A company called Music Changing Lives, run by a Josiah Bruny in Moreno Valley, California, purportedly aims to help low-income youth in underserved communities through educating 'at-risk', drugs-and-violence kids (i.e., possibly from crime scenes) in music production.
According to their website:
'MCL began in 1998 when CEO and Founder, Josiah Bruny, created a studio in his own home in Moreno Valley, CA where he could teach young musicians how to record and own the copyright for their own music. After working for some of the greatest stars in the music industry like Master P, Ice Cube and learning the “ins and outs” of the business.
Bruny was determined to open the way for the independent artists within our communities. He taught youth who were at-risk of dropping out of school, gang violence, drugs, and crime how to record and copyright their own music, and offered those students pathways to entrepreneurial success.'
http://www.musicchanginglives.org/about/
Music Changing Lives won the George H. W. Bush Daily Points of Light award in 2012. They also either ran or are still running orphanages in Haiti and have been promoted by the White House in that capacity.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/02/22/sounds-service
Here is a tweet by a man called Jeff Horseman that links Bruny to Hillary Clinton: "Just spoke with Josiah Bruny, one of the people who will meet with @HillaryClinton in Perris tonight."
https://twitter.com/JeffHorseman/status/738515460304437248
Apparently, Ricky Dearman, the father who was accused in the Hampstead alleged satanic abuse controversy, has worked for Bruny making promotional videos for his Haiti orphanage enterprises.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf1g49FkeV8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZSnFmbWScg
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GoldMoose16 ago
I think I found something solid, fishy and possibly ACTIONABLE regarding Luv For Haiti, the "side project" of Bruny and his Haiti orphanage. See the image from the MCL facebook page
https://sli.mg/brFjFX
They want money via western union directly to haiti. Unless I am missing something major, I cannot find "LuvForHaiti" charity records anywhere. As I stated in a previous reply, it just seems to be a "side project" for Bruny and MCL.
From the LFH website:
"Love For Haiti is a NGO incorporated in Haiti and was formed and is affiliated with Music Changing Lives a registered California Charity."
More from About Us page:
About Luv4Haiti
"Love For Haiti is a NGO incorporated in Haiti and was formed and is affiliated with Music Changing Lives a registered California Charity. All financial donations received in the United States, and Haiti will receive a tax-deductible receipt."
This language does not pass legal muster for anyone soliciting funds in the USA. No lawyer or knowledgeable company officer would have ever approved this language.
To complicate matters further, it seems that at times they are calling themselves "Luv For Haiti", but at other times, "Love For Haiti"
Here is why that's bad --- I found a conflicting small fundraiser using the generic Love For Haiti here on an indy funding site
https://fundly.com/love-for-haiti
From my viewpoint, there is no way in hell I am EVER sending money directly to Haiti via Western Union.
Is there anyone here from California? This should be reported to the Cali State atty general's office. All you would really need is a brief outline including the amateurish website language and that screenshot soliciting funds via Western Union.
Some legalese regarding donations to charities in foreign countries:
"Also, the IRS will not allow a domestic charity to be simply a “money conduit” to a foreign organization. US law does not allow such direct-affiliate organizations. In other words, a US charity cannot exist for the sole purpose of financially supporting a specific foreign charity." ---- Source - https://www.501c3.org/charitable-activities-in-a-foreign-country/