NGO accreditation ICH-09 – Form

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NGO accreditation

ICH-09 – Form

Form ICH-09-2018-EN – revised on 31/08/2016 – page 1

R EQUEST BY A N ^ON -G OVERNMENTAL O RGANIZATION TO BE

A CCREDITED TO P ROVIDE A DVISORY S ERVICES TO THE C OMMITTEE D

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Instructions for completing the request form are available at:

http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/en/forms

1. Name of the organization

1.a. Official name

Please provide the full official name of the organization, in its original language, as it appears in the supporting documentationestablishing its legal personality (section 8.b below).

Pacific Traditions Society (PTS) and Vaka Taumako Project of Solomon Islands (VTPSI) Vaka Valo Association Trust Board

1.b. Name in English or French

Please provide the name of the organization in English or French.

Pacific Traditions Society (PTS)

2. Contact of the organization

2.a. Address of the organization

Please provide the complete postal address of the organization, as well as additional contact information such as its telephone number, e-mail address, website, etc. This should be the postal address where the organization carries out its business, regardless of where it may be legally domiciled (see section 8).

Organization: Pacific Traditions Society Address: POB 189

Telephone number: 808 9368462

E-mail address: [email protected] Website: www.vaka.org

Other relevant

information: vakataumako on fb

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2.b Contact person for correspondence

Provide the complete name, address and other contact information of the person responsible for correspondence concerning this request.

Title (Ms/Mr, etc.): Dr Family name: george

Given name: marianne

Institution/position: Executive Director of VTP, Director of PTS Address: POB 189 Anahola, HI 96703

Telephone number: 808 9368462 and 808 9220647

E-mail address: [email protected] and [email protected] Other relevant

information: Dr Simon Salopuka text to sat phone mobile +88 16321613570

3. Country or countries in which the organization is active

Please identify the country or countries in which the organization actively operates. If it operates entirely within one country, please indicate which country. If its activities are international, please indicate whether it operates globally or in one or more regions, and please list the primary countries in which it carries out activities.

local national

international (please specify: ) worldwide

Africa Arab States Asia & the Pacific Europe & North America Latin America & the Caribbean

Please list the primary country(ies) where it is active:

PTS is active in Solomon Islands, but also active in USA and worldwide VTPSI is active in Solomon Islands and becoming active worldwide

4. Date of its founding or approximate duration of its existence

Please state when the organization came into existence, as it appears in the supporting documentationestablishing its legal personality (section 8.b below).

Pacific Traditions Society (PTS) registered as 501c3 charitable organization in 1988

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Vaka Taumako Project of Pacific Traditions Society of USA started under PTS in 1996

Partner – NGO, Vaka Taumako Project Solomon Islands/Vaka Valo Association Trust Board, was established in 2014.

5. Objectives of the organization

Please describe the objectives for which the organization was established, which should be ‘in conformity with the spirit of the Convention’ (Criterion C). If the organization’s primary objectives are other than safeguarding intangible cultural heritage, please explain how its safeguarding objectives relate to those larger objectives.

Not to exceed 350 words; do not attach additional information

1) Build Authentic Polynesian Voyaging Canoes of the types called TePuke and TeAlo, using only traditional materials. Designs, and methods.

2) Sail Ancient Voyaging Routes and Revive Partnerships and Trade Relationships within the Santa Cruz Group and beyond in order to demonstrate and revive ancient knowledge of self-reliant means of communication and prosperity between island peoples.

3) Train a New Generation in Traditional Voyaging Skills and Values.

4) Document the Process and Create an Archive of video, written, photo, and other educational materials and products for the benefit of nga Taumako, other Solomon Islanders, other

Polynesians, selected researchers who are fully committed to our goals and the public.

5) Produce Information and Educational Materials, articles and books, to foster Taumakan educational goals, and generate world awareness of both the practical and spiritual nature of this ancient voyaging heritage, and produce a multi-part archival video production.

6) Initiate and Coordinate Cultural Exchanges between Taumako people and the outside world in order to revive ancient voyaging knowledge and wisdom, aid communication between Taumakans and other seafarers, and to increase world awareness of ancient Polynesian seafaring traditions.

7) Protect and Benefit Taumako Community- Founding and current agreements honor Taumako copyright and profits from their cultural knowledge. The VTP continues to explore ways to better protect and promote Taumako interests in these matters, including correspondence, participations, and registration with United Nations and indigenous people’s initiatives, and bio-cultural efforts, worldwide.

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6. The organization’s activities in the field of safeguarding intangible cultural heritage

Sections 6.a to 6.d are the primary place to establish that the NGO satisfies the criterion of having ‘proven competence, expertise and experience in safeguarding (as defined in Article 2.3 of the Convention) intangible cultural heritage belonging, inter alia, to one or more specific domains’ (Criterion A).

6.a. Domain(s) in which the organization is active

Please tick one or more boxes to indicate the primary domains in which the organization is most active. If its activities involve domains other than those listed, please tick ‘other domains’ and indicate which domains are concerned.

oral traditions and expressions performing arts

social practices, rituals and festive events

knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe traditional craftsmanship

other domains - please specify:

educational displays in museums and schools

6.b. Primary safeguarding activities in which the organization is involved

Please tick one or more boxes to indicate the organization’s primary safeguarding activities. If its activities involve safeguarding measures not listed here, please tick ‘other safeguarding measures’ and specify which ones are concerned.

identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making) preservation, protection

promotion, enhancement

transmission, formal or non-formal education revitalization

other safeguarding measures – please specify:

publishing to establish design awareness for Taumako (Vaka Taumako Project of Solomon Islands)

6.c. Description of the organization’s activities

Organizations requesting accreditation should briefly describe their recent activities and their relevant experience in safeguarding intangible cultural heritage, including those demonstrating the capacities of the organization to provide advisory services to the Committee. Relevant documentation may be submitted, if necessary, under section 8.c below.

The Vaka Taumako Project (VTP) of Pacific Tradition Society, with the Vaka Taumako Project of Solomon Islands (VTPSI), have recently:;

*constructed Tealolili canoe and voyaged to various Outer Reef Islands training youth in ancient knowledge of traditional canoe building and navigational methods,,

*constructed two TePuke canoes in preparation for voyaging to Vanuatu in 2017-18 as training for family and regional reunion to reopen the border between Vanuatu and Solomon Islands (closed by colonial rules),.

*proposed curriculum for informal education for the Lata Navigational School,

*created rough-cut 2 hour educational TV documentary, videography 1996 -2017.

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*presented (with 4 from VTPSI) at "Sustainable Sea Transport, conference" 2014,

*Vaikawi and George presented at PacFest Guam in 2016. Drs Salopuka and George presented at East/West Center 2015. George presented at California Maritime Academy, 2013, Chico State U, 2015, 2016 IUCN conference, East/West Center in 2014 and 2016, and George at Taiwan Pacific History Conference Taiwan, Pac-Fest Guam, 2016, Maritime Archaeology of Hawai’I and Pacific conference and East/West Centre in Honolulu 2011 and 2017. and UCI and UCLA, 2017. The VTPSI was registered in 2014 as a charitable organization in Solomon Islands.

VTP of Pacific Traditions Society started in 1996, and renewed research permits annually with Ministry of Education. Future priorities of VTP are completion of more articles, book, and a TV documentary series.

VPTSI Board of Directors meets periodically and the annual meeting includes all the directors, including M. George from Hawaii, Dr Salopuka meets with Taumako VTPSI leaders and membership at least twice/year. The next annual meeting will be in June, 2017.

A VTPSI Committee has operated since 1996. Since 2006, under Dr Salopukas leadership, VTPSI has faithfully and resourcefully managed over 400,000.USD, and organized programs skillfully and efficiently despite civil war, disasters of government and changing weather. An accountant reviews financial reports to donors and confirms compliance with inland revenue of Solomon Islands

government..

6.d. Description of the organization’s competence and expertise

Please provide information on the personnel and membership of the organization, describe their competence and expertise in the domain of intangible cultural heritage, in particular those demonstrating the capacities of the organization to provide advisory services to the Committee, and explain how they acquired such competence. Documentation of such competences may be submitted, if necessary, under section 8.c below.

Board Members of Pacific Traditions Society:

Rob Lambden – President, maritime history and design

Marianne George – Vice-President, Ph.D. in cultural anthropology of Voyaging Heuionalani M. Wyeth – Secretary, oral history and woven arts

Officer but not Board Member: Rich Winegar – Treasurer – business and bookkeeping

Board Members of VTPSI:

Dr Salopuka - Excutive Director Captain Vaikawi -Secretary

Chief Jonas Holani - Director and Supervisor/ Lecturer at Lata Navigational School and Master navigator.

Dr Marianne George - International Director, documentarian of way finding and building knowledge Ambrose Miki -Director, assistant to Jonas Holani, leader of Vaka Valo Group, skilled vaka builder Hon. Stanley Tehiahua - educator, teacher, Duffs elected representative and Permanent Secretary of Temotu Provincial Assembly, Former Chair of the Culture and Tourism Committee, member of the delegation that signed an agreement with TORBA Province of Vanuatu to re-open the border

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for commerce with Solomons

Hebrew Lovella - Local coordinator and Secretary to both Dr Salopuka and Chief Jonas Holani.

Community leader. Skilled vaka builder.

Dixon H. Wia - head videographer for VTP Duffs for 22 years. co-producer of documentary in process.

7. The organization’s experiences cooperating with communities, groups and intangible cultural heritage practitioners

The Committee will evaluate whether NGOs requesting accreditation ‘cooperate in a spirit of mutual respect with communities, groups and, where appropriate, individuals that create, maintain and transmit intangible cultural heritage’

(Criterion D). Please briefly describe such experiences here.

In 1999, when a group of Doctors and their staffs, and the hospital on Kaua’i donated cataract surgeries to Paramount Chief Kaveia of Taumako, the 7 Taumako people who accompanied Kaveia on Kaua’i for 11 weeks, built the main hull of a vaka moana as a gift for the people of Kaua’i. Whenever voyaging groups request help, such as making a lauhala sail for their vaka, or needing sennit cordage, or wanting to visit Taumako or meet with Taumakan experts in the ancient arts, the VTP/VTPSI has responded as family and without reference to costs.

PTS is careful to respect the knowledge of others and we do not claim to know more than we do.

Our goal is to support the VTP and VTPSI to train a new generation, help the youth of the world to experience and learn the voyaging arts that Taumakans, and some other peoples with

Austronesian cultural heritage, have kept practicing. Our goal is to revive voyaging partnerships and networks throughout the Pacific, Indian and other oceans.

We do make clear distinctions between the expert use of ancient materials, designs, and methods, and protocols, and the co-opting of these arts by people who have no intention of learning these ways or using these things. We have not given details of our ancient designs to modern proa racers, for example, because they use them to make money and prestige for themselves and they are not interested in crediting the ancients for having figured out and made these things, much less any living person who would help them. They charge people for this knowledge but they do not want to pay anything for it.

We also do not do this for self-benefit. We try to support Taumako needs, including payment of school fees and necessities for our children so that Taumakans can work on becoming sustainable in practicing their voyaging heritage. Our grander goal, shared with VTPSI, is to share and teach and learn for the benefit of the coming generations, and for the sustainability and resilience of the world.

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8. Documentation of the operational capacities of the organization

The Operational Directives require that an organization requesting accreditation submit documentation proving that it possesses the operational capacities listed under Criterion E. Such supporting documents may take various forms, in light of the diverse legal regimes in effect in different States. Submitted documents should be translated whenever possible into English or French if the originals are in another language. Please label supporting documents clearly with the section (8.a, 8.b or 8.c) to which they refer.

8.a. Membership and personnel

Proof of the participation of the members of the organization, as requested under Criterion E (i), may take diverse forms such as a list of directors, list of personnel and statistical information on the quantity and categories of members; a complete membership roster usually need not be submitted.

Please attach supporting documents, labelled ‘Section 8.a’.

8.b. Recognized legal personality

If the organization has a charter, articles of incorporation, by-laws or similar establishing documents, a copy should be attached. If, under the applicable domestic law, the organization has a legal personality recognized through some means other than an establishing document (for instance, through a published notice in an official gazette or journal), please provide documentation showing how that legal personality was established.

Please attach supporting documents, labelled ‘Section 8.b’. 8.c. Duration of existence and activities

If it is not already indicated clearly from the documentation provided for section 8.b, please submit documentation proving that the organization has existed for at least four years at the time it requests accreditation. Please provide documentation showing that it has carried out appropriate safeguarding activities during that time, including those described above in section 6.c. Supplementary materials such as books, CDs or DVDs, or similar publications cannot be taken into consideration and should not be submitted.

Please attach supporting documents, labelled ‘Section 8.c’.

9. Signature

The application must include the name and signature of the person empowered to sign it on behalf of the organization requesting accreditation. Requests without a signature cannot be considered.

Name: Marianne George Title: Director

Date: 2017-04-18 Signature:

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No substAntial pert of the acU.vit!n at tr. Corporation sh.-11 be

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carryirtQ en of propaganda or ottwrwi . . att-pting to influence legislaticn, and thlt Cot"poratian sh.llll nat:

pArticip.at• in, or interv.ne in UncludinQ thlt publiahino or di•tribution of •ta~t•) any political caapeign on behalf af any candidate for public office, notwithatandino any other

p~islon• of t~ articl . . .

T tw Corporation SM ll not carry on .any ottwr activities not per•1t.ted to M carr1~ on ^by incorporation ex-pt fro.

f.-d•ral incaa. tax under sec. 501(c)(3) of the lntet"'nal Revenue Cod• of 1986, •• .-.nd.cl1 or t t . corr-... pond1ng pr-ovision of any

futur• United St&t . . Internal R•venue law.

19SS 1950 6236 0341

(17)

Upon the dissolution of the Corporatian, ttw board of Dir.-ctors .. hall, aft..- paying or . . ktnv provision for tlw pay...,t of all of ti'Nt 11ab111t1 . . of ti'Mt carporat1an, dispose of ell of ti'Mt •• . . t• of the Corporation exclusively for the purpooaa• of the Ccrporation in uch .anner, or to h organization or Or-Q.,iaations org.v~izlld ..,d operated exclusively for a c~ritable, ~aticnal, religious or scientific purpos.. ••

shall at the t i - qualify •• an eM-pt orvanization or orQani- zations under ..c. 501(c)(3) of the Int•rnal R~ of 1996, •• .-ndtld, or the corr . . ponding provision of any future code, •• the Board of Directors shAll det•r•ine.

TICLE VIII

Tlw

.

n

Mary .Jo Thill. The ~isterwd office addr . . s, lllhich i • ah10 the addr~~Ss of t t . rwoisterlld •vent, is :K> Car.y Court, Port Ludlow, Wash!nQton

9836,,

(206) 437-2808.

ARTICLE IX

Tt. ber of direct sh&ll be det i....cl fro~~ t l - to t i - baalld on the n..ts and objectives of the Corporation. The initial directors n . . . . and add~•-- are as followsa

Dr. David H. L~i•

177 Bunntt 11 Ho.er 1 AK 99603

Hie 1 F. Thill SO C.r.-y Court

Port LudlOM, NA 'i836:S

Dr. H&r iann•

S.Orv•

1n

lklnnell

H. r, AK 99603

K..ry Jo Thill

~ C.r.-y Court

Port LuellOM, WA

9836,

19S8

19~0

6236 0342

(18)

Th41 na

. .

ARTICLE X

and add~• of t~ in~orpora r i• •• fall

PYry Jo Th.t.ll SO C&~ Court

Port LudlDllf, W.ehin;ton 98365

MTID..E XI

I

In the •V8'nt o1 diw.alution of the Corporatian, the net

••••tw are to diatributed •• provid~ in Article VII he,..in.

DATED t.his

~

^{day of}

•

1989

l~SO

6236 0343

(19)

be uc;ed on a longer inleruland voyage as ~ eU as sadmg wathm Duffs and within Veakau the rest of tbe year.

Goal2) Sail On Andtnl Voyaging Routes and Kt\ he Trade Relatlonsblps Objecthes:

Tru 2 ' \ r' per }C:U wilh each of

the Vw

based RI Taumako. Each lime a VO)age IS

undertaken the cargo includes exchange foods, goods. \'aluabJes, and marriage partntl'.

as appropriate.

Goal3) Train a

Neq·

Genentioa In Traditional Seafaring Skills and Values Objectives:

Create an ongoing &cbool of voyaging with ongoing training and canoe maintc:oance apprentice programs. as 9.-eU as community education and participation in building and sailing and navigation skills. The

crews

trained participate in voyages between islands..

~reparations and training will result in Holau Vanuatu in 2015 or as soon as possible. The return voyage to Duff5 \\•ould happen as soon as possible. Further international voyages cab be planned.

Goal4) Document the Process and Create An Archhe Objecthes:

Establish off-site backup 5torage and archive. Elaborate dcu.ilcd policies (o 1t protection and use of uchival documents, tapes. and other lll3terials.

PreseJ"•e the super-S, hi-8, and nl$C footage that was s.hol in 1996-8 by transfer - • bct.acam or digital format. and contiDue efforts to obtain ~ies of the digital foorage that we paid professionals to shoot in J998 and 2002 but they have not provided.

Enable Taumalo video srudents continue to rerord each VTP activity and learn to edit their footage into educational products. Purchase of another student camera, computer, and ^~ftware,for recording.logg~ng. transfers, and editina,

Taumako students

Jog

and edit the archivaJ \ideo footage toward cnalJOD of a longer educational video showing e\'ery step of the building of the tepule, V ab Taumako. and an educational videos showing sailing and na\'igatioa methods. Continue trainiJJg of Nga Taumako in basic and advanced video production.

GoalS) Produce Information and Eduatlonal Materlals Objectives:

Write, edit, and self-publish a book account of the

Vw

Tau.mako ProJCCllod it's results during Zll13. Remrd. traDSlate, and edit a volume of Taumako voyagr.ng stories and an.

Make archival produa mowing the buiJdin& of voyaging canoes, and a four hour product on navigational and seafaring koowledge and it's tnnsnussion to Taumako students.

Professional videograpbers give advanced training to Taumako students when possible.

Produce curricula and \\Ukbook.s for ^U!Cin Solomon Islands and other Pacific Islands schools.

Goal 6) lnlt.late and

CoonUaate

Cultural Exchanges:

Obj«tt\'H:

Plan

and

initiate more cultural exchange visits betv•een the people of Tau.mako and

3

•

(20)

Hawaii, and

other

Polynesian islands, including:

Fly five nga

Taumako

to

Kaua'i

to

complete the building of

the

tealolili voyaging canoe and

do

trial

sailing

and interisland

V0)'3ge, IUld lO

identify

and document Polynesia.n navigation stars using planeteriwn facilties.

Taumako )'Outh and

Hav.-aii

youth exchange visits, and train each other in

traditional knowledge.

Goal 7} Protect

and Benefit Taumako Communily

Objerth·es:

Founding and

current

agreements bonor Taumal.o oopynght

and profits

from their cultural knowledge. The VTP continues to explore

ways to

better protect

and

promote

Taumato interests in these matters, including correspondence and regisuation with

United Nations

and

indigenous peopte•s initiatives world"ide.

0

ARTICLE 4- POY1ERS

The

association acting through

its

authorized representatives shall have the powers necessary to carryout tbc: objectives expressed in this oonstirution and are ~pecificaJJy

ernpo\\-ered to lake the following activities:

4.1 To raise, borrow or lend money in such terms

and conditions

and for such security as

the Executive Committee or

the Board of

Tru~tees

M1alllbink

fit.

4.2 To own

JUl and

personal

properties and

to sell. let. mortgage, dispose of or return to

1ocount all or

any

of the properties of funds ves~cd in the Association as deemed

fit.

4.3 To make and pass regulations and rules that governs the opcrarion of the association

and its activities (as refers to

anached

schedules).

CEkifED

nu! COP\' ARTICLE 5 Membership

S.l The membership of the association sha.U consist

of

V ab Valo

p~

^;,-,

_,...~-:t'r,

tnbal

group of Makapao, Hleitu.

Tetoha and Tamno and Mbcle in Nifiloli.

names of

the

members

will be approved

by

the

Executive

Director and Qai VfPSI.

5.2

New

applicants for membership shall be

assessed

by the

board or execuuve

dJredt:Jr and chairman

of VfPSI.

ArtJde 6 Membenhip

ree

6.1 The Association may require contributing a membership of annual fee lo\h.ich shall be detel'lllibed by the

Execubve

Committee.

4

..

(21)

20-1

The

Associatioa lihal.l iDdenullfy the

NJ.ticml,

ProviDcW or

local

aulhority IDd other

cntttie~ from the

cost.

habillty

or damages

incurred

in

houest

aDd proper

discharged

ofiu

ofr~Cer"s duliel

performed m eoocf

faith

on behalf of

the said authonty

or entity;

20-2

The

As.0Ciation shall indemnify an agent. aa orrar or member or

the

executive commmee of

the

Bolrd of trustees again." any

CXlSt.

liability or damages incurred in booest and

proper diJchargcd of ats officer~.

daues pcr(ormed in sood faith on

behalf

of tbe

AssociadoJJ;

20-3 Where

sudl

offJCn aforesaid

is used or proseculed

in

ru~ct

of aaythina done or omitted

lO be dooe

iD

respect

of

the

performanoe of luslbcr duties done in

good fanh

Lben

the

Association shalJ meet any costs. award or

fiDe imposed by the

Coun:

20-t We

the undersigned c:mify

tlDI dus ~itu~

was

adopted at a

special

general rnming oftbc

Al.1odation beld

onlbc ..

A

•..••••

J . , _ , ... . ...

day o(201J.

2().5 Ownnan: ... -. ... . . 1

^Q^t

V~-~

..

~ ""'f.\' ^~

^... ^CER^....

^~, ^ifPHIS)~A

^TFUl^rJ:1I1'I

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APPUCATION

FOR

REGISTR-\TIOS

U~"DER niE CHARJTABI ~

ALl FlRSf SOIEDULE

(Sedloa

.a

C.p.SS)

We hereby

incorporated

under

the Pro\'isions

of

the

Owitable Trus1 Act. 1 ·

v

4

1

₀

^/J ^J ^~

vA I

Tbc

,...ame of

the

Board

10 be·

Vab Taumato

Project

Solomon l\laod\430Md of Trustees.

2. The reg~stered Office of

me

^Board^to^{be at}^{: Duff}

lsJands. Temotu Provioce,

Solomon bJmds

or a P. O Box m Honilra. Solomon Islands wben avat!able.

3.

The

Names.

Addrmes and Dcsaiptions of the

Tnmees:

a)

Or

SimoD

SaJopob. Medlal Officer and

Executn-e Duector of VTPSI.

Duff

Islands.

Temoru Provioce.

EmaiJ·

ualoputqgmail com

b)

Jonas

Hollani. Captain

and ChaimwJ of

VTPSI,

Duff

Wands. Temoru Provioce.

c:)

Lllke Vailawi.

Captain and

Secrewy of VTPSJ P.O.Box G3 Honi3ra, Solomon

Islands.

d) Dr Mariumc Mim• Oeorge. P O.Box 712, Capcain Cook. 967().1, Hawaii, USA.

Email Geora.mimi@'&awl.rom;

Fax: 808-823-6741

(22)

e) Hebrew Lovela, Farmer, Duff Islands, Tcmoru Province.

0

Stanle) Tehlahua.

Pro\IDCIII

Asstmbl),

Duff

Islands, Tcmotu Pro\·ince.

a)

Ambrosc \iali, Fanner,

Duff

b.lmch. Temocu Province.

4.

The said

Trustees

^'VI'eteduly

appointed

by 1 general meeting

on the

"to44toab--

day of Intr

.2013.

S. The COMMON SEAL of V

aka Taumako Projca SoJomoa lsJIDds AMociatioo

is

~ped

as

below:

•

6. The

Objectives

and

auns of

tbe ASSOCiation

see Article 3 of

the

Constitution.

7.

A

Sratement of

Property,

Real

and

Personal, in

whicb is

possessed

by

belonging

to

or

bdd

on behall of the Assndarion..

8 A c:eruficd copy of the deed of seulcment

will,

or other document CXJmtituting

the

asoaauon,

ud

any replal10111

made

&here

UDder CODSUtubOa will be

at1Xbed if there

are any

12

•

(23)

Dated ot ....

~

^...

^IJD A,"~

^...

^{M.t1 .. ·}

^{This: ...}

^{h!'L ..} ?..~ ^.. f!:: ...

^day^of

:zou. -· .. ··r·

Trustee ••••

Lu..keVaib'lrl

Mr Jonu Hollanl +

..

CERTIFIED A

mue

^COPY

(24)

01te: July 6. 2000

Pacific TUiddiCII'I$ StiOflr Ill, DJ RobiMOrl :~NQ1 S.lt 224¹¹¹St

ll'ap~e~: Vi!lley, WA !ilt!Ol8

Dear $r ot Madam·

of lhe T~sury P. 0. BOll 25DB

Cl"~;.~ •5201 Person to Conuct:

TJKY Ganigus #31·07307 Customer Setv.ce Repr~.Wve Toll Frw TelophoM N r:

• • Ulr. 11 ~ . . lil1

877-829-5500 Fait N1.11n1Mr.

513-283-3766

F • rat lclenl tiOI'I N...mMt:

94-30995711

Thi$ ~Uer 1:$ in l't!"'p()nse ID your ~ tor a copy at )'CUI' czv11 · 's d~trnlMtlonletter. This kttlw will rw the CJI~~tAJ of ltla cop~ ~ ~.

Our recol'diiOd.cate 11\11 • dettlmWI.tion 1et1wr iswe<f W1 ~ber 1989. granmct )'OUr or; 11: u o

l1om feaerlllll'l~ tax liniHr H'Ction S01(~;J(3) of ltle · r.cm Revenue Code. That letter ^r$sba 11'1 effect.

&sed on infOfm 1101'1 subseque"'Y ~~ we cllilolii!H your 1;1~atlon as one 1\at il not a pthra4e fcaJJlQilt.On m'llll lhe meaning or Ud!On 509(a) Gf 'the Code bee~~use it Ill en org~r~~n ck!xrlbed in sl!dio.ns 509(a)( 1) ancs t 7Q(b)( 1 )(A)( vi).

This ctass.hcaiJon woQ based on l'loe auwnpticti'L lhal your oe;anlzallon's opel'fti)OI would ooni~~~Ue as $tated

tn ~ appkabon If your ~Mion's soLitces of suppon, Of ~ .. cl'llil~. m mod of Opet1!tlon5, or putpos.u have ~.'please le I us knOw so we can consider ltre effect ot h ctlaoge on ,_ exemp1 slat\J-s and foundation

•w•

^ofyow organwallon

Your Otganization is r+c~.uind to fita Fonn 990. Rft.lrn of 0111 -~ Eqrnpt from II'IClO«'te Tax, only~ Its grosa receipts each yell are normally 1'1"10(81Nf\ $25,000. N a reiUm is r.o~. d must be llltd by the 15th day Of - ,,.., monU'I after !he ~ of " -orpnitltion's *Y!Uilll ~~QI PtOOO 11\e law ilnpOSel 01 penalty of $20 a~. up to • tnuirm.m of $10,000, wtlen a •tum la ffttd 1&1*, un .. ss ltrare os reasol'lablt cause h;lr t.he cf1tlay.

All exrt.mpt oroanizations (unless specifaS!y ~ll>:l} are i.able fOr tams U!Kier Che F -,;rvl ~ur<mce COtllribulloM Act (soclal HCIUrity !axes) on cemuner~rtioli of 1100 Of mote J)lld to each eml)loyee during a caJend<W ye¥ Your organLZ.allon is n01 I ~:in~ for !M lax lmpclRd u~ tl'le Federal Unemptayment Tax Ad

(FUTA) •

~.aniZ.ItiOns tnat ate not pdvale kluncilltk)ns life nol w ,- ·to 1nl a:liiCit.il IIX•s undw Cl\lpter -42 olltle Code ttowever. Mse Of'gaMallOns .,.. r.oc 1Qm ~ ")' exempt from a4her fedefaJ ex.ciu wes Donors mar ~ concr nlvm tt1 your CfOMlkrallon as p~ 1t1 seCtiOn 170 or the COde BeqL~esu.

lf!gecles, de-vt~s. tnmsrers, or gifts to your Ol';anilatJon or lor 1tf uae ..-e ^dedu ^_(Of te~i!ll estate aMI grtltiix purl)~»e:t If tl'l&y mH~ the app e provisions af s~ICnl 2055, 2106, AM 2~22 of 1M COde.

Sb. attachment, signed VTPSI Articles:

Completion of for ICH-09-2018:

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2

NGO accreditation ICH-09 – Form