Amit Children, Inc.
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PRINCIPAL OFFICER
ANDREW GOLDSMITHAndy Goldsmith serves as the Executive Vice President of AMIT. In roles throughout his 20-year Jewish communal service career, he has helped maintain and build the “living bridge” between the diaspora community and Israel. Fresh out of law school, Andy’s career began at the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society in the midst of the great immigrant influx from the former Soviet Union where he worked to mainstream an immigrant population to American Jewry. From there he served a stint at UJA Federation of Bergen County in New Jersey where he gained the experience of building a community as Director of Planning and Allocations. He then moved onto the One Israel Fund where he connected passion for Israel to tangible betterment of people’s lives, and most recently he served as Assistant Vice President for Institutional Advancement at Yeshiva University. He lives in Cedarhurst, N.Y., with his wife, Yaffa, and six children. He can be reached at AndrewG@amitchildren.org.
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Board Meeting Minutes. Minutes are taken at each board meeting.
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Committee Meeting Minutes. Minutes are taken at meetings of committees acting on the board’s behalf.
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Internal Review of Form 990. Copy of Form 990 is provided to each board member prior to filing.
FORM 990 IS PREPARED BY A NATIONALLY RENOWNED ACCOUNTING FIRM IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE ORGANIZATION'S FINANCIAL DEPARTMENT. DRAFT FORM 990 IS REVIEWED BY EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, TREASURER AND CONTROLLER. ANY COMMENTS THAT ARISE DURING THEIR REVIEW IS DISCUSSED, AND IF REQUIRED, REVISIONS ARE MADE TO THE DRAFT. A COPY OF THE DRAFT FORM 990 IS THEN SUBMITTED TO THE AUDIT FINANCE COMMITTEE FOR ITS REVIEW AND APPROVAL AND THEN SUBMITTED TO THE ENTIRE BOARD FOR REVIEW AND APPROVAL PRIOR TO FILING WITH THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE. |
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| Conflict of Interest Policy. The organization has a conflict of interest policy. | T |
| Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest. Officers, directors, trustees, and key employees are required to disclose annually interests that could give rise to conflicts of interest policy. | T |
| Enforcement of Conflict of Interest Policy. The organization regularly and consistently enforces compliance with the conflict of interest policy.
THE CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY IS MAILED AND/OR HANDED OUT TO ALL OFFICERS, DIRECTORS AND EMPLOYEES OF AMIT ON AN ANNUAL OR BIANNUAL BASIS. EACH INDIVIDUAL MUST SIGN OFF THAT HE/SHE HAS READ THE CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY AND THAT HE/SHE DOES NOT HAVE ANY DIRECT OR INDIRECT RELATIONSHIP WITH ANY THIRD PARTY WHICH WOULD GIVE RISE TO A CONFLICT OF INTEREST. IF A POSSIBLE CONFLICT ARISES IT IS REVIEWED BY INDEPENDENT BOARD OR COMMITTEE MEMBERS. AFTER EXERCISING DUE DILIGENCE, THE INDEPENDENT BOARD OR COMMITTEE MEMBERS SHALL DETERMINE WHETHER THE CORPORATION CAN OBTAIN A MORE ADVANTAGEOUS TRANSACTION OR ARRANGEMENT WITH REASONABLE EFFORTS FROM A PERSON OR ENTITY THAT WOULD NOT GIVE RISE TO A CONFLICT OF INTEREST. |
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Whistleblower Policy. The organization has a written whistleblower policy.
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| Document Retention and Destruction Policy. The organization has a written document retention and destruction policy. | T |
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Process for Setting Salary of Senior Staff, Parts A. and B.:
THE PROCESS FOR DETERMINING COMPENSATION FOR THE EXECUTIVE VP AND OTHER OFFICERS INCLUDES, IN ADDITION TO A PERFORMANCE REVIEW, A REVIEW BY A COMPENSATION COMMITTEE, COMPARISON TO SIMILARLY TITLED EMPLOYEES ON FORM 990'S OF OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS AND AVAILABLE SURVEYS OF ORGANIZATIONS. THIS REVIEW WAS LAST PERFORMED IN 2018. |
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| Part A. Process for Setting Salary of Top Management Official. The process for determining compensation of the CEO, Executive Director or other top management official includes a review and approval by independent persons, comparability data and contemporaneous substantiation of the deliberation and decision. | T |
| Part B. Process for Setting Salaries of Senior Employees. The process for determining compensation of senior officials includes a review and approval by independent persons, comparability data and contemporaneous substantiation of the deliberation and decision. | T |
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Disclosure of Documents. Disclose how the organization made governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements available to the public during the tax year.
THE ORGANIZATIONS GOVERNING DOCUMENTS AND CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY ARE MADE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC UPON REQUEST. THE ORGANIZATIONS FINANCIAL STATEMENTS ARE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT WWW.AMITCHILDREN.ORG. NOTE: Tzedakah, Inc. strongly encourages each organization to make its minutes (with suitable redactions to preserve individual privacy) and all governing documents available to the public on its website. Tzedakah. Inc. considers failure to do so a failure in transparency and views requiring specific requests for documents to be an unnecessary burden on the public in view of the availability of internet websites. |
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PERSONNEL
| SENIOR STAFF COMPENSATION | |||||
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| End of fiscal year | Name | Title | Base salary | Comp. from related org. | Additional compensation |
| 2019-12-31 | ANDREW GOLDSMITH | EXECUTIVE VP | 342,300 | 0 | 39,483 |
| 2019-12-31 | GENENE KAYE | DIR. OF TRI-STATE REGION NY | 194,233 | 0 | 7,875 |
| 2019-12-31 | ELIZABETH KLIBANOFF | DIR. OF FINANCIAL RESOURCES | 189,070 | 0 | 3,600 |
| 2019-12-31 | SHELLEY LABINER | DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC RELATIONS | 162,804 | 0 | 7,035 |
| 2019-12-31 | DEBBIE LYMAN | DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS | 141,737 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019-12-31 | KAREN BILLET | CONTROLLER | 112,305 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018-12-31 | ANDREW GOLDSMITH | 343,946 | 0 | 28,178 | |
| 2018-12-31 | KAREN BILLET | 108,018 | 0 | 17,346 | |
| 2018-12-31 | ELIZABETH KLIBANOFF | 188,414 | 0 | 3,600 | |
| 2018-12-31 | SHELLEY LABINER | 158,654 | 0 | 3,600 | |
| 2018-12-31 | GENENE KAYE | 154,625 | 0 | 3,600 | |
| 2018-12-31 | DEBBIE LYMAN | 129,875 | 0 | 10,143 | |
| 2017-12-31 | ANDREW GOLDSMITH | 327,635 | 0 | 23,089 | |
| 2017-12-31 | KAREN BILLET | 105,743 | 0 | 15,997 | |
| 2017-12-31 | ELIZABETH KLIBANOFF | 163,795 | 0 | 3,600 | |
| 2017-12-31 | GENENE KAYE | 151,531 | 0 | 3,600 | |
| 2017-12-31 | SHELLEY LABINER | 146,982 | 0 | 3,600 | |
| 2017-12-31 | DEBBIE LYMAN | 123,258 | 0 | 9,410 | |
| 2017-12-31 | ROBIN ISAACSON | 106,542 | 0 | 9,410 | |
- Compensation committee
- Form 990 of other organizations
- Approval of the board or compensation committee.
| STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS | |||||
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| End of fiscal year | Number of board members | Number of paid staff | Number of volunteers | ||
| 2019-12-31 | 45 | 39 | 600 | ||
| 2018-12-31 | 46 | 40 | 500 | ||
| 2017-12-31 | 47 | 41 | 600 | ||
PLEASE NOTE: This is a profile only of the US charity, Amit Children, Inc.. Information on this profile is from the Amit Children, Inc.’s Forms 990 filed with the Internal Revenue Service or the organization’s inernet website. A small amount of contact information may be from other sources. Tzedakah, Inc does not verify data provided by the listed charities.
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