2025-03-25T12:04:27-07:00 2024-12-31 990EZ 2024-01-01 050566468 WORCESTER ROOTS PROJECT WORC 5083430035 4 King St Worcester MA 01610 Kim McCoy Treasurer 5087367189 2025-03-25 1 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X X http://www.worcesterroots.org/ X X 186708 X 184922 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1786 186708 0 0 105569 43129 12464 102 43029 204293 -17585 69752 301 52468 X 135579 36559 0 0 500 19043 136079 55602 66327 3134 69752 52468 working with communities facing economic or environmental injustice, training and empowering youth, supporting development of related urban worker cooperatives. Worcester Roots director and volunteers rebuilt capacity lost during COVID, providing support to our partner cooperatives and others in the cooperative and new economy movements, including a Coop Academy again in 2023-2024, and continuing outreach and research. 37896 43320 In 2024, El Salón activated a long vacant space in Worcester's Main South neighborhood to create a center for arts, culture, and community. Through our partnership with Civico, we are transforming a former bodega into a gallery and cultural center, a home to plant roots and grow our programming. 92513 80598 Frederick Douglass readings and Music Mania Television Studios LLC's charitable projects, primarily comedy training workshops, are managed by a former member of Future Focus Media, a former cooperative incubated by Worcester Roots from 2011 to 2015. 36300 38303 Worcester Community Energy Action (WCEA), DBA RENEW Worcester, is a grassroots cooperatively run not-for-profit energy democracy organization promoting democratic control of the energy system in Worcester. RENEW works to develop projects that prioritize community benefits over shareholder profits, connecting residents to affordable and accessible renewable energy as an important intervention in the intersecting crises around climate, housing, and racial justice and the shaping of a just and sustainable future. 20000 15201 Push Worcester, aka Worcester Community Skateshop, a cooperatively managed group geared toward encouraging skateboarding in Worcester, teaches skateboard assembly and use, and collaborated with public and private entities to replace a skate park. 0 1200 Healing Garden Institute is committed to food justice, urban agriculture, education and entrepreneurship at several Worcester locations. In 2022-2023 our primary activity was a needs assessment for the African Community Education program. 0 350 178972 PATRICIA FERAUD-KING PRESIDENT 4 0 0 0 KIM MCCOY TREASURER 8 0 0 0 MATTHEW FEINSTEIN CLERK 4 0 0 0 JUDY DIAMONDSTONE DIRECTOR 8 3048 0 0 BOONE SHEAR DIRECTOR 1 0 0 0 JUDE FERNANDO DIRECTOR 1 0 0 0 Thidi Tshiguvho EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 40 48000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 MA Kim McCoy Worcester Roots Project 4 King St Worcester MA 01610 5087367189 0 1 SF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 81231 30120 49721 182520 184922 528514 0 0 0 0 0 0 81231 30120 49721 182520 184922 528514 22686 505828 0 0 900 1800 1786 4486 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1440 675 0 2115 535115 6601 0.94527 0.86800 X Schedule A, Part II, Line 10 line 10 income was 2019 fundraising event income, 2019 sales of coffee and tshirts, program fees, and 2023 honoraria. Line 12 total was line 10 plus line 8 rent from subletting part of our rented office. Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 8 Description;Amount^rent by subletting office space;1786^Total;1786^ Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Description;Amount^Coop Academy food;757|Coop Academy trainer and stipends;788|filing fees;156|marketing;350|other El Salon performance events costs;25410|Frederick Douglass reading event except manager;890|other Music Mania TV comedy workshop costs;500|other WCEA costs;11428|transaction fees;17|memberships;360|insurance;2373^Total;43029^ Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 20 Description;Amount^write offs of smaller uncleared expenses 2012 2018;301^Total;301^ Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 24 Description;EOY Amount^invoice for ARPA grant work recieved Feb 2025;18543|other accounts receivable;500^Total;19043^ Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 26 Description;EOY Amount^bill for pending work by Coop Power;2150|payroll taxes paid Jan 2025;984^Total;3134^