Marine Advisor Foundation was founded in 2020 by current and former Marine Advisors. Our goal is to support the advisor community by connecting current and past advisors.
Who: Current / past advisors, their families, and people / organizations invested in progressing advising (e.g. academics)
What: Information exchange, building community, and crowdfunding to support advisors in need
Where: Instagram @ marineadvisorfoundation, Facebook @ marineadvisorfoundation, and our website Marineadvisorfoundation.com
When: From now until we are no longer needed
Why: To support advisors or their families during times of need. Also, because Marine Advisors are most often deployed as aggregated units (Advisors come from different parent commands and are consolidated for the deployment) and could improve preparation and turnover through this community platform.
How: Share information and connect via our platforms. Contribute to the Marine Advisor Foundation Emergency Fund by purchasing anything on our website.
The Marine Advisor Foundation contributes 100% of our profits to the Marine Advisor Foundation Emergency Fund. Not a single person on our team takes any revenue or salary. That may not sound unique for a non-profit, but it is. Consider other military non-profits and closely examine the non-profit excerpts in their product descriptions. Statements like "a portion of proceeds from this sale will be donated to fund XYZ" means that the organization in question can keep any percentage of the revenue from your purchase as they see fit without transparency to the customer. Read the fine print and see how much you are actually contributing to the cause next time you buy that veteran owned coffee or T-shirt. The reason we are able to keep fixed costs low is because we are small, have a limited footprint, and drop-ship all merchandise. This means that we do not warehouse or ship anything ourselves. This protects us from spending large amounts of money on inventory and getting stuck with merchandise that we can not sell (e.g. always having extra S and XL t-shirts that we cant get rid of but already paid for). This also allow us to have many more options available in the store.
Here is our profit model explained. Remember that Profit = Revenue - Costs. If next month we sell 10 of our outstanding Tanks at $34, we have $340 in revenue. Of that $340 in revenue, $240 goes to the manufacturer who produces, warehouses, and ships merchandise. Next we pay the $30 fixed costs for this website and domain name (we pay this every month regardless of revenue, so often it comes out of pocket). The remaining $70 goes into the Marine Advisor Foundation emergency fund. Its that simple.