the m p w c Foundation, inc.
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the m p w c Foundation, inc.
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Summary of sections on this page:
Who are our grantees? As of the end of our June 30, 2011 fiscal year, we have now given us$120,000 in grants to past and/or present grantees (listed below in alphabetical order):
FILING NOTE: for internal filing purposes, we (the MPWCF) file all of the above grantees under the first five letters of each grantee's name as listed above. As examples, look at the four Casa-type names above. They would be CASA , CASAD, CASAH, and CASIT with spaces and/or periods between letters eliminated. We ask all grantees to use the above coding in accordance with their own names as shown above. All required input for annual grants must be submitted using these "file methods". Failure to comply with this may result in loss of grants as their input could tend to be lost otherwise.
For those of you who are interested in our future, the Founder specified in his Will that this Foundation's endowment of us$2,900,000 or more will only be available to "certified (approved) grantees". However, this certification must occur well before his death. For more information on this, please visit this certified grantees link. In addition to the normal and on-going grants (*), the MPWCF also provides incentives to volunteers and organizations that provide non-monetary compensation to volunteers through our lifetime achievement(*) award. We also made one-time awards in prior years to organizations who are most transparent in their public revelation of their operations, finances, processes, etc. There is more about transparency at Goals & Mission, at I believe, and at transparency(*) (*) both the lifetime achievement awards and the transparency awards have been suspended as this Foundation apparently failed in its efforts to encourage sufficient community participation.
Philosophy regarding grants and grantees
Our founder, Michael Wein, spent his formative professional years, as a
financial management consultant to, among others, Avon Cosmetics. In his work with Avon, he was
introduced to the work of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, which followed a
philosophy Mr. Wein believes in now. This philosophy is now part of our
Foundation's philosophy: "Each grantee organization should have a plan that includes a method
that tracks the performance of their organization, their programs and/or its participants. This tracking should define
clearly their main objectives and obstacles. This plan should also enable anyone to
evaluate the effectiveness of their plan and its methods. If a grantee
organization won't commit to measure their own return on their own or our Foundation's
investments in them, our grants may either not commence, or, if started, may cease." Our foundation never attempts to
second-guess any grantee in the grantee's attempts to carry out its mission. We
decided at the beginning that we would merely help finance that mission. What we do do,
on the other hand, is attempt to assure (through financial transparency) that
all constituencies of each grantee can decide for themselves on whether or not
their own contributions to the grantee (whether as a volunteer, current or
prospective financial backer, employee, etc.) are worthwhile because they can
SEE what the grantee is doing with those contributions. Since our Founder could previously only physically guarantee our promises during his lifetime, he has already arranged for many legal and management controls covering the trustee's actions after his demise. There is more information regarding this on the following web-pages: FAQs and detailed most specifically at Trustees. In addition, the founders will and the way the Foundation will continue to be fundedare an important part of this promise and guarantee. And, lastly, although there should be no changes after his death from what the Founder specified on this web-site, any changes that do become necessary must be fully disclosed to all readers at subsequent changes and you, the reader, are requested to complain to all authorities (but chiefly to the ACLUF and Rider University) if the changes do not appear to be appropriate, or if the trustees are not following the Founder's original instructions. More about the ACLUF and Rider University (and how, why, and when to contact them) can be found at founders will One further provision in the founders will
that ensures continuation of the Founder's wishes stipulates that the
Foundation will terminate if the then-current trustees do not continue the
Founder's mission and goals after his death. As two of these three
trustees also represent two of our larger grantees, there will be both inside
and outside pressure (complete with transparency to the rest of the SMA
community) on these three trustees to continue with the guarantees made by the
Founder during his lifetime. But you, either a grantee or merely a
casual reader, also have a part in this
insofar as all grantees will be required to continue to follow the processes
they were
following when they were first approved as a certified
(approved) grantee.
All of this can be read by any interested party at the very bottom of the founders will
page.
This ensures outsider's independent review of the Foundation's operations after
the Founder's death.
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