Founding
Overview
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:
History and Founder
— The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation were established:
Concerns and Commitments
— The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku Foundation were also founded and developed in response to the concerns below:
Mission and Purposes
— The Ikoku Foundations’s founding mission and purposes are therefore:
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
— All official activities, agents, arrangements, and assets 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 appropriately focused to ensure their alignment with the mission and purposes of the organizations.
— The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation’s and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation’s overall administration, as defined in the Codes and Policies, is similarly focused and conducted solely via means limited by The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation’s and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation’s entity status as:
Areas and Efforts
— 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 twelve (12) areas below:
Faith and Spirituality
— The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation’s and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation’s faith-based commitments are focused in the following manner:
Incompatibility with Founding
— 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:
Inhumane Behaviors
— The aforementioned inhumane behaviors include those delineated below, and are to be absent from any and all activities, agents, and arrangements relating to The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation – and not effected or facilitated in any way or via any manner, means, method, or mode, or to any degree, that is discriminatory, harmful, unconsented, unethical or unlawful:
Intrinsic Refusals
— In light, therefore, of all 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 reciprocity, recognition, and respect such humanity requires:
Form
Provision
— The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation’s organizational form is as delineated below:
Formation
— 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
— 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
— 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:
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.
Conclusion
— 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 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
— 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
— 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.
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:
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.
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.
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.