The Project is a volunteer, nonprofit, public service corporation that has been:
Chartered in the State ofIllinois (Secretary of State File #66220729),
Recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) public charity (EIN: 26-3154881, DLN: 17053034319019) allowing tax benefits such as deductions, exemptions, and other considerations allowed by law, and
Registered under both the Charitable Trust and the Solicitation for Charity Acts with the Illinois Attorney General (CO# 01056653).
The Project was formed in August 2008. It came about as a result of a three month survey of various community groups, their leaders, and citizens who all expressed concern about the lack of an effective means to exchange information between public service groups and the general population. It was further discovered that the community lacks a comprehensive method and dependable network, which could facilitate information that is:
Timely,
Accurate,
Authoritative, and
Concise.
Board: The Project’s original Board of Directors are:
Brian Kelly (President and Executive Director),
Eugene Carroccia (Executive Vice President), and
Gail Highland (Executive Secretary and Treasurer)
They will continue to serve as Directors and Officers of the Board until the Project initiates fund raising and operations. They may also continue as the Executive Committee for up to five years.
The Directors of the Board shall be members of the community with initiative, energy, passion, and a vision in line with the Projects purposes and goals. There will be up to thirteen Directors who shall serve on the board for a renewable term of one year. Directors shall be elected to the Board by the Membership at the Annual Membership Meeting held on the third Tuesday of October. The officers of the Board shall be selected from the Directors. The purpose of the Board is to set and maintain guidance and governance of the Project. It has additional purposes including:
Modifying goals and objectives,
initiating and enforcing directives pertaining to personnel,
finances,
ethics, and
legal issues.
The Board shall further take on the role of perpetuating the Project as needed by the community.
Members: The Corporation shall have Members. Members shall be real persons who live in the community. The membership shall elect the Board of Directors from a slate of candidates presented to the Membership by the Executive Committee. Membership is annual and is predicated on the payment of membership dues, the amount of which is set by the Board of Directors.
Staff: The Project shall enlist a staff of volunteers to operate the service. The staff shall be from the community unless the Board directs otherwise. The staff shall consist of:
A projectdirector,
A programmanager,
A technical engineer,
Several section supervisors,
Up to 32 information facilitation specialists and on-air personalities.
Future staff would include:
marketing personnel,
reporters and journalists, and
mobile production technicians.
All staff shall undergo thorough training on topics such as:
Ethics,
Obscenity,
FCC and IRS Underwriting Provisions,
Hardware Operation,
Software Utilization,
Fund raising, and
Journalism.
All staff will be expected to conform to all policies and guidelines, written and otherwise conveyed, established by the Board.