2025-08-15T10:43:02Z 2025-03-31 990EZ 2024-04-01 830732788 SAND MOUNTAIN COOPERATIVE EDUCATION CENTER SAND 1306 17th Ave S Birmingham AL 35205 Kevin Burns Treasurer 2025-08-15 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X https://www.coopeducation.org/ X X 68287 X 68287 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 68287 0 0 0 26400 0 210 53963 80573 -12286 39913 0 27627 39913 27627 0 0 39913 27627 39913 27627 The Center shall house and support programs that facilitate freedom, community-centered development, and cooperative education. Cooperative Development. The purpose of the cooperative development program is to grow the SMCEC and accomplish the mission of the organization by growing cooperative education and community-centered development through worker-owned businesses. Program accomplishments include founding and securing long-term funding for the Alabama Center for Employee Ownership, another 501c3 nonprofit, which serves as a central resource hub for employee ownership in Alabama. SMCECs cooperative development team built a national network to support successful employee ownership transitions in Alabama, which includes support from experts and funders. The cooperative development team also performed outreach and education on the social and economic benefits of employee ownership to over 150 people and served 3 Alabama businesses in exploring employee ownership options. In order to accomplish this work, the board contracted a returning Lamplight staff member who now resides in Alabama for the purposes of accomplishing this program. 26400 Lamplight Summer Camp Session Two. This session was the standard three week session of Lamplight which SMCEC has run since 2019 in Guntersville, AL. This session was in July and was open to returning campers and new campers. The session served 15 campers. Many youth in our service areas lack structured activities in the summer and school year due to institutional deficits, economic limitations, transportation issues, or parental commitments. Lamplight addresses these needs by offering enriching summer experiences that foster civic engagement, leadership skills, and a sense of community, while also covering basic needs such as childcare, food, and transportation free of charge. 22744 Lamplight Summer Camp Session One. This session marked Lamplights first expansion and was the beginning of youth programming in Birmingham. Lamplight Summer Camp is a free, immersive summer program designed to cultivate leadership among teenagers through self-governance and community service projects. The program served 10 new campers in the Birmingham area over a three week period, with camp running Monday through Friday from 9am-7pm and 9am-9pm on Fridays. On top of providing community-centered cooperative education to campers, Lamplight provided lunch and dinner to all campers and transportation for 7 out of the 10 campers. 17168 66312 Bassem ElBendary Secretary 1.00 0 0 0 Kieran Kudva Driskell Member 1.00 0 0 0 Ari Dubow Member 1.00 0 0 0 Kevin Burns Treasurer 2.00 0 0 0 Daniel Waid Marshall Board Chair 2.00 0 0 0 Caroline Kanner Member 1.00 0 0 0 Annie Livingston Member 1.00 0 0 0 Joseph Fridman Member 1.00 0 0 0 false false false false false 0 false false 0 0 0 false false AL Kevin Burns 1306 17th Ave S Birmingham AL 35205 2562024832 false false false false false false false false false false false false NONE 0 NONE 0 true X 0 6564 18597 35899 75399 68287 204746 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6564 18597 35899 75399 68287 204746 4595 12088 14630 23800 22014 77127 0 0 0 0 0 0 4595 12088 14630 23800 22014 77127 127619 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 6564 18597 35899 75399 68287 204746 0.62330 0.55880 0.00000 0.00000 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Part I, Line 16 Other Expenses total $53,963. These include the following breakdown: Program costs associated with Lamplight Summer Camp Session One which lasted for three weeks and served 15 participants totaled $17,168. These expenses include all aspects of this programming, including buying supplies for community service projects, food, transportation, field trips, insurance, as well as paying staff stipends and travel expenses. Program costs associated with Lamplight Summer Camp Session Two which lasted for three weeks and served 15 participants totaled $22,744. These expenses include all aspects of this programming, including buying supplies for community service projects, food, transportation, field trips, insurance, as well as paying staff stipends, housing, and travel expenses. Program costs associated with the Brick and Barn conference and speaker series were $8,761. These expenses include all aspects of this programming, including promotion, food, beverage, conference supplies, as well as speaker stipends and travel expenses. Program costs associated with Glow and Grow, which offers returning camper participants who may be graduating out of the camp system a furthering education in how to run a nonprofit with a focus on fundraising and grant writing, totaled $4,441. These expenses include all aspects of this programming including educational supplies and staff stipends. Program costs associated with the Lamplight After-School Program which ran for seven months and served 15 participants totaled $706. These expenses include all aspects of this programming, including educational supplies, food and transportation. Additional expenses total $143 and include Sand Mountain Cooperative Education Center operational costs, including local Chamber memberships, website and email costs.