CHALLENGE

• Philanthropic Investor Challenge
• Uncertainty of what cause to contribute to
• Uncertainty of organizational experience to impact
• Lack of investment transparency
• Lack of cultural sensitivity
• Corruption in governing areas of aid
• Corruption of organizational fund distribution
• Security of on ground resources & staff

Foundation Target Causes

• “How does my organization grow and perpetuate its message, allowing
  my cause to stay relevant, funded and engaged?”
• Resource sparsity: food, clean water, shelter, education, power
• Ecosystem preservation/regeneration
• Sustainability
• Women empowerment
• Community resilience
• Poverty reduction

SOLUTION
Philanthropic Investor Solutions

• LY2NK leverages existing relationship equity developed over the years
  • Access existing global knowledge of successful non-profit organizations
• LY2NK vets compliant organizations
  • Access to mentors who have created successful organizations through a leaders-facilitating-leaders model with a philanthropic mission
• LY2NK vets organizational leaders (identified as Leader in Training, L.I.T.)
• L.I.T. is a program focused on developing strong role models and organizational leaders
• L.I.T. personnel is facilitated to implement their programs in an open, transparent model
• L.I.T. personnel are guided in organizational expansion and reach

SOLUTION
Foundation Contribution Channels

• Land purchase and development
• Construction of schools
• Education program
• Nutrition & food development programs
• Human trafficking and sex trade prevention
• Ecosystem clean up
• Community development – entrepreneurship & employment

Tatiana Mersiadis

President, Co-Founder & C.E.O
As a retired educator, Tatiana Mersiadis grew up in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and learned early on that teaching was her passion. She moved to Vancouver British Columbia from Montreal Quebec. She studied Education at McGill University and worked in many different school boards across Quebec and British Columbia. She was an educator for over 35 years, with a Bachelor of Education and Physical Education from McGill University, in Montreal, Quebec, a Diploma in French Education from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia and a master’s degree in Education from University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

Passionate about making a difference in people’s lives, today, Tatiana is also working as a PhilanthroInvestor. She is committed in expanding her cash flow investment portfolio. Her Private Family Foundation called Leaders Yielding to New Knowledge (LY2NK) is helping support the creation and site of a new sustainable school in the slums of Kampala, Uganda, East Africa. Her life demonstrates to follow our dreams, no matter how great.

For over 23 years, Darren Jacklin has traveled four continents and personally trained over one million people in over 46 countries. He has mentored entrepreneurs and business owners on specific and measurable strategies. These strategies have then been implemented into businesses to increase income, transform obstacles into cash flow and turn passion into profits. Darren has an uncanny ability to increase wealth and success by uncovering hidden assets, overlooked opportunities and undervalued possibilities. His talent has captured the attention of Tiger 21, The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo Finance, NBC TV, CBS TV, Global TV, international radio stations, magazines and newspapers, movie producers, best-selling authors, CEO’s and business experts worldwide. Darren is also a featured as an international celebrity in the 2015 movie The Treasure Map.

Darren Jacklin currently sits on paid international boards of directors and advisory boards of public and private companies and with this experience has successfully advised a small private American residential real estate company to grow to an internationally recognized publicly traded company on the NASDAQ. He has also personally trained 157 Fortune 500 companies such as Microsoft, AT&T, Black & Decker, Barclays Bank, as well as high school, college, and university students and lastly, professional athletes. His experience has connected him with people in more than 130 countries.

Ben engages with the world in an advisory, educational and consultant role. He is primarily involved in projects with philanthropic values, from humanitarian to environmental causes. Ben is simultaneously passionate about bolstering people’s health and in business development that contributes to the success of each of these causes. Alongside his passion for fitness, his role as a personal trainer and health educator culminated in working with Nottingham Forest football club and a Physical Education degree. Ben is a serial entrepreneur as he developed the businesses Pillars of Health, Project 4 Living Systems and a volunteer organization CoFood, where he built an urban farm. This led to his involvement as a working group member with the Vancouver Policy Council and a fascination with food. Currently, he sits on the board for Kids For Africa, a charity in

Uganda where his leadership role contributed to developing the LY2NK foundation, as well as the leaders within it. However, Ben is not afraid to do the grunt work in the field, as he is also the Community Development Officer for CMM Canada in the slums of India and engages street children in Uganda via Hypers Born Talented, a grassroots performance art group. As for environmental causes, Ben serves as the Community Development Advisor for a global renaissance mining company ABC Legacy Minerals and as a facilitator for Future Oceans Foundation and holds a Permaculture Development Certificate. Through all of these he can apply his extensive experience in education, corporate team building, project design, management, RnD and land development.

Don’s background has been in leadership in multiple fields from telecommunications to humanitarian work. His experience also involves multiple board appointments for organizations around the world. He is the owner of Afaayo Canada Consultants Inc. This is a for-profit business to generate revenue in order to give back. Matching people who have private funding with people who need funding for projects of various kinds. Don uses his past business experience to help new or struggling companies grow their own business. Don is also presently the Chief Operations and Development Officer of Calcutta Mercy Ministries Canada. He is responsible for overseeing overall function. CMM Canada is a Canadian charitable organization that does medical and compassionate care in Calcutta, India.

Don was also the Executive Director of Watoto Canada for over 10 years. $50 million was raised for this Foundation in Africa and grew from 300 to 10,000 monthly donors. This registered charity supports Watoto’s work in Kampala and Gulu, Uganda, and Juba, South Sudan. The Watoto model is designed to provide vulnerable women and children in Africa with holistic care and to impact communities in the process. The model involves physical care, medical intervention, including HIV/AIDS treatment, formal and vocational education, counseling and emotional well-being. His recent direction is to set up a mining company called Almri, that will focus on leaving a generational sustainable legacy globally. This company was created to join philanthropy with investment to create a better blue and green planet while education is promoted.

We are a community of philanthropic mentors developing causal leaders whilst connecting the dots for both sides of non-profit transactions.

We are a link between leaders in the business world, people who wish to give back and contribute to strongly vetted causes.

LY2NK mentors and teaches the skills inherent in leadership & teamwork which helps build up longevity / legacy within organizations making them wise opportunities in which to invest your emotional capital.

By linking causal leaders to businesses and individuals whose support they seek, we can develop longstanding interpersonal relationships ensuring the sustainability of that cause.

Challenge #1

Not enough people know where, or how to apply their passions and their resources where their desire-for-change lies.

Challenge #2

A major challenge exists because these organizations vie against each other to clamber for the apparent scraps that are an individuals’ goodwill.

Challenge #3

People’s vision can be limited by their understanding of the charitable giving process, cultural sensitivity and of business sense.

The Well-Wishers Dilemma

Those who wish to “do good” with their capital, align their relationship equity and facilitate organizations who struggle to vet individuals who share the same values and goals. They want to make sure that their capital is properly invested, and to know what difference they are personally making in the lives of others.

The Casual Challenge

The organization is seeking support, but looking for longevity and also to build relationship equity with those seeking them. They need to learn how to do this in a complicated global arena; being compliant with high-level expectations, straddling cultural divides and understanding how and why philanthropists are willing to engage.

Step One

LY2NK leverages the business skills and leadership training that we have received and teach within our business practices.

Step Two

Next, we leverage our extensive knowledge of global non-profits and the vast relationship equity we’ve created over the years.

Step Three

This is all funneled into a vetted and compliant organization where leaders are identified (LIT – Leader In Training). Time is invested in helping them become strong role models, and strong organizational leaders.

Our Team

Tatiana Mersiadis

Co-Founder/President

Mobile: +1.604.803.9622

Email: info@ly2nk.com

Address: #125 – 1489 Marine Drive,
West Vancouver, B.C. V7T 1B8
Canada

www.ly2nk.com