Early Learning Coalition of Manatee County

What it reported doing in 2024

Comprehensive consumer education coalition staff conduct one-on-one education in the office, provide literature in the lobby, and participate in many community events such as day of hope, safe kids night, and back-to-school celebrations at title one elementary schools. The coalition's fleet, consisting of the mobile learning lab, the dream machine, and the elc explorer are utilized at these community events to distribute high-quality children's books, promote the school readiness and voluntary prekindergarten programs, as well as to educate the public about the early learning coalition's role as a community partner. The coalition also maintains consumer education on its website. For example, the child care resource and referral page contains valuable links to school readiness and parent education documents, such as the family guide for selecting quality child care and quality checklist. The elc continues to publish its seasonal family magazine, nextgen. This publication is distributed to all manatee county contracted childcare programs and elementary school children and provides a variety of informative articles on child and family-related topics. Nextgen also includes a directory of all legally operating childcare providers in manatee county. In addition, over 45,000 high quality children's books were shared with the community. Early learning professional development and technical assistance: the elc provided 78 professional development sessions on 41 individual topics with 1,744 student contacts, and 241.6 training hours. Topic included language and literacy, inclusion, mathematics, steam, behavioral management, social and emotional development, nutrition, and first aid and cpr. Additionally, the elc provider coaching and technical assistance to 2,506 teachers totaling 1,073 technical or coaching hours, and 789 sessions provided in childcare centers across manatee county. Early learning classroom quality enhancement programs: the early learning coalition of manatee county brings educational continuity and activities related to early learning standards to neighborhoods around the county through our fleet-based programs. These programs serve children of all abilities ages 3 to vpk in childcare centers around manatee county in transformed school buses. Frame their learning is a teaching system specifically designed to help teachers improve their performance and raise their class? Instructional support scores. The tools provided help teachers ask more thought-provoking questions and improve their exchanges with students to spur higher-quality interactions, learning, and retention. Elc combines frame their learning and steam by offering on-site sessions with teachers and then a steam visit with the bus where students explore various hands-on activities such as nature, lights and shadows, and buildings and structures. An average of 56 teachers participated in frame their learning from 38 classrooms. Readingpals completed 25-30 weeks of reading with ten classrooms at nine childcare sites for a total of 156 children served. Every child received a book, totaling 3,113 books. With the help of our 92 volunteers, readingpals mentors focused on developing early literacy skills, building relationships and reinforcing the love of reading. Sleep baby safely goal is to equip and educate all people who come into contact with infants to reduce the number of preventable infant deaths due to unsafe sleep environments. The program provides clear consistent messaging in both english and spanish supported by local data and scientifically proven facts. The early learning coalition offers a variety of trainings specific to the audience, with flexible times and locations. 39 childcare provider sites in manatee county have been trained in our sleep baby safely initiative. Nemours reading brightstart is an innovative, supplemental early intervention curriculum specifically created to teach early literacy and foundational reading skills to small groups o

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 94.8%; rating input score 95
• Program expense ratio: 94.1%; rating input score 94
• Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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: Pass
  • Compensation survey or study: Missing
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• 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: -0.8%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.23; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.82; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 1.4%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings