2024-05-02T11:28:45-07:00 2023-06-30 990 2022-07-01 562044085 SMART START OF PENDER COUNTY SMAR 9102599978 PO Box 429 Burgaw NC 28425 Connie Carr Costin Executive Director 9102599978 2024-01-31 Connie Carr Costin 999009999 1 1 11 1 AAL2 X X 2022 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z Connie Carr-Costin PO Box 429 Burgaw NC 28425 492217 0 X www.pender4kids.com X 1998 NC The organizations primary exempt purpose and mission is to support services that provide opportunities for every child to grow into his or her potential as a person. 17 15 7 0 0 468673 486776 2376 3033 0 0 4446 2408 475495 492217 29333 24485 0 0 338386 349564 0 0 1634 155224 119838 522943 493887 -47448 -1670 14669 22849 9999 19849 4670 3000 The organizations primary exempt purpose and mission is to support services that provide opportunities for every child to grow into his or her potential as a person. 0 0 68840 775 0 CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL (3104):Child Care Resource and Referral (CCR&R) is an activity aligned with the North Carolina CCR&R System and will participate with, and report data to, the designated CCR&R region. Services that are provided using Smart Start dollars in this activity include:(1) Technical assistance: Technical assistance (in the form of coaching and modeling) provided to early childhood educators working in start-up, licensed and/or G.S. 110 child care facilities serving children birth to five years old. The Technical Assistance activity will be focused on improving on Participating Facilities Star Levels; Participating Facilities Star Rating Education and Program Standards points; POEMS, and ITERS/ECERS/FCCERS scores. Child care centers may receive incentives based on meeting their requirements as part of their TA. The incentive opportunities are described below: The Quality Improvement Grant: Requirements for 0-3 star facilities include program improvements involving materials, teacher-child interactions, classroom arrangement, and training needs. The improvements will focus on short-term goals in five categories: teacher training/professional development, classroom environments, curriculum implementation, sanitation/health/safety and pre-emergent literacy. The Quality Improvement grant will provide up to $2000 per child care home and $4000 per child care center. The Quality Maintenance Grant: Facilities will be eligible for funding up to a maximum: $750 for four star homes, and $1500 for five star homes; $1500 for four star centers and $2750 for five star centers. Requirements for 4 and 5 star facilities include program improvements to increase low scores and maintain high scores on the Environment Ratings Scales. Grant criteria is based on the following: facilities that serve children 0-5 in Pender County, Program Director must attend an SSPC Grant Information session, completion of grant application, verification of willingness to accept subsidized children, and currently holds a 4 or 5-star rated license. The Smart Start Literacy Grant: Child Care facilities participating in Quality Maintenance may be eligible for an increase in incentives and bonuses for meeting additional specific literacy goals, such as Read for the Record, Read Across America, participation of at least three item renewals in t Resource Library, at least three checkouts from the Pender County Library ELO program (Early Literacy Outreach) Program, and program year-end celebrations, as outlined in their plan. Quality Maintenance grants do not exceed $2,000 for homes and $5,000 for centers.(2) Training for child care providers: Training for DCDEE credit hours provided on child care related topics and coordination of CEU opportunities.(3) Consumer education: Information and/or education to families about quality child care. Smart Start funds may be used to cover expenses for child care-related trainings, meetings, and child care recognition events. 126712 0 0 EARLY CHILDHOOD LENDING LIBRARY (3115): The Pender County Early Childhood Lending Library (PCECLL) offers a variety of materials to support to community members, as well as caregivers and early childhood educators of children 0-5. The PCECLL provides access to child development resources and materials such as, books, manipulatives, reference materials, curriculum kits, etc. The PCECLL serves as a resource room with access to die cuts, laminating machines, etc. Use of materials from the PCECLL will be available to active members of the PCECLL. Annual membership fees vary depending on the level of membership and the fee scale is reviewed annually. Guidance on the appropriate use of the materials may be provided by Smart Start of Pender County Staff. The PCECLL is typically open Monday-Thursday, 8:00 AM. to 5:00 PM., Fridays, 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM, the first Saturday of each month from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., and other times, based on community needs. 117193 20833 0 COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND EDUCATION (5517): The Community Outreach, Education, and Systems Building activity will increase awareness and improve the early childhood experiences for young children and their families in Pender County. This activity will serve to establish, build, and strengthen stakeholder relationships, improve collaboration and coordination between community organizations serving children birth to five and their families, and integrate resilience strategies and best practices across the community. The work in this activity may include communication between TA and child care facilities; Early Learning Collaborative meetings; Resiliency Trainings and collaborative resilience efforts; the work of Pender County Resilience Task Force, and planning, hosting, or attending community events. The work will also involve identifying potential community collaborators through intensive outreach and partnering with educational, business, faith, civic, social, and health organizations. Publications and communications strategies will be implemented, including the quarterly newsletter; the e-newsletter; Ready for K; the annual report; SSPC social media platforms; management of the SSPC website, all relevant brochures, flyers, and posters, and the distribution of early education books and materials. 15660 291 0 REACH OUT AND READ (5523):This activity will collaborate with medical care practices to provide pre-literacy opportunities for children and their parents. The participating trained medical care providers will voluntarily incorporate Reach Out and Read (ROR), an evidence-based model, into young children's regular pediatric checkups or well-child visits. The medical care providers will implement ROR in their practices according to the National ROR guidelines. During each of the routine visits, children will receive a new, culturally- and developmentally-appropriate book to take home and read with their parents. The medical care providers will discuss the importance of reading, model reading a book aloud to the child, and encourage parent-child interactions as part of pre-literacy and language development. The program begins at the child's 6-month checkup and continues through age 5, with a special emphasis on children growing up in low-income communities. Medical practices will participate in the parent survey period and submit parent surveys to ROR Carolinas. This activity will provide a Project Coordinator to support the medical practice with book ordering, data collection, literacy rich waiting room development, and overall program coordination. The medical care practice will display a literacy-rich waiting room area that reinforces the doctor's "prescription to read". 15915 0 0 DOLLY PARTON IMAGINATION LIBRARY (5526): The Dolly Parton Imagination Library activity will promote emergent literacy skills through a partnership with the Dollywood Foundation. Through this activity, age appropriate books will be mailed to registered children birth to age five monthly. Children residing in Pender County are eligible to receive books regardless of family income. At registration families will be encouraged to complete a survey. Books that are returned as non deliverable can be distributed to young children at early literacy events and or at locations in the community that serve children birth to five. 100 0 0 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACCESSING HIGHER EDUCATION (3105): The Professional Development Grant: Early Educators working in child care facilities and attend the SSPC grant information session may apply for professional development awards related for credit courses. Early Educators must complete a grant application, enroll and complete an ECE course of study with a C or higher participate in SSPC outreach or advocacy, attend one SSPC training per grant cycle, implement one developmentally appropriate literacy activity per semester, and must be a member of the SSPC Resource Library in good standing. Funds will be paid to the early educator after course transcripts and all other required documentation is submitted to SSPC. Individual professional development awards will not exceed $600.00 per semester. 26368 0 0 PROGRAM COORDINATION AND EVALUATION (5603):Program Evaluation/Coordination (PE/C) may employ up to one full-time Program Evaluation/Coordination staff person to provide Evaluation/Coordination. Up to two additional staff persons may cost allocate time to this activity. The program will offer technical assistance (TA) to all Service Providers. Individualized meetings and/or training sessions and TA may be held with all service providers to orient them to Program Evaluation/Coordination and to provide an opportunity to assist with the development of outcome strategies. TA will be provided on-site or telephonically to ensure the quality of service provision, to encourage program development, and to assist in the delivery of services. PE/C will offer on-going TA and conduct an on-going evaluation with all service providers to include reviewing and measuring activity outputs and outcomes and reporting efficiency and effectiveness of each program on a quarterly basis. PE/C will monitor each activity to assess compliance with the funded activity description at a frequency consistent with the Monitoring Policies and Procedures and PE/C will provide bi-annual reports to the partnership board as well as the Finance/Grant Review Committee. Program Evaluation/Coordination may host an annual community planning event to assess community needs, and may serve refreshments at sanctioned events. 18026 2585 0 RAISING A READER (5512): A Raising A Reader (RAR) Community Coordinator will implement Raising A Reader, a program that promotes improved literacy development through daily book sharing between caregivers and young children. The RAR Coordinator will hold a Bachelor's degree in early childhood education or related human service field and is required to attend the RAR National Coordinator Training prior to initial implementation. Coordinators will host two trainings for the site implementers that have been identified to participate in this project. Identified families will be loaned a book bag containing high quality developmentally appropriate children's books. The books will be exchanged each week. Parents of the children in the project will be invited to participate in at least two parent workshops where they will learn book sharing strategies. At least one library event will be provided for RAR participants and their families. Participants and their families will be provided with library information, library card application, and other community literacy resources. The program will be implemented with model fidelity as described above. Child care centers, child care homes, or other community sites with a high percentage of low income children will be targeted. Smart Start funds may also be used for books for children, child care for participants, and/or incentives for eligible participants. 76069 2876 0 388814 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 0 1 4 0 1 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 17 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 X Connie Carr-Costin 9102599978 PO Box 429 Burgaw NC 28425 Connie CarrCostin Executive Director 40 0 X 76552 0 16640 Edith Meza Board Member 0.16 0 X 0 0 0 Rev Dean Walker Board member 0 0 X 0 0 0 William Marshburn Board Member 0.12 0 X 0 0 0 Stacie Poulin Board Member 0.12 0 X 0 0 0 Kimberli Trotman Board Member 0.02 0 X 0 0 0 Avery Ellington Board Member 0.01 0 X 0 0 0 Tandra Henderson Shepard Board Member 0.02 0 X 0 0 0 Sandra Sarmiento Board Member 0.13 0 X 0 0 0 James T Robbins Former Chairman 0.19 0 X 0 0 0 Eugene Jordan Board Member 0.08 0 X 0 0 0 Angela Beacham Board Member 0.12 0 X 0 0 0 Sandra Morrison Board Member 0.02 0 X 0 0 0 Jerry Groves Board Member 0.02 0 X 0 0 0 Sharon Willoughby Treasurer 0.13 0 X 0 0 0 Leslie Green Board Chair 0.18 0 X 0 0 0 Donald Hall Vice President 0.14 0 X 0 0 0 Allen Phillips-Bell Secretary 0.15 0 X 0 0 0 76552 0 16640 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 522 0 480810 5444 0 486776 3033 3033 0 0 3033 0 0 0 0 522 2408 2408 0 0 2408 492217 5441 0 0 0 0 24485 24485 0 0 0 0 75290 18314 55801 1175 0 0 0 0 193485 193485 0 0 7860 6151 1674 35 52514 41291 10996 227 20415 15729 4589 97 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9669 632 9037 0 135 0 135 0 30183 26416 3667 100 8977 8071 906 0 0 0 0 0 55595 49535 6060 0 4824 2405 2419 0 0 0 0 0 2943 1749 1194 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3581 0 3581 0 Furniture/Equipment under $500 576 504 72 0 Books (Library Reference Materials) 72 47 25 0 Sales Tax Expense 2323 0 2323 0 Sales Tax Pender County 960 0 960 0 493887 388814 103439 1634 14669 22849 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14669 22849 9999 19849 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9999 19849 X 3342 1751 1328 1249 4670 3000 14669 22849 -1670 0 0 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 X 453923 518826 447621 476050 483809 2380229 453923 518826 447621 476050 483809 2380229 2380229 6272 1505 2126 4446 2407 16756 2396985 0.99301 0.99208 X Schedule A, Part II, Line 10 Sales and use tax refund: NC Dept. of Revenue RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 1 Cash & Noncash Grants to Individuals 920 540 23945 cost Child Care Resource and Referral - Grant Community Outreach & Education Raising a Reader Reach out and Read NC Preschool Development Grant Schedule I, Part I, Line 2 Grant monitoring is performed in accordance with monitoring policies approved by the Board and written procedures. All monitoring work will be documented and available for inspection during audits and monitoring visits. Documentation of grant monitoring will be maintained in the related files. We require our child care providers to sign an agreement that outlines allowable and unallowable expenses for larger grants and to report how the funds were used for small grants. We require child care providers to sign that they received information relating to allowable and unallowable expenses. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b A copy of the Form 990 is forwarded by email to board members before the form is filed. Board members are asked to review the document and to contact the agency with any comments or concerns. In addition, board members are asked if they have any questions about the form at a subsequent board meeting. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c Board members sign a conflict of interest statement. Conflicts of interest are recognized as votes are taken during meetings. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 18 Documents available upon request. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 Documents available upon request. Form 8868 filed and accepted.