ROOTS & DREAMS AND MUSTARD SEEDS INC

Mission

Roots & Dreams and Mustard Seeds Inc. believes that economic participation and ownership is key to the empowerment of our most vulnerable community members. This type of participatory cooperative model aspires to true equity and justice, where everyone has a voice in their work, housing, local, state and national government and can easily access basic needs that extends to social, educational and artistic endeavors. Organized and led by members with lived experience of poverty, projects include co-op business development, food justice, transportation access, mutual aid, youth and arts programming, and a community owned real-estate project that holds our community center and developing cooperative businesses.

Executive compensation

Form 990 · Schedule J · 20 reported individuals · Filing year 2023

Base salary	Executive compensation
President, Co-director board president $44k
Treasurer, Co-director key employee $40k
Director, Mercado De Vida Worker, Stipend officer (unspecified) $11k
Co-op Business Developer key employee $8k
Co-op Business Developer key employee $8k
Mercado De Vida Volunteer highest compensated employee $3k
Mercado De Vida Volunteer key employee $2k
Youth Program Volunteer key employee $2k
Madre Jardin Volunteer key employee $2k
Director board member $2k
Co-op Developmenttraining Stipend key employee $1k
Co-op Development Training Stipend key employee $1k
Plumber key employee $1k
Director, Community Center Health Worker, Arts Programming board member $1k
Co-op Development Training Stipend key employee $980
Problem Gambling Training Stipend key employee $980
Co-op Development Training Stipend key employee $940
Co-op Development Training Stipend key employee $940
Co-op Development Traning Stipend key employee $930
Co-op Development Training Stipend key employee $920