All of them, those in power, and those who want the power, would pamper us, if we agreed to overlook their crookedness by wilfully restricting our activities.
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Organization's primary exempt purpose |
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To rid the world of drug abuse, crime, illiteracy and immorality. |
ABLE WINS (1989): "ABLE's purpose is 'to create a total revolution in the fields of drugs, crime and education by pushing LRH™ tech into wide, wide use.' We will be doing this by promoting the incredible services and results of Narconon™, Applied Scholastics™, Criminon™ and The Way To Happiness Foundation." [Narconon Exposed] |
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Description of program service one |
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Assistance to Social Betterment CorporationsThe mission of Association for Better Living and Education International (ABLE International) is to reverse the social decay that threatens our society by resolving the devastating core problems of drug addiction, crime, failing education, illiteracy and plummeting morality ABLE International carries out this mission by promoting and supporting the use of social betterment technologies developed by philosopher and humanitarian, L. Ron Hubbard. In particular, ABLE International addresses four fields of social betterment through the programs it supports
In each of these fields, an organization affiliated with ABLE International utilizes Mr Hubbard's technologies to effect social improvement. The assistance ABLE International gives these organizations is integral to its mission of social improvement Four key organizations that ABLE assists are as follows
One of ABLE International's functions is to provide social betterment organizations with the physical facilities necessary to house their charitable and educational programs. In 2001, ABLE International continued a program of purchasing and fully renovating new facilities to more efficiently provide support and assistance to the above international organizations A drug rehabilitation center for Narconon Arrowhead in Oklahoma, was the first major facility that ABLE purchased and renovated. This facility, which was fully renovated in 2001, is one of the largest residential drug rehabilitation centers in the world. It is also the site of Narconon's International Training Center for the training of staff of Narconon centers around the world as well as public who wish to establish a Narconon drug rehabilitation center ABLE International also located a property in St Louis, Missouri, for the site of the international headquarters for Applied Scholastics International. The campus will also be a training facility for teachers to learn the educational methods of L. Ron Hubbard, though it will also house marketing and promotional functions as well as their publishing division, Effective Education Publishing ABLE International located a property for The Way to Happiness Foundation International. The property, located in Glendale, California, will serve as the administrative headquarters for this international social betterment corporation In addition to the acquisition of facilities, ABLE International provided technical assistance to the above social betterment organizations. This assistance helped stimulate international expansion of the organizations and their humanitarian programs resulting in hundreds of thousands of people being helped by these social betterment programs ABLE International also assisted The Way to Happiness Foundation International in the distribution of tens of thousand copies of "The Way to Happiness," a common sense guide to better living, in the Middle East, in the distribution of over 200,000 copies in New York alone, after the September 11 terrorist attacks, and in the distribution of "The Way to Happiness" during the Cincinnati riots which helped bring peace and sanity to the area ABLE International also began a development plan with the purpose of obtaining support for programs such as inner-city tutoring, drug education, social awareness of moral values, and crime reduction. Implementation of this plan resulted in increased support and programs for social betterment activities in 2001 ABLE International also did extensive research and marketing for each of the above social betterment organizations. For example, ABLE International assisted Applied Scholastics International by surveying teachers on new educational materials Grants:
2,361. |
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Description of program service two |
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Materials Compilations and PublicationsAn important part of ABLE International's mission includes the compilation, translation, publication and broad distribution of books and other materials containing the social betterment technologies developed by L. Ron Hubbard. These include materials for the general public as well as the courses and course materials necessary to train staff of new and existing social betterment groups ABLE International assisted Narconon International by compiling two comprehensive manuals one covering the basics of opening a successful Narconon center, and the other comprising the basics of operating a Narconon drug rehabilitation center. This has provided technology and policy for the staff of the Narconon centers around the world ABLE International also assisted Applied Scholastics International by compiling two educational courses one, called the Basic Teacher's Course, for training teachers, and the other, called the Effective Learning Course, for teaching students to learn how to learn ABLE International assisted The Way to Happiness Foundation International by completing the compilation of a poster featuring the twenty-one moral guidelines of the Way to Happiness Grants:
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Description of program service three |
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Public Information on the Solution to Societal IllsABLE International conducts public awareness campaigns to focus on problem areas in society and to highlight the solutions to these problems provided by the affiliated programs that it supports and assist During 2001, ABLE International sent out over 277,000 magazines, broadsheets, promotional fliers and newsletters broadly and to specific persons in the fields of education, drug rehabilitation, criminal rehabilitation, and moral improvement. Through its continental offices, ABLE sent out an additional 3,350,000 promotional items, making known the solutions available to resolve the major societal ills Two editions of ABLE International's Solutions Magazine were printed and published in 2001, with each magazine distributed to many thousands of people ABLE International also published a 40-page brochure covering ABLE's social betterment mission, the programs that ABLE supports, and the results that these programs have achieved in improving society In 2000, ABLE International acquired new premises for its operations, and a key aspect of this acquisition was to provide large visual displays illustrating the problems society faces in the 21St century—and the effectiveness of ABLE's programs through the application of L. Ron Hubbard's breakthrough technologies. Viewed both by members of the general public and civic and community leaders from around the world, the displays inform visitors about the results of ABLE's programs and how to implement these programs in their own areas. In the year 2001, more than 3,800 people toured ABLE International's headquarters and viewed the displays ABLE also conducted a campaign to get L. Ron Hubbard's common sense guide to better living, "The Way to Happiness," distributed by banks to their customers, and thus make "The Way to Happiness" widely known ABLE International also assisted Narconon International and Narconon Arrowhead with the grand opening of their new international rehabilitation facility in Oklahoma ABLE did extensive planning and promotion of the event, with hundreds in attendance, including influential politicians and celebrities Grants:
199,995. |