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Welcome to Martin Mimmack's Site
Purpose
ADMI is organized to provide low/no cost programs and services that teach the principles of human motivation combined with the practices of compassionate caring. The ADMI runs a training institute as well as a residential community where people (disabled or not) research, develop, teach, learn, share, and receive motivation, awareness and compassionate care. Using co-housing and intentional living models, ADMI: 1) conducts engineering, critiquing and experiential testing of products, services and practices that foster human motivation and caring for ourselves and one another; 2) offers professional development and family training courses as well as assisted living facility assessment standards, and a 24/7 national networking hotline; and 3) operates a compassionate care Hawaiian travel program, outreach/on-location services and disability-owned business development services.
Concept Overview
Underlying the entire project is the assumption that human being want to help themselves and help others. The ADMI’s long-term vision entails an intentional community where disabled and others cooperatively share in the needs of food, housing, transportation and health care. By creating a motivational formula based on the methods, expertise and charisma of its founder, ADMI with fulfill both its altruistic goals and the laws that regulate nonprofits. The ideas is for the ADMI to be a receptacle that fills with caring, motivated people as well as money so that we can return those gifts back to other human beings who want to care for themselves and others but need additional money or motivated human capital to do it.
Background
The idea for ADMI emerged from my heart and mind during an awakening at a retreat in late October 2005. At that time I experienced a feeling of self-acceptance greater than I had ever known before. This tremendous outpouring of compassion-for-self improved my attitude, changed my mind, refocused my desires and encouraged my fortitude. The ADMI vision is the culmination of my life’s work. I now have the knowledge, motivation, ability and intention to create an organization future generations can use to generate the personal peace, compassion and love all people cherish.
Going back a bit, by nature of my birth and my parents’ actions soon thereafter to get the best for me, I was thrust onto the “stage of trial and error” (or success). At age three I began doing charity work as the Poster Boy for the Santa Clara County March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation. From that point on, it seems I’ve always been a teacher of sorts: helping others understand challenges. I must admit that the lesson got stale after decades of repetition, but something else never got old...I Love Working an audience! So these intense experiences during my ‘formative years’ instilled in me “stage-work” skills and preferences that have continued to develop ever since. As back-matter to this business plan, I have attach a biography and resume summary to further clarify how the ADMI logically follows from my prior credentials. Suffice it to say here that this project taps my deep-seated emotional, intellectual and spiritual will to find a new instrument where my ideas and skills can be used to benefit other beings. I’m entering what some call the last 1/3 of my life. I seek to create work for myself a community that demonstrates what can be achieved with motivation and caring in ones heart.
Financial Resources
By June 2007, I will letters to Arnold Palmer, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Neal Armstrong and Jimmy Carter requesting endorsement and financial or fundraising support. I have photographs with each of these living legends as well as fundraising film footage with Arnold Palmer and believe these celebrities will support the ADMI’s training institute and compassionate services. The ADMI will also seek relevant government and private grant funding, submit RFPs for federal disabled/low-income housing assistance, and bid for healthcare industry professional development service contracts. Additionally, ADMI will engage in local community fundraising activities such as the “edu-tainment for dollars” fair booth. As the founder and initial Executive Director, I am pledging part of my personal cash on hand and a percentage of royalties from Armless in America: how does he do it? There will also be a number of other creative, fun and motivational fundraising activities.
Market Demand
The ADMI is a response to a demand by old and young alike to have more opportunities to share resources, heritages, and principles among people who want to live, work and care for themselves and others as a “co-livelihood” way of conscious understanding. World population is soaring, the people live longer with more disabilities. Natural and man made catastrophies, war, social disenfranchisement, economic alienation, the healthcare crisis, pollution, crime. These are just a few of the sociological trends that point at an unmet set of needs. More palpable is the need to provide high quality enrichment opportunities to a diverse target market. Doctors, nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists, physical and occupational therapists, various counselors, health care interns, social workers, rehabilitation professionals, people with disabilities, elected representatives, spiritual leaders, families with seniors, ADA workers, war injured, government personnel, hospice staff, gerontology personnel, faculty members, massage therapists, and business owners working with related services and devices will be especially interested in these services. Provision of care giving services, motivating people to action and giving inspiration to youth are all in desperate need right now. Unmet or too costly healthcare/equipment and youth/school shootings are indications that ADMI is an idea who’s time is now.
The Plan
As the chief architect, I’ll move to Hawaii in Jan. 2007. By March I’ll file an initial board and be deciding on an appropriate location for the start-up segment of the project. I’m conducting informational discussions and comparing ideas with interested parties through a listing online at FIC.IC.ORG. These have been fruitful yet limited. I’ll rent an office and/or buy property to house the activities of the ADMI as well as live with the staff. The project will unfold as a business plan by starting small and practical with goals that are readily achievable based on the mission of the organization. Since I the visionary, founder, initial financer, organizer and appointed cooperative group leader as well as potential beneficiary, the ADMI’s conflict of interest policies and procedures will be rigorous, ethical, tedious, fair and completely open book. I’ll run ADMI as a separate entity with no mixing of financial matters.
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