Founding
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The founding of The Publiks Group, and the development of its mission and purposes, have entailed the following formative aspects:
History and Founder
The Publiks Group was established in 2020 by its sole Founder and CEO, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, as a division of The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC. The parent company was itself established in January 2019 by said sole Founder, Member, President and Chair, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku — as part of ongoing work he has carried out for over three decades, leading also to his founding of Publiks Inc, The Ikoku Charitable Trusts, The Ikoku Foundations, and Humana Sancta. Where appropriate and approved by the Founder, these entities endeavor to coordinate their efforts and resulting service to communities.
Causes and Concerns
The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC was also founded and developed in response to the concerns below:
Mission and Purposes
The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC’s founding mission and purposes are therefore:
And The Publiks Group serves as the company division tasked with:
Focus
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The Publiks Group has several points of focus, as delineated below:
Activities and Administration
The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC’s administration, management, and operation — and that of this division, The Publiks Group — are focused in the following ways:
Further, all actions, activities, agents, arrangements, and their equivalent for, in, of, on behalf of or otherwise relating to The Publiks Group are similarly focused and limited to those that have the:
Areas and Efforts
As further described in the Divisional Areas, The Publiks Group carries out its efforts via five (5) areas of focus:
Benefit and Beneficiaries
Further focusing all activities, affairs, and arrangements of The Publiks Group, any reference to and use of the terms “benefit,” “beneficiaries,” and their equivalent (such as “public” or natural and legal persons affiliated with, employed, funded or served by The Publiks Group) shall not include any persons who engage in, facilitate, or foster, in any way, any of the aforementioned inhumane behaviors against any person, including any violation of the Founder’s being, brain, mind, self, soul, or spirit, or any intentional violation of the Codes and Policies of The Publiks Group, and, furthermore, shall not include those who do not accord all persons equal and full enjoyment of the basic principles below:
Communities and Customers
Further focusing all activities, affairs, and arrangements of The Publiks Group, any reference to and use of the terms “communities,” “customers,” and their equivalent (such as “public” or natural and legal persons affiliated with, employed, funded or served by The Publiks Group) shall not include any persons who engage in, facilitate, or foster, in any way, any of the aforementioned inhumane behaviors against any person, including any violation of the Founder’s being, brain, mind, self, soul, or spirit, or any intentional violation of the Codes and Policies of The Publiks Group, and, furthermore, shall not include those who do not accord all persons equal and full enjoyment of the basic principles below:
Faith and Spirituality
The Publiks Group’s faith-based commitments are focused in the following manner:
Incompatibility with Founding
The activities, affairs, and arrangements of Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group are also focused and limited by the following determinations of incompatibility with the company’s founding, mission, and purposes:
The aforementioned inhumane behaviors — to be excluded from any activities, affairs, or arrangements of Publiks Inc and The Publiks Group — include, but are not limited to, the following:
And as a result, a further point of focus and incompatibility entails a set of basic refusals:
Form
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The Publiks Group’s organizational form is as delineated below:
Formation
The Publiks Group is formally organized as a protected series of The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC — itself a series limited liability company — as provided for in the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, and it is registered and headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware. Publiks Inc is formally organized as a single-shareholder corporation, as provided for in the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, and it is registered and headquartered in San Francisco, CA.
Names
The Publiks Group and Publiks Inc are, collectively, also officially known under the business name, Publiks. All three names, as used in official Ikoku Group and Publiks Group and Publiks Inc documents, products, programs, services and sites, refer to the same aforementioned divisional entity and corporation.
Divisions
As provided for under law for series limited liability companies, The Ikoku Group uses its series as a means to structure its operations into the five (5) divisions and eight (8) areas of focus described in the main Areas and Divisions page. The five divisions are as follows:
Efforts
The Ikoku Group, via its divisions, is thus structured to carry out efforts in the aforementioned areas, and to ultimately fulfill its founding mission to foster care and creativity, community and ethics in disciplines and among peoples of enduring concern to the Founder. As always, the objective is the improvement of lives and the betterment of societies.
Concluding
And as concluding aviso and proviso, you are informed as well as reminded that by conducting any activity engaging, involving, referring to, relating to, or otherwise pertaining to The Publiks Group and Publiks Inc, any activities, affairs, areas, assets, offices, parts, properties, sections, or equivalent of The Publiks Group and Publiks Inc, any activities, affairs, areas, assets, offices, parts, properties, sections, or equivalent of the divisions, series, subsidiaries, or affiliates of The Publiks Group and Publiks Inc, as well as any activities, affairs, areas, assets, offices, parts, properties, sections, or equivalent of the Products or Services of The Publiks Group and Publiks Inc, you accept and agree to the conditions, principles, protections, requirements, standards, statements, and terms described above and in the Codes and Policies, regarding the Founding and Governance of The Publiks Group and Publiks Inc, in their entirety without modification, including as updated from time to time by the Founder, and you further accept and agree to fully inform the Founder in writing of any knowledge you have regarding the aforementioned discriminatory, inhumane and related activities, including their coordination, effect, and history.
Also at the Division
Publiks and its parent company, The Ikoku Group, are dedicated to developing, providing and safekeeping ideas and solutions — with the mission to foster care and creativity, culture and communities, ethics and innovation in lives and societies. And so in accordance with the above, Publiks and The Ikoku Group provide the following:
A Company of and about Ethics
A company and division whose ethics and policies are carefully crafted, then adhered to by a range of individuals and entities working in varied relation to Publiks and The Ikoku Group to establish, develop and operate a private company dedicated to fostering care and creativity, ethics and innovation.
Built with Integrity and Respect in Mind
A company and division who take as their basis the most robust conceptions of humanity, integrity and respect as well as independence and fundamental freedoms, liberties and rights — up to and beyond what the law protects and provides for — as they carry out and embody their founding and core mission and purposes.
Areas of Focus Chosen for Mission and Work
And a company and division whose areas of focus have been expressly chosen to ensure attention to issues of enduring concern to the Founder — and so committed to providing products, services, sites and spaces that remain safe, secure and respectful places to do work, to teach and learn, to form, inform and, where needed, transform local and global communities.