The State of Organization Report

The State of Organization Report

By: Rev. Frank Paul Jones aka Apostle Paul Castellano

The National Community Network, INC., is a non profit public charity with 501 c 3 statuses.  Our long term commitment is Operation Solution and Response.  This organization is designed to act as a community oriented self help system of coordinating our community activities, to accomplish set goals.  Once this operation goes into full effect, it will no longer require my micro management.  Then perhaps we will establish a Foundation whose is to select problems we will pay to fix and allow people to compete for these grants based on their plan that will solve the problem and their ability to carry it out.  But Operation Solution and Response is not a foundation designed to me to be the main donor.  For me to properly fund this operation in the future, will require my disassociations a board member, so they can apply for competitive grants and win them because they know their jobs and not just know me.

At this point it is almost fully designed, but there is no relevant support be it money or time (labor) being offered.  In fact, what I have discovered is that everything that I am presenting are divisive issues within the black community, whereby it is clear, they are the only realistic options being discuss.  For example Dr. Borden said marijuana is the problem as to say, we must stop its use.  The DEA mission is to lock up black and not stop anything, so how do she plan to accomplish that?

For example I say, lets end the drug war, by issuing out free THC to the poor, by allowing an already FDA approved drug to be used for a proven effective use based on FDA approved clinical research.  This would then allow our young adults to start focusing on personal development issues such as, higher education and career goals and community development, instead of being systematically disenfranchised by felony convictions and made unemployable due to oppressive drug policies by the DEA.

I am still fighting this fight a week later, because it is divisive. Because everyone is out for their own best interest.  And many of the people who could make this happen, already signed a contract.  They know what to expect and if everything stays the same, they are still going to get paid or have already received their settlement.  So I am finding that people who you would think would be required to support this due to their line of services, have found this to be a conflict of interest.  A head of a powerful non profit in New York City, basically said, sorry and good luck, but it is a conflict of interest, while being in the business of serving the veterans, the poor - homeless and the mentally ill. 

Dr. Borden is on her last leg in life, she doesn't see my promise of 150 years applying to her. And it is clear based on my argument but wasn't said bluntly, that the psychiatry industry is a fraud and not a science, whose goal is behavior modification and not the helping their patients.  Their pact is with the pharmaceutical industry and all they are designed to do is prescribe medications based on guess work, while passing it off as a science and running up the government cost for healthcare.  Their purpose was never to cure anyone of anything, but to control people at all cost, to include causing them to commit suicide.  So she is not an easy sell.

Take President Obama, it seems he cannot get anything done in Washington D.C.  But still he has a contract, that promised him a least one billion dollars or more in his lifetime, excellent secret service protection security paid for by the government for life, a good salary while in office and unmatched benefits and perks, like an Air Force One private jet the size of a commercial airliner.  He will get these things if he fulfills his obligation, which is to run the office of the President of the United States.  And this is not contingent to his accomplishments while in office.  If they accomplish nothing under the Obama Administration he still gets his promise.

I feel the black community is treating me in the same way the Congress is treating Obama.  Everything I deliver is receiving divisive responses.  And the commonality we have causing this isn't just that we are both black.  The issue is special interest groups and a communications gap, due to an uneducated society that was created. Maybe I am smarter than I thought, which is making me look stupid.  Maybe our common problem is that we both know that those who can make our agendas happen understand the plan and due to the lack of education, those we need to reach do not understand or see this vision being introduced  by us and therefore can never support something they do not understand.  Therefore those who can help will not and those who want to are not receiving our instructions as we are currently presenting them.

All that is now required to put Operation Solution and Response in effect, is to setup our new accounting system and establish our cloud management system.  I have QuickBooks Premier to setup our system of accounting and the major change is we will start documenting In-Kind Contributions. As for cloud management we have Google for Non Profits and a load of Apps to include Google Earth Pro. 

We started an Ad Campaign about two months ago, which will allow us $10,000 of Ads per month, however, our challenge is we can only pay a maximum of $2.00 per click.  Meaning if you go on our website via our ads, we can only pay $2.00, while competitors who have a paid account can pay as much as they please.  Therefore the key to this campaign is to establish unique key words for people to Google, that is  unique to our organization only.  For example in the future the term Zews, would be something we can have Google pay you to find out about what it is about.  At this time they are managing this for us.  I se progress slowly but surly.

Therefore they can attract a maximum of 5,000 views per month or an average of about 166 views per day.  We are now getting about 20 views on average or 600 per month.  As a part of our program, these are the types of information we must document, to determine our process.  And the program is about constant updates, improvising and keeping the system current to address the contemporary needs of our community.  And that is where I am at now.

As for the Thanksgiving Weekend Events.  My timeline tells me we are too far behind on this one. At this point I needed certain responses and commitments by people to carryout the labor.  I needed a response about our security details and other information, in order for me to able to present the last event at the Community Center to the CRA and City.  Because my plan was to sell a vision, I feel without this information, to do this honestly will be huge challenge and to continue to commit to this may cost much more than it will worth.  So at this moment, I am leaning on just breaking bread on Thanksgiving at the Blue Building.

My problem is they are trying to force me to fight for every inch, which is costing me time.  I am still fighting this battle over legal FDA approve THC.  I come to realize we do have a 501 c 4 operation here, the NAACP, but the operation is so dysfunctional, you cannot even e-mail them. So how in the world can this community carryout any political agendas together as a block, with elections around the corner?  That is going to make our promotion of state legal medical marijuana a solo job. These are issues I must document to make sound proposals to carryout community unified events.

I am just going to illustrate something and close this letter.  Take Arnold Davis -head of Avon Park Community Awareness, they had a Dr. King event last year.  His financial report came to about $3,225. But he had about 40 people at least that participated as volunteers for at least 8 hours or more.  Using our account method, we would have created $21.24 x 8 x 40 = $6,796 in In-Kind Contributions, which would have become revenue to our organization to be used as matching funds.  That event could have produced at least $10,000 in revenue based on community volunteerism. And he could have ask for money from several sources based on that amount of matching funds.  Meaning he could have ask 5 or even businesses on Highway 27 for at least $6,000 each. They will give you as much as $2,500 any local event. So that was a community event to pass time and it really get the full bang for the buck.

Almost every Sunday about 10 guys come together to give food away at the store we still call Leroy's.  Even if all they cook is $300 per week, under our system of accounting each week that will create at least $2,000 in In-Kind Contributions or in a 48 weeks cycle they would create $96,000 per year in In-Kind Contributions, if this was documented, timesheets signed and everyone signed a volunteer agreement.  But I am still waiting on people to just allow me to use their photos so we can fix up our website so that it represents these activities to attract funding to this area. I do not even have one photo release form signed by anyone yet.

The objective the first year is to accumulate revenue, because many larger grants require past year revenue as matching funds. Meaning a copy of your 990.  That is how we get the big money grants. And we are one of the only black non profits in Avon Park with a Government SAM account allowing us to apply for government grants as contractors.  For this reason whenever poor blacks here need money to make bills they cannot afford that month, we have to humble ourselves to white organizations for help.  We have to ask them for a job, but they feel negroes smoke to much of that devils weed to even be allowed to apply for a job and really expect to get one.  Get the hell out of her and sell dope and go back to jail where you belong.  Once I update our USDA application, I will request $250,000 to pay bills, based on our projected revenue for 2014-15.  Meaning I have earn at least or dollar for every dollar I give away.  Yet I AM the enemy?

Rev. Frank Paul Jones aka Apostle Paul Castellano