2024-11-15T20:37:36-08:00 2023-12-31 990EZ 2023-01-01 471328220 Plant-based Prevention Of Disease Inc PLAN 9144138394 335 Martin Luther King Jr Drive Greensboro NC 27406 Bob LeRoy President/Treas 2024-11-15 true 2023 2024-10-15 13:58:12Z X www.p-pod.org X X 152799 X 42409 94186 16 0 0 0 3852 2276 1576 12336 150523 56807 19608 20294 1174 52507 150390 133 -20456 -20323 X 7165 3068 11330 9961 18495 13029 38951 33352 -20456 -20323 Plant-based Prevention Of Disease, Inc., known as P-POD, is incorporated as a North Carolina nonprofit corporation dedicated strictly to educational purposes, and recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as a tax-exempt Section 501(c)(3) organization. P-POD serves the general public as well as providing accredited continuing education to practitioners and students in health-related professions. The annual national P-POD Conference is devoted to the advancement of public health in the U.S., via an evidence-based investigation of how society's major chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and chronic kidney disease, may largely be prevented, and in many cases treated, via lifestyle changes among individuals and in communities. The P-POD Conferences draw upon the scientific research literature and clinical experience in human nutrition, to identify protective mechanisms and health benefits that may be provided via plant-based dietary choices and allied lifesty The 2023 conference year narrative for Plant-based Prevention Of Disease, Inc. will this time be organized primarily as brief 2023-related comments attached below to each of our websites nine one-sentence Why P-POD? bullet-point statements about why our nonprofit is unique or distinctive. (Website link: https://www.p-pod24.org/about#whypp )----------Why P-POD? and 2023 CommentaryP-POD is the finest U.S. conference of fewer than 100 speakers for explaining the impact that plant-based nutrition, combined with lifestyle medicine and health equity, can have on chronic disease in society.This central mission emphasis has remained constant through fifteen conferences over nine and a year years, and in 2023, the peer reviewed research journal International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention (IJDRP) recognized the unique value of our nonprofits current subject matter output in their field. IJDRP arranged to publish Proceeding Summaries of the 15th Conference of the Plant-based Prevention Of Disease Nonprofit, compiling the presentations of fourteen of the twenty solo speakers from this Sept. 30 Oct. 2, 2023 Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine Conference held in Newark NJ (with a simultaneous virtual livestream). This was published as Vol. 6 No. 1 (2024) , https://doi.org/10.22230/ijdrp.2024v6n1a457, https://ijdrp.org/index.php/ijdrp/article/view/457. Eleven of our thirteen Core Topic Areas (core.p-pod.org) applicable for years up through 2023 were represented in these Proceedings.The P-POD nonprofit has always accepted absolutely zero funding, sponsorship or influence from commercial sources.This founding principle is permanently enshrined. For 2023, 64% of revenues were drawn from attendee registration fees (and minimal sales of merchandise such as t-shirts), and 36% from donations by foundations and individuals.P-POD's registration fees per day are lower than those for most fully accredited professional conferences in the U.S.Upon our founding, it was suggested that one of the greatest contributions our new nonprofit could make would be to offer practitioners educational content about chronic disease prevention at prices more affordable than is the norm for continuing education, and weve tried never to forget that. Comments from 2023 attendees included these: This brilliant concept of organizing high quality speakers and information to be available at rock bottom prices, to all interested people yearly (or more), is an inspiration of itself. Many thanks to you for the work you do and have done, building P-POD to the unique organization it has become. Thank you for the quality of the program content, while nimbly maintaining accessibility (not only affordability). We have also awarded 59 full need-based scholarships to our conferences since 2019.Most of the distinguished researchers, clinicians and educators who speak at P-POD are women, and close to half are people of color.These types of representation have been natural and integral to P-POD since our founding. The U.S. population is always majority female, as is our speaker roster. It is noteworthy that the percentage of African Americans in P-PODs speaker rosters has over the last seven conferences been more than twice the percentage of African Americans in the U.S. population, and this generally shows a striking contrast in comparisons with most other conferences of almost any kind.Since the 2014 founding, every P-POD Conference has provided continuing education credits to physicians, nurses, dietitians, physician associates and other practitioners.Since 2014, P-POD has awarded 238.75 continuing education credit hours to a very wide range of healthcare practitioners, and gets fully re-approved by five different accreditors each year. Our attendees reflect a very broad spectrum of professional disciplines throughout the entire healthcare team. For our Sept. 30 Oct. 2, 2023 conference, the percentage of registrants who were physicians was 54%, higher than for any prior conference.P-POD was the third conference event producer in the world fully accredited for pre-credentialing of Lifestyle Medicine Diplomates, that remains so certified today.P-POD was approved by American Board of Lifestyle Medicine and American College of Lifestyle Medicine in December 2017 for these credentialing purposes going forward, and it seems that at no point since then have there ever been more than five approved event producers in the U.S. 49% of P-PODs speakers over the last seven conferences have themselves been certified Lifestyle Medicine Diplomates, and it would be very difficult to identify other conferences for which that is also true.P-POD's innovative curriculum of 15 Core Topic Areas is of unusually high relevance and value for healthcare practitioners, educators and activists today.Our unique Core Topic Areas (core.p-pod.org) curriculum was developed for May 2021 with eleven components, expanded for October 2021 to thirteen, and by the end of 2023 prepared for revision applicable to 2024 conferences as fifteen topics. Generally speaking, any pair of P-POD Conference days provides coverage for the broad content range described in the curriculum. The full 2023 list update for future use is displayed at the end of this narrative.Any nutrition conference should represent Registered Dietitians well among its speakers, and P-POD has done that: 74 RDNs in 15 conferences since its founding.Except with regard to events organized solely for Registered Dietitians, it would be very difficult to identify other conferences with a track record of representation like this. There also could be numerous ways of cross-referencing our speaker rosters with our curriculum of Core Topics (core.p-pod.org), to observe evident professional qualifications valuable for coverage of specific content dealt with. One generic indicator of the professional caliber of our presenters is the remarkable fact that 44% of P-PODs speakers over the last seven conferences have been honored as Fellows of prestigious professional organizations, such as: American College of Cardiology; American Society of Nephrology; American Academy of Pediatrics; American College of Physicians; American Academy of Nurse Practitioners; American College of Endocrinology; American College of Osteopathic Internists; American College of Sports Medicine; Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions; American Society of Nuclear Cardiology; Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics; American Heart Association; American Society of Addiction Medicine; American College of Lifestyle Medicine; and others.We believe that as health professionals we should recognize and advocate for the human rights of all persons equally, regardless of their age, race, gender, gender identification, ethnicity, national origin, religious identification or geographic location.This final statement in the Why P-POD list, formulated in 2023 and published in 2024, is a natural corollary to our policy statements on discrimination and harassment that have existed for half a dozen years, and to our words and actions throughout our history regarding representation, regarding health equity and disparities, and regarding racism.----------Other Comments about the 2023 Year(1) Our nonprofit produced the in-person Newark NJ plus virtual livestream P-POD Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine Conference on Sept. 30 Oct. 2, 2023, plus the P-POD Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine Virtual Summit on June 11, 2023, providing via 30 speakers a combined 25.75 hours of continuing education credits to a wide range of healthcare professionals. The autumn conference reflected the same approximate registration proportions (2/3rds in-person, 1/3 virtual) as found for the 2022 hybrid productions, but actually achieved the highest overall paid-attendee count among all our fifteen conferences. The autumn in-person venue, first ever in the northeast U.S., was not available for a follow-up engagement, thus the 2023 experience revealed a need for long-term efforts to identify a viable future northeastern in-person location/venue that might eventually be returned to. The years total virtual paid-attendee count increased substantially from that of the prior year. Overall total paid-attendee count for 2023 was only 6.5% below the highest such figure in past history, although 2023 involved only two conferences and the top paid-attendee count year had involved three.(2) A P-POD summer blog, A Few Things We Thought Newsworthy, at news.p-pod.org, offered compact reporting nine times about such current issues as the Surgeon Generals report on loneliness, black maternal mortality, the impact of human eating choices on global warming, and results of several cardiovascular disease risk related research studies. ----------P-POD Conference 15 Core Topic AreasPromoting healthful behaviors at the community-program and primary-care levelsCancer prevention and survivorshipCardiovascular health and diseaseDiabetes prevention, remission 146277 146277 Bob LeRoy MS EdM MAT MA RDN President/Treas 30.00 0 Mladen Golubic MD PhD DipABLM Director 0.50 0 Micaela Karlsen PhD MSPH DirectorOnLeave 0 0 Parul Kharod MS RDN LDN Director 1.50 0 Milton Mills MD Director 0.50 0 Kathy Pollard MS OutgoingSecret. 1.50 0 Chef Nina Curtis MBA OutgoingDirectr 0.50 0 Matt Ruscigno MPH RDN OutgoingVicePre 0.50 0 Judy Brangman MD DipABLM IncomingDirectr 0.50 0 Sheri Orlekoski RN BS HCSA CR DirectrThenSecr 1.50 0 Robert Breakey MD DipABLM Director 1.50 0 Annamarie RodriguezRD LD FAND DirectorOnLeave 0 0 Timaree HagenburgerMPH RD EPc DirectrThenSecr 1.50 0 Qadira HuffMD MPH FAAPDipABLM Director 0.50 0 Tammy Robertson RN BSN Dir,,NursePlann 1.50 0 Amber Orman MD DipABLM IncomingDirectr 0.50 0 Joanne Evans RN PMHCNS-BC MEd IncomingSecret. 1.50 0 false false false false false false true 16880 0 0 0 false 0 0 false Bob LeRoy 335 Martin Luther King Jr Drive Greensboro NC 274061620 9144138394 false false false false false false false false false false false NONE NONE true X 77394 66004 62248 15225 42409 263280 75611 66733 84242 114645 94186 435417 0 0 0 153005 132737 146490 129870 136595 698697 0 0 698697 278 294 139 82 16 809 0 278 294 139 82 16 809 0 0 153283 133031 146629 129952 136611 699506 0.99880 0.99880 0.00120 0.00120 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED B LeRoy board officer ToBeReimb'd X 16091 16880 false true false 16880 Other Revenue.1 Cancel Accrued Officer Compens $12336 Other Expenses.1001 Advertising and Promotion $4217 Other Expenses.1003 Information Technology $4346 Other Expenses.1005 Travel $7152 Other Expenses.1008 Interest $653 Other Expenses.1012 Insurance $535 Other Expenses.1 Catering&Speaker/AttendeeMeals $31945 Other Expenses.2 DebCard&TicktProcessgFees:Sq#1 $3284 Other Expenses.4 Event/HospitalitSuppsNonResale $267 Other Expenses.5 CreditUnionAcctFees&CkPrinting $139 Other Expenses.6 DebitCardProcessgFees:Paypal $120 Other Expenses.7 PriorAccruedAddonsToPaypalFees $38 Other Expenses.8 DebCard&TicktProcessgFees:Sq#2 $5 Other Expenses.9 RoundingAdjustments $-2 Other Expenses.10 CashOver/Short&ReconciliaDiffs $-192 Other Assets.1005 Accounts Receivable - Beginning $163 Accounts Receivable - Ending $536 Other Assets.1010 Inventories - Beginning $1740 Inventories - Ending $2142 Other Assets.1011 Prepaid Expenses and Deferred Charges - Beginning $9427 Prepaid Expenses and Deferred Charges - Ending $7283 Total Liabilities.1001 Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses - Beginning $15209 Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses - Ending $3494 Total Liabilities.1003 Deferred Revenue - Beginning $11581 Deferred Revenue - Ending $12978 Total Liabilities.1006 Payable to Officers, Directors, Etc. - Beginning $12159 Payable to Officers, Directors, Etc. - Ending $16880 Total Liabilities.1 RoundingAdjustment - Beginning $2 RoundingAdjustment - Ending $0