The DeLancey Foundation, also known as the 'DeLancey Foundation for the Preservation of Music and the Arts' is a non-profit foundation established by the estate of the reclusive Nancine Abigail Delancey, a musician, and songwriter active in the late 1960s. The control of the Delancey Foundation is via a Board of Trustees, who prefer to remain anonymous. The founding mission was as written in the will of Nancine Abigail Delancey "Make and preserve music, <...> teach the new generations the arts".
The Managing Director is Melody Morgan, trained for decades under the former Managing director. She maintains offices at the DeLancey Place Conservatory, and takes meetings via Holo-conference with appointment.
The former Managing Director is C.M "Mick" Mcnale, maintains offices at the DeLancey Place Conservatory, as Advising Director and DeLancey Family Voting Proxy.
The DeLancey Foundation is represented by the Eruditus Group Attorneys at Law. The foundation is independently funded by the DeLancey Foundation Investments Group. Official corporate offices located at DFIG Titan.
The Foundation was originally operating as a scholarship fund, and the Foundation remains dedicated to scholarship. There are still a significant scholarships available, hands on training for a variety of hands on skills available at the different workshops run by the foundation, as well as UPENN School of Art Preservation & Restoration sponsorship, and the Delancey College of Music both in the city of Philadelphia, Earth. The Foundation also supports a number of other music colleges all over the Earth, and in association with partner worlds through the Embassy of the Arts. Musical education is also available as holographic session downloads or live classes once a week via holo-presence.
DeLancey Place Conservatory
The DeLancey Place Conservatory is located within a 19th-century mansion at 2000-02 Delancey Place in Philadelphia.
Constructed in 1864, first inhabited in 1865, 2000-02 Delancey place is constructed of red brick, faced with white marble and designed as a mansion mixing Federal and Victorian styling of the second empire.
Originally constructed to be the home of the former provost of the University of Pennsylvania, William Heathcote DeLancey for whom the neighborhood and street were named, it was never inhabited by him. Bishop Delancey passed away in Geneva, New York before the interior marble was laid in the grand entrance hall and the home presented.
Officers
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Melody Morgan (Hologram) - Managing Director |
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Eileen (HPA) - Managing Director's Assistant |
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Sebastion De Vannes - Director of Preservation |
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Prof. Brian A. McKellen Director of Outreach |
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Prof. Jo Delestair Director of Volunteer Services |
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Prof. Ahmed Kontar - Director of Acquisitions |
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Prof. Susan Mallache - Director of Dept. of Music History |
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Harmony - Foundation Computer AI / Director of Information Technology |
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CPT Dahlia DeLancey, MD,Ph.D - Advising Director / Board Chair |
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Former Director, Clarence M. McNale - Advising Director's Proxy / Volunteer |
History of the Foundation
1996
The DeLancey Foundation was founded as an interpretation of the last will and testament of Nancy DeLancey (1948-1996). The executor of the will, Nicholas Erris, ESQ. was unable to identify the listed 'brother' at the time and used the $500,000 life insurance policy to establish an endowment for the arts tax-free non-profit foundation.
As early as the date of her memorial, held on her recorded birthday the year after her death, October 2, 1997, additional donations and pledges had swollen the foundation funds to more than $4,000,000. In late 1997, Nicholas Erris ESQ. formed the DeLancey Foundation Investments Group and began investing the foundation funds expecting a soft return to mediate inflation. Over the next four years, the investment income increased to a net of more than $20,000,000 despite roughly $300,000 year in distributed scholarship funds. The DFIG redirected itself into rare Earth mineral mining at that point as its primary investment strategy and consequently maintained the value when the reported 'Internet Bubble' burst.
2030
Donations did not cease, even as late as 2030, new royalty assignments were still being willed by artists to the foundation continuing to balloon the yearly endowments to well beyond the requested scholarship usage.
2047-2053
There currently are no records to show the value of the highly successful DFIG funds had grown in the decades to follow. The DFIG owned at least in part mining real estate in 23 countries as of the last reporting in 2053 during which William DeLancey was its primary investor and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Delancey Foundation
2079
After the time known as the Post-Atomic Horror, as governments were recovering and attempting to live up to the funding requests of the United Earth Government there was a move to nationalize assets unclaimed by survivors. Learning of this, the patriarch of the DeLancey family had considered just letting the past slip away into history but considered the possible futures. Having lived through personal loss ordered by Colonel Green twenty-four years earlier, and being an educated man, he knew that such feelings and sentiments as the Optimum Movement rarely faded quietly. He weighed the dangers against the benefits of having resources desired by powerful men versus the benefits which could be garnered from them.
William DeLancey had three factors giving him claim. He was the last known living fellow of record of the Eruditus Group, the only surviving member of the Delancey Foundation Board of Trustees, and an established member of the family line with claims. He worked for almost a year to gather an accounting as best as he could from the scant public record but then decided to try to salvage the records from the business office.
2080
William DeLancey called upon the legal assistance of Simon Smythe, Barrister at Law working out of Cambridge, England. The lawless areas were returning to civility, but not quickly. It was difficult to find men of law willing to admit they had the training. Simon Smythe understood international property law and was a good fit.
The two of them saw to the inspection and reopening of the offices at 2004 DeLancey place. With it, the recovery of original documentation was soon to be the basis of the legal claim to former investments into business and real estate.
2083
The company name of the contracting organization is unknown, but the DeLancey Foundation was listed as a driving factor and donor to begin the recovery of the downtown area. The 2000-2004 location was the first of the list to be salvaged, and structurally made capable of habitation. Once this was done, the group moved out through the neighborhood to make the buildings safe, and avoid destruction by fire.
The contractors, which while not of record were rumored to be largely manned by Badi clan men and women, were paid to see to the restoration of the historic block to the images seen in more than 100 films. The DeLancey Place community was known to be the most photographed area of the city's historic neighborhoods, which helped greatly in the restoration process.
2087
It should be noted, that as of January 18th, 2087, it was a possibility that the DeLancey Foundation for the Preservation of Music and the Arts might cease to exist. Paperwork was prepared to dissolve the foundation and funnel the majority of the funds to the purchase of the colony ship which would be named the SS Agata. William DeLancey though was outbid by another organization. This was taken as inspiration to put more effort into the Earth.
2088
Further beyond the claimed investment, the Foundation seemed to have an inexhaustible fund of currency, which was put to use in aiding the recovery of the downtown area. The DeLancey Foundation was the donator of record for the salvage and restoration of more than 60 historic locations in the downtown Philadelphia area, including the 20 addresses of the DeLancey Place block.
2095
As work continued, funded by the Foundation, the original Greenhouse was constructed atop the Conservatory as a memorial to the passing of the family patriarch William Isaac DeLancey II. The restoration was largely complete, and the 2000 DeLancey Place location was playing host to nearly a hundred members of the Badi clan which seemed to be gathering from locations around the world.
With the aid of legal analysts hired to staff the Eruditus Group under the leadership of Simon Smyth BL., Will DeLancey took the reigns of the family, as well as Directorship of the Foundation. Unlike his father, he chose to move himself and his family from Suffolk, England, to Philadelphia and take a more hands-on active role.
2100
Stated as an effort to comply with a more than 110-year-old section of laws, an elevator was installed into the rear of the 2002 location. 2008 Delancey Place had been restored, and returned to the control of the city of Philadelphia, in the hopes that the city would find members of the Rosenbach family to be stewards of the famous book collection within.
The Badi clan, which was gathering still was numbering nearly 400 men, women, and children. The Badi extended family had taken up residence in a number of nearby homes recently restored to livable status. They began opening businesses such as restaurants, apothecaries, or tailors, as well as providing construction labor.
2102
Director Will DeLancey made a legal and financial decision that ensured the existence of the DeLancey Foundation in perpetuity. The Investments were divested and moved into two funds. The first consisted of the majority of liquid assets, to be set aside to fund the clan migration, just over a billion Eurodollars. The remainder of investments were earmarked to provide for the creation and operation of the DeLancey Place Conservatory which had already been amassing a significant collection post-war.
By the time the Eruditus Group had arranged the funds, the Director had accepted the credentials of four individuals who would make up the Board of Trustees to act as a check against his authority. This would be written into the bylaws of the foundation moving forward. The bylaws were written to ensure that no future generation could override the investment group control and the funding to maintain the foundation and its mission. As further protection, the bylaws would also contain a yearly endowment for any blood descendants of William I. DeLancey I to share. The endowment was intended to compensate for the efforts of any family staying behind on Earth to honor the work. 1% of the profits per year would be set aside for the family endowment, beginning in 2114. The remainder would be managed by the Eruditus group, which would also be paid a dividend of 0.1% to cover its operating expenses.
Part of the legal coding would separate the family from the Foundation so as to not leave the Foundation beholden to the family, with an exception of those taking position on the Board of Trustees, and unless they had chosen to return to Earth as their home. Stripping such a large portion of the fund to finance the migration had awakened the Director and the fund managers to the possible danger. As such, it would be determined that no one who could personally profit from the fund would be put into a position to do so without legal protections against such an outcome.
The balance of the first fund was used to purchase the migration. A colony ship, the ECS Hieronymus which would be ready for launch in three years. Will DeLancey chose the Captain and invested in the training of the crew, as well as training for clan members who wished to make a life in a new world. Two hundred would be among the advance team sent on the first trip, men and women with the skills to build the infrastructure so the families to follow would have a greater chance at survival.
The legal code also allowed for a second mass migration. Should the majority of the Badi clan wish to resettle away from Vega, or back to Earth, a full 25% interest in the DFIG assets would fall back under the direction and possession of the clan, with profits to be dispensed as per the leader of the clan.
2135
The third colony crew was delayed by as much as 9 years. The delay was initially because the clan elders chose Vega, and not Alpha Centauri to be their new home. None foresaw the rapid pace that the advance of technology of spaceflight would take. Though the tragedy of losing the Hieronymus was keenly felt, it did not stop the rest of the clan from joining their cousins in the 'New World'. In the end, 711 members of the extended family made the journey to Vega IX. The Director Will DeLancey, his spouse, their three children, and their spouses, represented the whole of the DeLancey family in the bloodline of Nancy DeLancey. Along with them, 703 members of their extended family, of the Badi clan of Romani made the crossing to Vega IX, making their lives in the 'New World'. Several dozen members of the clan remained on Earth, most of whom were too elderly to make the journey or felt they would be a burden to the family. Most of whom did not survive long enough to learn if the others had successfully made the crossing.
2199
Music from our past, and into the Future... (Newzine Article Interstellar Broadcasting Agency)
- The contributions of the founders to the future of the DeLancey Foundation for the Preservation of Music and the Arts are said to be the reasons the Foundation exists to fulfill its mission. This is not to belittle the efforts of any others involved at the beginning or those who follow but to acknowledge that the organization would not exist without the contributions of each and every one of these we list as founders. - Mary Campbell, Historian
Acknowledged Founders:
- Nancine Abigail DeLancey (1948-1996); known to her family as Nancy and her fans as Ann Gale.
- William I. DeLancey II (2020-2095)
- Director 'Will' William I. DeLancey III (2070-2127)
2264
In 2264, one of the heirs stepped forward and took a seat on the board. At that time the third-floor offices were once again converted to living quarters. The now public board member, Brigid Anne DeLancey was later married and shared the home with then LCDR S. Connery and his young son Callan. Brigid Connery went on to enlist in Starfleet, serving as a nurse aboard the Earth Space Dock. The pair were killed in action in 2267, leaving the control of the foundation once again to the Board of Trustees.
During her tenure, as the legal heir, Ms. DeLancey began work to return the conservatory to a public space for the people of Philadelphia. Situated in the historic Rittenhouse Square district of the Historical preserve, the ancient homes of DeLancey Place were some of the few that could claim a heritage dating to before the World Wars. She made the preservation of musical instruments, and restoration of musical traditions a priority. Nearby the foundation sponsored a Luthier shop, in which the craft of hand-making stringed instruments was learned and practiced. This was but the first of such endeavors over the next century.
The considerable assets of the foundation were reinvested with an eye to the future, off-world and Earthly investments would prove to be wisely placed in order to multiply the holdings, and make available considerable resources with which the board continued to perform the foundation's purpose of the preservation, and sharing of musical history and education.
After the unfortunate death of Ms. Delancey, the residence was host to the elder Connery and his wife, the grandparents of Callan. In just a short time, however; they returned to Scotland, and Callan who was named as the beneficiary of the estate remained in residence with his mother. This too changed in less than a year, resulting in the residence being shuttered.
2278
Callan Connery, with the aid of his mother, Adrienne Callihan Ph.D., remained active with the foundation. Accepting a seat on the board at age 16, he was a driving force for decades. Champion for and then voting for providing resources for the handcrafting skills, in an effort to keep the traditions of hand-tooled musical instruments a living homage to history.
CPT Callan Connery was declared missing when his ship did not report as planned and declared dead some years later.
2325
Thomas Connery claimed his seat on the board at 26, as an agent for his father. Unlike his father, Thomas chose to make a career in private industry, which gave him time to dedicate to the foundation. He did not, however; receive a controlling interest until his father was declared dead in 2345 after his ship had been missing for 14 years. Thomas continued traditions, keeping the doors open to the public and beginning a tradition of monthly music concerts on the patio, and inviting musicians to play in the ballroom for small gatherings in times of poor weather.
His contributions include the acquisition and restoration of nearly the entire collection of first edition books and a series of 8mm film stock from the original Woodstock concert.
For an unknown reason, in 2351, Thomas Connery signed over all rights or claim to any part of the foundation assets, as well as his seat on the board, back to the board and DeLancey family.
2371
In 2371, the last member of the line of Heirs outside of Vega passed during the Dominion War, returning their interest in the foundation to the hands of the Board. A decision was made at this time to expand the purview of the foundation to include refugee assistance as well, adding the voices of children singing to the preserved recordings in the vault.
2409
In 2409, the disastrous attack by the Borg on Vega IX Colony left the board in a quandary. As of initial reports, all of the heirs and legal rights holders to the foundation and assets had been killed. This left the board in the position of making the decision if to reclassify the organization from a family-owned foundation to public trust. The legal department began researching the entire history attempting to find any living heirs before making such a move. While none was found initially, during the escrow period a survivor of the attack was found.
2410
Dahlia Anne DeLancey was surprisingly found living just a few kilometers away, a medical student at Perelman, University of Pennsylvania Medical School. She had survived the incident and relocated to apartments on Lombard Street. The young miss DeLancey was given control over the family residence and a seat on the board. In time, she was made the head of the board and regained majority control over the DFIG.
2423
August 5, 2423, Chairwoman Delancey submitted a proposal to create an endowment for the preservation of Roman traditional art and music still preserved on Magna Roma. The proposal was unanimously voted through. The goal was not only to collect samples and preserve them in the annuls of the Foundation, but to partner with the people of traditionalist population to create a Foundation of their own overseen by their own Board of Trustees to accomplish what our Foundation has accomplished for Earth. The funds were directed from the Delancey Trust, and co-sponsored by three powerful original families of Magna Roma, Antoni, Julii, and Crassi. Each of the families will maintain familial seats on the local board, while the Delancey Trust will hold an advisory seat. Anthropologists and artisans will be working in concert from both organizations, exchanging and hosting to share knowledge and skills of methods and traditions to preserve history through art.
By the end of 2423, the Foundation began a partnership with the 'Foundation for the Preservation of Music and the Arts-Magna Roma'.
2425
The DeLancey Foundation Conservatory expansion from 2000-2004 to include 2006 Delancey Place is completed, doubling the internal floorspace for exhibits. Additionally, the fully interactive holographic Docent program is instituted in all sections of the Conservatory, increasing interactivity and security of the exhibits. The expansion grand opening took place March 15th.
February 8, 2425, Chairwoman Delancey submitted a new proposal to create an endowment for additional partner FPMA chapters in other worlds joining the UFP whose people may feel their distinctiveness threatened by the cultural pressure of the Federation. Additional Satellite exhibit locations will be opened in the Delancey Place historical district to represent arts of each culture.
Winter music festival performances cancelled, Dr. DeLancey is reported MIA to the press.
2426
In concert with the FPMA-Magna Roma, ground is broken to replace 2003 DeLancey Place with a newly constructed conservatory to host exhibits and delegates from the Magna Roma counterpart to the Delancey Foundation. Grand opening is scheduled for spring 2427.
Communications established with the 22nd Daedelus, reporting Dr DeLancey to be well, just isolated. The Board of Trustees moves the Chairwoman back to position.
2427
Du to logistical concerns, the grand opening of the Magna Roma Museum Musica et Arz is to be delayed in order to accommodate construction of a matching facility in Rome, Italy, Earth.
2428
Renovations to the Delancey Conservatory are complete. The original conservatory of 2000-2006, the refurbished Rosenbach of 2008, and the large museum of 2010-2034. The separate structure of 2036, was restored to original plans with modern accoutrements to house visiting VIPs.
2430
The Delancey Foundation computing system was tripled in capacity at the urging of Harmony, as the new DFIG Archive System was brought online. With the new computing power, Harmony replaced all of the housekeeping and docent holograms with system generated on demand instances for processing efficiency.
2436
A visiting officer of Starfleet, Commander Elashia Ki'te an instructor in Artificial Intelligence, requests permission to interview Harmony. After two months of interviews, the Commander requests Harmony's permission to add her to the Soong Foundation's fight for recognition of Artificial Intelligence.
2441
The nature of the work done at the Delancey Conservatory made the shut down of holographic simulations a critical blow. Working with HSI, a DFIG affiliate, Commander Ki'te, and 'friends of the foundation' within starfleet some dispensations were possible to allow limited operations to resume after only thirty days of downtime.
As a result of Zimmerman's Bill, Commander Elashia Ki'te officially tested Harmony the AI that makes the Delancey Foundation operational. Harmony was declared sentient, and the process was begun to grant her status a Photonic Citizen.
Rather than declaring independence and requesting to be freed from the Foundation computers, Harmony continues to be deeply involved in the every day workings of the Delancey Foundation, as the director of Information Technology. Harmony reported to the authorities that she was never misused or abused in her work for at the Conservatory. Instead she was treated from day one with the same respect as anyone else. She had come to love music and the arts, and wished to continue to be a part of work to preserve it.
Later that month, Melody the personal assistant to Director Mick McNale was also recognized as a Photonic Citizen (UFP). Like Harmony, Melody requested to be allowed to continue in her work. Melody who had become not just indispensable to the Managing Director Mick McNale, but also a friend to the wife of the Managing director "Rena". Rena was the Director of the Department of Music History at the time. The two became so close, that Melody was declared like a little sister to Rena, and with permission took the Melody Morgan to honor her friend and that sentiment.
With only these two Photonic Citizens in operations on the site, full permission to operate was granted with the limitations that no visiting photonic entity not already recognized as a citizen would be permitted to go online in the local computer network.
2444
Full scale operations including visiting Photonic Sentient entities were permitted and the operations expanded to include Holo-conference visitors from as far away as Titan on a regular basis.
The sudden and unexpected death of the Director of Music History Catherine I. Morgan resulted in a 14 day full shut down to outside interaction. The pall that had fallen across the Foundation effected everyone, including Harmony and Melody Morgan.
2452
Managing Director Clarence M. McNale stepped down, retiring after fifty eight years of service in that position. After six years of quietly grooming her for the position, he arranged a private vote with the Board of Directors, and convinced them to accept Melody Morgan as his replacement. This made the Delancey Foundation possibly the first prominent Earth based organization that has placed a Photonic Entity in such a high position.
Today...
As of 2454, Dr. DeLancey still maintains the family residence in Philadelphia and majority control over the Delancey Foundation and DFIG. the doctor serves in Starfleet, and uses a proxy on the board when unable to be in communication. Dr. Delancey is also understood to established rights and training for her children now both adult and with limited interactions.
Affiliations
Delancey Foundation Investment Group
FPMA-Beryxia Trust
FPMA-Magna Roma
FPMA-Trust
Delancey College of Music
Embassy of the Arts
UPENN School of Art Preservation & Restoration
OOC Information
This is Historical Information for reference concerning Dr. DeLancey