Operating Documents & Governance

Officers: Steve Kerstein - Pres., Chris Amery - V.P., Parker Rice - Treasurer, Jonathan Klein - Secretary, Kaye Bernon

Board Member Documents:
List of Current Board Member Contacts, Term Date, Email, Committee, etc. (October 11, 2024)
Board of Directors 2024-2025 Affiliates / Advisory Assessment (September 16, 2024)
Directors Pledge & Legal Responsibilities (2024 Signatures required)
Board of Directors Conflict of Interest Document (2024 Signatures required)
Child Nutrition Income Eligibility Fact Sheet 2024-2025
Internal Research - Poverty in our Footprint (2024)

Creation of Staggered Board - Class I II III Directors (September 2019)

Active BOD Terms:
Steve (2012) 2nd Term - Pres expires 2024 / board member expires 2025
Abbe (2019) Class 3 - need to vote in June 2024 to remain on board 3 year term and 1 year officer 2025
Parker (2016) Class 2 - approved for another board term expires 2026 / treasurer expires 2024
Jon (2014) 2nd Term - approved for another board term expires 2025 / secretary expires 2024
Next wave:

Evan (2021) Class 1 - expires 2024 for vote of another term
Amy (2022) Class II - expires 2025 final term
Jennifer (2022) Class II - expires 2025 for vote of another term
Kim (2023) approved for another board term expires 2026
Jeff (2023) Class 3 - expires 2026
Chris (2023) Class 3 - expires 2026

Other: Bylaws (WIP Update meeting October 5, 2019)

Insurance Policies

Financials

Parker Rice, Treasurer / Committee: Steve, Evan, Jen, Chris (12/2023)
Tax Returns 2021-2022 Form 990
Tax Return 2022-2023 Form 990

Commercial Package for Storage 2024-2027
- Policy Summary
- Commercial Package Policy

**Financials Report for Feb 2025 - Bank Statements, Investment Statement, Tammy’s Report Comparison + Update

Investment Accounts - Park Place Financial Advisors (Investor360)
Commonwealth Investment Statement - October-November 2024

Board Meeting Minutes & Documents

Jonathan Klein, Secretary

FY25
August 26, 2024 / October 10, 2024 / December 19, 2024 / February 13, 2025

FY24
July 9, 2023: BOD Meeting Cancelled
August 9, 2023: Meeting Minutes, December 16, 2023, February 10, 2024, May 9, 2024

2024-2025 Board Meeting Calendar
August 26 6-8PM October 10 4-6PM December 19 4-6PM February 13 5-7PM (In person) April 10 4-6PM May 8 4-6PM June 12 4-6PM

Grant Committee - Amy McHugh (Chair)

Committee: Evan Grossman, Jennifer Leyton, Jeff Cavagnino, Matt Jones, Tami Blanchard
Advisory: MaryBeth Adelson / Karen Carreira
FY25 Budget Approval - Spending - FY24 History

Grants Committee Mission Document (2021)

FY24 BOD Approved Grants/Programs (Approved & Added August 2023)
FY24 BOD Approved Grants Update - September Granting
Summary of Grants Awarded 2023-2024
Link to FY24 Grant Award Summary

Meetings & Deadlines of Tasks 2025:

April 16 (Meeting new applicants/orgs), May 5 (all Q’s to ED about grants), May 13th (Round 1: April grant applications review), May 16th (Submit Rubric Scores to EG), May 20th (Round 2: April grant applications review) final scores
August 19 / October 21 (meeting to vote on September grants) / December 16th

Granting Cycles: September 1-September 30 <$5k , December 1-December 30 <$5k, April 1-April 30th $$$

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INSTRUCTIONS FOR GRANT APPLICATION REVIEW & SCORING - FY25 THE RUBRIC SPREADSHEET
Before Using, you need to make a copy
1 Go to the File menu and select Make a copy
2 Give it any name (preferably with your name in it)
3 Close out the original template (Called Str Fndtn Grant review - for use May...) and work on the new copy
4 Evaluate the grants in the new copy you made
5 After you have evaluated the grants, click on the Share button
6 Share with EvanGrossman65@gmail.com and Tammy@strattonfoundation.com
7 Make sure the "Notify people" box is checked
8 Under message, put something like "This is Evan, here are my grant eval.s"
9 We'll copy these back into a master spreadsheet for review at the meeting