2024-07-12T10:16:40-07:00 2023-12-31 990EZ 2023-01-01 871832062 BUILDING HEALTHIER AMERICA BUIL 6127506530 4125 Village 4 Camarillo CA 93012 Andrew Nelson Director / Treasurer 6127506538 2024-07-12 Andrew Nelson 999009999 1 0 11 1 AAL2 X 2023 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z X X X buildinghealthieramerica.org X X 20000 X 20000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20000 0 0 37794 550 0 298 1606 40248 -20248 61384 0 41136 X 61384 37293 0 0 0 3843 61384 41136 0 0 61384 41136 Create and initiate a centralized resource for families that have children with chronic illnesses and disabilities. Establishing these services with families and their community education, health and social services in local communities using new technology based collaborative tools to individualize a family's request for services. Initial services will include: 1. a private and trusted place to talk to other families with children like theirs, 2. An interactive resource catalog of local, state, national and international services available when the family has a request, 3. A Family and Community Navigator to guide and support building of the family's strength to manage. Service is provided regardless of disease, condition, age, insurance status, time of year, location or any other restrictions or silos imposed on current community services. Committed to engaging families to create, improve and sustain these services. Committed to a partnership with local community services. The Building Healthier America mission is to serve as a central community resource for families as they navigate the medical, human service, educational and local agencies that serve children with chronic illness or disability. Our vision is for families, throughout the nation, and their children with chronic illness and disabilities will thrive with clear information, support and guidance within their community. Families will provide direction and guidance on the design, critical deliverables and goals to meet the need for themselves and their children. This is the foundational structure of how this project is designed to deliver relevant and appropriate support to deliver essential family needs. After establishing the Building Healthier America 501c3 in 2021 we examined the Tucson Arizona community for our first operational site. Following a year of relationship building with community organizations and families, our primary community collaborating organizations experienced leadership and organizational changes that halted further community site development. Our second community site development in the St. Croix Valley in Wisconsin and Minnesota was approached by structuring the services without the vulnerability of collaborating organizational changes in leadership or structure. Our primary introductions to the community and primary host organizations are St. Croix Therapy, Bridge for Community Life and the Hudson YMCA. We hired a Community Family Navigator in partnership with local agency, St. Croix Therapy. Established a public website, buildinghealthieramerica.org and a contractual relationship with a collaboration systems company, Handzin, to provide HIPAA compliant communications and customized resource searches. Convened local family focus groups to verify service structure and plan. Established collaborative relationships with local medical, educational and social service entities including: Hudson Hospital, Hudson Physicians, Rotary times 2, Bridges for Community Life, University of Wisconsin River Falls, HealthPartners, St. Croix Therapy, County Social Services, Andersen Corporation, St. Croix Valley Foundation, and a score of community based family support organizations in the St.Croix River Valley. A Community Task Force was convened to collaboratively plan for the initiation of services in September of 2024. Technology and Marketing contractors are engaged to complete the services design and communication in preparation for the release of services. Community partners and local families are staged to provide guidance and support for services as they are initiated. An evaluation team is assembled to develop a formal evaluation once the program is stablized in winter of 2024 -2025. Sustainable funding activities will be expanded in 2024 to support the next three years of funding through the evaluation cycle. 0 40248 40248 Thomas Brinsko President and Chair of the Board of Directors 20 0 0 0 Andrew Nelson Treasurer and Vice Chair of the Board of Directors 20 0 0 0 Amy Schneider Member, Board of Directors 5 0 0 0 Chris Kost Member, Board of Directors 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 AZ LivFree Bookkeeping co Chris Kocina 421 N 2nd Street River Falls WI 54022 6513471817 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 0 64210 20000 84210 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 64210 20000 84210 0 64210 20000 84210 0 0 0 0 0 0 64210 20000 84210 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 64210 20000 84210 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 $1,606 for web site service, web address, cyber security, insurance Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 24 equipment including computer and printer We filed the 990n the first two years of our existence. This third year we were just above the threshold requiring a 990EZ. As founder, I, Andy Nelson, filled out the 990EZ IRS form and attempted to submit. After several attempts I was informed I must use a certified vendor to submit the form. Finding this out a couple of days prior to the deadline, gave me no time to successfully engage a vendor to submit the return. I engaged form900online to submit on my behalf before the deadline but was not able to reenter all of the data from my completed 990EZ form to their software form in time. Our professional bookkeeper is not a tax form filer so this task was left to me. Doing the best I can. Delayed with some health challenges, not understanding the requirement to engage a vender to submit and being new I am requesting permission to file late. Thank You.