2023-05-11T11:25:55-07:00 2022-12-31 990 2022-01-01 842534225 Center for Change a Northern MI Advocacy Group CENT 2698731936 W2981 Spruce St or PO Box 34 St Ignace MI 49781 Jennie Hoffmann Treasurer 2698731936 2023-05-06 1 1 11 1 AAL2 2022 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z Jennie Hoffmann W2981 Spruce St Saint Ignace MI 49781 224060 0 X c4cmi.org X 2018 MI Education and Advocacy. Social Welfare. 8 8 0 50 0 0 224060 0 0 0 0 224060 0 0 137836 0 0 54858 0 192694 0 31366 106710 138076 0 0 106710 138076 X Education, Advocacy and Social Welfare. 1 0 32000 300 Celebration of Civic Engagement: We brought together all spectrums of our community to celebrate local civic engagement. We celebrated the life and service to the community embodied by Sharon H. Kennedy. Sharon's daughters spoke and our State Representative joined us in the presentation of a plaque to commemorate the service and memory of Sharon H. Kennedy. We were able to bring people together to discuss solutions to local issues, putting politics aside, and coming together to make our communities more vibrant. 50000 200 Anatomy of an Election Roadshow. Over the course of a week, we made presentations in seven (7) different communities across Northern Michigan with the goal of providing our neighbors with the vocabulary and knowledge to have conversations about the systems in place that secure our elections. Former East Lansing City Clerk Marie Wicks created and gave the presentation, allowing for robust questions and answers. We educated and empowered our community members to attend the local public accuracy tests. All of our team members learned a lot along the way as well. 25000 50 County Fair Campaign. We brought the Center for Change to multiple County Fairs with educational materials regarding the work we are doing in the community and how we can solve local issues in non-partisan ways. We provided community education on the internet infrastructure dollars. We promoted taking a survey for expanding internet access. 85694 0 Seeing an absence of action in the creation of the Michigan High-Speed Internet (MIHI) Office the previous year, we advocated with the Michigan legislators to fund and staff the MIHI office. This campaign was truly organic as we reached out to government officials, partner organizations, and other local entities to share information regarding how imperative this office would be for future Internet expansion funding. Without such an office, Michigan would not qualify for receiving billions of Federal dollars in internet funding coming available soon. Various other miscellaneous outreach programs were conducted, marketed and executed through out the year. 85694 0 0 192694 0 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 MI X Jennie Hoffmann 2698731936 W2981 Spruce St St Ignace MI 49781 X Joanne Galloway Board Member 2.00 X 0 0 0 Kalvin Carter Board Member 2 X 0 0 0 Nicholas Mitchell Board Member 2.00 X 0 0 0 Jennie Hoffmann Board Member, Treasurer 5 X X 0 0 0 John Petkus Board Member, Chair 10.00 X X 0 0 0 Marlene Murphy Board Member 2.00 X 0 0 0 Paul Warrick Board Member, Secretary 10.00 X X 0 0 0 Owen Goslin Board Member 2.00 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 215000 0 9060 0 224060 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 224060 0 0 0 0 0 137836 137836 25000 25000 16000 16000 7058 7058 6800 6800 192694 192694 0 0 106705 138071 5 5 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 106710 138076 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 106710 138076 0 0 106710 138076 106710 138076 31366 0 0 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990, Part III, Line 2 Our mission and goals of advocacy and education remain as in previous years. Our campaigns this year focused on local needs. 1) The Celebration of Civic Engagement was our first large-scale, in-person event. Next 2) we hosted the Anatomy of an Election Roadshow providing non-partisan election education. Finally, 3) we had a County Fair Campaign, which allowed us to interact and engage with our communities in Northern Michigan. Again, this year, maintaining and expanding internet connectivity was an important focus for our neighbors. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The Board of Directors was informed via email communication, and via full explanation by the Treasurer in a Board Meeting. A PDF of this form has been made available freely to each Board Member. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15 Original hire of the Executive Director and first contractors (Communications Director, etc) were handled by a Committee who researched and created a description of what was important for these roles. These descriptions were put online and in various job search tools to make sure a broad swath of candidates could be interviewed. Qualified candidates were subsequently interviewed and the recommendations for these positions were brought to the Board of Directors for a full vote. Subsequent contractor hirings were made under the hiring capacity of the Executive Director, per that role. The Chairman and a committee of other Board members review and approve these hirings on a yearly basis. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 All guiding documents are available to the Board and to the public upon request. Our Bylaws and Articles of Incorporation are also available through the State of Michigan Form 990, Part VII, Section A, Line 1a This section refers to the compensation our Directors and Officers have had in relation to their roles as Directors and Officers. Some of these persons have also received compensation as Independent Contractors outside of their work as Directors and Officers. None of the independent contractors have received compensation which has reached the reporting thresholds for key employees or independent contractors.