Synod of Southern California and Hawaii

The Synod of Southern California & Hawaii's Dorcas Davis Memorial Fund - 2002

Beneficiary location:

Panorama City, CA

Account number: 102240070798

Designated Use

As an organization bearing costs of performing research, due diligence, and review in the management of the distribution of income from the Fund, the Synod may be compensated from the income from the Fund for reasonable expenses subject to the following conditions. The accounting department of the Synod will routinely study comparable fees charged by other organizations for similar services and, in consideration of the actual costs incurred by the Synod in the performance of these services, propose a schedule of reasonable fees to the Administrative Committee of the Synod Council. The Synod may recover reasonable expenses based upon the schedule of fees approved by the Administrative Committee of the Synod Council. The Synod will divide the net income, less reasonable expenses charged by the Synod as described above, into three shares; one share of 5/18ths to support work with peacemaking and disarmament, one share of 4/9ths to support work among refugees and for the oppressed or needy in the United States of America and the world, and on share of 5/18ths to support activities which provide any, or all, of shelter, food, counseling, job placement, or emergency care for people in need. As to the 5/18ths share for peacemaking and disarmament, the Synod will make distributions to a Southern California program office of a non-profit organization determined by an appropriate committee of the Synod, in its sole discretion, engaged in worthy work dedicated to peacemaking and disarmament. As to the 4/9ths share to support work among refugees and the oppressed or needy in the United States of America and the world, the Synod will make distributions to a Southern California program office of Witness For Peace (Headquarters located in Washington, D.C.). As to the 5/18ths share to support activities which provide any, or all, of shelter, food, counseling, job placement, or emergency care for people in need, the Synod will make distributions to the Union Station Foundation (Headquarters located in Pasadena, CA). Based upon periodic research, due diligence, and review by the Synod's Regional Ministry Committee, or the Synod's appropriate successor committee, if any of the above programs is no longer performing in a manner consistent with Ms. Davis' stated purposes, then the Synod, in its sole discretion, through said committee, will identify another non-profit organization whose Southern California programs are consistent with Ms. Davis' purposes to be the recipient of said share of this fund's net income.