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The Trusts Areas

Trusts Areas of Focus

The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Charitable Trusts hold and manage the donated assets of The Ikoku Foundations, and periodically distribute portions of said assets to the Foundations for their charitable operations. The holding, management, and distribution of these assets are done with specified attention to our Areas of Focus and Philanthropy, as they have been delineated in the founding and governing Declaration of Trust. Provided below is access to further information in each of the Trusts Areas.

Agriculture and Sustenance

Contributions to Public Knowledge

Cultural and Technological Innovation

Energy and Infrastructure

Ethical Research and Care

Human and Environmental Health

Humanistic Inquiry and Expression

Public Opinion and Civic Discourse

Rights and Covenants

The Trusts' Founding Charitable Purposes

The Ikoku Foundations consist of The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku Foundation. The Foundations are funded by The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Charitable Trusts. And the nature, mission, charitable purposes, and vision of our philanthropy are described below.

Nature and General Purpose

The Ikoku Foundations and Foundations are independent, private, non-governmental, non-religious, non-profit organizations that serve the public interest in Africa and its global diasporas, and account for the past while ensuring a shared and just future.

Overarching Mission

Our overarching mission and emphases of support are for good works that help the public understand Africa’s essential place in a global future, one that is to be more knowledgeable, environmentally sound, and equitable; and furthermore of deep benefit for communities inhabiting shared and complex societies.

A Relationship with Africa

The majority of our funded works therefore bear a substantive relationship to Africa. They deepen our collective knowledge of the full, varied range of ethnic, gendered, raced, and religious peoples of African descent. They study, give account of, and improve the ways such peoples live in, develop, migrate to or from the continent. And they help us understand, intimately, how such peoples continue to contribute to the material, cultural, and intellectual conditions of modern life in Africa as well as societies in the Americas, Asia, Australasia, and Europe.

A Relationship with Global Communities

We are also inspired by a full range of peoples who have contributed to the foundations and development of their societies. Who have done so despite an equally long history of systemic difficulties. Who nevertheless maintain an unyielding belief that the betterment of their human condition will foster the betterment of those living around them, and will enhance the futures of the regularly underserved, marginalized, disenfranchised. We draw from their example a vision of the public good and common community that is our hope and objective.

Governance and Operations

The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Charitable Trusts was founded under the core vision of its President, Alvan Azinna Ikoku, and incorporated in the United States along with the associated Ikoku Foundations. Below is an overview of key facets of the resulting organizations and access to further details regarding corporate governance and operations.

Philosophy and Approach

We have designed the governing structure of the Ikoku Foundations and Foundations in order to be attentive to needs and operations at the local and global level, as well as across the complex states and societies where our communities reside, living shared, interdependent lives.

Structure

Leadership

Boards Membership

Further Details on Governance

Articles of Incorporation of the Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Charitable Trusts (HTML)

Articles of Incorporation of the Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation (HTML)

Articles of Incorporation of the Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku Foundation (HTML)

Further Details on Operations

Governing Ethics and Associated Policies

Below are the founding Codes of Ethics for The Ikoku Charitable Trusts and The Ikoku Foundations, as well as governing policies that derive from them. The ethical codes and policies collectively make up the Terms of Service and User Agreement, which govern all employees’, volunteers’ and online visitors’ work in and for, access to and use of, affiliation with and reference to The Ikoku Charitable Trusts and The Ikoku Foundations. The code and associated policies are made available in html and pdf format.

Founding and Governing Code of Ethics

Founding & Governing Code of Ethics (HTML)

Terms of Use and Service

Terms of Use and Service (HTML)

Privacy and Confidentiality

Privacy and Confidentiality (HTML)

Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property (HTML)

Acceptable Use Policy

Acceptable Use Policy (HTML)

Accessibility and Disability

Accessibility & Disability (HTML)

Conflicts of Interest

Conflicts of Interest (PDF)

Conflicts of Interest (HTML)

Corporate Responsibility

Corporate Responsibility (PDF)

Corporate Responsibility (HTML)

Discrimination and Harassment

Discrimination & Harassment (PDF)

Discrimination & Harassment (HTML)

Diversity and Inclusion

Diversity & Inclusion (PDF)

Diversity & Inclusion (HTML)

Forced Labor, Trafficking, Slavery

Forced Labor, Trafficking, Slavery (PDF)

Forced Labor, Trafficking, Slavery (HTML)

Sustainability

Sustainability (PDF)

Sustainability (HTML)

Transparency

Transparency (PDF)

Transparency (HTML)

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Governace Suited to Local and Global Philanthropy

We have designed the governing structure of the Ikoku Foundations and Foundations in order to be attentive to needs and operations at the local and global level, as well as across the complex states and societies where our communities reside, living shared, interdependent lives.

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With Respect Being Central to Our Ethics

At the core of our founding and governing Code of Ethics is a commitment to the most robust conceptions of respect and humanity, including and beyond what the law has protected and provided for, as we fulfill our twin mottos: to serve the public interest in Africa and its global diasporas; and to account for the past while ensuring a shared and just future.

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To Ensure a Just and Shared Future for Many

We are inspired by peoples who have contributed to the foundations and development of their societies, despite a history of systemic difficulties. Who maintain an unyielding belief that the betterment of their human condition will foster the betterment of those living around them, and will enhance the futures of the regularly underserved, marginalized, disenfranchised. We draw from their example a vision of the public good and common community that is our hope and objective.

More About Us

The Ikoku Trusts

We are independent, private, non-profit organizations that serve the public interest in Africa and its global diasporas — by advancing education and research and by also supporting creative ideas, civic communities, and emerging institutions.

— About Us

Nature, Scope, Means

Our founding mission and ongoing emphases of support are for good works that help the public understand Africa's essential place in a global future, one that is to be more knowledgeable, environmentally sound, and equitable, of deep benefit across communities in shared societies.

— Founding & Overview

Mission, Charitable Goals, Trust Areas

To this end, we are governed by a Board of Trustees and two differently dedicated Advisory Boards of Directors — a three-board system set out and defined in the original Declaration of Trust, where our founding and governing Code of Ethics is also delineated.

— Governance

Leadership, Boards, Corporate Documents

The policies provided above collectively constitute our Corporate Code of Conduct and User Agreement, which governs all work in and for, access to and use of, association with and reference to The Ikoku Charitable Trusts and The Ikoku Foundations. Please read them attentively.

— Policies

Terms of Use & Service, Code of Ethics

Take a look, and follow us, during media events we attend and the coverage that at times precedes them or ensues. You may also sign up for our newsletter, which will update you about news and events from the publics we serve.

— Press & Media

News, Events, Articles

Join us as a potential leader, staff, board or committee member, researcher or educator, contributor or volunteer. A career of doing good through the Ikoku Foundations and Foundations may be the perfect fit for you.

— Careers At Ikoku

Jobs, Volunteer, Research