Archive for January 2018
Why I Haven’t Posted Since January 8 (See New Front and Posts Pages!). [Publ. Jan. 28, 2018].
Why I Haven’t Posted Since January 8 (See New Front and Posts Pages!) (This one, published 1/28/2018; case-sensitive short-link ends “-8uV.”
Been working on a few things… That Front Page contains at least 60 images AND at least a half-dozen multi-image galleries. Plus the writing, as it explains up front!
Temporary Technical Obstacle — How to Display the “Posts Page.” Separately (not shown here) — How to get abbreviate {click to ‘Read More’} function to work on a page (vs. post), especially this very long “Front Page” !
Already published, this is an excerpt from my recent Page (not post) on the Nat’l Children’s Alliance. Relates to some recent work on the other pages..
That Archive for January is rather blank for a reason…
See those top three posts Pages (from “Vital LInks Info-Links (Menu)” on right sidebar), just published 1/27/2018. [I’ll also add just these few closer to top of sidebar also. //LGH 1/29/2018
From “SkillsGarage.net”
Credits as shown, found in a 2014 Huffington Post article on how puzzle-solving is good for kids. Found that (and the other images here) by Google image search…
I certainly agree, particularly on the first, second, and next to last (despite its typo) item in this list! From Problem-Solving by Varduhi Surmalyan (found via Google Image Search) (2 images)
Yep, on all three four points… But this presumes someone has identified a problem in the first place, and stating it well. Well-stated problems have a way of getting solved. Problems that undermine reason and contain built-in exclusions and assumptions don’t, but they do create more problems, usually for others….|| From Problem-Solving by Varduhi Surmalyan (found via Google Image Search) (2 images)
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Jumping through Hoops and Chasing One’s Tail, that is, if Conceptual Clarity on “CACs” ~~>And Navigating The Money Mazes Set up By Them~~> is the Goal. (This Example: Calico Center (San Leandro, CA) payees).
Post title with shortlink; Jumping through Hoops and Chasing One’s Tail, that is, if Conceptual Clarity on “CACs” ~>And Navigating The Money Mazes Set up By Them~> is the Goal. (This Example: Calico Center (San Leandro, CA) payees). (Shortlink ending “-8ln” where the middle digit is not a number “1” or an upper-case “I” but apparently a lower-case “L” as in “l.”). About 12,600 words (with all images and their captions). Tags will be added soon.
Started Jan. 4, 2018, right after publishing a “Part 2” “Chasing Down Corporations”*** post, for which this is follow-up
- ***Chasing Down … Court-Connected Nonprofits and Their Donors, Part 2 (Kid’s Turn San Diego gets Development Help from Taproot Foundation, Inc.(see ‘Gen3 Draper-Richards Venture Philanthropy’) and SVN, the Supervised Visitation Network (with short-link ending “-8it,” started (post split) New Year’s Day, 2018.
The connection to this topic comes through Kid’s Turn (San Francisco)’s aborption (merger, non-surviving entity) into a CAC (Child Advocacy Center) in San Francisco. I’d noticed this YEARS (about six to seven years!) ago and realized that the essence of the CAC network was running certain curricula and providing “co-located” interview centers similar to the concept behind the “Family Justice Centers” model. I also found it interesting that KT San Francisco decided to go “underground” in this manner AFTER some of us were blogging its strange financial contracts with the SF City and County (i.e., Superior Court) and of course noting its obvious AFCC connections. It was clearly into psycho-educationally innocculating children against “parental alienation” and parents from spreading that “disease” to them by virtue of living in the same household…
WaPost Cara Tabachnik article 2017May11, Reunificatn Camps named, anecdotal
I keep hoping to get back to “Reunification Camps as I started” to narrate, with mentor/mentee clinicians and cross-country-border (and cross-continental) connections among some of the AFCC-featured ones modeled after, say Richard Warshak’s Family Bridges or Robin Deutsch et al.’s “Overcoming Barriers.” Or the Canadian “Families Moving Forward” modeled on Warshak’s “Family Bridges” but with acknowledged board member (Barbara Jo Fidler) in common with “Overcoming Barriers.” (Which I learned in an article by Cara Tabachnik (nearby images and quote) and others in the Detroit Free Press — see my earlier posts.).
from the Detroit Free Press, previously quoted on this blog.
Search results show the “Detroit Free Press” article referencing Rebecca Bailey and “Transitioning Families” (previously quoted on this blog), in “Sonoma, Calif. and Miami…”
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Chasing Down … Court-Connected Nonprofits and Their Donors, Part 2 (Kid’s Turn San Diego gets Development Help from Taproot Foundation, Inc.(see ‘Gen3 Draper-Richards Venture Philanthropy’) and SVN, the Supervised Visitation Network.
This post’s title and shortlink: Chasing Down … Court-Connected Nonprofits and Their Donors, Part 2 (Kid’s Turn San Diego gets Development Help from Taproot Foundation, Inc.(see ‘Gen3 Draper-Richards Venture Philanthropy’) and SVN, the Supervised Visitation Network (with short-link ending “-8it,” started (post split) New Year’s Day, 2018.
If I explain the title and context much more, I’ll need to split the post again. See part 1, or update to the original published Aug. 31, 2011, for the background! Here’s “Part 1” which contains link to the earlier post.
“Chasing Down Corporate & Charitable Registrations for Court-Connected Nonprofits” (Such as Kids’ Turn SD, SVN, and others) and Their Donors) [Revisiting-viewing-formatting my Aug. 31, 2011 post @ Jan. 2018]. [with case-sensitive shortlink ending: “-7Ia”] [where the middle digit is a capital “i” not number “1” or lower-case “L”].
For this section, apart from format cleanup (mostly of the quotes) the only real “update” I’m doing is some more insight into who is the “TapRoot Foundation” as shown through its financials.. Coming up first in the text below….
Moving on…
Other factoids (again, this is the SF, not the San Diego, group):
Development
Kids’ Turn Development activities have been shaped and modified in order to accommodate the recent recession while simultaneously continuing projects that will help improve and develop our trade mark.
1. Kids’ Turn launched its new logo in January, 2010. Development of the logo was the result of a grant** from the Taproot Foundation and we are very satisfied with the universal image which emphasizes the protective role of parents for the children in their families.
**2018 update comment:The word “grant” there needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Taproot Foundation (which is a dba for “Tapfound, Inc.” formed only in 2002 in California — more details below) doesn’t do normal “grants” but exists to facilitate “nonprofits which improve society” through “service grants,” i.e., encouraging professional pro bono service. These are claimed “grants” but are NOT identified AS grants to specific nonprofits, or anyone else, in its Forms 990 — which seems to be the key purpose of the organization, evading that accountability while claiming major benefits to all (and functioning tax-exempt…).
(Header info from Tapfound, Inc. omitted for size; this is Page 1, Summary, of a FY2014 Form 990). Notice Line 13, “grants to others” (which can be expressed as cash or non-cash on corresponding Schedule I) is “0.” Despite its own self-descriptions, this is NOT a “grantmaking” organization in IRS terms. Avoiding naming the grantees thus dodges accountability while it claims to want “transparency” for the pro bono market…. But notice there IS (Line 9 here) “program service revenue” reported. But on Page 2, (next image) NO such revenues are reported where they should be and by IRS Form 990 definition and Part III instructions, must be.
Although it’s quite likely that many people come to Kids’ Turn after violence- or abuse-related separation, followed by family court involvement, court orders for child support, access/visitation grant diversion for fatherhood promotion, and voila — a parent education project….
2. Kids’ Turn launched its new website in December, 2010. This project was also the result of a partnership with the Taproot Foundation. The new website is cleaner and consistent with the unstated emphasis offered by the logo.
The above link is to a New York State filing (it’s multi-page) and contains a FY2004 (fiscal year change) tax return followed by a brief independent audited financial statement — something not even provided at the State of California Level (although perhaps that roadblock is that State OAG, not TapFound, Inc.).
Two images from this are a bit puzzling — why is a public school district (often complaining about being “strapped for cash” granting this organization a $10,000 GIFT? We also can see that by its third year of operation, this nonprofit is already attracting $1M of grants… You can also see among the details that its President Aaron Hurst is claiming payment of about $65,000 (later that’ll become closer to $150K, increasing rapidly over time…) while in another place, leaving “compensation for Officers Directors, and Trustees” on the tax return blank — i.e., “0.” I guess a President isn’t an Officer then?
For 2017 update — using the EIN# provided in the next (older) table, search here
| ORGANIZATION NAME | ST | YR | FORM | PP | TOTAL ASSETS | EIN |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TapFound Inc | CA | 2016 | 990 | 40 | $2,105,125.00 | 91-2162645 |
| TapFound, Inc.- New York Office | CA | 2015 | 990 | 32 | $2,927,318.00 | 91-2162645 |
| TapFound, Inc. | CA | 2014 | 990 | 28 | $3,575,943.00 | 91-2162645 |
TapFound, Inc (dba Taproot Fndtn EIN#912162645 CalEntity (since 2002) 2374009 OAG CHar Details (4pp) -Nothing before FY2007 uploaded ~>FYchanges from and back to calendar yr (<==this annotated pdf shows a “schedule” of filings and is a good graphic showing growth of the entity over time. Also that it’s consistently (without exception) filing its RRFs late, and changed its fiscal year twice within a dozen years. And that the State OAG has failed to upload the earlier year’s documents…)
Database Providers Change over time, too.
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“Chasing Down Corporate and Charitable Registrations for Court-Connected Nonprofits” (Such as Kids’ Turn SD, SVN, and others) and Their Donors). Part 1. [Revisiting-viewing-formatting my Aug. 31, 2011 post @ Jan. 2018].
This is a “makeover” of a previous post, which reflects how early in my blog (if not two years earlier, ca. 2009) I was focused on and sounding the alarm to emphasize “looking it up” meaning, at a minimum corporate registrations.
This post’s title and shortlink:
“Chasing Down Corporate & Charitable Registrations for Court-Connected Nonprofits” (Such as Kids’ Turn SD, SVN, and others) and Their Donors) Part 1. [Revisiting-viewing-formatting my Aug. 31, 2011 post @ Jan. 2018]. [with case-sensitive shortlink ending: “-7Ia”] [where the middle digit is a capital “i” not number “1” or lower-case “L”]. Currently about 13,000 words (and there is a “Part 2”).
[The above paragraphs are repeated below for the wider blogging context, though in a different order].
Did you catch my new, short “Page” published Jan. 2, 2018? It was written in part to explain some of the detail unearthed in this post, regarding Child Abuse Prevention gone National… Title and link to it further down on this post (yellow-background), and it will be on the Vital Links/Alpha Chrono blog sidebar menu (right side). In addition to outlining the basics, I posted ALL the images of a single year’s Schedule I grantees of the National Children’s Alliance at the bottom in image gallery format.
I find it odd that two completely different nonprofits organized to stop child abuse and provide intervention, treatment, and of course public education and advocacy, both developed in the 1970s (although one incorporated only in 1992) and both took it national, with chapters of all sorts.
The new page despite its title mentioning only one of these two, deals with both (National Children’s Alliance and Prevent Child Abuse America). You may not realize how deeply entrenched both are in local (county, state) government operations.
Anyhow, when (specifically, in late Sept. 2017) a “parental alienation prevention and treatment” nonprofit called “Kid’s Turn” — founded by AFCC- and Family Court professionals (a lawyer and a judge) in 1989 and taking court-ordered business, for the (Greater Bay Area) San Francisco Area — submerged itself into a chapter of the sponsored-by-National-Children’s-Alliance – “SFCAPC” (“SF Child Abuse Prevention Center”) which recently changed its name to “Safe & Sound” it got rather “interesting.”
Meanwhile, the San Diego version of Kid’s Turn remains separate and under its own identity.
So, those two national child abuse prevention nonprofits are:
Total results: 3. Search Again. EIN# 631044781 Formed only in 1992 (per IRS forms) or 1988 (per its website).
| ORGANIZATION NAME | ST | YR | FORM | PP | TOTAL ASSETS | EIN |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Childrens Alliance | DC | 2016 | 990 | 77 | $5,583,437.00 | 63-1044781 |
| National Childrens Alliance | DC | 2015 | 990 | 82 | $5,790,038.00 | 63-1044781 |
| National Childrens Alliance | DC | 2014 | 990 | 154 | $4,712,656.00 | 63-1044781 |
and
Total results: 3. Search Again. Prevent Child Abuse America, EIN# 237235671, formed 1972, Domicile IL, Fiscal Year = Calendar Year. Website: “preventchildabuse.org”
| ORGANIZATION NAME | ST | YR | FORM | PP | TOTAL ASSETS | EIN |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prevent Child Abuse America | IL | 2016 | 990 | 39 | $6,243,040.00 | 23-7235671 |
| Prevent Child Abuse America | IL | 2015 | 990 | 38 | $5,039,476.00 | 23-7235671 |
| Prevent Child Abuse America | IL | 2014 | 990 | 39 | $4,656,308.00 | 23-7235671 |
Followers of this blog and people familiar with a situation in Connecticut about six years ago (involving the confirmation of a Judge Maureen Murphy over the protests of testimony — including from Harvard-based Dr. Eli Newberger citing to medical evidence of child sexual abuse of a young boy — and its coverup. Hon. Murphy was then the involved GAL. I’d posted (a number of times, but also) June 6, 2013 on “Finding Ground Zero in Connecticut — the Underground Economy in an AFCC Courthouse.” A link to the related story and financial drill-down at the bottom of that post (it was in Washington Times communities” has expired, but it’s now posted elsewhere (by title search) at — get this — “CGA.ct.gov”:
Immunity for GAL Destroys Connecticut Family (read the closing paragraphs).
(See nearby link from “Cta.CT.gov” Immunity for GAL destroys Connecticut Family)
I mention this because, as to the Max Liberti (9 yr old boy) case, Newberger had testified in his case. This journalism was unique in that it told the story in large part, from the point of view of billings and invoices by the involved professionals. Not shown there,* but FYI, Newberger was an early President of a “Prevent Child Abuse” local nonprofit in Massachusetts. *I show this on my new (related) page.
A passing reference to Newberger’s involvement was published in the Connecticut Mirror, 2/22/2012, “A judicial confirmation goes off-script.” I blogged along these lines at the time, knew (electronically or by phone) some of the involved protesters), and remember reading his testimony. It may be on this blog. Note: The parent whose relationship with a young son was being destroyed, this time, “happened to be” (sic) the mother. Warning: it is graphic reading.
And I found this (reported back in 2011) announcement that Kid’s Turn Curriculum will be run by some UK charities, and an admission that our system is based on the British system anyhow. Guess that’s the beauty of having “government by and for the 501©3s” in America:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE APRIL 20, 2011:
Dateline: San Francisco, California Kids’ Turn formally announces its partnership with Relate and National Family Mediation — two charities in Great Britain scheduled to pilot Kids’ Turn’s curriculum in Fall, 2011. This collaboration is the result of creative international colleagues who let go of ‘attachment to the facts’ believing in the value of shared ideas. We acknowledge the centuries’ old British social service system as the model for social work in the United States. The fact Relate and NFM are willing to implement innovations developed in San Francisco speaks to their commitment to offer evidence-based services to improve the lives of British children negatively impacted by parental separation.
{Commentary stemming from the “Relate” and “Family Mediation” references above added post-publication. I don’t look further into either of those nonprofits within this post, however…
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