Organizations Filed Purposes:
Higher Ground's mission is to empower one life at a time to reach, transform, and elevate their community through love and building character.
For the last decade, Higher Ground has been at the forefront of high outcomes delivery of social emotional learning skills to our youth. Now Higher Ground is utilizing all these experiences and through the guidance of national experts and scientists, to become an agent of system shift in Tucson.Higher Ground is the champion of Restart SMART. Restart SMART is an initiative to create a community school hub system in Tucson through a multi-generational framework. Community school systems have existed in the US for decades with proven results in community empowerment, lower chronic and situational poverty, lower dropout rates, higher attendance, higher rates of attainment for students, and healthier community economic metrics.In addition, Higher Ground is also in the middle of developing an app to deliver their high outcomes SEL methods straight to the hands of the youth.Higher Ground received $125,000 of donated rent from Tucson Unified School District (50,000 square feet @ $2.50 per square foot).
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Jansen Azarias | CEO | 40 | $60,192 |
| Arthur Rodgers Jr | Executive Director | 40 | $46,613 |
| Alicia White | Board Member | 0.5 | $0 |
| David Reilly | Board Member | 0.5 | $0 |
| Ken Heeter | Treasurer | 0.5 | $0 |
| Barry Richardson | Secretary | 0.5 | $0 |
| David Bradley | Chair | 0.5 | $0 |
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