan K Jonas 0.10 X 0 0 0 Laura del Carmen Casas 0.50 X 0 0 0 Hon Cruz Reynoso 0.50 X 0 0 0 Neal Bear MD 0.30 X 0 0 0 Lenny Mendonca 0.80 X 0 0 0 David G Johnson 0.50 X 0 0 0 Gay Krause 0.80 X 0 0 0 Craig Parsons 0.30 X 0 0 0 Kathleen Abernathy 0.10 X 0 0 0 Natasha Hoehn 0.30 X 0 0 0 Donna Friedman Meir 0.50 X 0 0 0 Theodore R Mitchell 0.10 X 0 0 0 Jennie Ward Robinson PhD 0.10 X 0 0 0 Gloria Tristani 0.30 X 0 0 0 Susanne Daniels 0.30 X 0 0 0 Mark T Johnsen 0.80 X 0 0 0 Edward Lempert 40.00 X X 333907 0 113923 Brian Kennedy 40.00 X 173125 0 49532 Kristen Schutjer-Mance 40.00 X 173480 0 51546 Kathleen M Skrainar 40.00 X 102860 0 27367 Brad Strong 40.00 X 134782 0 48760 Samantha Tran 40.00 X 118039 0 17949 1036193 0 309077 6 0 1 0 0 3799561 15000 3799561 Fee for service 900099 63251 63251 63251 15594 15594 Unemployment reserve 900099 4687 4687 Miscellaneous receipts 900099 3900 3900 8587 3886993 71838 0 15594 680514 531245 78577 70692 1683592 1381576 214648 87368 424711 356104 36227 32380 147004 123123 12468 11413 6628 6628 13500 13500 334236 275265 58971 102464 33091 50616 18757 19719 1446 18263 10 165974 27417 138538 19 50102 46917 2436 749 17948 11187 6637 124 13535 13535 20488 20488 Miscellaneous 22667 719 21205 743 Bank and payroll fees 8237 8237 Shared allocation 0 297304 -326692 29388 3711319 3085394 374282 251643 4336084 5154029 2282337 1530045 59949 80926 108773 73640 32330 35133 67889 67320 6778589 6867453 271290 292343 554524 346274 13125 15169 108214 196267 947153 850053 X 2155343 2308079 3676093 3709321 5831436 6017400 6778589 6867453 175674 10290 0 X 0 1 X 1 0 X 2723366 3819288 2170128 6674413 3799561 19186756 2723366 3819288 2170128 6674413 3799561 19186756 9883312 9303444 77563 41490 13146 19114 15594 166907 -12734 9923 4575 666 8587 11017 19364680 296460 0.48040 0.30700 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 11921 58127 70048 3459676 3529724 326486 81622 0 0 342130 307773 365168 326486 1341557 2012336 53767 54816 54511 70048 233142 85533 76943 91292 81622 335390 503085 3320 1089 851 11921 17181 108773 73640 35133 35133 Deferred rent 1412 Deferred compensation 194855 196267 X 3935370 10290 38087 48377 3886993 0 3886993 3749406 38087 38087 3711319 0 3711319 Description of Uncertain Tax Positions Under FIN 48: 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 299107 0 34800 0 0 0 55020 0 58903 0 447830 0 0 0 Brian Kennedy 156645 0 16480 0 0 0 10161 0 39371 0 222657 0 0 0 Kristen Schutjer-Mance 157000 0 16480 0 0 0 10161 0 41385 0 225026 0 0 0 Brad Strong 118782 0 16000 0 0 0 7908 0 40852 0 183542 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) Jane Gardner, Chair 2) Peter Bewley, Vice Chair and Treasurer 3) Grace Won, Secretary 4) 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 2012. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 19 Governing documents, conflict of interest policy and financial statements are available to the public upon request.