2018-11-06T14:46:04-08:00 2017-12-31 Crosby & Kaneda CPAs LLP 1970 Broadway STE 930 Oakland CA 94612 990 2017-01-01 680359676 Occidental Arts and Ecology Center OCCI 7078741557 15290 Coleman Valley Road Occidental CA 95465 Dave Henson Executive Dir. 2018-11-06 true Adele Kaneda P01664922 5108352727 2017 2018-06-14 16:35:46Z Dave Henson 15290 Coleman Valley Rd Occidental CA 95465 4621627 false false X www.oaec.org X 1997 CA An education and advocacy center and organic farm working towards the restoration of bio-cultural diversity by cultivating ecological literacy and building the capacity of leaders to guide their communities to an ecologically regenerative, economically viable, and socially just future. 5 4 67 370 0 941394 2972852 476229 538036 25009 9788 10074 2384 1452706 3523060 35000 67133 0 1193094 1275528 0 167999 665838 601973 1893932 1944634 -441226 1578426 4461589 6026596 370616 357197 4090973 5669399 The Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (OAEC) is a nonprofit organic horticulture, arts and ecology education and community organizing training center in Northern California's Sonoma County. OAEC is located on an 80-acre site with organic gardens and orchards, coastal prairie grasslands, and mixed forests. OAECs mission includes working to: 1. Preserve and restore native and agricultural biodiversity and healthy ecosystems, with a particular focus on the northern California bioregion, 2. Preserve and propagate biodiversity in open-pollinated and heirloom varieties of food, fiber and medicinal horticultural and agricultural crops, 3. Support appropriate-scale ecological agriculture and sustainable local food systems, 4. Cultivate ecological literacy, especially within watershed communities, social change movements and public schools, 5. Create and model practical, sustainable, regional-scale alternatives to global corporatization and the economic paradigm that is dependent on growth and false false 951782 67133 513003 OAEC 2017 program accomplishments are partially expressed through our many inter-related programs, projects and partnerships. A representative sample of this program work includes:1. The Resilient Community Design / Permaculture Program, 2. The WATER Institute, 3. The Mother Garden Biodiversity Program, 4. The School Garden Teacher Training Project, 5. The Decentralized Water Policy Council Project, 6. The Legalize Compost Toilet Project, 7. The Performance Arts Program, 8. The Wildlands Biodiversity Program, 9. OAECs partnership with Movement Generation Justice and Ecology Project, 10. OAECs partnership with the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria. Each of our programs, projects and partnerships use the same methods and strategies to achieve our public benefit mission, including:1. We Model Resiliency OAEC is a resiliency demonstration site, modeling dozens of practical personal and community-scale solutions to common challenges in the sustainable management of soil, water, food production, the restoration and preservation of biological and cultural diversity, and more effective ways to self-govern and manage economy. OAECs programs benefit from our more than twenty years of experience in developing and caring for our own 80-acre site, as well as supporting hundreds of other land-based projects and organizations.2. We Train Changemakers The transition to a just and sustainable economy will only be achieved if more individuals become ecologically literate changemakers. OAEC continues to develop workshops and advocacy campaigns that help train, support and inspire individuals and social movement leaders to apply an ecological lens to their already inspiring work.3. We Help Build the Capacity of Communities to Transform Toward Resilience OAEC strives to achieve a social change multiplier effect by training and building the capacity of whole communities to become more effective agents of rapid change. We work to foster ecological literacy and to empower diverse communities schools, local governments, public agencies, foundations, environmental and social justice organizations, farms and ranches, and policy coalitions to design their own place-based strategies to create the just transition towards a more regenerative culture and economy.4. We Work to Change the Rules of Governance and Economy We work to legalize and require sustainable economy, and to make illegal and dis-incentivize activities that subvert it. Sometimes on our own, but most often through broader advocacy alliances, we seek to change policy in the arenas of governance in which we are most likely to succeed a city or county council, school board, water agency, or state legislature or agency on issues that are ripe for change and move us toward a just and sustainable future. 458927 25033 The California Climate and Agriculture Network (CalCAN) is a statewide coalition co-founded and fiscally sponsored by OAEC that advances state and federal policy to realize the powerful climate solutions offered by sustainable and organic agriculture. We seek a widespread transition to sustainable and organic agricultural systems that are increasingly resilient, environmentally sound and healthy, and that provide climate benefits, protect our natural resources, sustain our food security, provide for economically vibrant agricultural communities, and maintain our finite agricultural lands. 2017 activities included:I. In 2017, CalCAN and its allies achieved key legislative accomplishments in the California legislature, including:* Secured $26 million in funding for natural and working lands adaptation in the cap-and-trade budget* Secured funding for agriculture in a bond measure (SB 5): $20 million for California Farmland Conservancy Program + $20 million for SWEEP + $10 million for the Healthy Soils Program* Lead advocates on SB 252 (signed): Improves transparency on new well drilling* Lead advocates on SB 732 (signed): Farmland conservation bill* Improved the design of two new climate and agriculture programs (Healthy Soils and Alternative Manure Management)* Supported AB 1348: The Farmer Equity Act, which establishes racial and gender equity priorities at CDFA* Improved the design of two new climate and agriculture programs (Healthy Soils and Alternative Manure Management)II. CalCAN, often with partner organizations and agencies, organized and hosted over a dozen educational events for farmers, ranchers and state agriculture and environment agency staff, including:* Held CalCAN's fifth "California Climate and Agriculture Summit", a two-day conference held at UC Davis for over 300 farmers, ranchers, researchers, agriculture professionals and policymakers working to better agriculture's contribution to climate solutions. * Held webinars on California's Healthy Soils Initiative* Meetings and webinars to support farmers and ranchers in applying for funding to support their efforts to adopt techniques that reduce GHG emissions and store more carbon in their soils (including for grants from the SALC, SWEEP, EQIP, AFRI and WCAHS programs.* Several Farm Tours to help inform state agency staff about dairy manure management strategies to reduce methane emissionsIII. Network Building and Leadership Cultivation In addition to our policy campaigns, CalCAN uses a number of tactics to build our base and cultivate new leaders from the agriculture, environmental and food systems arenas to take action on our initiatives. These include maintaining a website, blog and monthly newsletter; hosting a forum to provide an overview of California's agriculture and climate funding programs; profiling farmer leaders; producing fact sheets and reports; placing media stories; and, organizing a legislator education day, meetings and comment letters to educate policymakers about CalCAN issues and positions. 1410709 true true false true false false false false false false true false false true false true true false false false true true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true true true false false false false false false false false true 21 0 true 67 true false false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false false false false X 5 4 true false true false false false false true true false false true true true true true true true true false CA X Jenyng Wu 7078741557 15290 Coleman Valley Road Occidental CA 95465 Melissa Nelson President 0.50 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Susan McGovern Secretary 0.50 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Lori Maddox Treasurer 0.50 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Gopal Dayaneni Director 0.50 0.00 X 0 0 0 Janelle Orsi Director 0.50 0.00 X 0 0 0 Dave Henson Executive Dir. 52.00 0.00 X 79924 0 0 79924 0 false false false Hopkin Construction Inc 195 Montgomery Rd Sebastopol CA 95472 Building Contractor 1043496 1 21075 2951777 1098600 2972852 Fee for service 900099 451435 451435 Sales 900099 86601 86601 538036 740 740 0 0 0 1107615 1098567 9048 9048 9048 0 0 0 Miscellaneous 900099 2384 2384 2384 3523060 538036 12172 0 0 67133 67133 0 79924 23977 31970 23977 55385 44308 2769 8308 979163 698241 204192 76730 0 61154 42807 12231 6116 99902 69931 19980 9991 0 0 4914 4914 0 0 0 130966 130966 7319 7319 135411 94788 27082 13541 11929 8350 2386 1193 0 44287 31001 8857 4429 80051 56036 16010 8005 0 9417 9417 0 0 144756 101329 28951 14476 12331 8632 2466 1233 Due, licenses, service fees 20592 16474 4118 0 1944634 1410709 365926 167999 435200 823639 962461 1070816 300000 321258 63880 0 0 0 0 0 3233521 690134 2583365 2543387 0 0 0 0 159305 1224874 4461589 6026596 18293 32577 50800 24620 300000 300000 1523 370616 357197 X 2429320 2430905 1661653 3238494 4090973 5669399 4461589 6026596 1578426 X false true X true false X 1270342 3697327 3064169 941394 2972852 11946084 0 0 1270342 3697327 3064169 941394 2972852 11946084 5090738 6855346 1702 1169 24218 5984 740 33813 0 4014 2384 6398 11986295 2454733 0.57190 0.59530 X false false 5898 38356 44254 1900380 1944634 247232 61808 false 251899 263970 244697 247232 1007798 1511697 35116 41399 44794 44254 165563 62975 65993 61174 61808 251950 377925 2349 2303 1796 5898 12346 2330909 362352 1968557 789283 222880 566403 113329 104902 8427 2543387 Construction in progress 1221055 Deposits 3819 1224874 X 3523060 3523060 3523060 1944634 1944634 1944634 Part X : FIN48 Footnote The Organization has evaluated its current tax positions as of December 31, 2017 and is not aware of any significant uncertain tax positions for which a reserve would be necessary. true Central America & Caribbean 0 0 Grantmaking 67133 67133 67133 Central America Agroecolgy 63133 wire 1 false false false false false false Part I, Line 2 - Grantmakers Explanation For Monitoring Use of Funds Outside US We on rare occasion grant to project partners to further their and our shared missions.Each grant has a Memorandum of Understanding that specifically states 1) the purpose of the grant, 2) requirement to document all expenses related to the grant, and 3) the return of any unspent funds. Kendall Dunnnigan ED family mbr. 55385 Employee Comp false S McGovern D Henson Board/Officer 27283 Lease & cost sharing false Schedule L, Part V Supplemental Information Board member Susan McGovern and Executive Director Dave Henson are members of Sowing Circle LLC (the LLC). The organization leases land from the LLC and for year ended December 31, 2017 paid the LLC $10,830 in lease payments. The organization also paid the LLC $16,452 for shared costs for year ended December 31, 2017. In addition, the organization made capital improvements and purchased buildings located on the leased property and as of December 31, 2017 the net value of the buildings and improvements purchased was $3,678,868. X 3 1098600 FMV false false false Form 990, Part VI, Line 1a: Explanation of Delegated Broad Authority to Committee The Board of Directors supports the OAEC staff in creating a Staff Executive Council (SEC) to serve as the advising hub for organizational policy, financial, legal and human resources issues, fundraising, staffing, compensation and program development being coordinated by the Executive Director and the Finance and Operations Director. The SEC is also responsible for making recommendations to the Board for candidates to fill any open Board seats. Form 990, Part VI, Line 4: Description of Significant Changes to Organizational Documents The Board of Directors discussed and approved some revisions to the OAEC Bylaws at their August 2017 meeting. Areas of substantial revision included: changing the term of a Board member from one to three years; the recognition of the Staff Executive Committee (SEC), a body elected by the OAEC staff members, to serve as an advisory hub to the Executive Director and the Finance and Operations Director; and empowering the staff, through the SEC, to make Board candidate recommendations to the Board in the event of a Board vacancy needing to be filled. Form 990, Part VI, Line 11b: Form 990 Review Process OAECs Director of Finance and OAECs Executive Director compile then provide to an independent CPA all financials, documents, and narratives for the 990. The CPA drafts the return, and works with OAEC leadership to answer all questions. The draft 990 is then reviewed by the Executive Committee (headed by the Board Treasurer), as well as by other board members. After any questions are resolved by staff and the CPA to the Executive Committees satisfaction, a final 990 is submitted and made available to all board and staff members. Form 990, Part VI, Line 12c: Explanation of Monitoring and Enforcement of Conflicts All staff and directors are required to notify OAECs Director of Finance and OAECs Executive Director if they might engage in any activity that might involve a conflict of interest. Form 990, Part VI, Line 15a: Compensation Review & Approval Process - CEO, Top Management Annual compensation for all staff is determined by the Staff Executive Committee (SEC) which annually reviews published data about compensation with comparable non-profits in OAECs issue and geographical areas. Notes are kept on the process, deliberations and decisions. Form 990, Part VI, Line 15b: Compensation Review and Approval Process for Officers and Key Employees Annual compensation for all staff is determined by the Staff Executive Committee (SEC) which annually reviews published data about compensation with comparable non-profits in OAECs issue and geographical areas. Notes are kept on the process, deliberations and decisions. Form 990, Part VI, Line 19: Other Organization Documents Publicly Available Upon written or verbal request