2024-05-09T09:52:34-07:00 2023-06-30 472626541 Cook & Company A Prof Actcy Corporation One Sansome St Ste 3500 San Francisco CA 94104 990 2022-07-01 237103042 Public Advocates Inc PUBL 4154317430 131 Steuart Street Suite 300 San Francisco CA 94105 Sumi Paik Fin Admin Director 2024-05-09 true Sumi Paik Fin Admin 999009999 true Douglas Cook PhDMPACPA P01521705 4156211112 3 AAL1 IAL1 FAL1 2022 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z Guillermo Mayer 9738490 false X www.publicadvocates.org X 1971 CA For more than five decades, Public Advocates has challenged the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing, transportation equity, and climate justice. We spur change through collaboration with grassroots groups representing low-income communities, people of color and immigrants, combined with strategic policy reform, media advocacy, and litigation. 14 14 39 8 0 7390906 6288629 10529 10100 132366 777617 18250 -88363 7552051 6987983 1131740 1328619 0 4105586 4634844 0 554091 770090 702061 6007416 6665524 1544635 322459 15151077 15259054 662686 795565 14488391 14463489 For more than five decades, Public Advocates has challenged the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing, transportation equity, and climate justice. 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(Continued at Schedule O) 2362404 268793 9587 Education Equity: In FY 2022-23, Public Advocates' Education Equity Team helped maintain and strengthen K-12 school funding despite a significant state budget shortfall. Key wins included an 8.22% Cost of Living Adjustment that will enable districts to hire and retain more teachers; a $300 million "Equity Multiplier" fund dedicated to closing student outcome and teacher quality gaps for disadvantaged students at the state's poorest schools; and provisions to strengthen the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) and districts' capacity to use the Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) for comprehensive strategic planning and continuous improvement. Our report, "Realizing the Promise of LCFF: Recommendations from the First Ten Years," provided persuasive leverage for this advocacy. 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Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c In April 2018, the Board of Governors adopted an updated conflict of interest policy that covers directors, officers and key employees and defines a conflict as existing if any of these individuals a is in a position to make or influence Public Advocates' decisions about a transaction or relationship with a vendor, supplier, lender, lessor, consultant, grantee or other person, and b has an affiliation with the other party to the transaction. These individuals are required to complete an annual disclosure questionnaire on which they must disclose all affiliations or other matters that could give rise to a conflict of interest and confirm their commitment to compliance with this policy. Covered individuals have a continuing responsibility to review their business, personal and philanthropic interests and their family and other close relationships, for actual, apparent or potential conflicts of interest and where conflicts are disclosed, they should abstain from voting or otherwise participating in the decision other than by making the required disclosure and providing any other information requested by the decision makers. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15a The Finance Committee reviewed the CEO's compensation in July 2022 using salary data gathered from comparable organizations (three salary surveys comprised of data from more than 620 nonprofit organizations in the Bay Area and metropolitan Sacramento, 72 legal services organizations in CA, and over 150 legal services and public interest organizations throughout the U.S.). The committee determined the CEO's compensation to be in line w/salaries paid by our peer organizations and therefore reasonable and presented its finding to the Board of Governors, which also unanimously approved the reasonableness of the compensation. This process last occurred in 22-23. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15b The Finance Committee also reviewed the compensation for the Director of Finance & Administration (DFA) and the three Managing Attorneys in July 2022 using the same data described above and determined the compensation for all four individuals to be in line w/salaries paid by our peer organizations and therefore reasonable. The committee presented its finding to the Board of Governors, which also unanimously approved the reasonableness of the compensation. This process last occurred in 22-23. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 The Organization makes its governing documents and audited financial statements available by request. Form 990s are available on www.guidestar.com. Form 990, Part III - Education Equity (Cont'd from page 2) Other budget provisions require that school districts receiving Community Engagement Initiative grants provide resources to local community organization partners and strengthen the standards for qualified teachers that we won in the 2004 Williams settlement. As a result, the assignment of teachers lacking authorization and training to teach English learners is now unlawful whenever an English learner is present in a class. To enforce the Willaims standards, we filed a complaint with the San Francisco Unified School District for its failure to fill numerous vacancies at a middle school, which were subsequently corrected. Other wins will address California's teacher shortage, improve teacher quality and increase the diversity of the educator workforce. During the fiscal year, we also issued reports and resources on teacher diversity and multilingual learners, including "Understanding Educators' Experiences Teaching Multilingual Learners," "A Resource Guide for Multilingual LearnersX and "California Educator Diversity Roadmap: Community-Informed Policy Strategies." The Education Equity Team continues to play a leading role in advocating for the creation of racially just and transformative community schools throughout the state through the implementation of the California Community Schools Partnership Program. Our Local Power Building Team provided trainings and technical assistance to parents, students and stakeholders in Long Beach, San Francisco, Pomona, West Contra Costa County, Del Norte, Humboldt, Monterey County, San Bernardino City, Coachella Valley and Alum Rock. The team produced a range of resources in English and Spanish on multilingual learners, teacher quality and diversity, school site committees and the Williams complaint process. With the legal, policy and technical assistance we provided, our community partners won nine improvements in LCAPs and district policies addressing their priorities. We also supported initiatives for Black student achievement and ending school policing. Our Higher Education Team continued its advocacy for the implementation of California's remedial education laws (AB 705/1705), successfully pressing six colleges in the Los Angeles Community College District to discontinue remedial math and English courses, which have often proven to be a dead-end for Black and Latino students. The team also supported successful legislation to strengthen student voice in higher education policy, provide support for tutoring and end scholarship displacement. In collaboration with the Metropolitan Equity Team, the team launched a new initiative to advocate for affordable student housing. Form 990, Part III - Metropolitan Equity (Cont'd from page 2) At the state level, the team advanced innovative solutions to the housing crisis through legislation to create and preserve permanently affordable housing sheltered from the speculative market and legislation to strengthen protections for tenants who are required to move when landlords make renovations or evict tenants to move themselves or a relative into a unit. Two bills we supported - AB 1837, which closes loopholes in a law that gives tenants and nonprofits a right of first refusal to buy foreclosed homes, and SCA 2, which places a measure on the ballot to repeal a provision of the state constitution that requires low-rent housing project to be approved by local votes - were signed into law. At the local and regional level, the Metropolitan Equity Team convenes the Bay Area Housing Element Advocacy Working Group, which advocated with Bay Area jurisdictions to fulfill their obligations to integrate public comment into their housing plans and is monitoring and reporting on the implementation of housing element plans. We also provided tailored support to groups leading housing element, surplus land and renter protection campaigns in Concord, Contra Costa County, Menlo Park, San Mateo County, Berkeley, Oakley and San Bernardino. Campaigns we supported won rent stabilization in Antioch, just cause for eviction in Petaluma and a commitment to pass an anti-harassment ordinance in Redwood City. A community campaign in Oakland that Public Advocates has supported since 2015 won a 100% affordable development on a surplus land parcel. With transit agencies statewide facing a fiscal crisis following the decline in ridership due to the COVID pandemic, we worked with the Voices for Public Transportation coalition to build a statewide coalition that advocated for emergency state funding. A last-minute budget deal will provide a total of $5.1 billion over four years and gives transit agencies the flexibility to use funds for operations as well as construction projects. At the national level, Public Advocates co-convenes the Alliance for Housing Justice (AHJ), which hosts a table of national base-building networks and state coalitions to build alignment, advance national housing policy reform and provide support and resources to grassroots organizing groups. In the 2022-23 fiscal year, AHJ advocated for federal investments and policies to create permanently affordable, community-controlled housing that is publicly and non-profit owned, and it played a leading role in educating the public on the new Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule released by HUD, which fulfills a promise of the 1968 Fair Housing Act to remedy the effects of historic patterns of housing discrimination. AHJ submitted more than 1,200 sign-ons to a letter urging HUD to adopt strong guidelines to implement the rule. During the fiscal year, AHJ added seven new members to its core partners, including national grassroots organizations, policy, and research groups.