Founding
Overview
The founding of The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Charitable Trusts has been at the behest and impetus of the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and has proceeded as follows:
History and Founder
The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Charitable Trusts was established:
Concerns and Commitments
The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Charitable Trusts was also founded and developed in response to the concerns below:
Mission and Purposes
The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Charitable Trustsās founding mission and purposes are therefore:
Focus
Provision
The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Charitable Trusts has also been developed, and its activities and administration focused, as follows:
Activities and Administration
All official activities, agents, arrangements, and assets of The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Charitable Trusts are administered solely via the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and solely via the Founderās authorization, as provided for in the Codes and Policies, and thus appropriately focused to ensure their alignment with the mission and purposes of the organization.
The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Charitable Trustsās overall administration, as defined in the Codes and Policies, is similarly focused and conducted solely via means limited by The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Charitable Trustsās entity status as:
Areas and Efforts
As further described in the Trusts Areas, The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Charitable Trusts administer, develop and fund philanthropic efforts under the auspices of the Trusts Areas of Public Benefit ā in the twelve (12) areas below:
Faith and Spirituality
The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Charitable Trustsās faith-based commitments are focused in the following manner:
Incompatibility with Founding
The activities, agents, and arrangements of The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Charitable Trusts are therefore focused and limited via determinations of incompatibility with the organization, as delineated below:
Inhumane Behaviors
The aforementioned inhumane behaviors ā to be absent from any activities, agents, or arrangements of The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Charitable Trusts ā include, but are not limited to, those delineated below, conducted, engaged, facilitated, fostered, or otherwise involved in any way or via any manner, means, method, or mode, or to any degree, that is discriminatory in effect or intent, harmful, unconsented, unethical, uninforming, unlawful, or without dignity, equality, reciprocity, or respect as to the human being, that is not done simultaneously to each and every human being, or that would not be done to oneself or oneās most loved one:
Intrinsic Refusals
In light, therefore, of all of the aforementioned, incompatibility with The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Charitable Trusts entails the following basic refusals, each intrinsic to the basic humanity, humanness, and humaneness of each human being, including the Founder, and to the reciprocity, recognition, and respect such humanity requires:
Form
Provision
The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Charitable Trustsās organizational form is as delineated below:
Formation
The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Charitable Trusts is formally organized as a tax-exempt nonprofit organization, as provided for in the laws of the State of California, the United States, and is registered and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Names
The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Charitable Trusts is also officially known under the business names, The Ikoku Charitable Trusts and The Ikoku Trusts. All three names, as used in official Ikoku Charitable Trusts documents, products, services, and sites, refer to the same aforementioned nonprofit entity.
Entities
As provided for by law and the Founderās Declaration of Trust, The Ikoku Charitable Trusts administer, hold, and manage the assets for two private charitable foundations, resulting in a three-entity structure that includes the following:
Efforts
The Ikoku Charitable Trusts, via their work with The Ikoku Foundations and through the Trusts Areas, are thus structured to conduct and support charitable efforts in the aforementioned areas, and to ultimately fulfill their originating mission to promote philanthropy concerned with Africa, its global diasporas, and shared societies As always, the objective is the betterment of lives and societies.
Conditions and Terms
All of the above and aforementioned in this section constitutes the Conditions and Terms of Founding of The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Charitable Trusts (the āConditions and Terms of Foundingā) and forms an integral part of the Conditions and Terms of The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Charitable Trusts, the Codes and Policies of The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Charitable Trusts, as well as The Ikoku Charitable Trusts Conduct and Service Agreement you may enter into with The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Charitable Trusts.
Concluding
And as a concluding aviso and proviso, you are informed as well as reminded that by commencing or continuing any conduct or service relating to The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Charitable Trusts ā in any way, either directly or indirectly, and via any manner, means, method, or mode ā you enter into The Ikoku Charitable Trusts Conduct and Service Agreement and agree to abide by and be legally bound by the Policy conditions, principles, protections, and terms described above, and the Codes and Policies, in their entirety without modification or severability, as amended from time to time solely by the Founder.
Also at the Trusts
As stated earlier, The Ikoku Charitable Trusts is dedicated to fostering philanthropy and good works concerning Africa, its global diasporas and a range of shared societies ā toward the betterment of lives across the globe. And so in accordance with the above, The Trusts provides the following:
A Nonprofit Dedicated to Africa
An independent, private, non-profit organization that serves the public interest in Africa and its global diasporas ā by advancing education and research and by also supporting creative ideas, civic endeavors and emerging communities, organizations and societies.
Support for a Global and Just Future
A founding mission and ongoing emphases of support for good works that help the public understand Africaās essential place in a global future, one that is to be more knowledgeable, environmentally sustainable, equitable and of benefit across communities in just societies.
A Vision of the Public Good
A vision of the public good that accounts for the past while ensuring a just and shared future. That draws inspiration from peoples who, despite a history of systemic difficulties, maintain an unyielding belief that the betterment of their human condition will foster the betterment of those living around them and will enhance the present and futures of the regularly disenfranchised, marginalized and underserved.