| Return Reference | Explanation |
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| Form 990, Part III, Line 1 | To undertake international public health initiatives including pediatric surgery and prosthetic limbs for amputees and reduction in chronic pulmonary disease in collaboration with public supported domestic charities that address the needs of impoverished children and families in Guatamala. To best describe the purpose of its mission, the organization does business as Healthworks Collaborative, and often uses the acronym HWC, accompanied by its logo in its promotional materials. |
| Form 990, Part III, Line 4a | The Foundation collaborates in international public health efforts in order to improve health outcomas. Specifically, the Foundatioin identifies prospective collaborative partners formal organizations or individuals with which to work in order to reach specific health-related goals. These goals are achieved through medical and surgical missions, health related projects such as the installation of wood-burning cooking stoves in homes where families cook on a ring of stones on a dirt floor, education, food deliveries to the elderly and more. The Foundation focuses its work in the remote area of Alta Verapaz province of central Guatamala. In 2023, the primary work of the Foundation and its Executive Director, has been to co-manage the construction of a surgical clinic in the town of Santa Cruz in the Alta Verapaz Province, Guatamala and to procure medical and surgical equipment necessary to outfit the clinic upon its completion so that it can be a fully functioning surgical/medical center. |
| Form 990, Part III, Line 4b | In addition to the public health-related projects it supports in Guatemala, the Foundation, in February 2023, also collaborated with the non-profit agency Advance located in Phoenix, AZ and formerly doing business as Esperanca to sponsor a surgical team from Baylor, Scott White McLane Childrens Specialty Clinic located in Temple, TX to travel to Ecuador to provide surgeries to children. A total of 49 life-changing and or life-saving surgeries were performed over the course of one week. The surgical team that went to Ecuador for this February 2023 mission will travel to Guatemala in 2024 to provide pediatric surgeries to children in need at the Moore Center in Guatemala City. This is another surgical mission that the Foundation is sponsoring through our collaborative partner, Shalom, based in Franklin, TN. Also in March of 2023, the Executive Director travelled to Guatemala to take part in a stove building mission during which 20 wood-burning stoves were installed in the homes of native Mayan families which, until then, cooked with indoors fires that lacked proper ventilation for the smoke to evacuate the home. The new wood-burning stoves installed on this mission utilize proper stove pipes that ventilate the smoke from the fires out the roof of the home. These new stoves eliminate the harmful inhalation of smoke from the indoor fires that would, typically, burn all day long inside the home. Family members, from infants to elderly, would be exposed to the harmful effects of the smoke prior to the installation of the new, ventilated stoves. The principal project of the Foundation remains, however, to be the construction of a surgical center in Santa Cruz. Our partner for this project is AVIS-Living to Serve an NGO based in the nearby town of San Cristobal. |
| Form 990, Part III, Line 4b | approx two miles from the clinic site. Construction of the clinic has been progressing robustly despite interference of an increase in material costs due to global inflation, political protests blocking streets and roadways and labor shortages. The Foundation and AVIS- Living to Serve anticipate that construction if the clinic will be completed in October 2024 and that life-altering surgical missions will commence in 2025. The Executive Director of the Foundation works actively with the Executive Director of AVIS to find reliable suppliers for materials and instrumentation that will be better sourced in-country due to the need for installation services and the potential of repair services that may arise in the future. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11 | A copy of the completed and signed Form 990 is provided to each trustee at or before their AprilMay meeting. The executive director explains the preparation of the return, page by page, and responds to any questions that are raised by trustees. In addition, the financial statement prepared by the foundations CPA is distributed at that meeting and discussed along with the Form 990. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15 | The executive director, Bruce Kelling, is the only person that receives compensation from the foundation. Mr. Kelling was appointed by the Trustees of the Foundation to be its Executive Director beginnig in January 2023 and is paid an annual salary of 130,000.Following employment interviews and by written documentation the Trustees hereby acknowledge that i they used a process for determining the compensation of the executive director as to be reported in Part VII of IRS Form 990, ii they used comparable compensation for similarly qualified persons in a fundamentally comparable position at similarly situated organizations specifically the 2014 Charity CEO Compensation Study published by Charity Navigator and the Council on Foundations study of public charities published in 2014, and iii the trustees determined that the compensation to be paid to the successor executive director, Bruce Kelling, is reasonable and appropriate for the duties and responsibilities of that office. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 | Copies of the foundations trust agreement, financial statement, conflict of interest statement and ethics policy will be provided to any party making a legitimate written request. Copying and postage expense will be paid by the foundation. |
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