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The Triple Giving Program

Country: United States

Organization: A Better Community For All (ABC4All)

3) Strategy Summary:
The Triple Giving Program (ABC4AllGGG): Giving Back to Nonprofit Groups, Giving Back to Schools, Giving Back to Communities Via The Giving Card and the ABC4All Mission and the New Millennium Business Model (NMBM): "Maximizing Charitable Contributions on and off the Internet" Introducing the most powerful New Business Development Program ever conceived! NMBM provides a way for every credit card financial transaction, on or off the internet, to create an automatically generated "micropayment" which can be designated by the individual consumer to be sent to a charity of choice. These micropayments, based on ordinary everyday consumerism by existing credit cards will produce major support for charitable causes worldwide.

4) How the Strategy Works:
A Better Community For All (ABC4All) has teamed up with The Giving Card, Inc. (TGC), San Diego, CA, the cornerstone of The Triple Giving Program (ABC4AllGGG). TGC is the only program of its kind to have received a worldwide exclusive endorsement by The Vatican which can be viewed here: https://www.thegivingcard.com/content/Vatic an_Kershaw.pdf).

ABC4AllGGG represents a community-wide solution that involves participation of consumers, businesses and charities that can generate critical funding for schools, nonprofits and communities. The Giving Card is not a new or separate credit card. Rather it is a program that encourages businesses, consumers and charities all to register and participate -- at no obligation or risk.

INVITATION TO BUSINESSES
There are no up-front costs for businesses to participate. Only after consumers signed up with TGC patronize those businesses (increasing their customer base) do they pay a nominal referral fee based on each transaction. Businesses decide what level of participation (i.e., percentage of the transaction will be designated as the micropayment that is returned to the consumer who can decide the amount to be sent to a charity of choice).

INVITATION TO CHARITIES
Charities sign up at no cost. By creating a partnership between ABC4AllGGG and charitable organizations, it becomes possible to support one another for the mutual benefit of the community in which both exist. This program enables a charitable organization to raise more money on a year-round basis than ever thought possible. Neither a big staff nor a large budget is needed to implement ABC4AllGGG!

INVITATION TO CONSUMERS
Each consumer participating will make it happen! First, the consumer joins ABC4All, automatically becoming a Friend of the Foundation of A Better Community For All (FABC). The Friends of ABC4All (FABC4All) work to fulfill the mission of ABC4All: "Maximizing Charitable Contributions on and off the Internet"(tm).

Once a member of ABC4All, each member can then sign up FREE as a consumer with The Giving Card and then register each and every existing credit card used. Consumers then shop as they normally do. Now they can watch the contributions created mount as they go about ordinary consumer purchasing activity.


The Giving Card

CREDIT CARDS ALREADY SUPPORTING A CHARITY GENERATE ADDITIONAL SUPPORT!
Example: Affinity Credit Cards! Such cards already supporting a school, a charity, a disease-cure foundation, a community, etc. will now provide TWO sources of contribution simultaneously once that affinity card is also registered with TGC!

AN INVITATION TO SCHOOLS, GOVERNMENTS AND COMMUNITIES
First create an affinity card to support your cause, then sign up with The Giving Card. The constituents/supporters apply for the affinity card just created. Request that the constituents/supporters also register with The Giving Card. The merchants in the area also register with The Giving Card. That's it! Now the revenues come in that were not there before.

A DESCRIPTION OF ABC4All CONCEPTS

ABC4ALL PROFITS DIRECTED TO THE FOUNDATION OF A BETTER COMMUNITY FOR ALL (FABC)
The combination of the for-profit ABC4All and the non- profit Foundation of A Better Community For All (FABC), a National Heritage Foundation, (http://www.nhffoundations.net/FriendsofABC4 All) together offer consumers, in the future, a means to "match" or double any charitable contribution generated by ABC4All Members.

THE GIVING CARD
By becoming a member of ABC4All, individual consumers automatically register with The Giving Card (http://TheGivingCard.com). Once registered, they then also register their credit cards with TGC.

TRIPLE GIVING PROGRAM
In doing so, their membership qualifies them to take part in ABC4All's Triple Giving Program (ABC4AllGGG) in which Consumers, Businesses and Nonprofit Charities unite to fulfill the mission of ABC4All. Once a member of ABC4All and The Giving Card, ABC4All members thereby automatically generate "micropayments" with each and every commerce transaction (on or off the internet) and which are then returned to the consumer, but which can be designated as a charitable contribution to a charity of choice.

WHO BENEFITS FROM THE ABC4All TRIPLE GIVING PROGRAM?
Only participating charities are the beneficiary of ABC4All's Triple Giving Program. Of course, where needed, individual consumers can have the rebate in the form of a micropayment returned for personal use.

FUTURE GOAL/LEGACY OF ABC4ALL
In no case are contributions presently that are generated via commerce (on or off the internet) being matched or doubled. With the establishment of ABC4All/FABC, Friends of ABC4All have an opportunity to create the "Millennium Endowment Fund" or MEF that will permit ABC4All to do its good work into perpetuity, without benefit to any individual, only to the benefit of charities who participate.

5) Key Strategy Elements:

i. Mobilizing Citizen Support:
We are working with Huck-Fin Environmental Education, a nonrpofit which has been operating within the largest high school district in the USA for over 18 years. As such HFEE has a strong base of citizen support across the community.

ii. Generating Financial and Nonfinancial Resources:
HFEE already is funded. We are seeking addition funding, both via self-funding means and via grant applications. We anticipate major fundraising events (concerts), e.g., in the Coor's Amphitheatre in Chula Vista, CA which seats 10,000 people and to which the local disctric has access up to 8 days a year.

iii. Establishing Relationships with Strategic Partnerships:
Huck-Fin already has an established base of relationships/ partnerships and ABC4All is collaborating with Huck-Fin who is paving the way to allow joint access to the district in order to conduct the pilot of CHEN4All, described below.

iv. Engaging and Managing Volunteers:
Huck-Fin already has volunteers.

v. Developing Information and Spreading the Message:
Please see our overview: http://abc4all.net/hfprogram.htm Our press release: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/11/prweb178191.php As we progress, more outreach will be done via various media.

The Giving Card

6) Increasing Self-sufficiency and Social Impact:
The Triple Giving Program at once supports charities and ABC4All. ABC4All has independent sources of profit, but all profits will be returned to communities via charitable grant matching programs.

Burton Danet

8) Organization Mission and Vision:
Maximizing Charitable Contributions on and off the Internet

Looking Forward to the Next Three Years:
With a successful pilot completed for CHEN4All, we anticipate branching out to other schools and communities who wish to adopt our comprehensive solution to the obesity epidemic.

Contact Information:
Danet  Burton
Co-Founder
A Better Community For All (ABC4All)
P. O. Box 1624, Manhattan Beach, CA 90267-1624
United States
Tel: 310-712-5477
Fax: 888-310-1661
Email: abc4all@att.net
Website: http://ABC4All.net



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