2024-02-14T08:40:55-07:00 2023-09-30 990 2022-10-01 800249546 GULF COAST CITIZEN DIPLOMACY COUNCIL INC GULF 8503773176 150 W Maxwell St Pensacola FL 32501 Jena Melancon Executive Director 8503773176 2024-01-23 Jena Melancon 999009999 1 1 11 1 AAL2 2022 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z Gulf Coast Diplomacy Jena Melancon 150 W Maxwell St Pensacola FL 32501 394210 0 X www.gulfcoastdiplomacy.org X 2008 FL We facilitate professional exchange programs for international visitors through the U.S. Department of State's International Visitor Leadership Program & other federal exchanges. We also conduct educational outreach via virtual exchange to schools and civic organizations and run an educational program for high school students. 17 17 11 117 0 0 134959 386806 3540 2289 72 64 3978 1113 142549 390272 0 0 0 0 140499 153676 0 0 3452 124172 166864 264671 320540 -122122 69732 72437 135700 10765 4296 61672 131404 Gulf Coast Diplomacy is a non-partisan, nonprofit organization facilitating and strengthening connection, collaboration, and fellowship between the people of the Gulf Coast and the global community through international exchange and education. 0 0 115733 0 0 Professional Exchange Facilitation: We worked with 161 professional, international visitors with interpreters in 20 groups from Oct 2022 to Sept 2023. These exchange participants attended 119 professional meetings and met with 208 of their professional counterparts and visited four classrooms. 81 of the visitors enjoyed dinner in local homes and all of them had at least one cultural activity on a weekend or evening. The immediate objective of facilitating international exchange in Northwest Florida is to encourage the discussion of best practices between professionals, to highlight our country's diversity, and to promote international understanding of American values and policies. The long-term objectives are a) to provide avenues for further communication to discourage stereotyping, b) to encourage intellectual and cultural activity between Northwest Florida & the rest of the world, c) to protect the United States and American citizens, d) to advance democracy, e) to defend human rights, and f) to encourage economic growth and prosperity in Northwest Florida and the world. 124044 0 1980 Youth Education: To allow local youth to meet these visitors, we welcomed 24 teenagers to our Youth Diplomats leadership program and worked with them for 11 months, 10 months in person, and one month via a four-day virtual exchange in June 2023. We welcomed 32 teens to this fourth year of Camp Global. We hired and trained one local university student to work with them in online facilitation. We hired an additional local college student to assist us with professional exchanges and administrative work. We hosted five U.S. Department of State in-person exchanges for 100 teens from Belize, Brazil, El Salvadore, France, Honduras, Malawi, Mozambique, Uganda, and Venezuela. Seventy of these students stayed with host families for 8 - 13 days. We worked with an additional six local teens who joined international teens in Washington, D.C., for four days of leadership training. The 100 international youth who came to Northwest Florida met with 81 local professionals in 55 meetings, eight volunteer activities for 351 volunteer hours, four classroom visits, and 12 cultural activities. The short-term objectives are to expose youth to the world outside our borders & to present them with new educational opportunities. The long-term objectives are a) to encourage youth to think globally, b) to help youth gain and improve workforce development skills, c) to expose them to new opportunities, d) to provide training in leadership to local teens, e) to contribute towards national security by creating intercultural friendships, f) to strengthen democracy in the United States by promoting media literacy to teens. 8791 0 309 Hospitality & Outreach: To encourage the concept of citizen diplomacy & to give members opportunities to interact with international professionals, we coordinated home hospitality dinners. Forty local hosts invited international professionals to their homes for 81 meals. We also hosted 12 community coffees for 99 international professionals to meet 105 locals and offered the Great Decisions discussion series for eight interested locals to expose them to topics they would likely encounter in a hospitality setting with international visitors. We spoke to 101 locals at four civic organizations about the impact of international exchange in our community and held three receptions to share our mission. We staffed four tables at community events to increase awareness. We promoted the opportunities offered by youth and professional exchange twice in radio interviews, once in a podcast, and extensively on our website, newsletter, and our five social media platforms. The short-term objective of these efforts is to increase knowledge of citizen diplomacy & global affairs in our area. Long-term, we hope these events will build a more vital awareness of US foreign policy goals and will lead to correspondence between our members and guests, helping us to affect US foreign policy and national security "one connection at a time." 0 0 0 248568 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 11 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 17 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 FL X Jena Melancon 8503773176 150 W Maxwell St Pensacola FL 32501 Jena Melancon Executive Director 53 0 X 62946 0 6586 Carlos Collard Director 1 0 X 0 0 0 Julie Tippins Parker Director 1 0 X 0 0 0 Jeannine Van Reeth Director 2 X 0 0 0 Rachel Hendrix Director 2 0 X 0 0 0 Todd Thompson Treasurer 1 0 X X 0 0 0 Randolph Scott Director 1.00 0 X 0 0 0 Jean Norman Secretary 1 0 X X 0 0 0 Leigh DeSantis Chair 2 0 X X 0 0 0 Angel Bradley Director 1 0 X 0 0 0 Edwin Howard Director 1 0 X 0 0 0 Karen Jurkowich Director 1 0 X 0 0 0 Henry Kelley Vice Chair 1 0 X X 0 0 0 Melissa Pleer Director 1 0 X 0 0 0 Clyde Roark Director 1 0 X 0 0 0 Tierra Smith Director 1 0 X 0 0 0 Elizabeth Yelverton Director 1 0 X 0 0 0 62946 0 6586 0 0 0 0 0 0 8565 4876 0 343171 30194 23637 386806 2289 2289 0 0 2289 64 64 0 0 0 0 0 0 144 144 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4907 4876 3938 969 0 969 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 390272 2497 0 969 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 62946 39223 22001 1722 0 0 0 0 73248 56113 16133 1002 0 0 0 0 6586 4610 1844 132 10896 7627 3051 218 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2625 1890 735 0 40 28 11 1 18642 12435 5987 220 414 290 116 8 0 0 0 0 2335 1634 654 47 9480 319 9161 0 0 0 0 0 2995 0 2995 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2087 1461 584 42 In-Kind Occupancy 3000 2100 840 60 In-Kind Donations for Delegates (tickets, transportation, mtg rooms) 20637 20637 0 0 Cultural Programming and Welcome Packets for Delegates 100201 100201 0 0 Professional Memberships and Training 4408 0 4408 0 320540 248568 68520 3452 17279 22477 55158 113223 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 72437 135700 10765 4296 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10765 4296 X 61672 131404 0 0 0 0 61672 131404 72437 135700 69732 0 0 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 X 178190 163847 189856 134959 358292 1025144 0 0 0 0 0 0 18200 27608 6000 6000 3000 60808 196390 191455 195856 140959 361292 1085952 0 1085952 291 465 73 72 208 1109 0 0 0 0 0 0 19600 25039 2710 12822 26895 87066 1174127 0 0.92490 0.90463 X Schedule A, Part II, Line 10 Schedule A, Part II, Line 10 - The $26,895 in other expenses was for payments received from attendees of our Great Decisions educational discussion series ($309), fees ($1,980) for teens attending our yearlong Youth Diplomats educational program and weeklong Camp Global program, the net income from our annual fundraiser ($969), and in-kind donations for five international youth programs ($23,637 = food, transportation, discounted meeting rooms, materials). Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b - The executive director sends a copy of the 990 to the board treasurer and members for review before filing. The executive director then holds a Q & A session for the group. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c - Any director, principal officer, or committee member with board-delegated or indirect financial interest is an interested person. Annually, all interested persons must disclose the existence of their financial interest and be allowed to disclose all material facts to the directors of committees with board-delegated powers considering the proposed transaction or arrangement through the completion of an annual statement that the executive director reviews. If the board determines a person has a conflict of interest, that person will leave the meeting during the discussion and vote on the transaction at hand. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 - We provide copies upon request. In FY2022, no one from the public requested our documents. All board members receive PDFs of policies upon joining the board.