Heal The World Foundation (merged topics here)

[Dr.Feelgood]

Greening our holidays.

Positively Green’s Top Ten Eco-Holiday Tips

1. Buy and use only rechargeable batteries
2. To cut down on the waste of wrapping paper, try using materials such as paper grocery bags flipped inside out and decorated with soy ink stamps or the comic page of a newspaper for kids. Other great wrapping materials include old maps, sheet music and magazine ads. Another great wrapping idea is to enclose all your gifts in re-usable cotton mini shopping bags. You can customize them yourself and the recipient can use them over and over again.
3. Try soy or beeswax candles. They are cleaner and gentler on the environment but are every bit as beautiful and fragrant. Plus they last longer!
4. Borrow items from nature to set your table and return them when you’re done. Dried leaves or smooth stones make beautiful place cards, and a pinecone lying on its side creates the perfect stand.
5. When entertaining, don’t let all your guests drive separately to the party, register your event at Ride Amigos! They take care of everything from arranging carpools, rideshares, taxi shares and even calculates the CO2 saved by rideshares in offsetting the carbon footprint of the event. And then your friends don’t have to let friends drive.
6. Turn down your thermostat a few notches before your guests arrive. As more and more guests arrive, the room’s temperature will rise to a comfortable but not stuffy level and people won’t be sneaking outside for fresh air.
7. The holidays just wouldn’t be the same without our olfactory senses. Instead of chemically based air fresheners, scented paraffin candles and potpourri, try simmering cinnamon sticks on the stove or placing a few drops of pure essential oils on some stones or pine cones. And if you’re inclined toward baking, the smell of gingerbread cookies or apple pie fresh from the over is sure to delight any guest.
8. Don’t buy or make more food than you’ll need. If there are leftovers, send guests home with extras in pre-saved glass jars instead of plastic wrap.
9. Emphasize togetherness and people over things. What would your guests enjoy? Music, games and cooking together create memories and teach our children (and ourselves) that love and friendship are zero-waste.
10. If you’re looking for more than a warm and cozy glow, LED (or in some cases, solar), holiday lights for the home, tree and walkway can be found in colors and styles to reflect your taste and traditions. If you have old-school lights, enjoy them until they need to be replaced, but be sure to use a timer and keep them on for only 4-6 hours per night. HolidayLED’s sells LED lights, but they also have a recycling program that accepts old holiday lights.

[mjfanholland]

And also.. donate your car for the foundation?????

[Sdeidjs]

Originally Posted by Dr.Feelgood

Greening our holidays.

Positively Green’s Top Ten Eco-Holiday Tips

1. Buy and use only rechargeable batteries
2. To cut down on the waste of wrapping paper, try using materials such as paper grocery bags flipped inside out and decorated with soy ink stamps or the comic page of a newspaper for kids. Other great wrapping materials include old maps, sheet music and magazine ads. Another great wrapping idea is to enclose all your gifts in re-usable cotton mini shopping bags. You can customize them yourself and the recipient can use them over and over again.
3. Try soy or beeswax candles. They are cleaner and gentler on the environment but are every bit as beautiful and fragrant. Plus they last longer!
4. Borrow items from nature to set your table and return them when you’re done. Dried leaves or smooth stones make beautiful place cards, and a pinecone lying on its side creates the perfect stand.
5. When entertaining, don’t let all your guests drive separately to the party, register your event at Ride Amigos! They take care of everything from arranging carpools, rideshares, taxi shares and even calculates the CO2 saved by rideshares in offsetting the carbon footprint of the event. And then your friends don’t have to let friends drive.
6. Turn down your thermostat a few notches before your guests arrive. As more and more guests arrive, the room’s temperature will rise to a comfortable but not stuffy level and people won’t be sneaking outside for fresh air.
7. The holidays just wouldn’t be the same without our olfactory senses. Instead of chemically based air fresheners, scented paraffin candles and potpourri, try simmering cinnamon sticks on the stove or placing a few drops of pure essential oils on some stones or pine cones. And if you’re inclined toward baking, the smell of gingerbread cookies or apple pie fresh from the over is sure to delight any guest.
8. Don’t buy or make more food than you’ll need. If there are leftovers, send guests home with extras in pre-saved glass jars instead of plastic wrap.
9. Emphasize togetherness and people over things. What would your guests enjoy? Music, games and cooking together create memories and teach our children (and ourselves) that love and friendship are zero-waste.
10. If you’re looking for more than a warm and cozy glow, LED (or in some cases, solar), holiday lights for the home, tree and walkway can be found in colors and styles to reflect your taste and traditions. If you have old-school lights, enjoy them until they need to be replaced, but be sure to use a timer and keep them on for only 4-6 hours per night. HolidayLED’s sells LED lights, but they also have a recycling program that accepts old holiday lights.

Impressive...Thank You for sharing your knowledge...
Keep helping to Heal The World~~~

[mjroxworld]

Originally Posted by mjfanholland

And also.. donate your car for the foundation?????

donate your car...sure, haven't you ever donated a car before? There's people out there who need a car to get from place to place (you know, like work - get these people off welfare!!) and can't afford to buy one. There's lots of people who have 3, 4, 5 cars!! Come on, does a family REALLY need that many cars? We've donated our cars before to others. It's a nice gesture, if you do it in love.

[8701girl]

What bout donating pieces of jewerely or nice clothes
that u dont need or that dont fit!

Im sure there are plenty of ladies that need nice colthes and jewelery!

[VALVAREZ74]

This is my first day and post in the web.
I was wondering, Is Michael Jackson so alone that there is no one behind his back, working with him hand-to-hand, who could begin from just now on something similar, for example, to Elvis Presley Legacy co., or all his money-properties depend on big enterprises like that Mr. Barracks, (now including as soon as possible a big public Auction, what´s next...?), that we need a fan working on her own to keep the Michael Jackson Legacy? Where are the Michael Jackson Family rigths? (Prince Michael, Paris, Prince II, their legal status?).
Thank you very much.

[VALVAREZ74]

( that we need a fan working on her own to keep the Michael Jackson Legacy? Where are the Michael Jackson Family rigths? (Prince Michael, Paris, Prince II, their legal status?).
Thank you very much.[/QUOTE]
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Dear friends,

With my last message, I was referring to Mrs. Melissa Johson as "the fan working on her own", I don´t know if anyone of the staff could help me.

Thank you so much. -Violeta A.

[Victoria83]

Originally Posted by VALVAREZ74

This is my first day and post in the web.
I was wondering, Is Michael Jackson so alone that there is no one behind his back, working with him hand-to-hand, who could begin from just now on something similar, for example, to Elvis Presley Legacy co., or all his money-properties depend on big enterprises like that Mr. Barracks, (now including as soon as possible a big public Auction, what´s next...?), that we need a fan working on her own to keep the Michael Jackson Legacy? Where are the Michael Jackson Family rigths? (Prince Michael, Paris, Prince II, their legal status?).
Thank you very much.

Hi there, and welcome to the MJJC board!

We really don't know the answers to your questions (above). The legal status of the family is private, and is not known by the public, just as anyone has a right to their personal business. We really don't know what is being done, formally, in terms of a "legacy."

Victoria

[TSCM]

I have not read this thread too closely, but I do have access to the official Heal The World Foundation tax filings through the year 2003.

The ones filed in 2003 (based on 2002 data) state, at the end:

HEAL THE WORLD FOUNDATION HAS CEASED ITS EXEMPT OPERATIONS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 10/31/2003. THERE WILL BE NO ACTIVITY FOR 2004 AND THE ORGANIZATION WILL FORMALLY DISSOLVED IN 2004.

On the form itself they also checked 'YES' to the question: "Was there a liquidation, dissolution, termination, or substantial contraction during the year?"

Thus, by all legal accounts, the foundation was dissolved in 2004.

[Victoria83]

Originally Posted by TSCM

I have not read this thread too closely, but I do have access to the official Heal The World Foundation tax filings through the year 2003.

The ones filed in 2003 (based on 2002 data) state, at the end:

HEAL THE WORLD FOUNDATION HAS CEASED ITS EXEMPT OPERATIONS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 10/31/2003. THERE WILL BE NO ACTIVITY FOR 2004 AND THE ORGANIZATION WILL FORMALLY DISSOLVED IN 2004.

On the form itself they also checked 'YES' to the question: "Was there a liquidation, dissolution, termination, or substantial contraction during the year?"

Thus, by all legal accounts, the foundation was dissolved in 2004.

Interesting. That was my understanding, as well. Whether or not it had been "brought back" . . . . . not sure. But if it had been, there would be subsequent tax filings. Hmmm.

Vic

[mjtributepage]

michael is a hgonourable member this is what they wrote about michael on the site

Honorary Founding Member Michael Jackson Mr. Jackson officially founded HTWF in 1991, forming the nonprofit, however, the heart of this charity, healing the world, one person at a time, was Mr. Jackson's life long mission and daily focus, even before >the papers were signed and the foundation formalized. > >HTWF focuses on character development worldwide and addressing high priority global problems and was on target to become one of the largest charity organizations in the world and also one of the greatest 'goods' to mankind and with any great good to mankind, comes opposition in that same measure. >>This is a universal Law. > >Therefore, It is NO surprise to those that know the laws that govern us, that shortly after HTWF was launched in 1992, that the adversarial attacks on Michael Jackson began. > Despite the years of repeated attacks of the rapacious and the false rumors of this legendary entertainer and humanitarian, the fact remains that he is one of the most honorable, generous and Godlike men of our time and he will not be put down. "The wicked can attack my manhood, but they can never change the content of my character." Michael Jackson took many blows, but the spirit of love and truth will always prevail in the end and one man can do his part to HEAL THE WORLD. Winston Churchill said: "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." >Mr. Jackson was honored in 2000 by the Guinness Book of World Record's and in the Year 2000 Millennium Edition, Michael Jackson is listed as having the most charities supported by a pop star. >>> >Click here to see a few photos of his HTWF service> >Let it be noted, HTWF was fully restructure with new directors and a refined direction, in part, due to the affect of Mr. Jackson's trial and the attacks on his character and credibility with his charitable work and children. HTWF was also slowed and delayed, but never destroyed. >>>

Welcome back! Welcome to HTWF.

[jackie11]

Heya

I just donated 10 US dollars to HTWF, anyone else wanna join me??

http://www.healtheworld.us/members/htwf

Jackie xxx


Spreading love n peace to all!!

[Gaiaschild]

Does anyone know whether Heal the World Foundation which Michael founded still linked to Michael. I know it was close to his heart

Is it true that it suffered financially and closed its doors in 1995 or there abouts does anyone know the reasons.

[elusive moonwalker]

the new htw thats been set up had nothing to do with mj from what ive read. ppl should be careful

[BZLCharlie]

Nope

I'm pretty sure Michael stopped having anything to do with HTWF in the early 2000's