articles of incorporation of MYNA Endowment

articles of incorporation
non-stock corporation

First: The name of this Corporation is MYNA Endowment Foundation, Inc.

Second: Its Registered Office in the State of Delaware is to be located at 1201 North King St, in the City of Wilmington, County of Kent , Zip Code: 19801. The registered agent in charge thereof is Delaware State Registered Agent, Company.

Third: The purpose of the corporation is to engage in any lawful act of activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of Delaware. This Corporation shall be a nonprofit corporation.

A. The purposes for which the MYNA Endowment Foundation, Inc. is organized are exclusively religious, charitable, scientific, literary, and educational within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 or the corresponding provision of any future United States Internal Revenue law.

B. Notwithstanding any other provision of these articles, this organization shall not carry on any activities not permitted to be carried on by an organization exempt from Federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 or the corresponding provision of any future United States Internal Revenue law.

C. Upon the dissolution of the corporation, assets shall be distributed for one or more exempt purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or corresponding section of any future federal tax code, or shall be distributed to the federal government, or to a state or local government, for a public purpose. Any such assets not so disposed of shall be disposed of by the Court of Common Pleas of the county in which the principal office of the corporation is then located exclusively for such purposes or to such organization or organizations, as said Court shall determine which are organized and operated exclusively for such purposes.

Fourth: The Corporation shall not have any capital stock, and the conditions of membership shall be stated in the By-Laws.

Fifth: The name and mailing address of the incorporator are as follows:

Asim Ghafoor, 1054 31st Street NW, Suite 510, Washington, DC 20007

I, The Undersigned, for the purpose of forming a corporation under the laws of the State of Delaware, do make, file and record this Certificate, and do certify that the facts herein stated are true, and I have accordingly hereunto set my hand this 15th day of September, 2003

BY: ________________________________
Asim Ghafoor, Incorporator

prepared by Saira Sufi of AG Consulting

update to MYNA Miami

salam alaikum,
MYNA Miami is one of the most active local chapters in the nation, mashallah! It is also one of only a couple of chapters that have been continuously active for almost 15 years, alhamdulillah!! For us to continue we need participation from everyone. I look forward to seeing you all at the next meeting and activity.

MYNA NATIONAL...as you may or may not know, MYNA is in the process of reforming itself into a stronger organization on the national level. We need your help. At the next local meeting I will fill everyone in on the new developments and the opportunity that youth from MYNA Miami have in shaping the new MYNA. We have a new national website: www.myna.org check it out. it doesn't have much content yet, but it explains the type of national organization we are trying to become. I brought back goodies from the MYNA national convention, held with the ISNA convention. I have MYNA pens, stickers, and magnets for everyone - with the new logo. We have a new National Board of Advisors, and MYNA Miami has a voice in it. I am in charge of coordinating the strategic direction of the new MYNA and I want our local chapter to be a big part of it. I will fill you all in at the meeting on how you can help.

WE NEED PICTURES... In the mean time, I need everyone to find any pictures you may have from MYNA Miami activities that we can submit to the MYNA National archives. I need your help. They have nothing from the youth of South Florida yet. I will collect the photos at the next local meeting. Bring them in an envelop with your name, address, and phone # on it. The photos will be returned to you after we scan them. thanks. see you at the meeting.

Asad Siddiqui, member, Board of Advisors-Muslim Youth of North America

proposed strategic planning deadlines

salam, now that we have a basic infrastructure, and a list of interested people, here is how we can involve them in the process and in the end have a better strategic plan for this organization.
i was inspired by the approach taken by the National 4-h organization. i encourage all of you to take a look at their plan. It's amazing:
www.4hrevolution.org
there are also 2 diagrams that i am using as a model, i want to create something similar for myna:
www.idiagram.com/examples/bagc.html
www.idiagram.com/examples/sc1.html
please review these sites and the following agenda and give me recommendations on how to procede.

strategic plan agenda
(starting with goal and work backwards to get to what needs to accomplished now)

goal: get recommendations from youth, alumni, and experts for programming strategies and priorities to include in the finalized version of the strategic plan crafted during the winter program in december.

Dec. 22 board prepares final report of recommendations and alternate versions based on comments from website
Dec. 15 team leaders post Final recommendations in website strategic plan section - for review and comments from other teams
Dec. 8 team leaders submit minutes from final meeting and prepare a report of final recommendations based on the data - to be posted on wesite
Dec. 1 team meetings for data analysis and recommendations
Nov. 24 team meetings for data analysis and recommendations
Nov. 17 team leaders submit progress report and post data collected
Nov. 10 team meetings for data review and prepare report of data collected
Nov. 3 team meetings for data collection
Oct. 27 team meetings for data collection
Oct. 20 team leaders submit list of tasks assigned to team members and deadlines
Oct. 13 teams first meetings and team leaders post minutes of first meeting with member introductions and goal of the team
Oct. 6 teams assembled, team leaders recieve contact information and initiation packets. Web infrastucture ready to go for each team
Sept. 29 designate team leaders from among alumni finalize specialists and experts to be on the teams finalize youth members - all teams will be local for the experts. a willing myna alum from that city will be designated the team leader, and minimum of 3 youth contacts from that city. One parent of each youth member will be allowed to become members of the team but are not required. initiation packet materials ready to go.
Sept. 22 find willing participants - contact myna alum, specialists/experts, youth who signed up at the convention, and existing myna youth groups to inform them of this project and get commitments to help. create intiation packet materials include each team's final requirements, sample prodecures, all resources available and a deadline schedule.
Sept. 15 finalize the topics for each team and the contents of the initiation packets and final plan of action based on your (the myna board and staff) comments to this e-mail.

I know its ambitious and requires a lot of work from me. but i feel its important and will alleviate the concerns of the youth who feel they are not involved in the strategic planning process and would like to be. please comment and check out the web sites i mentioned above.
-asad

Board Meeting Agenda

MYNA Board Meeting Agenda
9/19/03 – 9/21/03

Friday September 19, 2003

3:00 pm Start Meeting
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm MYNA National Convention
feedback, thoughts, evaluation, etc.
5:00 pm – 6:45 pm Budget and Expenses
review, upcoming expenses & revenues, status on accounts
6:45 pm – 8:00pm Maghreb & Isha, then Dinner
8:00 pm – 10:00pm MYNA Employees
review, and discuss future


Saturday, September 20, 2003

8:00 am – 9:00 am Breakfast
9:00 am – 1:00 pm Relationship with ISNA
Dr. Syeed, position document
1:00pm – 2:30 pm Dhuhr, Asr, & Lunch
2:30pm – 5:00 pm Structure of MYNA
various models: CAIR, Rotary, Boy Scouts, etc
5:00pm – 6:45 pm MYNA Endowment and Status
6:45pm – 8:00 pm Maghreb, Isha, & Dinner
8:00pm – 10:00pm Wrap up of the Day and deferred items


Sunday, September 21, 2003

8:00 am – 9:00 am Breakfast
9:00 am – 1:00 pm Strategic Plan
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Dhuhr, Asr, and Lunch
2:30 pm – 5:00 pm Winter Leadership Camp