HOW DOES THE FOUNDATION ACHIEVE ITS AIMS OF REDUCING GUN DEATHS IN CHILDREN
The specific methods and activities by which the Deji Olusanya Foundation achieves its primary objectives are as follows:
1. Sending out publications, emails, letters, text messages and phone calls to the general public especially those families identified as being vulnerable to accidental gun deaths in their children. Such families will be identified through demographic sampling.
2. Provide educational material about gun safety that will help reduce gun deaths in children, to the following groups and through the following avenues:a. invidividual persons and families,b. churches, mosques, and other places of worship,c. doctors' offices, hospitals, clinics and emergency waiting rooms.
3. Support individuals and organizations with similar aims and programs that will help reduce gun violence in general and prevent gun deaths in children in particular.
4. Provide information to the general public and assist government efforts at the local, state and federal levels that seek to reduce the proliferation of guns, enhance gun control and improve gun safety, especially those policies and gun regulations that are aimed at reducing gun deaths in children.
PUBLIC SUPPORT
In order to carry out its acitivities, the Foundation seeks and receives donations from the general public, including private sources, other charities and business and government organizations. The Deji Olusanya Foundation is a non-profit organization, registered with the appropriate state and federal agencies. Therefore, donations from private individuals and organizations qualify as tax-free expenses in the United States. Individuals and organizations sending donations from outside the United States should check with their country's tax authorities to see if they can deduct the donations in their own country.Individuals and organizations who donate to the Foundation or who provide other material support to the Foundation will receive an official receipt when they pay from this website, or by email or text if they use other means to make their donations. This receipt will contain our federal Tax ID as a tax exempt 501(c)(3) organization. This is to make the process tax filing by our donors easy and transparent.
TRANSPARENCY
No director, staff or employee of the Foundation will beneft from any donations made to the Foundation. All donations are used soley for the running of the Foundation and for carrying out its stated and clearly defined activities and programs. All funds received by the Foundation are carefully accounted and audited with accurate filings made each year to the IRS as a registered tax exempt charitable organization.
SECONDARY AIM
The secondary goal of the DEJI OLUSANYA FOUNDATION is to support the college education of high school seniors in the Dallas Fort Worth area who belong to minority groups especially Yorubas and African Americans, the groups to which Deji belonged in his short life.
A NON-POLITICAL PUBLIC CHARITY
The DEJI OLUSANYA FOUNDATION liaises with private, public and government organizations with similar goals of working to reduce the proliferation of guns and improve gun safety and provide support for the college education of minority children.
In carrying out these activities, as a public charity, the Foundation is completely apolitical. It does not directly lobby to influence legislation and does not support or oppose candidates for political office at the local state or federal level based on their views.
