The Friends of Rigby Foundation Inc
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Georgetown University
Leader and partner with Georgetown University's Office of Neighborhood Life, assisting students with their safety and tenants rights specifically fire safety prevention and education
Bergen Catholic High School
Annual workshops and information seminars at the school.
Fire Department Partnerships
Hells Kitchen Fire House
Point Breeze Volunteer Fire Department
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
The need for fire safety and awareness on college campuses across the country has become more apparent in the past decade with numerous instances of preventable loss. According to FEMA, most college related fires are due to lack of knowledge about fire safety and prevention. Using the passing of Daniel H. Rigby in such an accident as motivation, The Friends of Rigby Foundation seeks to bring together networks of financial and organizational support to educate and assist students at colleges and universities across the country.
Our ultimate goal is to advance the cause of fire safety such that every house and building in the United States sets the international standard for excellence, minimizing the annual death toll from fires into the single digits. To achieve this lofty goal, connections need to be built at numerous levels - personal, business, institutional, government, etc - among students, university administrators, firefighters, housing inspectors, and lawyers to provide such necessities as fire safety equipment, fire safety education, fire/housing inspections, and pro-bono legal counsel to students living off-campus.
After perfecting the student niche, we will expand our reach to embrace all housing and buildings.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
To achieve our long term goals we have begun the groundwork through our pilot program at Georgetown University, bringing together all of the stakeholders - students, parents, homeowners, neighbors, university officials, firefighters, local government, pro bono lawyers - to create a clear, organized, and transparent process involving education, fire inspections, collecting and measuring data, providing free resources such as fire inspection information and tenant rights' legal counsel. This self-sustaining student-led group is the model for us to expand to other schools and work in a preventive, as opposed to reactive, manner.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Financially, our fundraising events currently provide the bulk of our annual receipts. Through this and in the very near future, grants, we hope to hire an Executive Director and staff to handle the day to day. Right now all of our work is done by volunteers.
It is this same team of volunteers who represent our greatest assets: people and how we empower them to succeed in a challenging charity culture on a strict volunteer basis. All of our Board members represent various factions of the business community - marketing, investment, accounting, public relations, etc.
We also look forward to partnering with additional stakeholders such as Home Depot, Lowe's, and Kidde where the Friends of Rigby can leverage its expertise and legwork on the ground with larger benefactors providing the impetus to expand and reach new, under-served demographics.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
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The Friends of Rigby Foundation Inc
Board of directorsas of 06/06/2019
Jay Tedino
Friends of Rigby Foundation
Term: 2012 - 2014
Patrick Rigby
Friends of Rigby Foundation
Term: 2012 - 2014
Jerry Tedino
Friends of Rigby Foundation
Patrick Rigby
Friends of Rigby Foundation
Jay Tedino
Friends of Rigby Foundation
Vincent Bianco
Friends of Rigby Foundation
Doyle Flaherty
Friends of Rigby Foundation
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes