Empowering Communities.

Public Disclosure

This notice is set to inform the public at large that von Keller Foundation Trust, herein called (“the Foundation”), is informing all interested parties of the following:

Introduction

This document provides guidelines for the permissible use of the Foundation’s name, logo, and other communications assets (e.g., images and video) by the Foundation‘s grantees and vendors. The first page provides a brief overview of permitted and non-permitted disclosures. However, please review this entire document carefully. In the event of a conflict between these guidelines and the terms of your agreement with the Foundation, the terms of your agreement will control.

These guidelines is set to inform the public at large that von Keller Foundation, herein called (“the Foundation”), is informing all interested parties of the following:

Permitted Public Disclosures

You may publicly disclose the following information about the award of a grant, or the services performed by you for the Foundation:

● the Foundation’s name for non-promotional purposes

● The total or maximum amount awarded

● Description of the funded project or event

● Description of the contracted services, provided such description does not

disclose information subject to your confidentiality obligations

Public Disclosures Requiring Approval

You must obtain prior written approval before using the Foundation’s name for promotional purposes. Promotional purposes include press releases, public announcements, case studies, and paid digital media. Logo for any purpose. Use of the Corporation’ s logo may require a written trademark logo permission letter, however vendors creating materials featuring logos that are solely owned and distributed by or on behalf of the Foundation itself DO NOT require a written trademark logo permission from the Foundation. Communications assets (e.g., photography, video footage, infographics, etc.) Any use of the Foundation’s photography and video footage must be for a charitable purpose and requires adherence to our Photography and Video License, except as may be required by the Foundation in a services agreement.

Prohibited Public Disclosures

The following are prohibited:

● Using the Foundation’s name or logo for commercial or retail purposes.

● Stating or implying that the Foundation endorses you, your products, or your services.

● Subgrantees, subcontractors, contingent workers, agents, or affiliates to state or imply that the Foundation directly funds or endorses their activities, products, or services.

SPECIFIC GUIDELINES FOR USE Corporation Name

A grantee or vendor may use the Foundation Trust’s name in a non-stylized, plain text form to:

Refer to its relationship to the von Keller Foundation Trust

Examples of acceptable name use would be a grantee listing our name alongside those of other funders in a printed event program, or a vendor listing us as a client on its website, where the Corporation and the relationship is not specifically singled out or highlighted.

An example of unacceptable name use would be using the Von Keller Foundation name as part of an award title, program or initiative name, or for any commercial or retail purpose. Authorship, ownership, and control of the von Keller Foundation name may be falsely implied through such use.

Notable exception: Subgrantees are not permitted to use the Foundation name in a manner that creates the impression that they are direct recipients of foundation funds. Such use could put the Corporation at risk under IRS regulations if it appears that a subgrantee was actually the Foundation’s intended grantee.

Credit von Keller Foundation in publications, presentations, or reports commissioned or funded by von Keller Foundation, but not written by von Keller Foundation.

If you wish to credit the Foundation in a foundation-funded publication, please select the appropriate disclaimer from the following examples, tailor it (provide the details indicated in red below) and include it in the published materials. The von Keller Foundation logo should not appear in these instances.

This material(s) publication(s) presentation(s) report(s) is based on research funded by (or in part by) the von Keller Foundation. The findings and conclusions contained within are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect positions or policies of the von Keller Foundation.

This material(s) publication(s) presentation(s) report(s) was prepared for the von Keller Foundation. The findings and conclusions contained within are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect positions or policies of the von Keller Corporation.

Additional guidelines for use of foundation name:

The Foundation does not require grantees to acknowledge the Foundation in materials or publicize the Foundation ‘s grant, either through the media or through other communications channels. If you choose to publish a grant announcement or press release, it must be reviewed and approved by the Foundation’s grant or contract owner. The grantee or vendor is responsible for developing the announcement strategy and documents.
Information about the grant or contract must remain confidential and should not be announced publicly until the grant agreement has been signed and returned to the Foundation.
When spelling out the “von Keller Foundation” please use the ampersand, rather than spelling out “and” Please use “the Foundation” (lowercase) in later references, rather than abbreviating the name to the Foundation “von Keller Foundation” can be used when necessary for clarification.

The Foundation’s boilerplate language should not appear in grantee or vendor announcements. The Foundation’s logo should not be used in grantee or vendor announcements. The Foundations employees will not provide quotes for grantee or vendor announcements. The Foundation’s name should not be used in the headline of the press release unless it is a joint release with the Foundation. However, our name may be used in a subhead line. Sentences should not lead with the Foundation’s name:

● Incorrect: The “von Keller Corporation” has given a grant to X University for malaria vaccine development.

● Correct: “X Organization “receives grant for malaria vaccine development from the von Keller Foundation.

You may not use the Corporation logo in association with any third-party trademarks (names or logos) in a manner that suggests co-branding or otherwise creates potential confusion about the source or sponsorship of the materials or ownership of the Corporation logo. All co-branded initiatives must be approved by the contract owner or the grant owner.

● Our logo must remain intact, be placed properly in layout, be printed or published in an appropriate color from our palette or reversed to white and be given adequate clear space around it. Refer to the Logo Specification Guidelines for more detailed information.

In limited circumstances, you may receive written permission to use the Corporation logo in connection with materials or services not distributed directly

by the Corporation, to indicate a funding relationship or sponsorship. Because use of the logo implies the Corporation’s sponsorship, affiliation, endorsement, and/or approval of a specific grantees or vendor’s activities or products, requests for such use will be considered carefully. Such use may also include use in the Funders section of a grantee’s website, in a video credit featuring partner acknowledgements, or on the Funders page of an event program. Examples of unacceptable logo use include using it in a product advertisement or on a retail item (e.g., a book or t-shirt).

Foundation Communication Assets: Video and Images

With written permission from the grant agreement or contract owner or contract delegate(s) and subject to the terms of an issued Photography and Video License, an grantee or vendor may use foundation-owned images or video footage in its materials.

Additional guidelines for Use of Communication Assets:

The Corporation-owned images that do not feature the board of directors, Executive Directors, may be used in your materials for a charitable purpose as long as the images are used in a reasonable, respectful, and topically appropriate way in the context provided. Any use is subject to foundation permission and separate Photography and Video License, terms.

● Grantees and vendors may not use foundation-owned video or images of the co-chairs, CEO, or division presidents.

● Non-Corporation-owned imagery should only be used by the Corporation and its vendors if permission or licenses have been purchased from the person who owns the copyright to the footage or image. Permission must be granted ONLY by the person or organization that owns the rights to the footage or image. If the owner is not the creator of the footage or image, you may need to obtain a copy of the license agreement to guarantee that the owner has the right to redistribute it. Stock photography can be used in accordance with the licenses under which it was purchased.

● the Corporation ’s shooting approach and style are photojournalistic. The people we’re capturing are real, not models. Consequently, it’s critical that we retain editorial integrity in our images.

● Grantees, partners, and vendors may only use the Corporation photography in its most natural authentic state: full-color or grayscale, with little to no retouching. They may not apply artistic filters, colors, patterns, or textures to images.

● Acceptable third-party retouching includes slight adjustment for overall technical quality or color/ tonal consistency in or across a series of images.

● Never retouch a person or his or her clothes, accessories, or personal items in the frame (e.g., mugs, water bottles, and food).

● Never move, add, delete, combine, alter, flip, or stretch people or objects in an image. Cropping is acceptable as long as the photographer’s intent and subjects’ experiences are not substantially altered.

Other Disclosures

This notice is set to inform the public at large that von Keller Foundation Trust, herein called (“the Foundation”), is informing all interested parties of the following:

The Foundation is not in any way governed, regulated or controlled by any other world financial body. All grants are allocated at the decision of the board of Directors only.
Our process for assistance and support from the Foundation financial or otherwise, the Foundation, does not, at any time, charge upfront fees of engagement, including but not limited to, any type of advance payment, loan, deposit, collateral or any other financial instrument.
The Foundation will not permit any form of intermediary payment of fees or commissions from the capital amount of any grant allocated to any Government. Provisions for such payments are made in addition to the capital requirement for the Government requirement and will be paid in accordance with a pre-approved irrevocable master fee agreement IMFPA.
Any person seeking to be paid upfront for any effort in initiating a relationship with the Foundation should be viewed as an imposter and not a true representative.
The Foundation does not require any form of collateralization for any form of funding received. This means no form of guarantees, no pledge of in-ground assets of any nature, no terms of repayment to grant funding, and no promise of political favors of any nature.
Any person seeking to be paid upfront for any effort in initiating a relationship with the Foundation should be viewed as an imposter and not a true representative.

If any person(s) or organization’s request advance payments or deviate from the above, then they are not in any way connected to, or authorized by, the Foundation. In such situations a full legal and criminal investigation should be initiated on these unconnected and unauthorized people(s) or organizations.

Please feel free to contact our corporate offices for any help in such scenarios, directly through our direct legal representative in the hours 09.00-22.00 eastern standard time.

The Foundation will not initiate any transaction without first having a verification executed. Authority to Verify must be given in advance by the Foundation and can be requested by anybody.

Communications Procedures with Us

The Foundation in an attempt to avoid fraudulent any unknown non-authorized individuals that could posing as official representatives of the Foundation, and for the sake of clean and clear verification of all authorized the Foundation, requests that a live video verification take place any party directly.

Any and all decisions or agreements will only be recognized by the Foundation as true, authentic and valid if the said decisions or agreement(s) are verified directly on live video with the founder and executed director HH Princess- Ndira von Keller-Njoku.

The board of directors, and the founder, HH, Princess- Ndira von Keller-Njoku will formally requests that you be investigated, arrested and prosecuted with full force of the law to any and all individuals that are not authorized, as they may be acting with clear criminal and fraudulent intent with a view to undermining both the company.

All agreements must be in writing and signed with foundations company seal, coat of arms, watermarks, and in most cases, signed with thumbprint.

Her Highness, Princess Ndira would like to add that any grants, project funding, drawdowns, agreements, humanitarian Aid, including private project funding, or any other binding private agreements, between the Foundation may only be, verified, agreed and autographed by HH, Princess-Ndira, on behalf of the Foundation. We as the board of Directors and HH Princess-Ndira, would like to further add that any person, entity, and or company may provide support, if it has been formally requested by the Foundation, for the sole benefit of providing any grants, project funding, drawdowns, agreements, humanitarian aid, private project funding or any other binding agreements between the Foundation and the requesting person, entity or company then must be, and may only be, verified, agreed and autographed by the Foundation board of directors, on behalf of the Foundation and needs to be verified on live video between HH Ndira, and the person, entity and/or company.

In this scenario, the complete terms of this Protocol for authorised Communication would apply to the requesting Person, Entity or Company, inclusive of the formal request by, HH, Princess-Ndira, that any person(s) acting outside of these protocols be investigated, arrested and prosecuted with full force of the law to all non-authorised individuals, as they would be acting with clear criminal and fraudulent.

Policy and Procedures for Anti-Harassment

The Foundation, as an employer we are committed to creating and maintaining a workplace environment that encourages and empowers each individual employee to perform at his or her best. Harassment, therefore, has no place in the Foundation. It is the Foundation’s longstanding policy that harassment in the workplace is prohibited and will not be tolerated. This prohibition applies to harassment by anyone, including supervisors, co- workers, and contractor personnel, in the workplace at any the Foundationfacility within or outside the the Foundation’s offices worldwide.

The Foundation Anti-Harassment Coordinator’s (AHC) Anti-Harassment Procedures are designed to assist the Foundation, in:

preventing harassing conduct before it becomes serious, severe or pervasive, i.e., harassment within the meaning of anti-discrimination laws;
conducting a prompt, thorough, and impartial investigation into allegations of harassing conduct; and
taking immediate and appropriate corrective action when the nation determines that harassing conduct has occurred.

Harassment Definition

Harassment or harassing conduct is defined by the Foundation Anti-Harassment Procedures as:

Any unwelcome individual’s conduct race, color, gender, national origin, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation, status as a parent, gender identity, genetic information, or retaliation – when: the behavior can reasonably be considered to adversely affect the work environment or an employment decision affecting the employee is based upon the employee’s acceptance or rejection of such conduct.

What Does Harassment in the Workplace Look Like?

All the Foundation managers, project managers, supervisors, and employees have a role to play in helping to maintain a work environment that is free from harassing conduct. Examples of behavior inconsistent with the Foundation’s anti-harassment policy include, but are not limited to, the following:

∙ Threatening that rejection of sexual overtures will affect appointments, promotions, transfers, or evaluations.

∙ Creating belittling caricatures or objects depicting persons of a particular race, national origin, religion, or other protected category.

Telling racial or ethnic jokes or stories.
∙ Teasing, mimicking, or repeatedly commenting on an individual’s disability,accent, or other protected category.

∙ Making offensive comments, jokes, or suggestions about an employee’s gender.

∙ Making obscene or lewd comments, slurs, jokes, epithets, suggestions, or gestures.

∙ Commenting on an employee’s body or sexual characteristics.

∙ Displaying nude or sexually suggestive objects, pictures, images, or cartoons.

∙ Continuing prohibited behaviour after a co-worker has objected.

∙ Laughing at, ignoring, or retaliating against an employee who complains.

∙ No physical interaction, groping, involuntarily kissing and touching, hugging or any non-consensual behaviour.

∙ Disrespecting the Foundation ‘s coat of arms, code of honour, authorities,

Notes: The conduct must be unwelcomed. Therefore, from the perspective of the recipient—i.e., the person subjected to the behaviour—they regard as to whether the behaviour is viewed as offensive, demeaning, or hostile is a primary consideration in determining whether the behaviour constitutes harassing conduct. Physical, psychological or verbal harassment will not be tolerated.

Anti-Harassment Activities

An employee who believes he or she has been subjected to harassing conduct can report the matter to his or her immediate supervisor (or second-line supervisor in the event the first-line supervisor is the alleged harasser); our Anti-Harassment Coordinator (AHC) or any official appointed contract company or hired employee of the Foundation.

Supervisors or managers who observe or are notified of harassing conduct are required to assess the situation immediately and consult with the AHC, as well as subject-matter experts in the Foundation’s legal, human resources, and equal employment opportunity units. After consultation with the AHC and other officials as needed, supervisors and managers may conduct an appropriate inquiry or fact-finding. Depending on the circumstances, the supervisor may also be advised to provide appropriate interim relief during the process.

The supervisor, in consultation with subject-matter experts, will make the ultimate determination as to whether the conduct violated the policy and, if so, what type of corrective action is warranted. Any employee, supervisor, or manager who is found to have violated the Foundation’s anti- harassment policy or procedures may be subjected to appropriate disciplinary action, up to and including removal.

Contract Employees Harassing Conduct

When a contract employee is alleging harassment by the Foundation employee, or vice versa, this should be reported to the Company for further guidance and processing consistent with the Foundation Anti-Harassment Procedures.

All contract employees performing duties on the Foundation premises will refrain from engaging in harassing conduct. The Foundation management has an obligation to ensure that the Foundation employees are working in an environment free of harassment. Therefore, in instances where the Foundation employee has been advised of a contract employee being harassed by another contract employee at the Foundation facility, the Foundation employee should report this concern to the Department head for referral to the appropriate contracting official.

Anti-Harassment Procedures

The Anti-Harassment Procedures, is a process for management to address employee allegations of harassment and take immediate and appropriate corrective action, including the use of disciplinary actions, to eliminate harassing conduct regardless of whether the conduct violated the law. The goal of Anti-Harassment Policy and Procedures is to address harassing conduct at the earliest possible stage before it can become “severe or pervasive” harassment within the meaning of antidiscrimination laws. An employee who wishes to file a discrimination complaint should contact AHC within 45 days of the alleged harassing conduct. An employee may also pursue both avenues of redress simultaneously.

Conclusion

We thank you for taking the time to read this information about the Foundation communication procedures and notices.

Her Highess, Princess- Ndira hopes that this information has provided a grounded understanding of the intentions, vision, commitment, objectives and the Foundation officially declares to uphold these standards worldwide.