Community Progress Council Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

Intake and coaching, self-sufficiency program, foster granparents program: intake & coaching: resource navigators provide a crisis assessment of new participants to determine how to address any immediate needs. Participants work through a support plan and then are referred to a self-sufficiency coach or family coach to work on medium and long-term needs. All participants go through a cpc self-sufficiency assessment with a coach and discuss the following indicators: employment, education, income, transportation, childcare, housing, health insurance, and food security. By implementing the intake and coaching process, cpc has been able to ensure that all participants are provided comprehensive, integrated services to meet a variety of needs. The self-sufficiency program empowers and coaches low-income families to attain a family sustaining wage to achieve and maintain economic self-sufficiency and live free of public assistance. Cpc offers a 16-session facilitated conversation "getting ahead in a just getting by world" where participants investigate how poverty affects their lives and their communities. Through the conversation, participants examine their current situation, build resources, and create a plan for getting ahead. "getting ahead" graduates who are motivated and ready to transform their lives are invited to work intensively with a self-sufficiency coach to more fully develop a future story and create a concrete plan to move toward self-sufficiency. The self-sufficiency program is offered countywide and has received funding from the york county united way, powder mill foundation, york county community foundation, the rice family foundation and community services block grant through Pennsylvania department of community and economic development. Cpc served 6,726 clients through intake and resource navigation & 938 of those connected with ongoing coaching. The foster grandparent program provides a subsidized volunteer program for older adults to build positive relationships with children and youth based on sharing, communication, and trust. Individuals over the age of fifty-five, who meet federal income guidelines, are assigned to schools and head start centers throughout the county to provide one-one-one support for children with special needs. Funding is provided by the corporation for national and community service. The program served 50 clients during the year.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 87.2%; rating input score 87
• Program expense ratio: 84.7%; rating input score 85
• Fundraising efficiency: $3.01 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 14th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -3%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.27; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.34; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 3.6%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings