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Founding

Introduction

The founding of The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation has been at the behest and impetus of the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and has proceeded as follows:

Founding History

Section 1.1.0. The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation were established:

1.1.1. Founding Organizations
in 2017 by their sole Founder, President, and Chair, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku.
1.1.2. Founding Entities
as part of ongoing work he has carried out for over three decades, leading also to his founding of The Ikoku Charitable Trusts, The Ikoku Group, Publiks Inc, and Humana Sancta.
1.1.3. Founding Fulfillments
with the understanding that, where appropriate and authorized solely by the Founder, these distinct and independent entities will endeavor to coordinate efforts toward the fulfillment of their respective missions and purposes.

Founding Concerns

Section 1.2.0. The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku Foundation were also founded and developed in response to the concerns below:

1.2.1. Concern for Africa
the Founder’s longstanding concern for Africa.
1.2.2. Concern for Diasporas
the Founder’s longstanding concern for the global diasporas of Africa, in the Americas, Asia, Australasia, and Europe.
1.2.3. Concern for Coexisting Communities
the Founder’s longstanding concern for communities coexisting — ethically and humanely — with those in Africa and its global diasporas.
1.2.4. Concern for Ethics
the Founder’s longstanding concern for issues pertaining to ethics.
1.2.5. Concern for Humanity
the Founder’s longstanding concern for the human and humane, and attendant concern regarding de- and subhumanizing conduct and resulting instances of inhuman and inhumane treatment, with the Founder’s insights from such concern proving valuable during several periods, preceding and during the formation of The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku Foundation, where he was subject to inhumane conduct and treatment that entailed persistent, pervasive and profound violations of the confidentiality and privacy, freedom and liberty, independence and integrity, and, ultimately, sanctity of his being, body, and brain, as well as self, soul, and spirit.*

*for further, see Inhumane Conduct section below.

1.2.6. Concern for Indifference
the Founder’s longstanding concern for issues pertaining to difference, with the Founder’s insights from such concern proving valuable during the aforementioned periods of inhuman and inhumane conduct and treatment, with such insights elucidating that — as also experienced by others — such inhumane conduct and treatment depend upon and employ notions of human and perceived difference (including those pertaining to ability, birth, caste, citizenship, culture, ethnicity, gender, medical information, origin, race, religion, and sex) to elicit active and passive indifference as well as support for persistent, pervasive and profound violations of a person’s humanness.
1.2.7. Concern for Spirituality
the Founder’s longstanding concern for the spiritual nature of humans, with further insights from such concern emanating in response to the aforementioned periods, as well as past and present difficulties, even failures of prevailing forms of civics, commerce, education, law, politics, public discourse, and religion to provide a meaningful ethical and moral basis for a good life in contemporary society, one adequate for ensuring the basic human and humane coexistence as well as spiritual and theological equanimity of diverse human beings living in shared societies.
1.2.8. Concern for Vulnerability
the Founder’s longstanding concern for issues pertaining to lessening intractable problems and undue burdens experienced by vulnerable populations due to the aforementioned conduct and treatment, failures to prevent or remedy them, and the limits of processes that privilege majoritarian decision-making, interests, social structures, and views within a given community, institution, or polity.

Founding Mission

Section 1.3.0. The Ikoku Foundations’s founding mission and purposes are therefore:

1.3.1. To Foster
to foster ethical, humane and spiritual philanthropy concerned with Africa, its global diasporas, and coexisting communities of enduring concern to the Founder.
1.3.2. To Serve
to serve a range of communities touched by the Founder, including through disciplines in which he has trained and practiced.
1.3.3. To Fulfill
to fulfill their missions and purposes as faith-based organizations, abiding by the basic principles and practices of the Humana Sancta Faith (the “Humana Faith” and “Sancthumanism”).
1.3.4. To Succeed
and to succeed in developing organizations — as well as communities — where the aforementioned inhuman and inhumane conduct and treatment are considered incompatible with their principles and values as well as basic civility, decency, dignity and society, and so do not become or remain the means for any act or activity, benefit or good, product or service, mission or purpose.
Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge, Lagos, Nigeria, February 23 2019 (Babatunde Olajide)

Focus

Provision

The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation have also been developed, and their activities and administration focused, as follows:

Activities and Administration

Section 1.5.0. All acts, activities, affairs, agents, arrangements, assets, and equivalent of The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation are administered solely via the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and solely via the Founder’s authorization, as provided for in the Codes and Policies, and thus focused to ensure their alignment with and furtherance of the mission and purposes of the organizations. Accordingly, The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation’s and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation’s administration is conducted solely via means limited by the organizations’s entity status as:

1.5.1. Faith-Based, Spiritual
faith-based and spiritual organizations.
1.5.2. Independent
independent organizations.
1.5.3. Non-Governmental
non-governmental organizations.
1.5.4. Non-Political, -Partisan
non-political and non-partisan organizations.
1.5.5. Non-Public, Private
non-public and private organizations.
1.5.6. Philanthropic
philanthropic organizations.
1.5.7. Single-Assetsholder
organizations whose assets and equivalent are wholly held and controlled by their sole Member and Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku.
1.5.8. Single-Member
organizations wholly controlled by their sole Member and Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku.

Areas and Efforts

Section 1.6.0. As further described in the Trusts Areas, The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Charitable Trusts, The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation, and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation work in tandem to administer their philanthropic efforts under the auspices of the Trusts Areas of Public Benefit — in the eleven (11) areas below:

1.6.1. Education | Research
Education | Research
1.6.2. Agriculture | Sustenance
Agriculture | Sustenance
1.6.3. Applied | Theoretical Sciences
Applied | Theoretical Sciences
1.6.4. Arts | Humanities
Arts | Humanities
1.6.5. Civics | Governance
Civics | Governance
1.6.6. Energy | Infrastructure
Energy | Infrastructure
1.6.7. Ethics | Research | Care
Ethics | Research | Care
1.6.8. Human | Environmental | Health
Human | Environmental | Health
1.6.9. Public Discourse | Knowledge
Public Discourse | Knowledge
1.6.10. Religion | Spirituality
Religion | Spirituality
1.6.11. Youth Communities
Youth Communities

Faith and Spirituality

Section 1.7.0. The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation’s and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation’s faith-based commitments are focused as follows:

1.7.1. Humana Faith
that none of their acts, activities, agents, arrangements, or equivalent may in any way come in conflict with the Humana Sancta Faith (the “Humana Faith” and “Sancthumanism”) as such faith is administered, defined and interpreted solely by Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, serving also as sole Founder and Presiding Officer of Humana Sancta.
1.7.2.1. Sanctity of Human, As-Is
that such nonconflict with the Humana Faith align with a belief in the sanctity of each human being as-is.
1.7.2.2. Sanctity of Human, Body
that such nonconflict with the Humana Faith align with a belief that the confidentiality and privacy, freedom and liberty, independence and integrity, and sanctity of each human’s inner being, brain, and body — as well as attendant rights to such — are inalienable, sacrosanct and thus absolute.
1.7.2.3. Sanctity of Human, Spirit
that such nonconflict with the Humana Faith align with a belief that the confidentiality and privacy, freedom and liberty, independence and integrity, and sanctity of each human’s inner self, soul, and spirit — as well as attendant rights to such — are inalienable, sacrosanct and thus absolute.
1.7.2.4. Sanctity of Human, Thoughts
that such nonconflict with the Humana Faith align with a belief that the confidentiality and privacy, freedom and liberty, independence and integrity, and sanctity of each human’s thoughts and mental activities, functions, and tasks, whether conducted in silence or voiced in solitude — and attendant rights to such — are inalienable, sacrosanct and thus absolute.
1.7.2.5. Sanctity of Human, Will
that such nonconflict with the Humana Faith align with a belief that the confidentiality and privacy, freedom and liberty, independence and integrity, and sanctity of each human’s will as to own consciousness, conscience, consent, as well as person — and attendant rights to such — are inalienable, sacrosanct and thus to be fully respected.
1.7.3. Sanctity of Protection
that such nonconflict with the Humana Faith include a faith-based commitment to protect against any infringement of the aforementioned beliefs and rights, including protection against any diminishment of a human’s humanness, humaneness, or humanity, or status and treatment as an equal and full human being as-is.
1.7.4. Sanctity of Provision
that such nonconflict with the Humana Faith include a faith-based commitment to provide for the aforementioned beliefs and rights, resulting in their highest possible level of spiritual and substantive enjoyment, for the Founder and every follower of Humana Sancta, worthy of the respect their humanity requires.

Incompatibility with Founding

Section 1.8.0. The activities, agents, and arrangements of The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation are therefore focused and limited via determinations of incompatibility with the organizations, as delineated below:

1.8.1. Notwithstanding Proviso
firstly, notwithstanding any provision of applicable law or regulation, the Codes and Policies, or any equivalent founding or legal documents, no act, activity, agent, arrangement, or equivalent of The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation or The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation may
1.8.1.1. Notwithstanding, Infringement, Founding
effect, facilitate, or otherwise foster any infringement of the Founding of The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation or the Governance of The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation, as described in the Codes and Policies (respectively, the “Founding” and the “Governance”).
1.8.1.2. Notwithstanding, Infringement, Faith
effect, facilitate, or otherwise foster any infringement of the aforementioned faith-based commitments.
1.8.1.3. Notwithstanding, Infringement, Policy
effect, facilitate, or otherwise foster any infringement of the Codes and Policies.
1.8.1.4. Notwithstanding, Inhumane Conduct
effect, facilitate, or otherwise foster any of the aforementioned inhumane conduct.
1.8.1.5. Notwithstanding Nonpreclusion
with the understanding that the lawfulness, perceived benefit, or equivalent consideration of a given act, activity, agent, arrangement, or equivalent does not preclude its incompatibility or its infringing, inhumane or equivalent nature in relation to The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation or The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation, which is to be determined solely by the Founder.
1.8.2. Adjudication of Incompatibility
thus, secondly, any such infringing or inhumane activity, agent, or arrangement — as well as any advantage, benefit, information, or property attributed to it — is to be adjudicated solely by the Founder as incompatible with The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation or The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation itself as well as its founding, governance, and overall administration.
1.8.3. Determinations of Incompatibility
thus, thirdly, each activity, agent, and arrangement relating to The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation is subject to determinations of incompatibility further delineated below, namely,
1.8.3.1. Determination, Incompatibility, Activities
where the Founder determines that an act or activity effects, facilitates, or otherwise fosters any infringement of the Founding or Governance, any infringement of the aforementioned faith-based commitments, any infringement of the Codes and Policies, or any of the aforementioned inhumane conduct.
1.8.3.2. Determination, Incompatibility, Agents
where the Founder determines that an agent effects, facilitates, or otherwise fosters any infringement of the Founding or Governance, any infringement of the aforementioned faith-based commitments, any infringement of the Codes and Policies, or any of the aforementioned inhumane conduct.
1.8.3.3. Determination, Incompatibility, Arrangements
where the Founder determines that an arrangement effects, facilitates, or otherwise fosters any infringement of the Founding or Governance, any infringement of the aforementioned faith-based commitments, any infringement of the Codes and Policies, or any of the aforementioned inhumane conduct.
1.8.3.4. Determination, Incompatibility, Persons, Natural
where the Founder determines that a natural person effects, facilitates, or otherwise fosters any infringement of the Founding or Governance, any infringement of the aforementioned faith-based commitments, any infringement of the Codes and Policies, or any of the aforementioned inhumane conduct.
1.8.3.5. Determination, Example of Persons, Natural
as has been determined, among natural persons, in the cases of Eleanor Marie Brown (AB, Brown; JD, Yale) of Jamaica and the United States of America; Rafael Nadal Parera of Manacor, Mallorca, Spain; Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro of Funchal, Madeira, Portugal; and Jeff Williams of Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, California, United States of America;
1.8.3.6. Determination, Incompatibility, Persons, Legal
where the Founder determines that a legal person effects, facilitates, or otherwise fosters any infringement of the Founding or Governance, any infringement of the aforementioned faith-based commitments, any infringement of the Codes and Policies, or any of the aforementioned inhumane conduct.
1.8.3.7. Determination, Example of Persons, Legal
as has been determined, among legal persons, in the cases of Leland Stanford Jr University of Palo Alto, California, United States of America and The New York Times Company of New York City, New York, United States of America;
1.8.3.8. Determination, Incompatibility, Persons, Political
where the Founder determines that a government, political, public or state authority, entity, office, or person effects, facilitates, or otherwise fosters any infringement of the Founding or Governance, any infringement of the aforementioned faith-based commitments, any infringement of the Codes and Policies, or any of the aforementioned inhumane conduct.
1.8.3.9. Determination, Example of Persons, Political
as has been determined, among political persons, in the cases of Former President Barack Hussein Obama (AB, Columbia; JD, Harvard) of Honolulu, Hawaii and Chicago, Illinois, United States of America; and the Democratic Party of San Francisco, of California, and of the United States of America;
1.8.4. Incompatible, Unauthorized, Unqualified
thus, fourthly, subsequent to the Founder’s determination of incompatibility, such activity, agent, arrangement, or person is to be deemed unauthorized and unqualified — entailing, where applicable, the revocation of any authorization or qualification — to be an activity, agent, arrangement, or person of The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation or The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation, in any capacity, especially that pertaining to decision-making, leadership, membership, stakeholding, or voting, and in any way as part of its administration, or as a recipient of any assets, contract, funding, properties, support, work, or equivalent.
1.8.5. Incompatibility, Reporting, Informing Founder
and upon discovery by any person of any indication, instance, or possibility of incompatibility, such person must directly report to and fully inform the Founder of such issues.
1.8.6. Incompatibility, Sole Adjudicator, Founder
with the understanding that the Founder is the sole person with powers to conduct inquiries, investigations, and other proceedings regarding such issues and make adjudications and determinations of compatibility or incompatibility, confirmed and executed only via the Founder’s authorization.

Inhumane Behaviors

Section 1.9.0. The aforementioned inhumane conduct include the behaviors delineated below, properly understood to not only treat a person inhumanely but to also risk rendering the treater inhumane, and so they are to be absent from any and all acts, activities, agents, arrangements, and equivalent relating to The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation, and are not to be effected, facilitated or fostered in any way or via any manner, means, method, or mode, or to any degree:

1.9.1. Denial, Autonomy
the denial, diminishment, or infringement of a human being’s autonomy, rights to autonomy, or protections of such — especially via the preclusion of meaningful consent or decision-making for the self.
1.9.2.1. Denial, Confidentiality
the denial, diminishment, or infringement of a human being’s confidentiality, rights to confidentiality, or protections of such — especially via the preclusion of any possibility for confidences or confidential acts, affairs, matters, relations, or services.
1.9.2.2. Denial, Confidentiality, Mind
the denial, diminishment, or infringement of a human being’s confidentiality of mind and thought, rights to confidentiality of mind and thought, or protections of such — especially via the preclusion of any possibility for thinking confidentially, by, to or with oneself, whether in silence or voiced in solitude, with absolute confidentiality and thus without disclosure or dissemination.*
1.9.3. Denial, Dignity
the denial, diminishment, or infringement of a human being’s dignity, rights to dignity, or protections of such — especially via public debasement or degradation, social excoriation or stripping.
1.9.4. Denial, Equality
the denial, diminishment, or infringement of a human being’s consideration, recognition, and treatment as equally and fully human, and so deserving of a fundamental reciprocity — to not do to that person what is not done simultaneously to each and every human being, or what would not be done to oneself or one’s most loved one.
1.9.5.1. Denial, Freedom
the denial, diminishment, or infringement of a human being’s freedom, rights to freedom, or protections of such — especially via any means of de facto or de jure enslavement, forced labor or indentured servitude.
1.9.5.2. Denial, Freedom, Mind
the denial, diminishment, or infringement of a human being’s freedom of mind and thought, rights to freedom of mind and thought, or protections of such — especially via the preclusion of any possibility for thinking freely, by, to or with oneself, whether in silence or voiced in solitude, with absolute freedom and thus without coercion or hinderance.*
1.9.6.1. Denial, Liberty
the denial, diminishment, or infringement of a human being’s liberty, rights to liberty, or protections of such — especially via any means of de facto or de juredisenfranchisement, arbitrary or undue imposition by a community or state.
1.9.6.2. Denial, Liberty, Mind
the denial, diminishment, or infringement of a human being’s liberty of mind and thought, rights to liberty of mind and thought, or protections of such — especially via the preclusion of any possibility for thinking liberally, by, to or with oneself, whether in silence or voiced in solitude, with absolute liberty and thus without imposition or intrusion.*
1.9.7. Denial, Privacy
the denial, diminishment, or infringement of a human being’s privacy, rights to privacy, or protections of such — especially via the preclusion of any possibility for private life or private acts, affairs, matters, relations, or services.
1.9.7.1. Denial, Privacy, Mind
the denial, diminishment, or infringement of a human being’s privacy of mind and thought, rights to privacy of mind and thought, or protections of such — especially via the preclusion of any possibility for thinking privately, by, to or with oneself, whether in silence or voiced in solitude, with absolute privacy and thus without surreptitious detection or surveillance.*
1.9.8. Denial, Private Property, Work
the denial, diminishment, or infringement of a human being’s private property or work, rights to private property or work, or protections of such — especially via the preclusion of any possibility for personal or private labor, office or work space, opportunity or pursuit, remuneration or value.
1.9.9. Exhibition, Exposure
the exhibition or exposure of a human being — especially via a totalizing regime that provides other persons, even the greater public, an unconsented surfeit of access and information regarding the human being, while systemically withholding basic, fundamental and necessary information from the human for ceasing any of the aforementioned inhumane conduct.
1.9.10. Experimentation, Testing
the experimentation, research, or testing on a human being — especially for any benefits or purposes or via any means or methods that are not fully informed or unconsented.
1.9.11. Extortion, Ransom
the extortion or ransom of a human being.
1.9.12. Harassment, Stalking
the persistent or pervasive harassment, stalking, or tracking of a human being.
1.9.13. Harm, Injuring
the insistent or persistent physical, physiological or psychological abuse, harm, or injury of a human being.
1.9.14. Indifference, Cruel
the cruel or depravedly indifferent treatment of a human being — especially via maleficence, malfeasance, or malevolence meant to incur pain.
1.9.15. Isolation, Marginalization
the isolation or marginalization of a human being from humans — and vice versa — especially via any means of ostracizing or scapegoating, stigmatization or vilification.
1.9.16. Persecution, Prejudiced
the insistent or persistent persecution of a human being — especially for any aims or purposes or via any means or methods that are explicitly based on or motivated by bias, discrimination, prejudice, or equivalent.
1.9.17. Sporting, Toying
the sporting or toying with a human being — especially via any means of amusing or entertaining oneself, betting, chasing, competing, gambling, gaming, hunting, or racing against the unconsenting human.
1.9.18. Surveillance, Mind
the detection, dissemination, monitoring, policing, recording, reporting, surveillance, tracking, transmission, or equivalent of a human being’s thoughts and other activities, functions, and tasks of the brain and mind.*
1.9.19. Targeting, as Conditions
the targeting of a human being to make any of the aforementioned inhumane conduct a condition of advancement, affiliation, association, care, existence, learning, life, participation, research, service, support, training, wealth, work, or equivalent — especially where it is not such a condition for every other person.
1.9.20. Totalitarianism, Incremental
the enabling a community, polity, sector, or state to subject a human being to any of the aforementioned inhumane conduct, and thus incrementally instantiate forms of totalitarianism.
1.9.21. Tyranny, Majoritarian
the enabling a community or group to collectively, democratically or publicly choose, decide, or vote to have a human being be subjected to any of the aforementioned inhumane conduct.
1.9.22. Use, Instrumentality
the instrumental use of a human being as means to others’s ends.
1.9.23. Utility, Utilitarianism
the utilitarian use or utility of a human being for the greater good or the increased or maximal gain of a community, field, or state.
*. Note
*with the understanding that protected activities, functions, and tasks of the brain and mind include, but are not limited to, those of cognition, communication, conscience, consciousness, dreaming, emotion, ideation, memory, perception, physiology, sensation, signaling, thought, and equivalent.

Intrinsic Refusals

Section 1.10.0. In light, therefore, of the aforementioned, incompatibility with The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation entails the following basic refusals, each intrinsic to the basic humanity, humanness, and humaneness of each human being, including the Founder, and to the respect such humanity requires:

1.10.1. Basic Refusal, Inhumane Conduct
that The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation, The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation, and the Founder resolutely refuse to give any agreement, assent, authorization, consent, license, permission, or equivalent — or to waive any attendant decisions or rights — for any of the aforementioned inhumane conduct, in any way, via any manner, means, method, or mode, to any degree, under any circumstances, for any period, or for any perceived benefit, end, goal, good, interest, mission, need, objective, purpose, reason, or equivalent.
1.10.2. Basic Refusal, Inhumane Use, Utility
that The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation, The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation, and the Founder resolutely refuse to give any agreement, authorization, assent, consent, license, permission, or equivalent — or to waive any attendant decisions or rights — for any access or use of The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation, The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation, or Founder, or any of The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation’s, The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation’s, or the Founder’s activities, affairs, agents, arrangements, or assets, or being, body or brain, or self, soul, or spirit, or any equivalent, with the effect or intent of construing, employing or otherwise using the Founder — or any human being — instrumentally or utilitarianly, as a means or medium, for a greater good or to an end of another person or any association, community, field, group, polity, public, or society of persons, in any way, via any manner, means, method, or mode, to any degree, under any circumstances, for any period, or for any perceived benefit, end, goal, good, interest, mission, need, objective, purpose, reason, or equivalent.
1.10.3. Basic Refusal, Intrusive Access
that The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation, The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation, and the Founder resolutely refuse to give any agreement, assent, authorization, consent, license, permission, or equivalent — or to waive any attendant decisions or rights — for any access to, entry or intrusion into, or recording or transmission of the administration of The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation, The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation, or Founder, or any of The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation’s, The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation’s, or the Founder’s activities, affairs, agents, arrangements, assets, or any equivalent, in any way, via any manner, means, method, or mode, to any degree, under any circumstances, for any period, or for any perceived benefit, end, goal, good, interest, mission, need, objective, purpose, reason, or equivalent.
1.10.4. Basic Refusals as Principle
that these three basic refusals — at once human and humane — together constitute a fundamental limiting and restricting principle, and wherever there is conflict or question, legally override and supersede any conflicting clause or interpretation of any alleged, assumed, construed, presumed or otherwise made or understood agreement, arrangement, article, assent, authorization, bylaw, choice, code, consent, contract, decision, guideline, law, license, order, permission, policy, principle, provision, regulation, right, term, vote, warrant, or equivalent.
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Form

Provision

— The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation’s organizational form is as delineated below:

Formation

Section 1.12.0. The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation are formally organized as tax-exempt nonprofit organizations, as provided for in the laws of the State of California, the United States, and are registered and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Names

Section 1.13.0. The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation are also officially known under the business names, The Ikoku Foundations and The Ikoku Foundation. Both sets of names, as used in official Ikoku Foundations documents, products, services, and sites, collectively refer to the same aforementioned nonprofit entities.

Entities

Section 1.14.0. As provided for by law and the Founder’s 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:

1.14.1. Ikoku Charitable Trusts
The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Charitable Trusts
1.14.2. C&C Ikoku Foundation
The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation
1.14.3. Alvan Ikoku Foundation
The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku Foundation

Efforts

Section 1.15.0. 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.

Conclusion

— Conditions and Terms

— 1.16.1. All of the aforementioned in this section constitutes the Conditions and Terms of Founding of The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku Foundation (the “Conditions and Terms of Founding” and “Conditions of Founding”) and forms an integral part of the Conditions and Terms of The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku Foundation, the Codes and Policies of The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku Foundation, as well as The Ikoku Foundations Conduct and Service Agreement you may enter into with The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku Foundation.

— Concerns and Questions

— 1.16.2. Please report any concerns about code or policy violations, and send any questions you may have regarding the Conditions of Founding or The Ikoku Foundations Conduct and Service Agreement, to policies@ikokufoundations.org.

— Concluding

— 1.16.3. 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 Foundation or The Alvan Azinna Chinbuzo Ikoku Foundation — in any way, either directly or indirectly, and via any manner, means, method, or mode — you enter into The Ikoku Foundations 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.

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Also at the Foundations

The Ikoku Foundations are dedicated to fostering ethical philanthropy concerning Africa, its global diasporas, and humanely coexisting communities — toward humane futures for lives across the globe. And so in accordance with the above, The Foundations provide the following:

I.

Philanthropy for Africa

Nonprofit organizations that serve the public interest in Africa and its global diasporas — by advancing ethical philanthropy in several domains, including education and research, civics and governance, health and humanities, industry and innovation.

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Philanthropy for Community

Nonprofit organizations that serve the public interest in fostering humanely coexisting communities and persons — who evince a commitment to humane reciprocity as the basis for enhancing the lives and societies existing around them.

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Philanthropy for Humanity

Nonprofit organizations that serve the public interest in fostering humanity — by helping the public understand Africa’s essential place in a humane future, where the betterment of conditions for some of the most resolutely humane peoples enhances life for all.

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