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Trinity School Fundraising Project
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Trinity School was founded in 1966 by American and British communities living in Cali, Colombia who attended the Episcopal Trinity Church. The purpose was to provide a school for low-income children. Today, 300 students attend from kindergarten to 9th grade, before they transition to a state high school. Trusts for All Children will be helping to raise the capital necessary to sustain the school serving these children on an annual basis.
Background and Mission
In 2000, with the help of Colombian and foreign benefactors, a new school building was erected in Bellavista. It is a low-income but dynamic neighborhood which 48 years ago was a shanty town. It is where most of the children attending the school live.
The school subsidizes almost half of the students for two of the ten-month-school year. No child is ever turned away if the parents are in arrears. The annual cost to provide education for each child is U.S. $264. The monthly minimum wage of many of the parents is US $228. Thus, it takes more than the average monthly salary of many of the parents to keep a child in school.
The mission of Trinity School is to provide a high-quality education to low-income children and give them the moral values and knowledge to reach for the stars in a day by day more inclusive, creative, just and caring society.
Effects of COVID-19
The parents of the children attending Trinity have been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic. Many parents are now struggling to feed their children, pay rent, and send their children to school. A large percentage of them are unemployed, and there are many single mothers working overtime to educate one or two children.
The pandemic has caused the operating costs for 2021 to substantially increase to cover the extreme biosecurity measures to keep the teachers and children protected from the virus, so this year our fundraising is more crucial than ever. Trusts for All Children is providing the sponsorship for this fundraising program. If you wish to learn more (but note it is in Spanish), go to http://escueladelatrinidad.org.
Haiti Orphanage Sponsorship Trust (HOST)
The Haiti Orphanage Sponsorship Trust (HOST) is a vehicle of compassion which supports 35 children living at Foyer Evangelique Orphanage in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti. Foyer Evangelique Orphanage is a home for children that was created by a group of Haitian educators in response to the devastating 2010 earthquake. A project of Trusts for All Children, HOST is an all-volunteer project founded by Mariam Diallo and Sheila Humphreys of Brattleboro, Vermont. It ensures that these children have access to food, education, medical attention, and other essentials and gives them hope for the future. For more information, visit: https://www.orphelinatfoyerevangelique.org/
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Common Good Capitalism Movement
It is the Information Age! Everyone has access to more information about each other and their business competitors than at any time in the past. In addition, the main thing occurring on Wall Street is the merger and acquisition of firms with the goal of being the two dominant companies in each product market, a duopoly monopoly. Warren Buffett euphemistically refers to these companies “having a moat around them.” Antitrust legislation has limited ability to be successful in this situation—without talking to each other two companies can easily coordinate their activities. As a result, there is a new day about to dawn: common good capitalism. It is the natural next layer of maturity for free markets and capitalism.
The dominant and not dominant companies in each product market will meet, for instance Home-Depot, Lowe’s, and True Value and CVS, Walgreens, and Rite Aid. The first two in each example control over 80% of the sales in their product market. All the competitors in each product market will begin to act like the teams in a sports league. They will meet and reach agreements that give priority to the common good, like a sports league establishing the rules of the competitive games. The auditors can serve as the referees, reporting on the Internet, in easy to read language, the degree to which each company has kept the agreements. Government officials can sit in on these meetings to assure the public the priority is the common good and not collusion for self-interests. An institution and process for doing this already exists. It is the United States Standards Board.
This will soon begin to happen because everyone wins! The companies, particularly the duopolies, will take the initiative to get out in front run of government anti-trust actions. The citizenry gets the benefit of strong companies providing high quality products at reasonable prices because the competition in the marketplace continues as ferociously as before. It is just now secondary to voluntarily giving priority to the common good. Relative to one another, it will not cost the companies a penny! For instance, they could all agree to raise their minimum wage to the same level on the same day. The public, and governments, will love them for doing this. And any new business in the product sector, such as a new kind of drugstore or home improvement store, can enter the competitive market and become part of the Common Good Capitalism Community in that product market.
The mission of the Common Good Capitalism Movement project of Trusts for All Children is to encourage our maturation into common good capitalism by inviting individuals, companies, and organizations to publicly declare they support our maturation into common good capitalism. As with any movement, actions to bring attention to it are also encouraged. You can learn more, and declare your support, by going to www.commongoodcapitalism.org