Thanks for considering a board member position for the All Disabilities Motivational Institute(ADMI). My name is Marty A. Mimmack and ADMI may become a 501c3 (IRS Code) charitable foundation in 2008. The following 5 pages are a condensed version of the business plan.

Purpose

Organized to motivate and care for the disabled, seniors, professionals and the community by teaching courses and providing services related to independent/assisted-living, healthcare, adaptive products, physical, personal, transportation, economic, recreational and social needs and activities of daily living.

We do this at a residential community/institute/laboratory/retreat center where teachers, students and other interested parties research, develop, learn, furnish, promote, and/or receive low-cost ‘quality of life’ skills, products, services and guidance based on co-housing and intentional living models.

Primary Activities

• Award compassionate care and/or Hawaiian travel packages that include transportation, lodging, meals, tours and visits to an ecologically-friendly, co-housing, assisting living community.

• Run a small residential community where people (disabled or not) research, develop, teach, learn, share, and receive motivation, awareness and compassionate care, and where awardees visit as part of their Hawaiian experience.

• Teach and develop professional inservice/preservice and family training courses on the principles of human motivation combined with the practices of compassionate caring at a residential institute in Hawaii.

Concept Overview

The three names originally brainstormed for ADMI were the Motivational Caring Fund and the Compassionate Travel Foundation and The Institute for Human Compassion. I settled on ADMI because it combines the principles of cross-disability and human motivation with the idea of compassionate caring, and education.

The travel program is what I experienced in my early teens as part of Expanding Horizons a 501c3 foundation-an organization that took groups of disabled on trips to Hawaii in the 1970s. I traveled to Hawaii in June 2006 and wanted to offer the opportunity to others who cannot travel for financial, access or other reasons. Since I traveled greatly as a child, I would love to furnish and coordinate these exciting vacations for those less fortunate.

I moved to Hawaii in Feb. 2007. As of Feb. 1008 I have not filed the preliminary documents needed to get things ready for the IRS application. Currently, I'm conducting interviews and searching for an initial board while finishing the business plan. (The best way to learn more is to click on the link in the upper right corner to go to my website.) These have been fruitful yet limited. The project will unfold as a business plan by starting small and practical, with goals that are readily achievable based on the mission of the organization. Since I’m the visionary, founder, initial financer, organizer and appointed cooperative group leader as well as potential beneficiary, the ADMI'S conflict of interest policies and procedures will be rigorous, ethical, tedious, fair and completely open book. I’ll run ADMI as a separate entity with no mixing of financial matters.

Rationale

Underlying the entire project is the assumption that human beings want to help themselves and help others. As one who has been the recipient of a lot of help, I now want to help others by providing “quality of life” experiences that are sorely needed by people with disabilities and seniors with disabilities on limited incomes. There is a large and growing population of current and former workers with disabilities who cannot afford vacations or many leisure time activities. This type of program will give travel, social, economic and emotional assistance to a class of people that cannot travel together as other groups do. This lack of group “maintenance” creates separation for our identified support structures. ADMI’s long-term vision entails an intentional community where disabled and others cooperatively share in the needs of food, housing, transportation and health care. By creating a motivational formula based on the methods, expertise and charisma of its founder, MCF seeks to build a system that engages people in self-reliant yet interdependent lifestyles. The idea is for ADMI to be a receptacle that fills with caring, motivated people as well as money so that we can return those gifts back to other human beings who want to care for themselves and others but need additional money or motivated human capital to do it.

Background

The idea for ADMI emerged from my heart and mind during an awakening at a retreat in late October 2005. At that time I experienced a feeling of self-acceptance greater than I had ever known before. This tremendous outpouring of compassion-for-self improved my attitude, changed my mind, refocused my desires and encouraged my fortitude. The ADMI vision is the culmination of my life’s work. I now have the knowledge, motivation, ability and intention to create an organization future generations can use to generate the personal peace, compassion and love all people cherish.

Going back a bit, by nature of my birth and my parents’ actions soon thereafter to get the best for me, I was thrust onto the “stage of trial and error” (or success). At age three I began doing charity work as the Poster Boy for the Santa Clara County March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation. From that point on, it seems I’ve always been a teacher of sorts: helping others understand challenges. I must admit that the lesson got stale after decades of repetition, but something else never got old...I Love Working an audience! So these intense experiences during my ‘formative years’ instilled in me “stage-work” skills and preferences that have continued to develop ever since. As back matter to this business plan, I have attached a biography and resume summary to further clarify how the ADMI logically follows from my prior credentials. Suffice it to say here that this project taps my deep-seated emotional, intellectual and spiritual will to find a new instrument where my ideas and skills can be used to benefit other beings. I’m entering what some call the last 1/3 of my life. I seek to create work for myself that demonstrates what can be achieved with motivation and caring in ones heart.

Financial Resources

Hopefully, by June 2008, I will send letters to Arnold Palmer, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Neal Armstrong and Jimmy Carter requesting endorsement and financial or fundraising support. I have photographs with each of these living legends as well as fundraising film footage with Arnold Palmer and believe these celebrities will support the MCF’s training institute and compassionate services. ADMI will also seek relevant government and private grant funding, submit RFPs for federal disabled/low-income housing assistance, and bid for healthcare industry professional development service contracts. Additionally, ADMI will engage in local community fundraising activities such as the “edu-tainment for dollars” fair booth. As the founder and initial Executive Director, I am pledging part of my personal cash on hand and a percentage of royalties from Armless in America: how does he do it? There will also be a number of other creative, fun and motivational fundraising activities.

Market Demand

ADMI is a response to a demand by old and young alike to have more opportunities to share resources, heritages, and principles among people who want to live, work and care for themselves and others as a “co-livelihood” way of conscious understanding. World population is soaring, the people live longer with more disabilities. Natural and man-made catastrophes, war, social disenfranchisement, economic alienation, the healthcare crisis, pollution, crime and youth/school shootings are indications that ADMI is an idea who’s time is now. These are just a few of the sociological trends that point at an unmet set of needs. More palpable is the need to provide high quality training enrichment opportunities to a diverse target market. Doctors, nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists, physical and occupational therapists, various counselors, health care interns, social workers, rehabilitation professionals, people with disabilities, elected representatives, spiritual leaders, families with seniors, ADA workers, war injured, government personnel, hospice staff, gerontology personnel, faculty members, massage therapists, and business owners working with related services and devices will be especially interested in these services. Provision of care giving services, motivating people to action and giving inspiration to youth are all in desperate need right now.

The Budget

A 3-year anticipated budget is required for IRS consideration. I’ll be preparing it during early 2007. For now, I’ll be underwriting the expenses that are called “seed” monies. I anticipate startup fees to be $2000.00 +/- a bit of consulting needed for legal purposes. All other startup expenses will be treated as a corporation for banking activities.

The Plan

As part of the Fund’s programs, I’ll author a memoir in 2008 on the Institute's relationship to my life’s work. Also I’ll present training courses and keynote lectures that have been part of my motivational speaking services for over 30 years. Finally, ADMI will engage in a myriad of outreach services including in-home support, community networking and public relations, healthcare/equipment procurement and social gatherings.

Programs and Services

ADMI:

• Facilitates those receiving travel awards in picking-up litter in public areas on the island.

• Conducts engineering, critiquing and experiential testing of products, services and practices that foster human motivation and caring for ones self and one another.

• Offers assisted living facility assessment standards, a 24/7 national networking hotline,; and operate a disability-owned business development service.

• Runs outreach programs including publishing a newsletter, an interactive website, operating a telephone hotline and a referral program.

• ADMI staff will host and/or participate in community festivals, public forums, panel discussions, professional development workshops, street fairs, health care industry expositions and other consciousness raising events.

• The following course batteries are offered on location or at the institute in Hawaii:

1) Can We Talk: Assessment of assisted care facilities and improving communication dynamics for families and professionals;

2) Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: Seminars and resource materials on dealing with everyday physical obstacles; building self-esteem; practicing ‘engaged’ compassion; improving psychological, emotional and economic problem-solving; and cooperative communication;

3) Character Education through Disability Awareness: Presentations for schools and a resource unit for teachers;

4) Diversity for the Masses: ‘edu-tainment’ M.C./keynote speaking services that entertain, educate and inspire others to live compassionately

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