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Constitutional, Standards & Secretarial Coordination
Givingtide International coordinates Give 100, the permanent worldwide campaign to establish the Three Instruments of Peace.
Givingtide International (GI) is the coordinating institution of the Givingtide order and the keeper of its Charter. Give 100 is its single, permanent worldwide campaign, carried city by city for the establishment and adoption of the Three Instruments of Peace: GIVA, Preemptology and Centory. GI sets the constitutional standards of the campaign, recognises and coordinates Chapters, and keeps its honours and institutional records. The Institute of Preemptology (Instop), to be founded at Enugu, is the Universal Project designated for 2027 — the one global project of civilisational significance around which the campaign concentrates common support, and one work within Give 100 rather than the whole of its purpose.
Why Givingtide Coordinates Give 100
Givingtide International coordinates Give 100 under its own Charter. It keeps the constitutional standards of the Three Instruments, recognises Chapters and Legions, holds the standards by which semidons, designations and records are kept, and carries the worldwide coordination a campaign of this scope requires.
Constitutional & Secretarial Role
GI is the constitutional centre of the Givingtide order. It keeps the Charter, the GIVA membership standard and the 1-1-1 Framework; it charters Chapters and recognises Legions; it holds the centory and semidon standards, the honours and the institutional records. Its coordination rests on Givingtide’s own constitutional order, and on no delegated governmental, Commonwealth, royal or United Nations authority.
Three Instruments & Universal Project
Give 100 is permanent and carries all three Instruments. GIVA and the Centory are established through organisation — members enlisted, Circles convened, Centorians elected — and the Institute alone requires capital. The Institute of Preemptology, Instop, is the Universal Project designated for 2027, and its capital programme, the Give 100 Founding Fund, is held by the Givingtide Foundation. GIVA, Preemptology and the Centory stand together; none is a supporting device for the others.
Worldwide Coordination
GI coordinates across cities, Chapters and Legions and through the national expressions of the campaign: shared standards and templates, the semidon calendar, registration and reporting, public communications, designations and the Register. A Legion serves and coordinates its Chapters and does not govern them; a Chapter’s charter, funds, officers and Centory remain its own, and a national expression is the same campaign spoken in the register of its own country, adding no governance layer. Cities are invited worldwide, and each constitutes in its own time as it meets the readiness conditions.
The Universal Project and Give 100
Give 100 is permanent. Its founding period is the International Decade of Strengthening of Peace for Future Generations, 2027–2036, and the campaign continues beyond it. Give 100 is conducted in the Decade and not for it: the Decade belongs to the United Nations and its Member States, and Givingtide neither owns nor administers it and claims no United Nations endorsement, mandate or implementing role.
Within GIVA’s 1-1-1 Framework, the Universal Project is Givingtide’s one global project of civilisational significance for the year, designated annually by the Global Centory against its published criteria. Annual designation does not displace unfinished work: a project once designated continues in succeeding years until its completion condition is met, unless it is formally retired for cause. Instop is the Universal Project designated for 2027, and its completion condition is the completion of its endowment. A GIVA’s support for it is freely chosen and comes from within Core Equity Giving rather than from any further percentage. Preemptology remains a permanent Instrument of Peace whichever cause is designated.
The Institute is to be founded at Enugu as an independent institution, not a department or subsidiary of Givingtide International. The Charter provides for it to be incorporated before its installation: during its formative stage GI’s founding trustees act for it, and at its installation they transfer control to its own governance. From installation it exercises its full independence and is not owned, governed or controlled by GI. Givingtide founds it, funds it through the Foundation architecture, and advocates for it.
The Queen Elizabeth II Centre for Cervical Cancer Elimination (QE2C) is the Institute’s founding flagship and a programme name within its institutional framework — not the whole of the Institute, not a fourth Instrument, and not a campaign of its own. Its dedication honours the late Queen and implies no endorsement or control by the Royal Household; it makes no royal, Commonwealth or centenary identification a condition of taking part in Give 100.
Give 100 sits within GI’s governance order. The Global Advisory Council is the governance name of the Global Centory, and its powers are constitutional rather than merely advisory: it appoints and removes the International Board of Trustees, reviews refusals of approval of a Centorian’s election, determines questions on the meaning of the Charter, designates the Universal Project, and concurs in amendment. The International Board of Trustees is GI’s fiduciary and reserve governing body. The Secretary-General is GI’s chief executive and the executive officer of that Board, the office’s further duties being fixed by the Board, and is served by the GI Secretariat; rules of practice binding the order are adopted by the Board on the Secretariat’s proposal and published by the Secretariat. The GIVA Alliance is the worldwide fellowship of GIVAs and holds no fiduciary or reserve power.
The Charter provides three global offices: the International Headquarters at Oslo under the Deputy Secretary-General, the Operational Headquarters at Abuja under the Secretary-General, and the Strategic Liaison Nexus at Washington, DC, under the Assistant Secretary-General. The bodies of Givingtide International at Abuja, Oslo and Washington are one movement under the same Charter and the same constitutional organs, each subject to the mandatory law of its own jurisdiction, and each distinct from the Givingtide Foundation and its associate foundations.
Founding authority is bounded. The founding trustees are the two physician-founders, Dr Abia Nzelu and Dr Kin Egwuchim, and their authority runs only so far as the founding requires, each function passing to the successor body as that body is constituted. It ends five years after the Charter’s adoption, or when every successor body the Charter names has been constituted, whichever is the earlier. The Secretariat records and publishes the founding acts and the schedule of authorities, sunsets and transfers; and where an act of the founding trustees concerns the office of Secretary-General, or reviews an act of the Secretary-General, the trustee holding that office withdraws and the other acts alone.
Give 100 is scheduled for formal announcement on 21 September 2026, with the remainder of the year devoted to preparation. The Inaugural Year runs from 1 January to 31 December 2027, registration and city applications opening on 1 January; Givingtide Day, 11 January, is the annual renewal of the 1-1-1 commitment, marked by the three-minute Pause at 1:11 pm local time. Cities constitute on a rolling basis as they meet the readiness conditions; each Chapter’s first semidon is its City Founding Semidon. In 2027, the Day of Account — the International Day of Peace, 21 September — is designated Founding GoodTuesday. The Global Founding Semidon is planned for the International Headquarters in Oslo, with the Institute’s own founding semidon planned for Enugu on the same day. The Founding Hundred Days run from 22 September to 30 December 2027, and the Inaugural Year closes on 31 December. The financial year of the order is the calendar year, while a Chapter’s constitutional year turns on Givingtide Day, offices handing over at the conclusion of the Pause.
The Hundred Invited Cities are invited, and are neither an exclusive nor a permanent membership: from 1 January 2027 any city may apply, and every city passes the same readiness gate. A city that constitutes during 2027, whether invited or applying, is an Inaugural City. Three designations close absolutely with the year, on 31 December 2027: Inaugural Cities and their Founding Commissions; Founding Centorys and their Founding Centorians; and Founding Hosts and Founding Guests, being the Hosts and Guests of semidons registered in the Inaugural Year, whose designation is recorded in the Founding Roll. The Founding Roll itself does not close: it remains open while cities are founded, each city’s entry closing at its handover to settled governance. Ordinary recognition continues in every year thereafter, and a Decade Host or Decade Guest, qualifying through ten unbroken years, may begin the count in any year whatever.
The Institutional Sequence
International
Communities
Mobilisation
Founding
Centory
A permanent campaign, organised city by city, to establish GIVA, Preemptology and Centory.
What Givingtide Coordinates
As the coordinating institution, Givingtide International organises the architecture through which Give 100 advances from mobilisation to institutional founding: the semidon, the Chapter, the designations, and the records and standards that give the work durability. In every city the Academic, Business and Civil Champions stand for Learning, Enterprise and Civic Trust, and each of them advances all three Instruments within their own catchment. Centorian nominations and elections are confidential: the Secretariat vets each nomination, the electing body chooses, and the Secretary-General approves on the grounds the Charter states and then notifies the elected person by letter — nominating no one, choosing among no candidates and appointing no one. Reasons for a refusal go to the Centory, which alone may ask the Global Advisory Council to review it. Acceptance of Centorian dignity includes publication in the Album of the Centory by name, designation or office, city and year of admission; anything beyond that entry is published only with the Centorian’s separate consent. Givingtide publishes what it records, and quotes the outcomes measured by the Institute and its partners to their source, never merging the two.
Coordination is not custody, and the Charter separates the movement, the philanthropy and the perpetual capital. GI holds the funds of its own operation and programmes, and each Chapter its own operating and local-programme funds under its own lawful arrangements. The Givingtide Foundation with its recognised associate foundations, and the Givingtide Global Trust, receive and steward the campaign’s and the Institute’s contributions within their respective mandates, the G Trust being the purpose-bound professional fiduciary custody route for contributions to the Universal Project and in no sense GI’s operating account. The perpetual corpus belongs to neither: it sits in the distinct capital architecture, held by an independently governed endowment vehicle, and not by the movement, by the philanthropy that raises it, or by the Trust.
Records follow the gift. For a Universal Project contribution the solicitation, the pledge documentation, the gift acceptance, the receipting, the stewardship and the donor records belong to the body that receives it, whether that is the Foundation, an associate foundation or the Trust, and every donor is told which body receives the gift. GI controls its designations and their standards, and no Champion, Beacon, LAMP, Centorian or convener acquires custody of a contribution by holding one; no gift confers a vote, an office, a seat or a place on any body of the order. Membership dues are GIVA subscriptions, while each Chapter pays GI a separate affiliation computed per capita. Neither payment discharges the one per cent of Core Equity Giving, which is directed to the world’s poorest tenth rather than paid to GI. GI fixes and publishes the bases on which each class of member computes its one per cent, and the Foundation applies them in verifying a member’s commitment.
- Worldwide city participation: the Hundred Invited Cities, applications from every other city, and the distinction between a city invited and a Chapter constituted
- Semidon standards, preparation and kits, accessibility for persons with disabilities, calendar coordination, registration and reporting
- Champion, Beacon, LAMP (Lead Anchor Metropolitan Philanthropist) and LAMP Companion designation processes, held separately from financial custody
- Chapter and GIVA mobilisation, including GIVA Circles, their Conveners and the Convener-General, with sovereign and public bodies registered as GIVAs directly by GI, and Philanthroteens and Philanthrokids as pre-GIVAs, carrying no financial commitment and no vote
- Lawful Chapter founding and recognition with Founding Commissions, Curators and university communities, supporting the City Centory, the Chapter Board of Trustees and the Chapter Executive Committee through to the handover to settled governance
- Public communications, naming standards and institutional coherence across the national expressions
- The Give 100 Registry and the Give 100 Register in three permanent parts — the Scroll of Honour for semidons, Hosts and Guests; the Roll of Honour for significant gifts; the Founding Roll for city foundings — with the Golden Book at semidon.org, the Album of the Centory, and the published Centory Category Catalogue, the live register of occupied categories standing apart from it as an admission check
- Governance standards and accountable reporting under the Charter’s safeguards, coordinated across Chapters, Legions and GI: the protection of children and of adults at risk, a safeguarding officer in every body, independent routes of complaint, protection for those who report a concern in good faith, and annual independent audit covering governance and safeguarding as well as accounts
A semidon is a cause-seeding gathering convened to awaken, organise, or multiply support for a worthy cause.
A registered Give 100 semidon advances the Three Instruments of Peace and is not merely a fundraiser; no fundraising outcome is required of it. Its canonical standard is a registered roll of exactly one hundred named adults, an adult being a person of eighteen or over and the host ordinarily one of the hundred; one hundred commonweal candles or lights; and a duration of no more than one hundred minutes. It is registered before it is held, opened by the Enkindling, and reported to the Registry within the period the Registry states and in every case before the following Day of Account, the International Day of Peace, with its date, place, adult count and one piece of evidence. Absences do not invalidate a complete registered roll, and all one hundred lights are completed however many attend, the balance enkindled in the Commonweal Candelabrum: the lights signify commitment and not a claim that one hundred people were present, and attendance is recorded separately. Flameless and electric lights are lawful forms, and a candle may be held unlit where flame is prohibited. A smaller gathering, or one not registered in advance, that performs the Enkindling and is reported is recorded separately as a Give 100 Gathering, with no Host or Guest ladder standing. Minors are welcome under Chapter safeguarding arrangements and their local records, and are not counted in the hundred or entered in the central participation and honour records. Semidons are convened throughout the Inaugural Year of 2027 and in every year that follows.
Dr Abia Nzelu is Secretary-General of Givingtide International, its chief executive and the executive officer of its International Board of Trustees. A physician and prevention advocate, she co-founded mass medical mission and, with Dr Kin Egwuchim, founded Givingtide to address extreme poverty as a principal driver of poor health. Her work in prevention strategy and community-based health delivery helped establish the field model, evidentiary base, and institutional logic from which the Institute of Preemptology emerged. She leads the GI Secretariat from the Operational Headquarters in Abuja.
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