2023-05-15T16:43:41-07:00 2022-12-31 990EZ 2022-01-01 842287734 EVERYDAY CANVASSING EVER 2402647102 10023 Dallas Avenue Silver Spring MD 20901 Augustin Fragale President 2402647102 2023-05-13 1 1 11 0 AAL2 2022 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z X everydaycanvassing.org X X 138531 X 102683 35848 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 138531 0 0 107291 6348 350 1394 3926 119309 19222 70132 0 89354 70132 89354 0 0 0 0 70132 89354 0 0 70132 89354 We start open-ended conversations through knocking doors and engaging with people in public spaces. We listen and record resident's appreciations and concerns for their community so that government will thereafter learn and improve from community input. We also educate the public about government and nonprofit services, as well as local community gatherings, that can help them. The Montgomery County Planning Department, a government-affiliated organization responsible for land-use and infrastructural design in Montgomery County, sought representative data about the needs of Fairland-Briggs Chaney residents. In particular, there was historically a lack of input from community members that rented their homes. That's where we came in. At the core of our approach is the belief that real community engagement, which meets people where they are - quite literally at their doors - is an excellent tool to shape local government's work. We collected the stories of renters in Fairland-Briggs Chaney by: Knocking on 4,125 doors - twice over - and talking with over 600 renters in English, Spanish, French, and Amharic. Distributing 5,700 multilingual flyers with a short website link to a survey about desires and concerns on Fairland-Briggs Chaney. And with every conversation, we connected renters to services and organizations to meet their needs: everything from rent relief assistance, to West African cultural organizations, to English as a second language classes. The report based on our outreach can be found at: https://montgomeryplanning.org/planning/communities/upcounty/fairland/fairland-master-plan-1997/fairland-briggs-chaney-mp/equitable-community-engagement/what-weve-heard/. In the following year, 2022, Everyday Canvassing has made waves with Montgomery Parks and Montgomery Planning. We've conducted over 1,650 interviews with renters in 12 different languages, across 4 additional county land-use plans. The bulk of interviewees shared contact information for follow-up, which we followed through on with thousands of calls to engage residents in further planning and community projects. 35848 24679 Similar to the Fairland/Briggs Chaney Master Plan renter outreach, we embarked on a similar project to determine how parks in the Long Branch area could change or be maintained. This was called the Long Branch Parks Plan. Our outreach was multi-lingual, with a large portion of our interviews in Spanish and Amharic (an Ethiopian language), and a smaller portion in Portuguese and French. We interviewed about 270 renting residents whose hopes for the area are currently being used to develop the Montgomery County Parks Department's recommendations for land-use changes. As we met residents, we diligently followed up over phone within a week of chatting with them at their doors about the Plan. In addition to providing more detail to their interviews, these phone conversations gave us the opportunity to introduce local resources, such as pandemic rent relief or food banks, to struggling residents we had met. While this accomplishment had about $11,000 in government fees, these revenues and expenses were accounted for in our first accomplishment because this government partnership was also a land-use project. We decided to list it as a separate accomplishment because this work was a first-of-its-kind door-to-door outreach project with our local parks department. 0 0 Along with our project specific accomplishments, we always work to connect community members with public resources, engage in open-ended conversations around how our community could improve, and introduce community members to one-another. For example, outside of Fairland and Briggs Chaney and Takoma Park, we have canvassed people in White Oak, Downtown Silver Spring, Gaithersburg, Long Branch, Rockville, Montgomery Village, Aspen Hill, Wheaton, and Germantown. In 2022, we knocked and left flyers at about 15,000 doors to have conversations one-on-one with residents. We also navigated people through accessing resources and introduced them to resources at food distribution events in community settings like churches, parks, and private rental properties with residents of mostly low and moderate incomes. This year, we added Harold Hill and Fasil Tefera as permanent part-time members of our team. Harold's work is having conversations with residents at food distribution events, and this work required he have a phone that was compatible with our data recording app, MiniVAN Touch. To that end, we purchased a $173.60 iPhone. Our work building relationships with our community residents door-by-door is mostly powered by a group of over 200 volunteers. These volunteers are organized by our Executive Director who are the moment is our only full-time staff member paid year-round. Also, because our volunteers are walking, talking, and connecting with community members for usually 3 - 4 hours, we host "family meals" after we knock doors. Sitting down, eating, and reflecting on the experiences we've had talking with people at doors and bonding allows our volunteer operation to remain well-attended and consistent. Sharing food is therefore also critical to our success building up the level of civic engagement in our community and is a mission-related expense. All printing has been used to share resources or inspire conversations door-to-door. We also began to visualize the data we collect from canvassing to eventually represent publicly online the conversations and interests of community members. We bought a Lenovo Yoga Laptop for $749.99 to help with data visualization. There was a $100 charge for our Maryland Charitable Registration we paid in 2022. For a volunteer picnic we held in July we reserved a farm space for $350. The combination of printing, food, space rental, and data collection and visualization efforts costed $5670.14. The total of cost of our general program staff Harold, Fasil, and Mady's wages or salaries and benefits were $82,612.42. Therefore, the total of our general program expenses was $88,283 102683 88283 112962 Deanna Stephen Board Treasurer 2 0 0 0 Augustin Fragale Board President 40 4835 0 0 Hana Taye Board Member At-Large 1 0 0 0 Giovanni Marchand Board Member At-Large 1 0 0 0 Devorah Stavisky Board Secretary 2 0 0 0 Wally-Mady Nadje Executive Director 40 62750 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 MD Augustin Fragale 10023 Dallas Avenue Silver Spring MD 20901 2402647102 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 0 647 5471 86595 102683 195396 0 0 0 9954 35848 45802 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 647 5471 96549 138531 241198 0 647 3300 12000 2000 17947 0 0 0 9954 35748 45702 0 647 3300 21954 37748 63649 177549 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 0 0 0 0 647 5471 96549 138531 241198 X Schedule A, Part III, Line 7a Everyday Canvassing founder, Augustin Fragale, has contributed every year to Everyday Canvassing. This year, his contribution was $2,000. Schedule A, Part III, Line 7b The $35,747.76 are projects with the Montgomery Planning department and Montgomery Parks department. Meaning, all of the money in line 7b is from public support. We are successfully following a plan to increase our public support percentage every year. This year, our public support was over 34% through public grants, fee for service work supported by local government organizations, and grants from other local publicly supported organizations such as Manna Food Center and CASA. In 2023, Everyday Canvassing has contracted with additional government agencies to increase our public support percentage even further. RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 51 217 268 112694 112962 22592 5648 0 0 0 0 5339 22592 27931 41897 0 0 67 268 335 0 0 1335 5648 6983 10475 0 0 0 51 51 Schedule C, Part II-A, Line 1b Mady Nadje, our Executive Director, prepared and gave public testimony to the Rockville City Council about changing the local voting process in Rockville City. The preparation used 1 hour and 30 minutes of paid time, and another 30 minutes of paid time to attend and share the testimony at a virtual county council hearing. Mady's paid time is approximately $33.5. The total time was 2 hours. Therefore $67 were spent on direct lobbying. Harold Hill and Emmanuel Walker both prepared and gave public testimony around rent stabilization to the Montgomery County Council. Both testimonies took about 1.5 hours to prepare, and 30 minutes to attend and share testimony. Harold also wrote testimony about a bill in the Maryland State Legislature about Just Cause evictions. Writing and submission of his digital testimony took approximately 2 hours. Harold and Emmanuel are part-time staff each paid $25 per hour. Therefore, their direct lobbying efforts costed about $150. The total of Emmanuel, Harold, and Mady's direct lobbying was $217 in 2022. Schedule C, Part II-A, Line A On 09/27/2022, we printed flyers for $50.88 with the intention of recruiting interested residents to join a housing coalition we are a part of called the Montgomery County Racial Equity Network. The flyers were inviting residents to join volunteer efforts on affordable and safe housing. Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 12 Board President, Augustin Fragale, received $4,835.00 in compensation for work staffing Montgomery Planning projects as a canvasser. He was hired as project staff for the Great Seneca Master Plan and Takoma Park Minor Master Plan Amendment to knock doors and train volunteers. For each position, he received a separate employee agreement/contract for the work that delineated the hourly rate and timeframe he would be hired. He made the exact same rate as any other employees on these projects and worked a similar amount of hours. This work was independent from his unpaid position as Board President. Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Food - $2,827.87: Food for volunteers after knocking doors and talking with community members for 3 to 4 hours to debrief and for volunteer retention. This money for food is a total spent over the course of over 60 days of doorknocking and street canvassing. Laptop - $749.99: We purchased a Lenovo Yoga computer for our data analysis and visualization of conversations we have collected at doors. Phone - $173.60: We purchased a used company iphone for our part-time staff member Harold Hill to use because he canvasses solo 2 - 5 times per week at food distribution hubs around Montgomery County, MD. The phone is used to collect conversations and info from community members using the app MiniVAN Touch. Transportation - $75: Rarely, we had staff who became ill at work and required immediate funds to pay for a ride-sharing service home, or Harold Hill who required funds for transporting items like food for residents in need through our partnership with Manna Food. Twice, we had a staff member become ill and e-transferred money ride-sharing while we continued working on-site. Only one time did we reimburse gas for a staff member who picked up and delivered food to residents in need via e-transfer. $100 for five survey incentives of $20 each for a call-in and online survey we ran at Washington Adventist University to capture more students suggestions for how to improve Takoma Park for the Takoma Park Master Plan. Advertising for the incentives occurred through advertising on classroom whiteboards. Participants would text project staff to be interviewed or send a receipt that they've filled out the online survey and the $20 would be e-transferred. Funds used for this survey incentive came from project-based funding from the Montgomery Planning Department.