2023-05-24T11:11:31-07:00 2022-12-31 202571677 CORLISS & SOLOMON PLLC 242 CHARLOTTE ST SUITE 1 ASHEVILLE NC 28801 990 2022-01-01 562139120 Dogwood Alliance Inc DOGW 8282512525 PO Box 7645 Asheville NC 28802 Judy Kinney Treasurer 8282512525 2023-05-24 true Judy Kinney true Todd Oldenburg CPA P02281691 8282360206 2023-05-24 3 AAL1 IAL1 FAL1 2022 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z Judy Kinney PO Box 7645 Asheville NC 28802 2653922 false X dogwoodalliance.org X 1998 NC Dogwood Alliance advances environmental justice and climate action by mobilizing diverse voices to protect southern forests and communities from industrial logging. 12 12 22 37 0 0 2983768 2634803 0 8041 19075 44 2991809 2653922 194500 191200 0 1384116 1706740 855 0 314348 563842 766632 2143313 2664572 848496 -10650 4669914 4693995 98496 133227 4571418 4560768 Dogwood Alliance advances environmental justice and climate action by mobilizing diverse voices to protect southern forests and communities from industrial logging. false false 795097 77700 0 Our Forests Aren't Fuel (OFAF) - Policy makers in Europe and the United States are promoting the burning of wood as a renewable climate friendly alternative coal for electricity generation under the guise of renewable energy even though the science documents that burning wood releases more carbon than coal per unit of electricity generated and further degrades forests. - Over the past several years, the forests of the Southern US have been the target of this growing global market. In response, in 2013 Dogwood Alliance, launched the Our Forests Arent Fuel campaign educating and activating citizens, policy makers and industry on both sides of the Atlantic to stop the further expansion of this industry. - The Our Forests Aren't Fuel campaign continued to be a major focus of work in 2022 leveraging significant results. Despite the backdrop of an ongoing war in Ukraine and economic instability, state, national and international concern about industrial biomass grew significantly, as communities and government officials publicly challenged the industry's "renewableX and"sustainable" claims. - Over the course of 2022, we played a leadership role with our partners at the international level to disrupt the subsidies for biomass. Our work focused on targeting grassroots organizations and impacted communities in key member states (the UK, Netherlands and Denmark). We continued to meet with government officials, conduct outreach to activist organizations and provide information, evidence and stories of the impacts of the wood pellet industry on forests and communities to the media. This work led to expanded political opposition to biomass subsidies n the UK and the Netherlands. The UK government publicly debated biomass subsidies on the floor of Westminster for the first time. The Netherlands government passed a measure eliminating subsidies for biomass sourced from untruthful suppliers, specifically referencing the South's largest wood pellet manufacturer, Enviva. - North Carolina continued to be a top priority for our organizing in 2022. Our work with the local community in Robeson County to stop the Active Energy wood pellet mill resulted in a final decision on the part of the company not to build the facility. We are now organizing with community groups and leaders in NC where every wood pellet export mill is operating into a more coordinated state-wide effort targeting Governor Cooper to take executive action. We also have a robust network of organizations across the state actively coordinating on the international, national and state levels. We organized public turnout at the public hearing for Enviva's expansion in Ahoskie, which combined with our ongoing engagement with the NC Environmental Justice Advisory Board (EJAB) for DEQ resulted in the holding of a special session on the wood pellet industry attended by 60 people. The EJAB presented a strong case to NC DEQ related to disproportionate impacts and recommended further restrictions on the wood pellet industry. - We continued to build opposition to wood pellet mill expansions in the Gulf Coast region. We have several strong partners in this region who are actively engaging at the international, national and state-levels. We brought national and international attention to the impacts of the Drax wood pellet mill on the nearby community of Gloster, MS and began local organizing in Bond, MS where another Enviva wood pellet mill is proposed. This organizing and Drax's breaking of the law was the focus of major stories in ABC News and The Guardian and two documentaries. 702652 54500 0 Forests and Climate (F&C) - The Paris Climate Agreement gave the world a charge: decarbonize all energy sectors and simultaneously remove carbon dioxide from the air. The best and most cost-effective technology we have to remove carbon from our atmosphere right now lies in the power of forests. Standing forests are the natural life support that we need to mitigate the worst impacts of climate change and protect those most profoundly impacted, often low income communities and people of color. Logging in the US releases large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere while simultaneously degrading the nations forests ability to provide critical climate benefits. - Despite these facts, forest protection continues to remain on the sidelines of the national climate agenda and renewable energy policy in the US. Dogwood Alliances groundbreaking forest and climate program is designed to shift this dynamic, by elevating the climate, forest and community impacts created by industrial logging in the US, while providing conservation solutions that place the needs of those most impacted at the forefront. - Dogwood Alliance has continued to be a national leader, working at the intersection of forests, climate and justice. Our focus on deepening partnerships and strategic communications created opportunities to influence policy and policy makers at the state and national level. - In 2022 we also continued to elevate biomass/wood pellets and industrial logging as a national priority climate justice issue. We were featured in a CBS Morning News special investigative story that aired on Earth Day exposing the wood pellet industry's impacts on forests, climate and community health. The CBS story highlighted the Biden Administrations lack of action on the issue. Key objectives of this work was to educate the Biden Administration and to disrupt Big Greens' support for the forest industry's policy agenda at the federal level via the Forest & Climate Working Group. - In spite of the Biden Administration's stated commitment to prioritize climate action and environmental justice, policies passed at a national level over the past year provide major new subsidies for the expansion of industrial logging in direct contradiction to the best available climate science and without consideration of the negative community health, economic and climate resiliency impacts. We published an Op-ed in The Hill highlighting the inconsistency of Biden's commitment to address climate change and environmental justice and the Inflation Reduction Act's massive subsidies for wood energy markets and logging. - In 2022 we secured a commitment from EPA to engage other agencies in conducting site visits of communities impacted by the wood pellet industry in MS, GA, NC and SC. The agency is currently planning to do an investigation into the Drax facility in Gloster, MS. Additionally, EPA Region IV is now doing a study of the impacts of the wood pellet industry. We launched a petition targeting EPA to take action on wood pellets at a press event/rally attended by 40 people from impacted communities across the rural South at the EPA Region IV offices in Atlanta, which garnered media coverage in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Atlanta Voice. - In 2022 we also launched The Nature Conspiracy, exposing TNC's backing of forest industry-friendly climate policy proposals. This led to an investigative article published in Grist as well as coverage on two nationally syndicated radio shows. It also led to several large foundations that fund TNC engaging the organization in ongoing dialogue about their collaboration with industry. 468467 59000 0 Community Solutions (CS) - In 2022 we expanded our focus work to protect wetland forests through the community conservation model which is an inclusive and strategic approach of expanding wetland conservation, community organizing and environmental justice throughout the US South. We continue to work to protect wetland forests in the US South that span nearly 35 million acres across 14 states and are critical for community health and safety. - Our community conservation model is advancing forest conservation through the lens of environmental justice. Working in partnership with impacted communities in climate- vulnerable locations, our work uses social and economic indicators, not just environmental, to define the conservation priorities. Our goal is to advance a non- extractive, regenerative economy that is based on ecological restoration, community protection, equitable partnerships, and justice. - Our work in SC with the Pee Dee Indian Tribe and New Alpha Community Development Corporation in the Pee Dee Watershed has created a new narrative and strategy for advancing equity in protecting forests as a climate solution with community economic benefits. Against a backdrop of a Southern culture that has largely accepted the "working forest" landscape, Dogwood and our local partners are charting a new course that puts community-led forest protection at the center of our conservation agenda. We've developed a close working relationship with the SC Conservation Bank regarding leveraging state funds to purchase hundreds of acres of forests in the Pee Dee watershed, to be owned by the community and set aside for natural flood control and outdoor recreation. We supported the Pee Dee Tribe in developing and promoting their cultural, nature and outdoor recreation center and purchase of additional wetland forests. 1966216 true true false true false false false false false false true false false false false true true false false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 29 0 true 22 true false false false false false false false false false false false false X 12 12 false false false false false false false true true false false true true true true true true true false false AL AR CA CO CT DC FL GA IL KY MD MA MI MN MS MO NY NC OH SC TN VT VA WA WI X X Sasha Mitchell 8282512525 30 Jean Drive Asheville NC 28803 Margaret Dana Smith Executive Director 40.00 X 106642 0 26055 Joe Jackson Chair 5.00 X X 0 0 0 Lynne Young Vice Chair 5.00 X X 0 0 0 Abigail Rome Secretary 5.00 X X 0 0 0 Judy Kinney Treasurer, Finance Chair 5.00 X X 0 0 0 Jacob Blass Governance Chair 5.00 X 0 0 0 Sami Grover Advancement Chair 5.00 X 0 0 0 Leo Woodberry Board Member 3.00 X 0 0 0 Elise Nabors Board Member 3.00 X 0 0 0 Morgan Hash Board Member 5.00 X 0 0 0 Florence Anoruo Board Member 3.00 X 0 0 0 RaShad Easley Board Member 3.00 X 0 0 0 Loretta Slater Board Member 3.00 X 0 0 0 106642 0 26055 1 false false false 2634803 10663 2634803 19075 0 19075 Other Income 900099 44 44 0 0 44 2653922 44 0 19075 191200 191200 132697 93822 20908 17967 1273627 894531 199473 179623 22426 13272 6211 2943 171267 130205 22778 18284 106723 73958 17585 15180 3927 20 3907 0 38528 0 38528 0 253436 192047 39113 22276 25258 22118 260 2880 29027 18184 4298 6545 135853 110183 6216 19454 43040 32165 6029 4846 94634 87084 2636 4914 46339 33868 5162 7309 15345 4507 10183 655 Marketing & Education Printed Materials 6040 4139 67 1834 Marketing & Education Video Production 10372 9508 0 864 Marketing & Education Supplies 10805 9002 10 1793 Dues and Subscriptions 8905 6940 610 1355 45123 39463 34 5626 2664572 1966216 384008 314348 62826 59932 3244883 3281023 1355205 1353040 43823 43823 0 0 7000 4669914 4693995 98496 133227 98496 133227 X 2716230 3093078 1855188 1467690 4571418 4560768 4669914 4693995 -10650 X X false true X true false X 0 1994006 2131265 2506423 2983768 2634803 12250265 0 0 1994006 2131265 2506423 2983768 2634803 12250265 1723972 10526293 22500 33080 17142 8041 19075 99838 0 3120 2769 0 0 44 5933 12356036 0.85190 0.86600 X 0 0 0 Pt II Ln 10 Other Income Part II, Line 10 Description: Rental Income 2018: 0. 2019: 0. 2020: 0. 2021: 0. Description: Special Event Income, Gross 2018: 3120. 2019: 2769. 2020: 0. 2021: 0. Description: Miscellaneous 2018: 0. 2019: 0. 2020: 0. 2021: 0. 2022: 44. RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 0 10621 10621 2653951 2664572 283229 70807 0 0 240920 242313 257166 283229 1023628 1535442 5498 4414 3844 10621 24377 60230 60578 64292 70807 255907 383861 257 2913 1081 0 4251 Pt II-B Line 1 During 2022, Dogwood Alliance staff members had direct meetings with state and federal elected officials concerning policies and legislation on forest protection and climate change. Staff members also encouraged volunteers and supporters to communicate with elected officials concerning forest protection and climate change. 0 0 43823 43823 0 0 X 2654102 180 180 2653922 2653922 2664752 180 180 2664572 2664572 Pt X, Line 2 Dogwood is generally exempt from federal income taxes under 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Under the Code, however, income from certain activities not related to the organization's tax-exempt purpose may be subject to taxation as unrelated business income. The organization had less than $1,000 of income from unrelated business activities in the year ended December 31, 2022 and was, therefore, not required to file Federal Form 990-T (Exempt Organization Business Income Tax Return). The organization believes that it has appropriate support for all tax positions taken, and as such, does not have any uncertain tax positions that are material to the financial statements. true The People's Justice Council 1500 Daniel Payne Drive Birmingham AL 35214 830784025 501(c)3 10000 Our Forests Aren't Fuel New Alpha Community Development 1528 Palomar Pkwy Florence SC 29506 473582552 501(c)3 40000 Forests & Climate Georgia Interfaith Power and Light 701 S Columbia Dr Campus Box 326 Decatur GA 30030 263446212 501(c)3 10000 Our Forests Aren't Fuel Gaston Youth 711 James Jones Rd Pleasant Hill NC 27866 812081558 501(c)3 10000 Our Forests Aren't Fuel Southern Vision Alliance PO Box 51698 Durham NC 27717 611639641 501(c)3 14000 Our Forests Aren't Fuel SOL Nation 4682 Prosperity Ridge Charlotte NC 28269 822997095 501(c)3 7000 Our Forests Aren't Fuel EEECHO P O Vox 7803 Gulfport MS 39506 473809502 501(c)3 27000 Our Forests Aren't Fuel KMartin Group PO Box 492 Gloster MS 39638 474572196 501(c)3 17200 Our Forests Aren't Fuel Pee Dee Indian Tribe PO Box 568 Latta SC 29565 570706888 501(c)3 15000 Our Forests Aren't Fuel Mississippi Rising Coalition PO Box 1077 Ocean Springs MS 39566 812382364 501(c)3 7500 Our Forests Aren't Fuel Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League PO Box 2168 Franklin WV 26807 581624130 501(c)3 7000 Our Forests Aren't Fuel 8 0 Pt I Line 2 All grant partners go through an application process and are required to provide proof of 501(c)3 status, financial statements, and other background documentation prior to disbursement of funds, and memorandums of understanding are signed with all grantees to govern the process. Grant goals are established during the application process, and reported on in the end of year report; measures of success can be analytical or subjective. Pt VI, Line 11b The 990 is prepared by independent accountants, reviewed by management, presented to the Treasurer and the finance committee for review, and once it is approved, shared with the entire Board for final approval or proposed revision. Pt VI, Line 12c Enforced as necessary. Any Board Member with a conflict of interest on any specific issue informs the Board and abstains from voting on the issue. Pt VI, Line 15a In the annual budgeting process, the Board approves a budget line for aggregate salary expense. Thereafter, individual salaries and salary increases for employees are determined by the Executive Director. The Executive Director's compensation is determined by the Executive Committee of the Board, with the process led by the Board Chair and Vice Chair. The Executive Director's compensation is based on responsibilities, performance, a check of comparability data with similar non-profit organizations in the City of Asheville, the state of North Carolina, the southeast region, and nationally. The organizational budget is also consulted. Pt VI, Line 18 Form 1023 and forms 990 are available upon request. Pt VI, Line 19 Governing documents, conflict of interest policy and audited financial statements are available upon request. Pt XII, Line 2c The board's finance committee is responsible for reviewing the audit, and the full board receives and reviews the written documents.