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Welcome
Do you want to help?
Do you need help?
If you answer yes to either of these questions, you may have come to the right place!
Kind of a nice notion -- this website started as a plain & simple text document.
First, as just a great idea; then, as time, funding & effort allows, organically it grows.…
As needs present themselves, if All For All can address those needs,
then hopefully this website will reflect that.
What is All For All?
“All For All” is short for “The All For All Foundation” – “AFA” is even shorter.
AFA is a charitable organization that:
* promotes tolerance, awareness, kindness, compassion & self-empowerment to all peoples of the world, and it strives to improve the quality of life and increase the happiness of all peoples.
* acts as a conduit - delivering, or helping facilitate the delivery of, socially beneficial resources (i.e. services, knowledge/information, tangible goods) to those who in need of such resources and/or services.
* utilizes a variety of tools, including education, training, entertainment, the arts, and more, to achieve its goals.
Ted Coakley III founded AFA in 2005, in the hope of using the tools, contacts, knowledge and skills at his disposal to address & help solve many problems found throughout the world.
No it is not - so any financial contributions made directly to AFA are not tax-deductible.
However there are 501(c)3s who are willing to be Fiscal Sponsors of AFA. What this means is that if AFA has a project that fits the mission statement of a 501(c)3 company, then one can make a tax-deductible contribution to that company, who will then turn and fund AFA's project with that donation. Often, Fiscal Sponsors keep a small percentage of that donation to cover their administrative costs of doing the Sponsorship.
What does AFA need or want?
* Webpage designer: You see how this site is now. Obviously no real webpage designer involved. Can you design a new & improved AFA website? Did you see the rest of this site? It really needs some simple re-design/re-organization.
* Logo: Got an idea, a design? Send it in!
* Donations: Money - it always (or at least often) seems to come down to that. We’re not going to get every service, resource and item donated for free – so if you want to donate money, it would be greatly appreciated, and utilized frugally.
* Your available resources. Do you have knowledge, experience, tools, advice or any other valuable resources that you’d like to share with those who otherwise have difficulty accessing such things? Anything that would help with any of the AFA projects? If so, speak up!
If you can offer any of the above, please contact tedc (at) allforall.us
What are AFA’s specific projects?
Wow, there are sooo many projects AFA wants to do.
Here are a few ideas that have come up since 2005:
(If you have any ideas, please submit them to be added)
* This www.allforall.us website
* Provide living & recovery supplies & services to survivors of natural disasters (i.e. Hurricane Katrina) who have been displaced and relocated.
* Provide alternative energy systems (i.e. solar, wind, etc) to those that can’t afford the initial high startup costs.
* Teach financial planning, tax & investment education to lower-income earners, who generally can’t afford such quality advice.
* Cultural field trips. I think of Rachel Carlson’s Silent Spring: “The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.” So many people are not aware of the world and people outside of their small realm. By taking people on trips to communities they are unfamiliar with, their horizons of acceptance will broaden, and they’ll bring back to their own communities a sense of appreciation, tolerance and acceptance of others around them – thus promoting a more peaceful existence wherever they go and throughout their life.
* It’s a Big Small World – a “coffee table” photo book of children around the world, celebrating their similarities and differences, such as their activities, physical characteristic, clothing, activities, settings & expressions.
* Instruct & provide suggestions for reducing, reusing and recycling.
* Teach healthy nutrition.
* Produce and distribute, via print, audio, video & computer, AFA teachings and promotions.
* Contribute time and/or money to other like-minded organizations or efforts.
There are many more projects to be added, as they are acted upon, remembered or thought up.
This page aims to be a matchmaking list of sorts.
If you have something that you’d like to offer to those in need, you can tell AFA, and we’ll then list it here.
If there is something you need of, tell AFA, and we’ll list it here.
Depending on your preference, the listing will either instruct those who reply to contact you, or to contact AFA about it.
Example scenario #1:
* There is a windmill company, selling windmills to people and companies, so that they may harvest their own clean, renewable & cost-free energy to convert to electricity. This is a company that would like to offer free or discount windmills to schools, especially schools with the most limited budget/financing, and also to remote villages in the world with no access to electricity.
* There is a 6th grade science teacher in a low-income part of town whose subject matter includes how electricity works and alternative energy sources available in the world. This teacher would love to have some solar panel(s) or windmill(s) at her school that her students could have hands-on access to, to better learn how the sun or wind energy is converted to electricity, and to track the energy consumption that the device allows. However, their school just can’t afford to buy such devices.
* Somebody just got back from a trip to Africa, and encountered a rural area where a lot of people live, but it is far away from the electrical grid of urban life. The people of this very small town have to walk miles every day just for fresh water, but they have an aquifer and the components of a well that requires electricity to run. So, they could really use some self-sufficient source of power generation
RESULT: If the windmill company listed its offer at this site, and then the teacher listed her need and/or the traveler listed the small town’s need, then when the other one came looking, it would see a fit, and the delivery of a socially beneficial resource could ensue.
Example scenario #2:
* An organic CSA (“Community Supported Agriculture”) garden needs manure for fertilization (as opposed to chemical fertilizer, because they’re organic).
* A dairy farm has loads of manure that it regularly has to pay employees to remove, to maintain health of their dairy cattle.
RESULT: If the garden lists their need for manure and/or the farm lists their surplus, and the farm or the garden sees the other one’s listing, the delivery of a socially beneficial resource could ensue.
Example scenario #3:
* A husband and wife are a professional tax advisor and a holistic health practitioner, respectively. They both recognize that many people simply can’t afford the type of services they provide. They decide that they’d like to offer occasional free seminars on tax-saving tips and holistic pre-natal care, to lower income areas, but they have nowhere to do it.
* There is a warehouse in a low-income neighborhood, which is run as a photo studio and performance venue. The owner of the warehouse would like the space to be available for the good of the community when it is not busy with revenue-generating work.
RESULT: If the tax and health advisors list their offer to advise, and the warehouse owner offers his space for community benefit, then AFA may see this serendipitous fit, introduce the parties to each other, and then the delivery of a socially beneficial resource could ensue.
DO YOU HAVE A RESOURCE YOU’D LIKE TO OFFER?
DO YOU HAVE A NEED YOU’D LIKE TO REQUEST?
HERE, I’LL GO FIRST:
Web page designer: The All for All Foundation is a charitable organization that needs someone to design their website. See the Needs section for more information.
Clothes, toiletries, etc: Stand Up For Kids (http://www.standupforkids.org) helps homeless children who often live on the streets. See the News/Updatessection for more info.
Are you a non-profit organization who needs an event or project visually-documented? If so, take a look at my http://www.tc3imagery.com, and if you’d like me to help, contact me. If I have the time, maybe I’ll do it for you for free!
This page last updated on 2013-05-26