3. ICO Worldwide Quick Facts
• over 2000 people assisted with
education and relief of poverty
in 5 countries on 3 continents
• 650 Friends supporting ICO
over 100 of which are
volunteer Team Members
• over $2 million in gross assets
4. A Challenging Thought...
“We must seriously question the concepts
underlying the current structure of organizations
and whether they are suitable to the management
of accelerating societal and environmental
problems -
and, even beyond that, we must seriously
consider whether they are the primary cause of
those problems.”
Dee Hock
5. The ICO Difference
ICO Formula
...Friends working together...
100% volunteer
+
100% transparent
+
100% managed via the net
=
100% of donations to Initiatives!
6. What is ICO?
We are a charitable foundation which builds
processes and teams that enable positive
sustainable social change by using innovative
methods to eliminate poverty and to advance
education.
7. ICO Constitution (excerpt)
i) to relieve poverty by
- researching, modifying or developing innovative
methods to provide the poor with the necessities of life
and disseminating the results of such research to the
public;
- using innovative methods to provide the poor with the
necessities of life.
8. ICO Constitution (excerpt)
ii) to advance education by
- researching, modifying or developing innovative
methods to enable children and adults to learn, and
disseminating the results of such research to the public;
- providing scholarships, tuition, supplies and other
necessities for students to attend school.
iii) to carry on ancillary and incidental activities that
further these charitable purposes.
9. and we believe that:
...above all, we are friends working together.
If the task gets before relationships,
do not do the task...
10. and we also believe:
...in the end of the 'isms...
the graveyards of the World are full of them
and
...have you failed today?
and if not why not?
because to be creative and innovative means
trying new ideas and taking risks and that can
mean failure too and also bring success
11. How does ICO organize?
Grassroots involvement by local and indigenous
peoples working together in an
ICO Community
supported internationally in the field and through
the Internet
by knowledge and resource areas called
ICO Centres
13. ICO Board of Directors
Is elected by the membership and responsible to the
membership for the governance of the Foundation.
Members of the Foundation consist of active volunteer
Team Members only. There is no cost, the contribution of
time and passion to the Foundation is the membership
fee.
A Team Member who cannot be active is allowed a year
of leave of absence and maintains voting membership for
that period. After that the member reverts to ICO Friends
status, unless active again.
14. ICO Board of Directors
ICO splits the operational management of the Foundation
from overall strategic and fiduciary governance.
The elected President of the Foundation acts as Chair of
the Board and is responsible to the Board for the
administration of the Foundation.
Each of the four operational groups has a President
who individually reports to the Chair.
Over the next year the Board of Directors is being
redesigned into a Board of Trustees.
15. ICO Board of Directors
the ultimate responsibility of our Board
shared vision
good governance
with
transparency
16. Transparency
Bank balances, cash flows
and donations shown live
24/7 on the Net for all to
see.
...and the first
organization in the
World to show
accounts live for over
4 years now...
17. The ICO Offer on Transparency
We believe that transparency and openness are
critical in today's World to ensure trust.
The Net can enable instant live 24/7 transparency.
Our Offer:
We will partner with any non-profit organization in
the World to share our transparent accounting
processes - free!
Our Conditions:
Not be in disharmony with our goals and agree to
be totally transparent within 3 years.
18. Our ICO Matrix
ICO Communities
and
ICO Centres
work together and produce sustainable innovative
Projects and Initiatives
22. Council of ICO Communities
• Provides a dynamic forum for all ICO Friends
Worldwide.
• The prime organizational component of ICO is
the ICO Community, consisting of ICO Friends.
• Each ICO Community is represented by their
ICO Community Co-ordinator
• ICO Community Co-ordinators then form the
Council of ICO Communities.
The Council is a representative advisory body
and is not involved in Foundation governance,
23. Council of ICO Communities
Secretariat to the Council of ICO World Communities
Potential ICO Communities are developed and nurtured
by the Secretariat working with local and indigenous
leadership as much as possible with assistance from the
ICO Development Chaord as required.
24. Secretariat to the Council of ICO World Communities
Provides the following services to ICO Communities:
• Encourages and supports full involvement in ICO
Communities of all local and indigenous peoples who are
ICO Friends, especially those who are or have been
recipients of ICO aid and support.
• Encourages and supports democratic team building
processes to enable full involvement of ICO Friends in
ICO Communities and their Projects and Initiatives.
• Provides organizational and administrative support to the
Chair and the Council of ICO Communities.
• The Secretariat focuses to People Team Building and not
Project or Initiative Building
25. ICO Communities
ICO Communities with current Initiatives
• ICO Victoria Community
• ICO Guatemala Community
• ICO Colombia Community
• ICO Uganda Community
• ICO Rwanda Community
26. ICO Victoria Community
Banfield House
• 22 units for people with persistent mental health issues
who are at risk of being homeless. Operated by VIHA
• 24 unit "wet-house" for people with concurrent mental
health, addiction and are homeless. Initiative has
matured and now passed to Victoria Cool Aid Society.
27. ICO Guatemala Community
• Stoves for health and the
environment
• Education and scholarships
• Health clinic support and
medicines
29. ICO Colombia Community
• Bakery and bakery school
• Fish farming - analysis
• Hotel, B+B - analysis
• Street baking goods vendor
• Micro-Finance Initiatives
30. ICO Rwanda Community
Initiatives with Orphaned Students
• Train students in sustainable construction skills
• Rehabilitate dilapidated houses of widows
• Build tree nursery on campus for 2,000 seedlings
• Build and manage rabbit breeding colony for
community education and distribution
• Empower students to earn for self support through
community project
31. ICO Rwanda Community
Students build and plant raised
garden for an old aged widower
32. ICO Uganda Community
• Teaching hip-hop dance to HIV orphaned
children and young people who live on the
streets and garbage heaps, enabling them to
begin a more structured and healthy life.
• Bee-keeping and hives Micro-Finance Initiative
34. ICO Communities
ICO Communities in development
• ICO Vancouver Community
• ICO Saltspring Community
• ICO Nanaimo Community
• ICO Courteney Community
• ICO Ottawa Community
• ICO UK Community
• ICO Sri Lanka Community
• ICO USA Community
37. Our Groups
• ICO World Communities
• ICO Institute
• IC Trust
• ICO International
38. ICO World Communities
Builds innovative, sustainable communities by
developing & managing our Community Initiatives
• ICO Community Initiatives Centre
• ICO Centre for Peace and Justice
• ICO Sea Support Centre
• ICO Inns Centre
• ICO Centre for Micro-Finance
• ICO Young Persons Centre
39. ICO Institute
The research & conceptual power house of ICO
• ICO Research Centre
• ICO Centre for Innovative Organization
• ICO Resource Centre
• ICO Learning Centre for Sustainability
• ICO Centre for Planning and Development
• ICO International Board of Advisors
40. IC Trust
Is responsible for developing innovative
sustainable housing and managing the building
portfolio of ICO.
• ICO Property Management Centre
• ICO Innovative Housing Centre
41. ICO International
Supports all ICO activities Worldwide
• ICO Friends Centre
• ICO Volunteers Centre
• ICO Interns Centre
• ICO Communications Centre
• ICO Administration Centre
• ICO Initiative Funding Centre
43. Our ICO Matrix
ICO Communities
and
ICO Centres
work together and produce sustainable innovative
Initiatives and Projects
44. ICO Projects and Initiatives
• Changing the way people and organizations work.
Focussing to building relationships which enable
innovative sustainable communities and make a
more peaceful and harmonious World
• Stoves for health and better environment
• Education scholarships and food
• Housing and support for mentally ill people who
would homeless.
• Teaching dance to HIV orphans
• Bee-Keeping and hives
• Bakery and bakery school
• Support for civil war widows in micro-business
45. ...above all, we are friends working
together.
If the task gets before relationships,
do not do the task...
