2025-05-15T14:56:34-05:00 2024-12-31 205788602 Glaser and Company LLC 1859 Summerville Ave Suite 800 Charleston SC 29405 990 2024-01-01 383714959 Charleston Moves CHAR 8439407420 PO Box 30561 Charleston SC 29417 Katherine S Zimmerman Executive Director 8439407420 2025-05-15 1 1 Erik Glaser CPA P00724565 8438490179 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Katherine S Zimmerman PO Box 30561 Charleston SC 29417 219845 0 X https://charlestonmoves.org/ X 2005 SC Charleston Moves is a nonprofit organization advocating for a connected, safe, accessible and equitable Charleston County - where each of us has a choice in how we move from one place to another. 13 13 2 37 0 0 247100 208062 0 0 3789 4652 -4061 -5606 246828 207108 0 0 0 0 178953 180742 0 0 8010 44106 40596 223059 221338 23769 -14230 307661 294558 2787 3914 304874 290644 X Charleston Moves envisions a connected community where safe transportation choice enhances access to essential resources like food, healthcare and employment, fostering equity and well-being for all. We envision strong, diverse neighborhoods where school children, folks in wheelchairs, and people with canes cross streets safely in their own time. We see streets lined with homes, bustling shops and restaurants. We see bridges and waterways where people on bicycles and on foot travel alongside buses and cars on their way to work, to the doctor, to the grocery store freely and safely. 0 0 203478 We believe in a connected Charleston, and approach advocacy via multiple channels. We provide input on proposed projects, plans and policies. We serve on committees, attend public meetings, and coordinate public input. We encourage agencies to incorporate bicycle/pedestrian/transit user data into their project assessments, and our staff and volunteers conduct bike/ped counts, interviews and surveys at key locations. We share the data we collect with our advocates, relevant planners, and elected officials for project design, audits, and even grant applications to fund infrastructure. We set up outdoor pop-ups, tables at events, and utilize social media, email and earned media for citizens to engage, sign petitions, and give testimonials on projects and action items. This ensures a strong and diverse voice for multi-modal infrastructure; we partner with varying organizations to build coalitions around priority projects. We communicate with decision makers through meetings, presentations, questionnaires, walking audits and bike rides to educate them on the importance of safe multi-modal infrastructure, update them on competitive funding opportunities for projects, and provide salient policy changes. Physical demonstrations of the large-scale citizen support that exists for safe multi-modal infrastructure is vital to our work. For the 2024 year, 92 cents of every dollar spent went to our charitable programs.What We Are Doing:Bridges Front-and-Center Bridges should serve as connectors instead of barriers. For the new Ashley River Bicycle & Pedestrian Bridge, we have coordinated with the City of Charleston on an ad hoc basis as they updated designs and contracts for the new Ashley River Bicycle & Pedestrian Bridge. Intersections for the project have gone through technical review, as has an updated permit for lessened environmental impacts. Our par-ticipation on the City's ad hoc wayfinding committee for citywide trails has resulted in signage along the West Ashley Greenway and Bikeway, connecting the future bridge to the existing bike/ped network. Collaborating with our coalition and Charleston County, we assisted with the County's third and fourth federal grant applications to USDOT for a Better North Bridge. Our work included many hours of community outreach and engagement, meeting with state legislators, compiling letters of support, and encouraging stakeholders to reach out to their Congressional offices. We also conducted research for the grant application, encouraged the County to vote in favor of applying, helped with the merit crite-ria narrative review, researched other funding opportunities, and participated in the grant debriefing with federal staff. We have also continued advocating for projects that will ultimately connect to the Better North Bridge. Locally, we made sure that Better North Bridge was included on a proposed coun-ty sales tax referendum project list, regardless of whether the referendum was approved by the vot-ers. We also participated in the public process to oppose an industrial boat manufacturer from getting a rezoning in order to construct its facility at the foot of the proposed Better North Bridge. We also engaged with SCDOT on their repair plan for Wonders' Way on the Ravenel Bridge, and supported the City of Charleston and the public on the installation of the new Beresford Creek Bridge with a multi-use path. Complete Streets We mobilized and advocated for robust multi-modal space and design in key projects, and our en-gagement led to improved designs, additional funding and/or leveraged opportunities.We hosted bicycle and pedestrian counts for key intersections along Rifle Range Road in Mount Pleas-ant, and Durant Avenue in North Charleston. We reviewed SCDOT's Road Safety Audit reports for Dorchester Road, the Crosstown, Highway 61, Savannah Highway, and Folly Road. Charleston Moves has formally supported Mount Pleasant Way, a planned town-wide bicycle and pe-destrian system. We have submitted support letters for greenbelt funding for specific segments, and encouraged public input during comment sessions, as well as participation in community meetings, for areas including: Mathis Ferry Phases 1 & 2, Long Point Trail, Rifle Range Trail, Venning Trail. During the year, funding was awarded from the state for Phase 1 of Mathis Ferry Trail, and the region's first bike box as well as other complete streets improvements were installed at Coleman Boulevard/Patriots Point Boulevard/Magrath Darby Boulevard. Also installed were the Mount Pleasant Way segments for All American Boulevard and the Hamlin Trail. We have continued our campaign of petition signatures, survey responses, interviews and counts in support of our request for the City of North Charleston to develop a master bicycle and pedestrian plan. We met with Mayor Burgess and staff to talk through potential funding opportunities via grants. We also coordinated with a volunteer designer who pulled together cross-section design examples for Spruill, Montague, and Rhett Avenues, as well as Park Circle. We participated in the Thriving Communi-ties tour of Reynolds Avenue and Remount Road. We advocated for a set of municipal matches for a potential federal grant for Rethink Folly Road, and participated on the Arctic Avenue improvements proposal with City of Folly Beach. We worked with the City of Charleston to get participation and engagement for their public meeting and comment period on a Meeting Street Road road diet. We also started a petition to show a groundswell of support, and participated in stakeholder meetings and design conversations. We engaged on Morrison Drive safety improvements, as well as continued to support King Street im-provements. We walked the Riverland Drive corridor with project staff and council members. Policy UpdatesWe successfully encouraged the City of Folly Beach to invest in a Safety Action Plan and to host a public meeting and survey, and we coordinated with the City of Charleston to learn more about their federal SMART grant for Calhoun Street. We participated in the transportation workgroup for the Palmetto Air Quality Collaborative to develop the South Carolina Priority Climate Action Plan (PCAP). We engaged in BCDCOG Charleston Area Transportation Study (CHATS) meetings, as well as Low-country Rapid Transit transit oriented development (TOD) planning meetings. LeadershipCharleston Moves provides strong leadership and resources for several proposed projects and plans throughout the county, ensuring people who ride bikes, walk and take public transit are represented throughout the planning, designing and funding processes. In addition to what is listed in specific afore-mentioned projects, we participate on the following committees and working groups:> Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester Council of Governments (BCDCOG) Charleston Area Transportation Study (CHATS) Transportation Enhancement Committee> BCDCOG Downtown Charleston Transit Study Technical Advisory Group> BCDCOG LCRT Transit Oriented Development (TOD) Stakeholders> BCDCOG US 52 Bus Rapid Transit Feasibility Stakeholder Working Group> City of Charleston Meeting Street Road Stakeholder Group> City of Charleston Zoning Rewrite Technical Advisory Committee> City of Folly Beach Arctic Avenue Stakeholder Committee> Rethink Folly Road Steering Committee> Palmetto Air Quality Collaborative transportation workgroup> SCDOT Momentum 2050 Stakeholder Committee> SCDOT Road Safety Audit Stakeholder Committees > Union Pier Community Advisory CommitteeMany of these committees address portions of our signature 32-mile Battery2Beach (B2B) route.Critical MassWe rallied public participation in a broad array of project proposals, including but not limited to: > Johns Island: Main Road Segment C public engagement > Downtown: City of Charleston Peninsula Plan open houses and public input; CARTA's Downtown Transit Study survey and public meetings > West Ashley: Ashley River Road safety improvements petition; Ashley Landing public meeting > Folly Beach: senior transportation survey participation > North Charleston: Highway 78 virtual meeting and comment period; Airport Connector Road public meeting and comment period > Mount Pleasant: Highway 41 SCDHEC permit comment period > Regional: Charleston County Climate Action Plan public input + council votes; Palmetto Air Quality Collaborative (PAQC) webinars; SCDOT Statewide Rail Plan virtual meeting and survey; SCDOT East Coast Greenway Feasibility Study public comments; SCDOT Statewide Multi-Modal Plan survey 203478 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 X 13 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 SC X X Lisa McDonald Metts 8439407420 PO Box 30561 Charleston SC 29417 Sarah Hays Chair 0.50 X X 0 0 0 LeGrand Elebash Vice Chair 0.25 X X 0 0 0 Danielle Bowen Scheurer MSCR MD Secretary 0.25 X X 0 0 0 Scott Walker Treasurer 0.25 X X 0 0 0 Curtis Dayson Director 0.25 X 0 0 0 Morgan Hughey Director 0.25 X 0 0 0 Mary Martinich PLA ASLA Director 0.25 X 0 0 0 John Mitchell Director 0.25 X 0 0 0 Femi Oyediran Director 0.13 X 0 0 0 Brooks Reitz Director 0.06 X 0 0 0 LaToya Sulton Director 0.25 X 0 0 0 Morgan Grimes Director 0.25 X 0 0 0 Mary Martinich Tweel PLA Director 0.25 X 0 0 0 Katherine S Zimmerman Executive Director 70.00 X 88000 0 7873 88000 0 7873 0 0 0 0 0 40340 167722 208062 4652 4652 6630 40340 12457 -5827 -5827 501 280 221 221 207108 221 0 -1175 95873 86285 4794 4794 63000 61740 1260 9545 9259 286 12324 11452 359 513 3095 3095 750 750 2660 2500 80 80 6852 6510 342 16950 15932 509 509 4 4 4279 4279 5531 4292 1013 226 Membership Dues 475 475 221338 203478 9850 8010 83622 66575 118691 118691 104023 107967 1325 1325 307661 294558 2787 3914 2787 3914 X 279864 265634 25010 25010 304874 290644 307661 294558 -14230 0 X X 0 0 0 X 181584 205899 202628 247100 208062 1045273 220 18 656 501 1395 181804 205917 202628 247756 208563 1046668 12609 13195 13624 8640 7100 55168 0 12609 13195 13624 8640 7100 55168 991500 855 186 200 3789 4652 9682 855 186 200 3789 4652 9682 12833 12833 182659 206103 215661 251545 213215 1069183 0.92730 0.91100 0.00910 0.01000 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Pedal & Panache 46970 40340 6630 8292 1200 2965 46970 40340 6630 8292 1200 2965 12457 -5827 Form 990, Part III, Line 4a, Program Service Accomplishments - Continued: We hosted our annual Mobility Month program, with an impressive number of participants. May's Mo-bility Month events are aimed at bringing the community together to elevate multi-modal accomplish-ments, provide updates on our priority projects, and offer calls to action, as well as volunteer opportu-nities, to advance our people-powered movement. Critical mass is of critical importance as we work to build widespread, diverse community support and demonstrate how safe, equitable infrastructure that works for all, benefits all. We tied our events to advocacy around the Meeting Street Road road diet, Union Pier redevelopment, Better North Bridge, a North Charleston Safety Action Plan, and the Ashley River Bridge. We also hosted our annual gala, Pedal & Panache, elevating our movement through ac-tion and a celebration of progress. Our organizing and data collection work this year resulted in: - the distribution of more than 100 free bike light sets and 51 educational bi-folds to community mem-bers to ensure economic access to safety is not a barrier to survival; - the completion of 10 hours of bike/ped counts with our volunteers in locations where our community is particularly vulnerable, generating extremely valuable data to back up our requests for more and better people-oriented designs in transportation projects; - the support of our neighbors in environmental justice and lower-income communities that lack reliable internet access, by attending community-led events and gatherings, to help ensure all voices are rep-resented and that everyone has a seat at the table; - the investment of approximately $5M in public complete streets planning and improvements; - the construction of bike parking, the first bike box in the Lowcountry, several miles of multi-use paths on James Island, West Ashley, Johns Island, Mount Pleasant and Daniel Island, and several miles of sidewalks and crosswalks on James Island and West Ashley. Our History In 1993, the Charleston Bicycle Advocacy Group (CBAG) was founded to elevate support for bicyclists in and around Charleston. The group campaigned for and successfully achieved bicycle lanes on Cole-man Boulevard in Mount Pleasant, despite opposition from the Department of Transportation. CBAG lobbied successfully for bicycle racks on buses, for improved cycling access to the Isle of Palms and served on the regional transportation board, voting for sidewalk improvements (especially near schools) and miles of bike paths near county parks. In the early 2000s, CBAG's lobbying efforts for bike and pedestrian access on the newly-proposed Ravenel Bridge met fierce opposition from the South Carolina Department of Transportation, but it also attracted wide support from high-profile individuals and institutions. Building a groundswell of support for the additional lane, the final bridge plan included a 12-foot wide bicycle and pedestrian path. It also helped shift the focus for CBAG, which changed its name to Charleston Moves in 2005, in recogni-tion of a broader mission: to promote active modes of transportation such as biking and walking, and taking the bus. In 2009, Charleston Moves launched the Battery2Beach Route initiative, working with multiple govern-ment agencies on a vision of 32 miles of continuous bike and pedestrian lanes connecting major beach-es in the Charleston area with the iconic Battery at the foot of the Charleston peninsula. At least 40% of the route is complete, with more segments in the works. Charleston Moves continues to expand the notion of what transportation is, what it should be and what it can be by working with local municipalities, agencies and other organizations that share its vision of a community connected by mobility options. With a staff of two, Charleston Moves fights for the public's right to safe streets, paths and bridges. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11b The 990 is provided to the board of directors for a comment period. Upon completion of the comment period, and any comments are addressed, the Form 990 is efiled. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 12c The board of directors signs an annual conflict of interest attestation form. Further, the board is encouraged to discuss any changes during the year as they arise. Per Charleston Moves' Conflict of Interest Policy, after there has been disclosure of a potential conflict and after gathering any relevant information from the concerned director, officer or key person, the Governance Committee shall determine whether there is a conflict of interest. If the Governance Committee determines that there is a conflict of interest, it shall refer the matter to the Board of Directors. The board may seek information from the director, officer or key person with the conflict prior to beginning deliberation and reaching a decision on the matter. However, a conflicted person shall not be present during the discussion or vote on the matter. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 15 The executive director's salary is evaluated periodically by the board of directors upon review of the budget. The board of directors reviews and approves all other employees' pay aspart of the budget process as developed by the Executive Director. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 19 Governing documents are made available to the public upon request at the Organization's office. Form 990, Part XII, Line 1: Modified Cash