Form 990-EZ for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$138,531

Total expenses

$119,309

Contributions and grants received

$102,683

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$35,848

Membership dues (line 3)

$0

Investment income (line 4)

$0

Gain or loss on sale of assets (line 5c)

$0

Gaming and fundraising events, net (line 6d)

$0

Gross profit on inventory sales (line 7c)

$0

Other revenue (line 8)

$0

Total assets, end of year

$89,354

Total liabilities, end of year

$0

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$89,354

Program service expenses (Part III)

$112,962

Program services were 94.7% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

Mission and programs · 2022

• The Montgomery County Planning Department, a government-affiliated organization responsible for land-use and infrastructural design in Montgomery County, sought representative data about the needs of Fairland-Briggs Chaney residents. In particular, there was historically a lack of input from community members that rented their homes. That's where we came in. At the core of our approach is the belief that real community engagement, which meets people where they are - quite literally at their doors - is an excellent tool to shape local government's work. We collected the stories of renters in Fairland-Briggs Chaney by: Knocking on 4,125 doors - twice over - and talking with over 600 renters in English, Spanish, French, and Amharic. Distributing 5,700 multilingual flyers with a short website link to a survey about desires and concerns on Fairland-Briggs Chaney. And with every conversation, we connected renters to services and organizations to meet their needs: everything from rent relief assistance, to West African cultural organizations, to English as a second language classes. The report based on our outreach can be found at: https://montgomeryplanning.org/planning/communities/upcounty/fairland/fairland-master-plan-1997/fairland-briggs-chaney-mp/equitable-community-engagement/what-weve-heard/. In the following year, 2022, Everyday Canvassing has made waves with Montgomery Parks and Montgomery Planning. We've conducted over 1,650 interviews with renters in 12 different languages, across 4 additional county land-use plans. The bulk of interviewees shared contact information for follow-up, which we followed through on with thousands of calls to engage residents in further planning and community projects.

  Expenses $24,679 · Grants $35,848

• Similar to the Fairland/Briggs Chaney Master Plan renter outreach, we embarked on a similar project to determine how parks in the Long Branch area could change or be maintained. This was called the Long Branch Parks Plan. Our outreach was multi-lingual, with a large portion of our interviews in Spanish and Amharic (an Ethiopian language), and a smaller portion in Portuguese and French. We interviewed about 270 renting residents whose hopes for the area are currently being used to develop the Montgomery County Parks Department's recommendations for land-use changes. As we met residents, we diligently followed up over phone within a week of chatting with them at their doors about the Plan. In addition to providing more detail to their interviews, these phone conversations gave us the opportunity to introduce local resources, such as pandemic rent relief or food banks, to struggling residents we had met. While this accomplishment had about $11,000 in government fees, these revenues and expenses were accounted for in our first accomplishment because this government partnership was also a land-use project. We decided to list it as a separate accomplishment because this work was a first-of-its-kind door-to-door outreach project with our local parks department.

• Along with our project specific accomplishments, we always work to connect community members with public resources, engage in open-ended conversations around how our community could improve, and introduce community members to one-another. For example, outside of Fairland and Briggs Chaney and Takoma Park, we have canvassed people in White Oak, Downtown Silver Spring, Gaithersburg, Long Branch, Rockville, Montgomery Village, Aspen Hill, Wheaton, and Germantown. In 2022, we knocked and left flyers at about 15,000 doors to have conversations one-on-one with residents. We also navigated people through accessing resources and introduced them to resources at food distribution events in community settings like churches, parks, and private rental properties with residents of mostly low and moderate incomes. This year, we added Harold Hill and Fasil Tefera as permanent part-time members of our team. Harold's work is having conversations with residents at food distribution events, and this work required he have a phone that was compatible with our data recording app, MiniVAN Touch. To that end, we purchased a $173.60 iPhone. Our work building relationships with our community residents door-by-door is mostly powered by a group of over 200 volunteers. These volunteers are organized by our Executive Director who are the moment is our only full-time staff member paid year-round. Also, because our volunteers are walking, talking, and connecting with community members for usually 3 - 4 hours, we host "family meals" after we knock doors. Sitting down, eating, and reflecting on the experiences we've had talking with people at doors and bonding allows our volunteer operation to remain well-attended and consistent. Sharing food is therefore also critical to our success building up the level of civic engagement in our community and is a mission-related expense. All printing has been used to share resources or inspire conversations door-to-door. We also began to visualize the data we collect from canvassing to eventually represent publicly online the conversations and interests of community members. We bought a Lenovo Yoga Laptop for $749.99 to help with data visualization. There was a $100 charge for our Maryland Charitable Registration we paid in 2022. For a volunteer picnic we held in July we reserved a farm space for $350. The combination of printing, food, space rental, and data collection and visualization efforts costed $5670.14. The total of cost of our general program staff Harold, Fasil, and Mady's wages or salaries and benefits were $82,612.42. Therefore, the total of our general program expenses was $88,283

  Expenses $88,283 · Grants $102,683

As filed on the 2022 return.

Listed in Part IV

Compensation is as filed in Part IV of the Form 990-EZ: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990_ez

Tax year

2022

Filed

13 May 2023

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

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