The Alvan Ikoku Philanthropies was established in 2020 by Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku — as the sole division of The Ikoku Group able to assume, provide and safeguard programs, services and equivalent work for nonprofit entities and public benefit purposes. It is solely through The Ikoku Philanthropies that the Founder and The Ikoku Group may approve and coordinate efforts with The Ikoku Charitable Trusts and The Ikoku Foundations — and any other charitable, nonprofit or philanthropic endeavor or entity — as they deliver and review benefit and impact for the communities they serve.

The Alvan Ikoku Philanthropies is formally organized as a protected series of The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC — itself a series limited liability company — as provided for in the Delaware State Code of the United States. They are registered and headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware. The Alvan Ikoku Philanthropies is also officially known under the business names, The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku Philanthropies and The Ikoku Philanthropies. All three names, as used in official Ikoku Group and Ikoku Philanthropies documents, products, programs, services and sites, refer to the same aforementioned divisional entity.

The Ikoku Philanthropies have taken up the conception, delivery and review of programs, services and good works in five (5) areas of focus. Each of these are further described in the sections listed below:

1. Education | Information;
2. Research | Inquiry;
3. Real | Intellectual Property;
4. Design | Development; and
5. Solutions | Technologies.

The Ikoku Philanthropies is thus structured to assist The Ikoku Group in fulfilling their shared, originating mission to foster care and creativity, ethics and innovation in work and communities of enduring concern to its Founder and Partners. As always, the objective is the improvement of lives and the betterment of societies.

The Ikoku Philanthropies is led and managed by the sole Founder and Owner of The Ikoku Group, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, who serves as President, Chair and CEO. The following are further details concerning governance of the Division.

Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku is the sole interests-holder, shareholder and director of The Ikoku Philanthropies, and as such is the only person empowered to authorize The Ikoku Philanthropies to engage in or enter into a specified activity or arrangement.

Such authorization by the above Founder may proceed only via expressly written instrument signed and sealed. No other activity in The Ikoku Philanthropies, or its Sites, Products, Programs and Services may take the place of such authorization, nor may any other such activity be taken as indication of donor preference, authorized transfer of charitable funds, or permission for any specific nonprofit activity on the part of The Ikoku Group, its President, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, or The Ikoku Charitable Trusts or The Ikoku Foundations.

Any further announcements and details of the leadership and management of The Ikoku Philanthropies shall be provided here upon completion of searches and appointments by the Founder.

Any further announcements and details of partners within and partnerships with The Ikoku Philanthropies shall be provided here upon completion of agreements and appointments by the Founder.

The development of The Ikoku Philanthropies is governed by its sole Founder and Owner, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, as well as a set of attendant mission-related core purposes derived from a history of division establishment further described below:

During a period preceding and extending into the formation of The Alvan Ikoku Philanthropies and its parent company, The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC, the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, was subject to a set of consistent, extensive, pervasive, dehumanizing and subhumanizing practices — including but not limited to discrimination, harassment, stalking, and unconsented communication, experimentation, monitoring, and spying — that entailed profound violations of the Founder’s basic, fundamental and natural freedoms, liberties and rights, confidentiality and privacy rights, and fundamental autonomy, dignity and humanity accorded and provided to citizens and residents of California, Delaware, the United States, and member states of the United Nations.*

* For further details regarding the above history and impetus for founding, please see the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku. And furthermore, by using or visiting, in any way, The Ikoku Philanthropies, any area, part, section or properties of The Ikoku Philanthropies, any area, part, section or properties of its divisions, series, subsidiaries or affiliates, as well as any of its Products or Services, including the Sites, you accept and agree to fully inform the Founder of any knowledge you have regarding the above and related activities and history.

In response to the above, the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, established and shall further develop The Ikoku Philanthropies with the core, express and founding purpose to create, develop, and support communities, institutions, and societies where the above and related practices do not occur and to help other communities, institutions, and societies reduce the occurrence and prevalence of the above and related practices.

Such core, express and founding purpose shall also be in response to apparent, historical and sustained failures and limitations of established, present-day and prevailing civics, commerce, education, institutions, politics, public discourse and religion to provide a meaningful moral and ethical basis for ensuring the care, equanimity, recognition, respect, sanctity, sovereignty and spiritual or theological wholeness of human beings in contemporary society.

And thus The Ikoku Philanthropies shall also advance, develop, practice as well as teach and offer to others a contemporary humanism as defined and interpreted by the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku — namely, the moral ethics, principles, and tenets of humanity; humanness; human autonomy and dignity; human recognition and reciprocity; human equality in basic, fundamental and natural freedoms, liberties and rights; and thus human equanimity and humane co-existence — each of which shall be grounded in the study of, inquiry into, revelation in, and elucidation from comparative human disciplines and societies, in particular: comparative ecumenism, religion, spirituality and theology; the arts; the humanities; the human sciences; and theory and the application of knowledge in civics, culture, law, medicine, politics, and technology.

As part of the core, express and founding purposes described above, the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, shall also further develop The Ikoku Philanthropies in view of the Founder’s birth into, formation within and further development of a multigenerational, longstanding family commitment to lifelong education and research; as well as in direct response to past, present-day and ongoing infringements of basic, fundamental and natural freedoms, liberties and rights, including the disenfranchisement, forced migration, impoverishment, marginalization, stigmatization, underrepresentation, unethical care and research, and violations of due process, liberty and privacy rights, of varying peoples in Africa, its global diasporas, and culturally and structurally connected societies. The Ikoku Philanthropies shall thus have an attendant founding purpose to promote public awareness of, enhance public knowledge of and engage in commerce in and pertaining to Africa, its global diasporas, and its connected or shared societies, as well as foster global interrelationships between Africa and the Americas, Asia, Australasia and Oceania, and Europe.

Notwithstanding any provisions of the Codes and Policies of The Ikoku Philanthropies or any other applicable documents, guidelines, laws, policies, or equivalent legal instruments, no objectives of The Ikoku Philanthropies shall supersede or be of greater benefit, import, or priority than the core, express and founding mission and purposes of The Ikoku Philanthropies as defined, described and delineated above. No activities, operations, or other processes of The Ikoku Philanthropies shall entail any of the aforementioned dehumanizing or subhumanizing practices. And any version of such practices — as well as any accruing of advantage, benefit, or information through such practices, and also any natural or legal persons assisting, employing, permitting, planning, or otherwise conducting or promoting such practices — are by definition incompatible with The Ikoku Philanthropies as well as its founding, development, administration, management, and operation; and upon the discovery of such practices, reporting to, remedies to, and subsequent remedying with the Founder as well as The Ikoku Philanthropies shall be conducted and sought immediately.

For these reasons, no person or entity may become or remain qualified as board or committee member, director, trustee, officer, executive, manager or other leadership, staff or employee, advisor or consultant, provider of care, of education, of mentorship, or of training, affiliate, partner, representative, recipient of funds or resources, researcher or observer, sponsor, supervisor, volunteer, parental entity, voting or decision-making entity, member or stakeholder, or other agent of The Ikoku Philanthropies (including its divisions, series, subsidiaries, affiliates, and partners) if conducting or promoting any of the aforementioned dehumanizing or subhumanizing practices and their attendant actions, activities, or behaviors, or their equivalent, as well as if in intentional violation of the core, express and founding purposes described above, the Founding and Governing Code of Ethics, or any of the ensuing codes, ethics, policies, protections, and rights provided for by The Ikoku Philanthropies concerning confidentiality, consent, privacy, respect, and unconsented care, education, experimentation, monitoring, research, tracking, training, supervision, or surveillance. Due to this stipulation, under no circumstances shall the following persons — as well as any affiliates, associates, collaborators, employees, employers, executives, leaders, members, partners, representatives, staff, volunteers, third parties and other agents of said persons — qualify:

Example of Natural Person — any natural person who engages in, aids in, or otherwise encourages, fosters, or promotes any of the aforementioned dehumanizing or subhumanizing practices and their attendant actions, activities, or behaviors; who engages in, aids in, or otherwise encourages, fosters, or promotes the intentional interference with or violation of the codes, policies, protections, rights, studies, or teachings pertaining to the prevention of the aforementioned dehumanizing or subhumanizing practices and their attendant actions, activities, or behaviors and especially the Founding Code of Ethics; who engages in, aids in, or otherwise encourages, fosters, or promotes the impediment, interference, or diminishment of the Founder’s ability to determine, interpret, and ensure the core, express and founding mission and purposes of The Ikoku Philanthropies; and who engages in, aids in, or otherwise encourages, fosters, or promotes the impediment, interference, or diminishment of the Founder’s governance over and administration, management, and operation of The Ikoku Philanthropies and particularly the Founder’s ability to determine and ensure remedies and compliance with the codes, policies, protections rights, studies, or teachings of The Ikoku Philanthropies pertaining to the prevention of the aforementioned dehumanizing or subhumanizing practices and their attendant actions, activities, or behaviors and especially the Founding Code of Ethics. For instance, in this case, Eleanor Marie Brown of Jamaica and the United States, Brown University, University of Oxford and Yale Law School.

Example of Legal Person — any legal person that engages in, aids in, or otherwise encourages, fosters or promotes any of the aforementioned dehumanizing or subhumanizing practices and their attendant actions, activities, or behaviors; that engages in, aids in, or otherwise encourages, fosters, or promotes the intentional interference with or violation of the codes, policies, protections rights, studies, or teachings pertaining to the prevention of the aforementioned dehumanizing or subhumanizing practices and their attendant actions, activities, or behaviors and especially the Founding Code of Ethics; that engages in, aids in, or otherwise encourages, fosters, or promotes the impediment, interference, or diminishment of the Founder’s ability to determine, interpret, and ensure the core, express and founding mission and purposes of The Ikoku Philanthropies; and that engages in, aids in, or otherwise encourages, fosters, or promotes the impediment, interference, or diminishment of the Founder’s governance over and administration, management, and operation of The Ikoku Philanthropies and particularly the Founder’s ability to determine and ensure remedies and compliance with the codes, policies, protections rights, studies, or teachings of The Ikoku Philanthropies pertaining to the prevention of the aforementioned dehumanizing or subhumanizing practices and their attendant actions, activities, or behaviors and especially the Founding Code of Ethics. For instance, in this case, Leland Stanford Jr University, also known as Stanford University, of Palo Alto, California and The New York Times Company of New York, New York.

Example of Government Person — as well as, additionally, for related ethics, governance, policies and protections reasons — any government or political person, including but not limited to any political party or organization, any government or public authority, entity, office, official or other agent, and any person who has held such authority, office, position or equivalent capacity, function or relationship within the preceding ten (10) years.

And furthermore, by using or visiting, in any way, The Ikoku Philanthropies, any area, part, section or properties of The Ikoku Philanthropies, any area, part, section or properties of its divisions, series, subsidiaries or affiliates, as well as any of its Products or Services, including the Sites, you accept and agree to the statements, terms, conditions and requirements described above and on this section regarding the Founding and Governance of The Ikoku Philanthropies, and in the Codes and Policies, in their entirety without modification.