2011-10-17T08:15:59-05:00 2010-12-31 EIDE BAILLY LLP 4310 17TH AVE S PO BOX 2545 FARGO ND 581082545 990 2010-01-01 200520386 IMPACT FOUNDATION IMPA 7012710263 4152 30TH AVE S No 102 FARGO ND 581048403 J Patrick Traynor 7012710263 2011-10-11 1 LISA CHAFFEE CPA 7012398500 2011-10-11 2010 2016-03-07 17:11:31Z J Patrick Traynor 4152 30TH AVE S No 102 FARGO ND 581048403 2108841 0 X www.impactfdn.org X 2003 ND Build capacity of nonprofits, businesses & individuals to maximize their community impact. 4 3 9 3 0 0 1759316 2018134 51351 56316 17840 34391 0 0 1828507 2108841 233241 518852 0 0 305606 237914 0 0 10623 1067444 924167 1606291 1680933 222216 427908 1322101 1790624 856173 896788 465928 893836 X The mission of Impact Foundation is to build the capacity of nonprofits, businesses, and individuals to maximize their community impact with an overall goal to dramatically improve its nonprofit partners' capacity to produce superior results. Impact Foundation operates exclusively for charitable scientific and educational purposes. To meet its primary purpose, the Foundation receives and administers donations, makes contributions to, and provides assistance to other nonprofit organizations. The Foundation has the power to establish, own, operate, control, conduct and maintain various organizations and programs to meet its primary purpose. Impact operates charitable initiatives designed to measurably improve society in areas including: economic development; health and healthcare access; education and training; and other philanthropic areas identified by donors. 0 0 1140037 325971 25620 Organizational EffectivenessImpact and its support organization, Achievements Unlimited Foundation, (the "Foundations") recognize that many nonprofit organizations often lack expertise and financial resources to invest in critical organizational assessments, strategic planning and highly effective fundraising efforts to ensure their organization's effectiveness and sustainability over the long-term. The Foundations partnered with Dakota Medical Foundation to provide support and promote education and training sessions for nonprofit partner organizations through the Impact Institute. The Impact Institute has provided training to over 300 partner nonprofit organizations since its 2005 inception. A multi-year $452,510 Bush Foundation grant was awarded in 2007 to support statewide capacity building efforts of the Impact Institute. In 2008, the Bush Foundation awarded a $2.0 million grant to Achievements Unlimited Foundation to expand Impact Institute training and education conferences throughout North Dakota.Board and Management Training: Training boards and key management personnel to operate their organizations in a highly effective and efficient manner is a key education focus for the Foundations. The Foundations have encouraged many area nonprofit organizations to attend the Impact Institute's various education and training programs. Strategic Planning Training and Services: The Institute provides nonprofit organizations with education and training on strategic planning, organizational assessments with follow-up technical support on plan implementations. Over 60 nonprofit organizations have participated in the training and services provided to develop and implement organizational strategic plans. High Impact Fundraising Training: Educating and training organizations to become effective fundraisers is a key program at the Impact Institute. Professional trainers using highly structured and effective training methods and follow-up activities have provided intensive training to over 170 organizations.High Impact Board Series Training: The Foundations, in partnership with Dakota Medical Foundation, developed and identified the key elements of high impact organizations and developed a corresponding five session training program for board members and executives. Over 150 participants attended the series of education sessions.Emerging Leaders Program: The Foundations, in partnership with Dakota Medical Foundation, designed this education series to help developing leaders build their skills and network with others to successfully transition into executive leadership roles. 21 nonprofit staff participated in the first series of education sessions.Leadership Advanced North Dakota (LAND): The Foundations, in partnership with Dakota Medical Foundation, designed and developed an education program for nonprofit executives to create a network of empowered, innovative, and resilient executives capable of navigating change and moving their organizations toward social innovation with much greater impact. Over 28 executives participated in the first program held in 2010.Shared Services Initiative: The Foundations developed a pilot Management Services Organization (MSO) concept to provide shared administrative services in order to reduce the costs associated with managing their programs. Strategic restructuring seminars were held across North Dakota with over 180 nonprofit board and staff members attending.High Impact Seal of Distinction Program: The Foundations, in partnership and collaboration with Dakota Medical Foundation, developed this program as the "capstone" for its series of education and training programs. The program includes an organizational assessment and development plan, additional executive leadership training, plan implementation support and annual renewals. Completion of the program is designed to build the capacity of executives to take their organizations from functioning well to superior performing, high impact organizations. The inaugural program included the participation of the Impact Foundation, Dakota Medical Foundation and 12 other nonprofit organizations' board of directors and executive staff.Grant Writing: The Foundations provide grant writing technical support to its partner nonprofit organizations aiming to increase resources for their programs and services. Dakota Medical Charities provided a multi-year grant that initially funded this initiative in 2005. Impact continues to leverage those funds by assisting other nonprofit organizations with their fundraising efforts through writing effective grant applications. Grant writing efforts to date have resulted in 31 grants awarded totaling $6,138,610.High Impact Philanthropy (HIP): The Foundations, in partnership with Dakota Medical Foundation, initiated this program to unite outstanding community funding organizations and private donors to research and discuss various societal problems and issues in the region with the goal of a common focus and more coordinated, strategies to achieve a greater impact in the community. The initial group of 15 organizations and community leaders came to a consensus to focus the HIP group's initial efforts on improving the internal and external assets of youth in the Fargo-Moorhead (FM) area. The initial goals of the HIP Initiative are: 1) Engaging youth, youth development organizations and others to develop a coordinated strategy to make the FM area a place where all youth can maximize their potential; 2) hold a Youth Development Summit; 3) release an environmental scan of organizations serving youth in the FM area that includes organization size, areas of focus, and collaboration activities; 4) develop a budget and identify an individual to coordinate, plan and implement the next phases for the HIP group.The HIP Initiative was launched in the spring of 2009 with support from the Otto Bremer, Bush and Dakota Medical Foundations. The Impact Institute partnered with Mark Kramer, Founder and Managing Director of FSG, author of several influential articles and one of the leading experts in the field of philanthropy, to facilitate the HIP initiative. The goal of HIP is to inspire funders to adopt a new approach to more strategically and collaboratively solve societal issues in the region. The HIP steering committee is comprised of foundation, corporate and individual donors that invest over $75 million annually to support various charitable endeavors in the region. The steering committee's initial focus is to build the assets of youth living in Cass and Clay counties. Dr. Rathge of the North Dakota Data Center has conducted an inventory of all organizations in Cass and Clay counties that are working on youth asset building, including: organizational budget size, youth asset building areas, measures of performance, and interaction with other organizations in the area. 174747 2710 Economic DevelopmentThe Foundations support the economic development of North Dakota communities by initiating and funding various initiatives directed at assisting veteran, women's, and Native American small businesses located in the less populated areas of North Dakota. Grants from the USDA Office of Rural Development, North Dakota Department of Commerce, and Dakota Certified Development Corporation established the procurement assistance program (PAC) in 2005 to provide research, technical assistance, and training to North Dakota small businesses assisting them in securing federal and state government contracts for their goods and services.The Otto Bremer Foundation provided Impact with a $240,000 multi-year grant in 2008 to establish a Veteran's Entrepreneurship Assistance Program. This funding allowed the PAC to assist veterans to start and expand their businesses by securing government contracts. Funding from the USDA Office of Rural Development has allowed this program to assist businesses in key rural communities throughout the state. Through 2010, technical assistance has been provided to over 241 North Dakota businesses including 106 Native American and 54 veteran owned businesses and representing 90% of the current 8(a)/Small Disadvantaged Business certified companies. The PAC has provided 27 workshops with over 467 attendees. Over 191 bids have been submitted with 101 contracts obtained totaling over $162 million of which $111 million were Native American business contract dollars. Over 649 North Dakota jobs have been created and/or retained.The Foundations have entered into a 30-year loan commitment with the USDA Intermediary Loan Program (IRP) through the Office of Rural Development in 2007. The IRP created a $937,500 pool of funds available to qualifying North Dakota businesses at low interest rates. The revolving pool provides an ongoing source of revolving loans to small businesses from the debt service borrowers repay. Dakota Certified Development Corporation (DCDC) provided a grant to Impact to meet the equity requirement under the terms of the USDA loan with Impact. DCDC manages the loan program under an agreement with Impact. As of 12/31/2010 6 loans totaling over $674,000 have been provided to borrowers. DCDC has established a charitable fund at the Foundations that will provide funding for future economic development projects to benefit the region. 235536 192881 Community SupportThe Foundation provides grants to support community events, statewide nonprofit organizations and other societal improvement initiatives. Grants were provided for these purposes from established named funds and from other grants and donor contributions to the Foundation. Impact provided support to the local area Fill-the-Dome program to restock local food shelters. The Foundation established a Clubs Fore Kids Initiative to promote youth golf programs by providing clubs, practice and play opportunities to those unable to afford the cost of participating. The Foundations have given back to North Dakota communities impacted by natural disasters. During 2009 and 2010, the Foundations worked closely with Red River Valley community leaders to create funds at Impact to receive grants and donor contributions to provide financial support for communities affected by the 2009 and 2010 flooding of the Red River. Impact coordinated with community committees to distribute funds to nonprofit organizations that provided relief to flood victims. The funds remain in effect to collect contributions and to distribute funds for future flooding events. 71835 27986 Give While You Live Initative (GWYL)With grants from Dakota Medical Foundation, Alex Stern Family Foundation and various individual and corporate contributions, Impact launched the GiveBack Initiative in 2006 to inspire donors to substantially increase and improve the impact of their giving of time, talent, and treasure in North Dakota and western Minnesota communities. Initiative strategies have focused on education and training for nonprofit organizations to become highly proficient fundraisers and more operationally efficient and effective. Another key focus is providing education and training for donors and volunteers in the area through marketing, education, and training of businesses and nonprofit organizations. The initiative has created new ways of thinking and new approaches to maximize opportunities presented with our region's significant wealth transfer and substantial existing and potential volunteer workforce.North Dakota Wealth Transfer: The Foundations commissioned and funded a North Dakota wealth transfer study in 2005 conducted by the Center on Wealth and Philanthropy at Boston College in Boston, Massachusetts (Center). Impact has presented the North Dakota Wealth Transfer Study to donors, community leaders, nonprofit organizations, attorneys, accountants, financial advisors, bank, and trust personnel in several North Dakota communities. The Center's study concluded that through 2055 North Dakota estates will give over $38 billion to charity and pay an estimated $55.3 billion in estate taxes. Under the GiveBack Initiative basic strategies are presented to educate donors on how to reduce the outflow of capital (estate taxes) from our region through increased charitable giving and better estate planning. Impact has contracted with the Center to produce a new Wealth Transfer Micro-simulation Model that will provide new estimates for North Dakota county-by-county wealth transfer data along with more recent U.S. data that will be completed in 2011.Give While You Live: The website (www.impactgiveback.org) is designed to provide a one-stop information resource for donors to conveniently locate, review, and connect with over 350 nonprofit organizations in the region. Nonprofit organizations in North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota are encouraged to place their organizational information on the website to easily connect with donors of time, talent and treasure. Donors are able to research and identify their favorite nonprofit organizations and to make contributions directly online using their credit card or purchase gift cards that are redeemed as contributions to listed organizations. Nonprofit organizations are able to utilize the website to receive contributions, process event registrations, and conduct fundraising auctions. Impact partners with Dakota Medical Foundation to sponsor an annual Giving Hearts Day around Valentine's Day using the capabilities of the GiveBack online giving website. As of May 2011 the online giving website has processed about 20,000 contributions totaling over $3.0 million since its 2007 implementation.Volunteer Initiative: The Foundations partnered with Dakota Medical Foundation in 2007 to implement a Volunteer Initiative designed to help nonprofit organizations more effectively recruit, train, manage and retain volunteers. Volunteer Management Training was held with 25 nonprofit organizations represented by 30 individuals participating in the training. The success of the training programs led to the establishment of Volunteer Management Advanced Leadership training programs resulting in 11 nonprofit organizations participating in focused monthly training sessions. The Foundations partnered with FirstLink to sponsor a Regional Conference on Volunteer Management and Leadership seminar in 2009 resulting in over 100 participants from North Dakota and Minnesota attending. The GiveBack website www.impactgiveback.org includes a volunteer page that provides the capability for nonprofit organizations to list their volunteer opportunities and to track the volunteer's time spent. An Impact Institute study conducted with 6 partner nonprofit organizations over a 7-month period identified a monthly average of 615 volunteers in different positions generating over 2,478 volunteer hours correlating to an economic impact of approximately $337,668 in wages.Giving Hearts Day Initiative: The Foundations partnered with Dakota Medical Foundation to establish this Initiative to promote charitable giving in the region. The online giving environment expands the capacity of area nonprofit organizations to efficiently raise funds for their programs. The online giving website at www.impactgiveback.org is used to promote the annual Giving Hearts Day each February and provides donors with an easy-to-use website to make online contributions to their favorite charitable organizations.The Giving Hearts Day Initiative generated over 10,200 donor contributions totaling over $1.9 million since its 2008 implementation. The Giving Hearts Day has resulted in over $2.6 million in contributions to community nonprofit organizations.Veteran Emergency Charitable Fund: This Fund was established at Impact Foundation to receive charitable contributions from donors to support the emergency needs of North Dakota veterans and their eligible dependents not covered under current federal or state programs. Impact has partnered with the North Dakota Veterans Affairs office to determine eligible veterans and their funding needs. Impact has defined a charitable class of North Dakota veterans to meet the requirements for distributions from the Impact charitable fund as determined and approved by the fund advisors. On November 11, 2010 Impact established the initial Veterans Giving Day, an annual event that raises charitable contributions for the Fund utilizing the GiveBack online giving website and other means. 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Grant agreements require periodic and final progress reporting and return of unspent grant funds. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 2 J Patrick Traynor and John Bertel have a Business Relationship. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 8b There are no committees with the authority to act on behalf of the board. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11 A copy of the final Form 990 is provided to each voting board member for their review prior to filing. The filed Form 990 will be an agenda item at the next scheduled board meeting for management to review with board members. Actions taken will be so noted in the minutes of the board. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 12c Board members and staff are required to review the conflict policy and declare any conflicts annually. In addition the administrative assistant notifies the Executive Director of any other conflicts that may arise during the year. If there are any conflicts, the board is made aware of them and the board member with a conflict is asked to abstain from voting. The process would be duly noted in the minutes. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 15a The Executive Director's performance is reviewed annually by the board members, excluding the Executive Director. Compensation is compared using the Council on Foundations annual salary survey and compared to other foundations of similar size and scope using their Form 990. Compensation changes are approved by vote of the board with the Executive Director abstaining from voting. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 19 These documents are made available to the public upon request. Form 990, Part VII J Patrick Traynor also devotes about 10 hours to Achievements Unlimited Foundation, a related organization. Dan Carey, John Bertel and Susan Mathison devote about 1 hour to Achievements Unlimited Foundation. 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