2024-11-07T06:01:31-08:00 2023-12-31 680095377 Perotti & Carrade CPAs 1 McInnis Pkwy Ste 200 San Rafael CA 94903 990 2023-01-01 943059243 CHILDREN NOW CHIL 5107632444 1404 FRANKLIN STREET 700 OAKLAND CA 94612 EDWARD LEMPERT President 2024-11-07 true true KATHRYN HARRIS P01460430 4154618500 2023 2024-10-15 13:58:12Z EDWARD LEMPERT 1404 FRANKLIN STREET 700 OAKLAND CA 94612 5339194 false X https://www.childrennow.org/ X 1988 CA Children Now is a nonpartisan whole-child research, policy development, communications, and advocacy organization working on all key kids issues, and is dedicated to promoting childrens health, education, and overall well-being in California. Children Now also leads The Childrens Movement of California the member-based Pro-Kid constituency, that represents a diverse network of more than 5,500 business, youth, parent, civil rights, and faith- and community-based organizations, and others, as well as thousands of individuals throughout the state, that seek to learn more about how children are faring in California. Members receive information and research about childrens policy issues so that they can better support kids well-being. 10 9 53 17 0 8913712 4534242 203098 388224 27187 369498 1750 47230 9145747 5339194 0 0 5980572 6430443 0 431245 1374606 1419751 7355178 7850194 1790569 -2511000 16640807 13599138 2420868 1890199 14219939 11708939 X Children Now harnesses our collective power to advance equitable solutions for California's kids. Children Now breaks down systemic barriers so that all children have the services and supports they need to reach their full potential. By employing a game-changing, whole-child, antiracist, connector model, we are transforming childrens advocacy, bringing together millions of diverse voices, and creating power for California kids. false false 2747173 173713 Education: Children Nows education program aims to ensure every child has access to high-quality early learning opportunities, a rigorous TK-12 education, including high-quality STEM, after-school and summer programs, and access to affordable higher education. Through research and analysis, policy development, education and outreach, communications, convenings, and advocacy, we have worked to dismantle inequitable and racially discriminatory systems and achieved the following: led advocacy efforts to secure major new supports for child care, resulting in more than $1.4 billion to support child care providers and a new equitable family fee system to make child care more affordable; helped end inequitable school suspensions, addressing equity concerns associated with the disproportionate rate of suspensions among students of color; continued serving as the backbone organization for the Bay Area STEM Ecosystem and the California STEM Network, where we continued pushing for increased access to high quality STEM education, particularly for underrepresented groups; secured long sought changes to the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), ensuring that the state budget include requirements that school districts explicitly state how their extra LCFF funding will be used to close achievement gaps, identifying actions that will improve outcomes for students and schools with low performance, and establishing goals for the targeted funding schools will receive to address the needs of Black students and track the progress of long-term English learners; championed additional funding to provide $300 million in ongoing resources to support Black student success; successfully launched the Summit for Student Leaders project, aimed at supporting the development, engagement, and connection of well-informed youth leaders and youth-led organizations so that their voices have a stronger impact on policy change at the state and local level; sponsored and advocated for several initiatives to scale and sustain teacher diversity, recruitment, preparation and retention; worked for high quality early childhood and TK-12 bilingual teaching and learning and a policy framework that incorporates accountability and finance structures that elevate the critical need to focus on DLL and EL success; and advocated for funding increases for the UC, CSU and community college systems so that they can meet the student-centered priorities outlined in the UC and CSU Compacts and Roadmap" for California Community Colleges which we supported. 2640785 200511 Health: Children Nows health program focuses on ensuring that children pre-natal to age 26 have meaningful and equitable access to high-quality, culturally responsive, affordable health care, including physical, behavioral, and oral health care services, and other key services like home visiting and developmental screenings that are vital for Californias youngest children. Through our research, analysis, policy development, education, outreach, and advocacy efforts, we have achieved the following: led efforts to prioritize children's mental health in the state budget, allowing children and youth to access mental health services without needing a diagnosis, and requiring counties to prioritize infants and toddlers when assessing need; educated policymakers on the needs of students who are struggling with addiction and appropriate school-system responses to support California's children and youth; uplifted the need for a more reasonable process for parents/caregivers to get services for their kids, by proposing automatic-review of children's mental health denials by health plans; continued advocating and building on the learnings of the Asthma Mitigation Project to ensure new health plan benefits provide asthma remediation services to Medi-Cal members; led policy development efforts to allow non-licensed professionals, such as community health workers, to provide and reimbursed for asthma preventive services and in-home visits in Medi-Cal; continued to push the Department of Health Care Services to use their accountability levers to hold plans accountable for delivering and coordinating basic care for kids and for meaningful quality improvement; led advocacy to continuously cover eligible children in Medi-Cal during their first five years; led efforts to develop accountable care coordination policies, including Enhanced Care Management and Closed Loop Referral policy; continued to work to transform Medi-Cal access for Kids by leading the Medi-Cal Excellence in Early Childhood Outcomes Collaborative Learning Community and supporting family-centered quality improvement efforts; launched the Hearing Aid Coverage for Children Program and worked to close the insurance market gap for 20,000 deaf and hard of hearing children; launched the California Alliance for Children's Environmental Health to raise awareness of environmental health issues and inequities impacting children and identifying and building momentum behind focused policy priorities to improve environmental conditions for children, while elevating youth voice in developing an environmental health policy agenda; developed and co-led a family advocate workgroup to support caregivers and advocates that are part of state groups such as the Medi-Cal Children's Health Advisory Panel and the California Children's Services Advisory Group; provided technical assistance to local health departments in six counties: Fresno, Los Angeles, Merced, San Joaquin, Stanislaus and Tulare; and worked to expand the Medical Dental Referral and Navigation System to San Joaquin County, to support care coordinators in facilitating and tracking dental referrals for children who had not been to a dentist in the past 12 months. 1040058 9000 Child Welfare: Children Nows child welfare program works to address the comprehensive health, education, and social service needs of children in the child welfare system. Through our research, policy development, education, and communications efforts, we have achieved the following: continued advocating to ensure that families have the basic income needed to house, care for, and feed their children; successfully elevated effective strategies to increase transparency and accountability around the supports local educational agencies provide to students in foster care to improve their academic outcomes; worked with the California Department of Social Services and the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services to implement several recommendations from focus groups to identify opportunities to improve Family Urgent Response System and collaborating with members of the California Youth Connection to revise outreach and education materials to better share information with youth about FURS; co-sponsored legislation to establish a statewide Child Welfare Disaster Respond Fund to ensure grants and resources are immediately available following a disaster; supported efforts to provide young people, currently or formerly in foster care, access to the supports they need to successfully transition into adulthood; participated in various initiatives and workgroups to ensure that health care needs of youth, currently or formerly in foster care, are consistently considered as part of the numerous state health care reform efforts underway; and collaborated with a range of stakeholders on reforming the Home-Based Family Care Rate structure to ensure that the appropriate resources are provided to families to stabilize children and youth in their homes. 311609 5000 6739625 true true false true false false false false false false true false false true true true true false false false false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false true false false false true 15 0 false 53 true false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false X 10 9 false false false false false false false true true false false true true true true true true true false false CA X Elizabeth Birmingham 5107632444 1404 FRANKLIN ST SUITE 700 OAKLAND CA 94612 EDWARD LEMPERT President 40.00 0.00 X 602802 0 41650 VINCENT STEWART VP, Policy & Prog 40.00 0.00 260981 0 42507 SUSANNA KNIFFEN SR MANAGING DIR 40.00 0.00 208034 0 50937 EILEEN ESPEJO SR MANAGING DIR 40.00 0.00 213661 0 35924 ALEX MATIAS VP, OPS. & ENG. 40.00 0.00 220849 0 17819 STACY LEE SR MANAGING DIR 40.00 0.00 208099 0 20700 JASON SALZETTI BOARD CHAIR 1.25 0.00 X X 0 0 0 BRANDON MARTINEZ-LARRAGOITI FINANCE COMM. 0.75 0.00 X 0 0 0 JANE GARDNER CHAIR EMERITUS 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 JOHN GARCIA Vice Chair 0.75 0.00 X 0 0 0 MARK T JOHNSEN Treasurer 1.25 0.00 X X 0 0 0 NANCY MURRAY Affil Rel Comm. 0.25 0.00 X 0 0 0 GAY KRAUSE Secretary 0.75 0.00 X X 0 0 0 ANTOINETTE MAYER NOM. 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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 false false false false false false false false false ALEX MATIAS VP, OPS. & ENG. 196549 24300 17819 238668 EDWARD LEMPERT President 394367 208435 16100 25550 644452 156073 EILEEN ESPEJO SR MANAGING DIR 166561 47100 10100 25824 249585 35000 STACY LEE SR MANAGING DIR 185399 22700 20700 228799 SUSANNA KNIFFEN SR MANAGING DIR 182734 25300 22300 28637 258971 VINCENT STEWART VP, Policy & Prog 233381 27600 25600 16907 303488 Form 990, Part III, Line 4d OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: Research and Data Collection: Children Nows research program produces comprehensive reports, fact-sheets, info-graphics, and data-driven policy briefs on topics related to our program areas. We produce two marquee publications: 1) the California Childrens Report Card, which is the states most comprehensive report on childrens health, education, and well-being, and provides up-to-date data on the status of Californias children, highlights outcomes disparities resulting from decades of institutional racism, addresses recent policy developments, and delivers research and data-driven recommendations for improving childrens well-being, and 2) the California County Scorecard of Childrens Well-Being, which provides policymakers and a diverse range of community leaders and other stakeholders a unique and consumable analysis with county and state level data over time, by race and ethnicity, and relative to other counties. This interactive on-line advocacy and data tool provides a user-friendly interface so viewers can understand counties unique strengths and vulnerabilities in meeting childrens needs, as well as serious inequities in child well-being. The organization also released several research briefs and data profiles, including: a brief highlighting one-time State Investments for School Mental Health, following the COVID-19 pandemic and the closure of schools; a brief, Supporting Successful Transitions into Adulthood for Youth in Foster Care: Reforming Californias Independent Living Program, that shares background on transition aged youth and current service restrictions, as well as policy and program recommendations to better support these youth; a paper highlighting the findings from focus groups and interviews Children Now conducted with youth, caregivers and other stakeholders in Los Angeles County to better understand their knowledge and opinion of FURS; a data report, extending and updating a previous 2019 info-graphic, showing how kids are faring across Contra Costa County; a brief, Supporting LGBTQ+ Students in California, sharing LGBTQ+ perspectives of their school environments and highlighting where reform is needed; a brief, Californias Youth: A Look at Tobacco, Drug and Alcohol Use, that shared data about California teens and drug use, and key policy recommendations focused on prevention, harm reduction and treatment; a brief, A Statewide Approach to Strengthen Home Visiting in California, that highlights the diverse spectrum of home visiting entities in California, key challenges theyre facing and provides a framework that will support the effective outreach and engagement of families; and a brief, Closing the Loop: Recommendations for Medi-Cal Referral Systems to support Child and Families, which promotes recommendations for the Closed Loop Referral systems that center children and families without placing the burden on parents/caregivers and providers.Our marquee publications and numerous data reports and briefs are widely distributed to the public, including all state and local policymakers, the media, service providers, coalition partners, and civic organizations. These research publications, as well as the outreach efforts, briefings, and widespread media coverage generated by their release, help motivate key stakeholders and policymakers to make childrens issues a top priority, both locally and at the state level. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b 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 15a In an executive session at the Boards annual meeting, the Board reviews compensation of the President. The deliberations are contemporaneously documented by the chair of the board. In setting single or multiple-year compensation packages, the Board reviews comparable salary data. The last review was conducted in 2022. 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