Clean Air Now

What it reported doing in 2017

Clean Air Now Statement of AccomplishmentsClean Air Now (CAN) is one of the oldest clean-air advocacy groups in the nation. CAN was founded in Riverside, California in 1969 to publicize the health effects of air pollution and to promote clean air strategies. Since its founding, CAN has partnered with public and private entities such as the U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Transportation, the South Coast Air Quality Management District, Agilent Technologies, Southern California Edison, Shell Hydrogen, and others to implement and demonstrate clean-energy technologies and air quality education programs. CAN's projects have ranged from supporting the establishment of regional air quality management districts and orchestrating California's adoption of gasoline vapor recovery systems to hydrogen-energy technology demonstrations at Xerox Corporation, SunLine Transit Agency, and U.C. Davis. Since 2005, CAN has undertaken the sponsorship and implementation of the Clean Air Challenge Curriculum Program which teaches students about air pollution, its' causes, and its' health effects. The laboratory-oriented curriculum also contains modules emphasizing air pollution mitigating behaviors, technologies and fuels.The math-science-based Clean Air Challenge Curriculum Program (CAC) started in 1995 as a curriculum product of the well-established publisher Enterprise for Education Santa Monica, California. Since its first printing in 1998, CAC has been revised six times to broaden its academic strengths and hone its approach to air quality education. In 2006, the AQMD Governing Board approved $140,000 co-funding for development of the CAC to meet California State Science Content Standards and to provide training and materials to middle and high school science teachers and their students.In 2009, the South Coast AQMD board approved $60,000 co-funding for the CAC to continue to provide training and material to middle and high school science teachers in our region. CAC addresses air quality, its health effects, and cleaner technology.The two-to-three week curriculum unit comprises approximately 17 hours of engaging labs and lessons that address five essential questions:1) What is air pollution and how is is formed?2) Does air pollution affect people?3) How significant a problem is air pollution in our community?4) Can we make better choices to clean up our air?5) What conclusions can we draw from our study? As students address these questions, they learn how to be part of the solution to improving air quality.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
• Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -260%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 182.08; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: -27.1% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: -37.5% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: -24.1% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings