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Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Dwight Tillery’s sweetheart paycheck, meanwhile black babies die
Posted by The Dean of Cincinnati
Photo courtesy of here.
This week, Cincinnati NAACP President Christopher Smitherman blasted City Council for rejecting over a quarter of a million dollars in grant money. He said the dollars could have been used through an office of minority health to remedy problems like Cincinnati’s record high infant deaths in the Black community. According to Laketa Cole, her political mentor Dwight Tillery has a private corporation that already duplicates those services. But what is the real deal with Tillery’s Closing the Gap? On what does his non-profit spend their money? We pulled the group’s IRS 2006 Form 990’s to get answers.
On Part V-A of the 990, (List of Current Officers, Directors, Trustees and Key Employees) we can find Tillery’s salary.
As President and CEO, he is listed as working 40 hours per week. A column entitled “Compensation” lists his income as $131,353. Another column, entitled “Employee Ben Plan Contrib” lists $21,351. And finally, the column “Expense Account” lists $4,800.
For those keeping tabs, that’s $157,504. As a point of comparison, Milton Dohoney, the City Manager, makes somewhere around $180,000 yearly—and he is in charge of running the entire City of Cincinnati. Tillery makes comparable money running a small non-profit with a limited number of employees.
And by the way, doesn’t that place Tillery in the top 1% for income in the United States?
The Form 990 also lists the two highest paid employees other than officers:
*Vanessa Gentry, Vice President, $68,150—and $12,056 in benefits
*Rosedelia Ancheta, Director Health Education and Training, $66,053—and $11,750 in benefits
Sub Total: $158,009
So, the grand total on just salaries and benefits for these three people: $315,513. That’s well over a quarter of a million dollars for paying these three people.
Ready for more expenditures for Closing the Gap? The Form 990 requires the company to report the “Five Highest Paid Independent Contractors for Professional Services.” Here are the two listed:
*Renee Mahaffey Harris, Consulting, $54,894
*Ovations Food Services, Banquet Food for Conferences, $64,002
Sub Total: $118,986
Now what about programming? Check out these!
Service 1
The Center for Closing the Health Gap received a planning grant from the Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati to implement a comprehensive community assessment in the Cincinnati neighborhood of Walnut Hills for the Do Right! obesity campaign. Approximately 500 people, including neighborhood residents and community organization representatives, have participated in the campaign, by serving on a planning committee or attending an outreach event. Through the assessment process, neighborhood residents have been engaged in taking ownership of local health problems and crafting solutions.
Expenses: $30,505
Service 2
The Health Leadership Institute (HLI) trains faith-based organizations to implement health ministry programs. The Anthem Foundation funds HLI. A total of 39 laypersons and ministers representing 19 churches participated in HLI this fiscal year. Participants of HLI improved their skills in creating and/or improving health ministries, awareness of health disparities, knowledge about the health status of African Americans, knowledge about the local health care system, knowledge about accessing health care, knowledge about best practices for improving community health, and ability to take responsibility for their health. Participants also implemented a variety of health events, such as health fairs and screenings, in their churches in order to impact the health status of congregants.
Expenses: $55,135
Service 3
The fourth conference and expo on Closing the Health Gap was held April 13 and 14, 2007 at Cincinnati’s Duke Energy Center. Approximately 4,000 people attended the two day event that included 59 exhibitors from health care and related organizations, children’s activities, and 19 health screens for adults and children. The conference featured national and local speakers and 37 workshops. Volunteers from area health organizations conducted more than 738 health screenings. Participants also rated the overall conference, expo, workshops and activities very favorably. The conference increased awareness and understanding of health problems confronting racial and ethnic minorities in Greater Cincinnati. In addition, the conference directly engaged and encouraged people to protect and preserve their health and the health of those they care about.
Expenses: $329,021
Service 4
The Center is increasing awareness of health disparities faced by African Americans, Hispanics/Latinos, and Appalachians through community outreach. Much of the center’s community outreach is done through the Do Right! obesity campaign, an initiative to improve physical activity and nutrition in the Greater Cincinnati region. This initiative includes a youth neighborhood garden component, a weekly newspaper column, and community workshops. The Center also has participated in over 25 health events to promote the Do Right! campaign and other programs. Over 150,000 people have been reached through health events in the community.
Expenses: $266,159
Other Program Services
The Center for Closing the Health Gap in Greater Cincinnati has served as the lead agency for promoting Take a Loved One for a Check Up Day. Scheduled annually on the 3rd Tuesday of each September, Take a Loved One encourages individuals to take charge of their health. In 2006, The Center convened a planning committee consisting of over 33 community-based organizations, faith-based organizations, health centers and hospitals, health providers, local health departments, local businesses and civic organizations to implement over 32 outreach events in the region. The main regional event, held at the Cincinnati Zoo, featured a seminar on health disparities and included a variety of health exhibits and screenings. Outreach encouraged community members to visit a health professional or attend a health event.
Expenses: $15,464
Grand Total for these services: $696,284.
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30 Jul 2008 at 08:01 pm | #
Talk is so cheap and that is all of these conferences have been.
Where is the Pre-Natal program that some of the larger Medicaid Managed Care Programs provide- but have had to be cut do to finacial government cuts, where are the programs on Infant safety- in the home and car seat program? Where is the nutritian program for pregnant moms?
And you want to know why we have terrible out comes...lack of programs that get your hands dirty in the community. Get to the Folk Dwight!!!
30 Jul 2008 at 08:27 pm | #
Very compelling statistics here.
I guess my only question in light of the runaway spending of Closing the Gap, would be, “how can we be certain that the state’s donated funds wouldn’t also be used to support exorbitant administrators’ salaries?”
30 Jul 2008 at 08:30 pm | #
Y’all jest tryin to hold a brother back…
If Schiffrin exposed this, you would call him a racist.
30 Jul 2008 at 08:47 pm | #
The salaries are highly disturbing. What are the qualifications of these people? The projects - well, I’d love to see the break down of how many of the attendees were actually minorities, particularly low income minorities.
Years ago I volunteered for Healthy Moms and Babes. It was my first direct contact with people outside my mostly white, middle class suburb. We took an RV into the projects and gave medical screenings, signed people up for WIC, connected them to prenatal care and infant care. These direct care programs were highly effective.
I have to say - Tillary’s little program seems to be a cover for a much easier and totally unneeded agenda - promoting the health of the average citizen, not the disadvantaged.
The nonprofit business is a highly profitable business
30 Jul 2008 at 09:57 pm | #
He drives a very nice car!
31 Jul 2008 at 06:26 am | #
I’m interested to know how Closing the Gap verifies the number of people who have been involved in their “services.”
Then again, as a private corporation, I also wonder if they are required to prove anything to anyone.
31 Jul 2008 at 07:38 am | #
I’d like to hear Laketia Cole defend all this now. How can she justify her support of Tillery’s program? Didn’t she work for him?
31 Jul 2008 at 07:52 am | #
Does it seem like the center just seems to be taking part of bigger events that might continue even if the center wasn’t involved? I wonder if the Health Dept. is involved in these events already?
In terms of the state money being used to pay high salaries, Steve Carr, i think that is unlikely since if that program were funded through the city, there wouldn’t be as many executive level positions. And you certainly wouldn’t see someone making more than the Health Commissioner, who probably makes in the low $100s.
31 Jul 2008 at 03:07 pm | #
Can you spell poverty pimp?
Take a look at the Cincinnati Empowerment Corporation.
Its executive director Harold Clevland gets paid more than Tillery and does even less.
Its bloated staff and salaries make a taxpayer want to cry. L Cole was tied to these pimps too.
Half a million to the Mallory Center for Community Development.
Millions lost in bad loans to cronies including Dean’s dead buddy Mr. Pig.
These 501 c 3s have the sole purpose of milking the taxpayer and providing huge salaries to the politically connected.
31 Jul 2008 at 10:38 pm | #
and while you are at it check out the salaries at the Mallory Center too…
Pimping would be too nice a word for the operation that occurs there ... Poverty Rapist/Raping is more appropriate ...
01 Aug 2008 at 12:43 pm | #
Tillery’s gaming the system.
Mallorys are gaming the system.
Who isn’t?
These characters know how to milk the system and they have no shame.
I agree with bedbugger2.......Mallory Center is in need of a serious audit.
01 Aug 2008 at 01:49 pm | #
I’m not one to believe in conspiricies, but it is interesting that the Beacon published this article on Wed 7/30, and in Friday’s Enquirer (8/1) there was an article praising Closing the Gap. Or if not praising, bascially advertising CTG’s children’s obesity workshops. Realize this is tangetially related…
Sorry, no link to the online version. Telling perhaps.
01 Aug 2008 at 04:42 pm | #
Why is Mayor Mallory supporting Tillery in this mess?
01 Aug 2008 at 11:39 pm | #
Mallory protects Tillary, Tillary protects Mallory.
I’d love to see the data on the Mallory Center also.
Any receipt of funds from a gov’t organization is supposed to be accompanied by performance measures on specified goals to achieved with the funds. Where are they.
Tonights 9 News featured the obesity program with a quick pic of the Tillary camp’s signage. Interesting was that the kids featured in the programming were --- white, middle class
LOLOLOLOL
02 Aug 2008 at 08:18 am | #
The Mayor wants you all to know, he is grateful the Beacon chose to pick on little ol’ Dwight Tillery rather than the Mallory’s. It sure is easier frying those little fish rather than the big ones. He also wants dissatisfied taxpayers, who don’t like it when politicians and their family members gorge on the public teat; that the Mallorys have dibs, and you all can kiss their collective butts.
He also wants to relay his sorrow, because Dale got caught red handed with that whole West End/Citylink thing. He was taught not to be so obvious in his wrong doing. Dale won’t be getting into any real trouble in Columbus, jacking up your satellite TV rates at the behest of the cable TV industry; who he took money from.
03 Aug 2008 at 07:08 am | #
You haven’t shown any wrong doing on Tillerys part, or Coles for that matter. Where’s the smoking gun? Got any emails from Tillery to Cole; asking her to stop the funding? Anything other than supposition?
03 Aug 2008 at 07:47 pm | #
Some large Medicaid populations are located in Delhi, Anderson and in Mt. Healthy and in Finneytown. A lot of the population are white girls who have children and are under the age of 20. The population broken down by race in Hamilton Cty is approx. 40% black, 40% white, and 10% other.
With this being said- What the hell is Tillery doing for the white girls of Delhi?
You just can’t look at the Medicaid money in the City- that isn’t how the state does the distribution- they do it by county. If I were a bettin person- I’d say- Dwighty Boy and his NP Corp has just one big ole fraud goin on and he has so many people hood winked- including the hospital systems he is hidin behind- that he is never gonna lose this cushy job!!!
Now can you tell me where do I sign up to get one of these jobs? And I will work with the girls who’s families have kicked them out of the family for getting knocked up and not getting proper prenatal care or proper care for their babies!
03 Aug 2008 at 10:28 pm | #
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Come on gang !
Premature births don’t qualify for the obesity program. In fact, they usually need more weight !
Surely, you don’t expect Tillery to do everything to curb the health disparity, Do you ?
If there was a health improvement then there would be no need to run a small non-profit !
Besides, 3CDC might fall victim to the same demise !
Certainly, council can’t let that happen !
GREAT WORK BEACON !
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04 Aug 2008 at 02:33 pm | #
Great article. sadly, I wonder how many of these things are going on? 100’s?
How can this city rebound with all this crap going on??
05 Aug 2008 at 10:07 pm | #
Freedom fighter..other than creating all this “awareness” in the community what has Tillery’s non-profit done in the community. Where is the scorecard? Look at the recaps of the events again."We created awareness of this, of that”. But no statistics to show real community impact.