A Four-Part Structure:    The Mari-Med Foundation is being designed and set up using a four-part configuration.   Three parts/branches/aspects of the foundation are based upon that which was originally used up by America's Founding Fathers, Legislative, Executive, and Judicial.   One branch (the Legislative / Rule-makers)  determines the what, why, and how of the foundation.   A second branch (the Executive / Managers)  administers the foundation on a day-to-day basis,  and a third branch (the Judicial / Arbitrators)  oversees the foundation and resolves any disputes.   

Adding the Fourth Part:   To this basic structure, the Mari-Med Foundation is adding a fourth branch, (The Reality-Checkers).   The job of the  Reality-Checkers is to examine and oversee  the activities of both the non-profit Mari-Med Foundation and the profit-making Mari-Med Corporation.

One of The Reality-Checkers jobs is to examine available evidence and share with the other three leadership teams what the evidence indicates is the long-term best interests of everyone,  including Mother Nature.   By instructions mandated in the foundation's by-laws, The Reality Checkers have access to all financial and all transaction records for both the foundation and the corporation.   The Reality-Checkers will also examine and weigh the indirect and usually hidden costs of the activities of both the foundation and the corporation - costs such as environmental destruction.  

The new management structure will eliminate the highly-destructive corporate mandate of Profits at Any Price.   It will also eliminate the traditional corporate war between labor and management.   It has a multitude of additional advantages.   See http://www.New-Corporate-World.info#39 for the complete list of its blessing and benefits.   

The Goal:   The goal of  the Mari-Med Foundation  is to demonstrate the foundation portion of the new, simple, easy-to-implement New Corporate World foundation's win-Win business structure.   This previously ignored corporate management structure, when accepted by the corporate world, will return billions of dollars to the working class and give corporate employees, corporate customers, and the environment equal priority with making a profit, plus provide several additional and extremely-valuable benefits.    For a detailed description of what this structure is and how that can be put into action, see The New Corporate World Foundation's Win-Win Business Structure at:   http://www.New-Corporate-World.info#39  

Elected Administrators:  In traditional foundations, the managers are the ultimate controllers.   In the the Mari-Med Foundation, the opposite is true.   The members of all four branches are elected by the foundation's beneficiaries.   The beneficiaries are similar to the "owners" of the assets in the sense that they receive the benefits.   (There aren't any owners in a foundation; the people for whom the trusts were set up are called beneficiaries -- they get the benefits.)    The beneficiaries, in this example, are the employees of the foundation, the employees of the corporation, and the people for whom  the Mari-Med Foundation will provide financial assistance so that they can receive the benefits (the products and services) of medical marijuana..   In their annual meetings and by majority vote, the corporate and foundation employees can re-elect or remove the people who manage the foundation and the corporation.  

Checks and Balances:   The foundation's Rule-Makes and the Arbitrators, and the Reality-Checkers, collectively, have the power to veto actions of the Managers and, if necessary, remove and replace any management people who are not operating in the best interest of all concerned.   By a vote called for by any member of any of the other three branches, ( Rule-Makes,  Arbitrators, and  Reality-Checkers ) management decisions may be vetoed, and/or members of Management can be removed.   

The bottom-line intention is that those for whom the foundation was set up (the beneficiaries) be able to protect their assets and to indirectly (by electing the member of the four foundation branches) oversee how the foundation is run.   In terms of who may participate in the foundation, entry into the foundation may be open or restricted in any way that the foundation's beneficiaries choose by majority vote at their annual meetings.   

   Considering these factors, we expect that finding start up funding will be relatively easy.