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 past and/or present grantees? As of the end of our June 30, 2015 fiscal year, the Founder has now given almost us$170,000 in personal donations to this Foundation, all of which must (by law) be granted to past and/or present grantees. In our 2012 annual meeting of our Trustees, we decided to dissolve the Foundation approximately 2 years after the Founder dies. We expect to distribute all Foundation funds (calculated now to be about us$5,000,000 or more) to some of the Grantees who are already listed (in alphabetical order) below:
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.
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 and/or grantee's actions after his demise. There is more information regarding this on the following web-pages: the founders will and the way the Foundation will be funded are an important part of this promise and guarantee. And, although there should be no changes after his death from what the Founder specified on these web-pages, 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
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