2026-04-21T18:03:52-07:00 2025-06-30 990 2024-07-01 562044085 SMART START OF PENDER COUNTY SMAR 9102599978 PO Box 429 Burgaw NC 28425 Connie Carr Costin Executive Director 9102599978 2026-01-05 1 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Connie Carr Costin PO Box 429 Burgaw NC 28425 498216 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. 18 17 7 0 0 466906 489233 2556 2343 0 0 3285 6640 472747 498216 30284 33357 0 0 276764 289410 0 0 3170 151789 191789 458837 514556 13910 -16340 16910 32071 0 31501 16910 570 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. The Local Partnership will provide Smart Start services as approved by The North Carolina Partnership for Children, Inc. The approved services to be purchased or provided under this contract are limited to those indicated and described below. 0 0 32874 1088 0 CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL (3125):Child Care Resource and Referral (CCR&R) is an activity designed to promote continuous quality improvement of child care centers and/or homes. 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. (2) Training for child care providers: Training for DCDEE credit hours provided on child care related topics and coordination of CEU opportunities. Child care centers may receive incentives or noncash grants based on meeting their requirements as part of their TA and outlined in the Annual Program Guidelines. 119741 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. 125423 27068 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, coordinate and support activities and interventions that will build a strong, coordinated Early Childhood System across Pender County and will work to strengthen stakeholder relationships, improve collaboration and coordination between community organizations serving children birth to five and their families, share information about early education resources and tools and integrate resilience strategies and best practices across the community. The work in this activity may include communication between agency staff and; early educators, child care agencies, early learning advocates, local, state and national resilience advocates and resources; as well as 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 print and electronic newsletters; available early learning resources and text messaging services annual programmatic and data reports; SSPC social media platforms; management of the SSPC website, all relevant brochures, flyers, and posters. Smart Start funding may be used for non-cash grants in the form of books and materials for parents and children to encourage literacy and early education efforts. 25563 0 0 DOLLY PARTON IMAGINATION LIBRARY (5526): The Dolly Parton's Imagination Library activity will promote emergent literacy skills through a partnership with Dollywood Foundation. Through this activity, age-appropriate books will be mailed to registered children birth up to age five (0-5) monthly. Families will be recruited in target zip codes. Children are eligible to receive books regardless of family income. The books will be ordered using the Dollywood Foundation Book Ordering System (BOS) database. Families will be encouraged to participate in surveys designed to evaluate the program's impact on participating children. Books that are returned as non- deliverable can be redistributed to locations in the community such as waiting rooms at Social Services and Public Health, local child care programs, and other locations where families can receive information about early childhood services. 12537 5200 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 B or higher, participate in SSPC or state level early education outreach or advocacy, attend one SSPC training per grant cycle, or implement one developmentally appropriate literacy activity per semester. The participant must be a member of the SSPC Early Childhood Lending Library in good standing. Funds will be paid to the early educator after course transcript is obtained by SSPC. Individual professional development awards will not exceed $600.00 per semester. 31084 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. 38155 0 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. 107339 5200 0 385377 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 1 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 18 17 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 85832 0 16426 Edith Meza Board Member 0.06 0 X 0 0 0 Rev Dean Walker Board member 0.02 0 X 0 0 0 Donna VanVliet Board Member 0.04 0 X 0 0 0 Stacie Poulin Board Member 0.10 0 X 0 0 0 Dorothy Beatty Board Member 0.02 0 X 0 0 0 Amie Watson Green Board Member 0.02 0 X 0 0 0 Tandra Henderson Shepard Board Member 0.02 0 X 0 0 0 Sandra Sarmiento Board Member 0.04 0 X 0 0 0 Avery Ellington Board Member 0.02 0 X 0 0 0 Sandra Morrison Board Member 0.02 0 X 0 0 0 Daisy Lee Board Member 0.02 0 X 0 0 0 Angela Beacham Board Member 0.06 0 X 0 0 0 Jerry Groves Board Member 0.08 0 X 0 0 0 James T Robbins Former Chairman 0.02 0 X 0 0 0 Sharon Willoughby Treasurer 0.06 0 X 0 0 0 Leslie Green Board Chair 0.41 0 X 0 0 0 Donald Hall Vice President 0.12 0 X 0 0 0 Allen Phillips-Bell Secretary 0.10 0 X 0 0 0 85832 0 16426 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 139 0 480012 9082 0 489233 2343 2343 0 0 2343 0 0 0 0 139 6640 6640 0 0 6640 498216 8983 0 0 5680 5680 27677 27677 0 0 0 0 88661 20107 66761 1793 0 0 0 0 146939 146939 0 0 6593 4536 2003 54 29638 18599 10690 349 17579 12321 5120 138 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18191 6991 11200 0 1662 1662 0 0 75092 65522 9153 417 12469 11701 768 0 0 0 0 0 63656 56717 6939 0 6294 3049 3245 0 0 0 0 0 3134 1630 1085 419 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3944 0 3944 0 Other Expenses 33 0 33 0 Furniture/Non computer Equipment under 500 677 677 0 0 Furniture/Non computer equipment over 500 1630 1569 61 0 Sales & Use Tax Expense 5007 0 5007 0 514556 385377 126009 3170 16910 32071 16910 32071 31501 0 0 31501 X 3843 -4669 13067 5239 16910 570 16910 32071 -16340 0 0 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 X 447621 476050 483809 469463 489623 2366566 447621 476050 483809 469463 489623 2366566 2366566 2126 4446 2407 3284 6640 18903 2385469 0.99208 0.99429 X Schedule A, Part II, Line 10 Sales & Use Tax Refund RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 1 Pender County Department of Social Services 810 South Walker Street Burgaw NC 28425 233250 Cash Grant 1 0 Community Outreach 722 26589 Incentive of families and child care providers include purchase of car seats for families and various supplies, books. Parent/Child care Training 240 5200 Purchase of books, early learning supplies, and classroom management supplies 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.