FORM 1023 Application for Recognition of
Exemption MAHUNT ATTACHMENT D Part II – Activities and Operational InformationItem 3: Foundation’s Fundraising Program: The Initial Directors have prepared a plan for fundraising on a community, area-wide, and far-distant basis as set forth below.
Efforts to attract members shall include: 1. Letters sent directly by MAHUNT emphasizing its specific purposes and activities. Letters shall initially be directed to residents in the Town of Dunn, Village of McFarland, Cities of Madison, Monona, Oregon and Stoughton, Wisconsin and other Wisconsin areas situated close to the initial property acquired by the Foundation. The mailing list will be expanded as funds become available and will include members of other 501(c)(3) organizations with similar goals and purposes. Such letters may include pictures of acquired properties, their locations, and an outline of the method of gaining admittance. 2. Direct conversations and solicitations of individuals, charitable foundations, corporations, and organizations by the members(s) of the Board, especially the President. 3. Press releases containing the same information as in (1) above. 4. Talks or discussions by members of the Board at publicly available forums. 5. Brochures and booths available at conventions, shows, exhibits and fairs. 6. Hiring or obtaining a mailing list from The Conservation Fund. 7. Initial Directors' matching of charitable contributions to the Foundation during 1999 up to $100,000. 8. Drawings for prizes or lotteries as allowed by State law. 9. Offering prizes for fundraisers and fundraising activities as allowed by State law. 10. A website established to explain MAHUNT, its endeavors, and containing the same information as specified in (1) above if money permits. FORM 1023 Application for Recognition of Exemption MAHUNT ATTACHMENT D Part II – Activities and Operational Information Item 3: Foundation’s Fundraising Program (Continued): 11. Advertisements in newspapers, magazine, reports, radio, and TV emphasizing the same information as in (1) above if money permits. The above efforts to attract members and contributors shall be focused initially in Wisconsin, California, Iowa, Arizona, Wyoming, Illinois, Minnesota and Montana.
Efforts to attract members shall not include: 1. Hiring direct-mail firms like Watson & Hughey of McLean, Virginia (now known as Direct Response Consulting). None of the above efforts have or are anticipated to commence prior to the receipt of 501(c)(3) designation, thereafter selective mailings and direct conversations and solicitations of individuals, charitable foundations, corporations, and organizations primarily by the President are anticipated.
A representative solicitation for membership and/or financial support follows: Jane Everyman 123 Basic Plan Way McFarland, WI 53558 Dear Jane: The Schneider family recently formed the Lloyd A. Schneider/Daphne H. Schneider Mounds and Habitat Uniting Native Tribes Foundation, Inc. ("MAHUNT") (a public charitable foundation) by contributing approximately 38.5 acres of isolated natural property/habitat appraised at $240,000 as of January 25, 1998, the date of Lloyd Schneider's death, plus $3,000 of cash. The entrance to the property is located east of McFarland, Wisconsin (ten miles southeast of Madison) on the South side of the first perpendicular bend in Elvehjem Road. FORM 1023 Application for Recognition of Exemption MAHUNT ATTACHMENT D Part II – Activities and Operational Information Item 3: Foundation’s Fundraising Program (Continued): The archeological/historic resource site is a place where up to two people (from artists to Zuni) at one time can commune in (near pristine) nature with solitude. The property/habitat will be available to any American citizen (except generally those convicted of a felony or any willful (non-minor) hunting/fishing violation) through a free draw for any consecutive three days starting any Friday through Sunday and through a blind cash bid (highest bid winning) for any three consecutive days starting any Tuesday through Thursday starting January 1, 2000. Eighty-six (86%) percent of the year the land/habitat may be available to honor, revere, and experience our predecessors' sanctified mounds, sculptured artifacts, and pristine habitat. Hallowed legal hunting/trapping may be enjoyed only approximately 90 of those days on the property/habitat, except the north 300 feet thereof. During the remaining 14 percent of the year (every Monday) the land will be vacant, except for any caretaker(s) activities that may be required to maintain or improve the land/habitat and scheduled visits by school children and young adults to the small area near the Fox Run entrance to learn about the Indian Mounds and their Native Americans' history. To learn how to apply for admittance to the property, please visit our website at MaHUNT.com or write to us at P.O. Box _______, Madison, Wisconsin. The property encompasses eight Indian mounds which are preserved in an open wooded area similar to their original condition when the Ho-chunk Nation lived there and sanctified the land. One mound is called an enclosure, which the U.S. Department of Interior described as definitely the most impressive of all (of its kind) that still remain in Dane County. The property/habitat also contains a possible site of an 1832 skirmish in the Blackhawk War where Jefferson Davis served as Battalion Commander and Abraham Lincoln reported as Captain. Many native plants and trees, a wetland, and generally squirrels, rabbits, pheasants, mink, muskrats, raccoons, sandhill cranes, mallards, woodducks, and whitetail deer can also be found there. It also lies under a primary flyover area for a native flock of giant Canada Geese which periodically land on the property. Membership in MAHUNT is available for $25.00 per year ending December 31 of each year. Although membership is not necessary to enter the draw or bidding to enter the property, nor are voting rights given to members, members will receive: FORM 1023 Application for Recognition of Exemption MAHUNT ATTACHMENT D Part II – Activities and Operational Information Item 3: Foundation’s Fundraising Program (Continued): 1. A statement of recognition that members have advanced the cause of MAHUNT and because no goods or services were exchanged, their membership payment is tax deductible to the full extent of the law; 2. Periodic updates on this property and others that MAHUNT may acquire; and 3. The ability to specify with their membership contribution or with additional charitable contributions a geographical location where they prefer future sites be acquired by MAHUNT for its purposes. MAHUNT will commit to attempt to acquire future sites near the residence of contributors or near the area that they specify in their letters of membership or contribution based on the aggregate dollars contributed. Please join MAHUNT and its efforts to procure, restore, propagate, preserve, perpetuate, and pay for isolated natural property(ies)/habitat and archeological/historic resource sites where up to two people at one time per property can commune in (near pristine) nature with solitude by becoming a member and making an additional charitable contribution and sending it to _________, Madison, Wisconsin ____. The Schneider family has committed to make charitable contributions on a matching basis (dollar for dollar) up to $100,000 (to be paid one-half prior to the end of the year 2000 and one-half prior to the end of the year 2001) to MAHUNT for every dollar contributed during 1999 to MAHUNT in the following categories: 1. all membership fees, 2. all charitable contributions per individual or entity of $4,975 or less, and 3. contributions received from public 501(c)(3) charitable organizations. Remember that with large corporations and rich individuals gobbling up property to keep everyone out and conservancies, big government and its agencies devouring land through purchase and eminent domain condemnations to let everyone in, there must be places preserved for "everyman/everywoman" plus one human companion to use unbothered by his/her brethren. FORM 1023 Application for Recognition of Exemption MAHUNT ATTACHMENT D Part II – Activities and Operational Information Item 3: Foundation’s Fundraising Program (Continued):
Our children, their children and their childrens' children must have areas preserved for solitude. Asphalt cannot be the last crop. Sincerely,
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