Schools against schools. Student teams run real marketing to adults — and every dollar they raise is counted in the open, by code, and certified at day 90.
Half of every dollar raised under a school's own codes builds that school's grant fund, divided evenly among its certified participating students. The other half stops plastic at the river's source. Honors rank by production; the money is shared equally — because the team that wins is the ocean's.
The Motagua River carries about 20 million kilograms of plastic into the Caribbean Sea every year. The field's habit is to chase what already floats. Caribbean Cleanup — the initiative of Hands For Honduras, Inc. — stops the plastic at the river's source: map, contain, collect, weigh, record, report, with paid local crews. Judge us by the weight on the scale.
The Muster puts that same discipline in the hands of students. A school fields up to four teams of three to five students, sponsored by a teacher. Each team receives one code and markets to adults — families, workplaces, civic clubs, churches, local businesses, community events — inviting them to join the $1 Army: one dollar a month. The organization never solicits a student, never contacts a student, and never receives a student's name. The teacher sponsor is the only channel into the school, and the sponsor holds the roster.
Two championships are ranked by production: the Team Championship (the single highest-certified team) and the School Overall Championship (the school whose teams' certified members sum highest). Podium places and the Roll of the Muster are honors. Under the program's ruling, honors carry the glory — the money divides evenly, so a school wins together.
Hands For Honduras, Inc. is openly Christian, and says so here, first. The Muster itself is a marketing exercise: it carries no religious content, no religious activity, and no faith question for any school, teacher, student, or member. Any accredited public or private school may be invited, and a school plays under its own rules, its own approvals, and its own calendar.
Five plain boxes — nonprofit or public institution, school-led, a named signing officer, a declared purpose, and acceptance of the counting law and the privacy discipline. Anything non-standard goes to a person for review; nothing is refused by a form.
The Participation & Grant Agreement is a fixed form — the same form every school signs — signed electronically by the school's authorized officer (its director, or its chief financial officer / treasurer). No bespoke terms in the standard lane.
On signing, the school receives its school code and team codes, its personal student codes for the sponsor to issue, and its own open-book page — already drawn with the school's named purpose on it. The first thing the school sees is its own goal.
The sponsor forms teams of 3–5 students — a marketing class, a DECA or FBLA chapter, a business club. Team names and sizes are registered as counts only. No student names are ever sent to the organization.
Each team works its own code through its own short link and QR code — the code rides inside the link and is printed nowhere. Adults join on caribbeancleanup.org, on their own devices, with the split in front of them before they give.
An enlistment is counted when it arrives through the team's code, an adult enrolls themselves, and the first dollar collects. It is certified only when it is still active at day 90. The book is reconciled weekly against the payment record.
A weekly provisional leaderboard runs during the season — school and team names only, labeled provisional every time. After the day-90 sweep, one certified final is published in full, with the method stated beside it.
At certification, the school's grant fund divides evenly among its certified participating students and is paid to their colleges or accredited trade schools against billing — in annual installments, never cash to a student, never a check to a household.
| When | What happens |
|---|---|
| Saturday, February 20, 2027 | Public launch of The Muster at La Ensenada, Honduras — the day of the largest fully weighed beach cleanup in Central America. School enrollment opens. |
| February – March 2027 | School approvals and sponsor onboarding. No school is rushed past its own board cycle. |
| April 5 – May 14, 2027 | Pilot season. The pilot field is ten southeast Wisconsin schools. Teams market; the provisional leaderboard publishes weekly. |
| May 15 – August 12, 2027 | Day-90 verification runs on every enrollment; the desk's review of voided counts (duplicates, chargebacks, test transactions) is completed. |
| Mid-August 2027 | Certified pilot standings published; scholarship grants certified to institutions. |
| September 2027 | Awards presented at the schools, at back-to-school. |
| September 1 – November 20, 2027 | Season 1 enrollment window. |
| February 20, 2028 | First certified final published. A certified final cannot honestly stand on February 20, 2027 — the day-90 rule is the program's integrity, and it pushes certification ninety days past the last enrollment. The 2027 date carries the launch; the 2028 date carries the first final. |
Of every $1 of $1 Army membership revenue raised under a school's own codes:
The even split. After certification, the school's pool divides evenly per certified participating student — pool ÷ certified students. First place and last place at the same school receive the identical share. What moves a share is the school's total: a school whose teams recruit five times the field builds a pool five times as large, and every one of its students feels it. Shares are paid to the student's college or accredited trade or technical school, against the institution's billing. A student who delays enrollment has the share held for up to five years from graduation, then it returns to the Fund — stated in the rules, so the promise is exactly as strong as the paper.
The pilot bridge. In the pilot season only, payouts follow a bridge: pools pay proportionally as the Scholarship Fund crosses its published thresholds of $15,000, then $60,000, then $200,000. From the first full season on, pools pay by the formula from the first dollar.
Suppose that yesterday, 212 people joined under one school's banner, and $212.00 collected. The split runs in the open:
Every number in this box is an example, built to show the machine working. A school's own numbers trace to receipts on its open-book page.
Scholarship grants are paid from the $1 Army Scholarship Fund — only from money actually received and certified. The Fund stands at $0 today. No prize or grant amount is promised to any school, teacher, student, or parent before its money exists in the Fund. Every figure shown before certification is a projection of the formula, never a guaranteed amount. If the Fund's balance at certification is below a computed pool, every share scales down by one published scaler. Awards begin when the Fund is funded — and that sentence is printed first, because it is the program's honor.
The Muster keeps two counts, and they are never added together. One tells you how the season is running. The other is the only count money is ever paid on.
Enlistments — signups that arrived through a team's code, completed by an adult who enrolled themselves. Active members — those memberships paid current today, not cancelled, not refunded. This register moves daily and is labeled provisional wherever it prints.
Certified members have passed all five tests: (1) arrived through the team's code; (2) an adult self-enrolled with their own payment method; (3) the first $1 collected, not merely pledged; (4) the membership still active at day 90; (5) one count per person — duplicates count once, to the earliest code. Standings and grants are paid on this register alone.
Why day 90? A one-dollar membership costs almost nothing to start — and almost nothing to fake for a week. Ninety days of paid retention cannot be faked cheaply at scale. The rule turns a sign-up sprint into the lesson the program exists to teach: real marketing produces people who stay.
What never counts: enrollments by a team's own members and their households never score for that team (students are welcome in the Army — their own dollar just never scores for their own team); the sponsor's household likewise; bulk sign-ups from one device or payment instrument, chargebacks, and test transactions are voided in aggregate, with the reason class published — a count, never a name, never an accusation. A member who cancels before day 90 simply never enters the certified table. If it is not in the book, it did not happen.
A college plays The Muster under its own engine, and the engine carries its own name: THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE GRANT PROGRAM — Caribbean Cleanup — The Wave of the Future Grant Program. Where a high school's pool becomes scholarships for its own students, a college's share becomes a grant to the college itself, under these terms:
Every participating school receives an open-book page: a read-only window into the same ledger the program itself runs on. There is no second set of books. The page answers before the question forms — the director, the treasurer, and the sponsor never have to ask how things stand, and never have to take a number on faith.
Your teams and their counts in both registers; dollars collected under your codes; the grant accrual with the arithmetic printed beside it; the certification clock — every cohort with the date it will certify or fail; every disbursement with its confirmation; and your own report duties with their due dates and states.
The page refreshes daily, stamped with the hour it last drew from the book, and daily figures are labeled DAILY. Once a week the desk signs a certified snapshot of the week's numbers. After the day-90 sweep, the page renders the season's CERTIFIED FINAL — the same document the public reckoning is drawn from.
If a figure is ever wrong, the correction appears on the page as a dated correction line: the date, the figure as first rendered (struck through, never deleted), the corrected figure, and the reason in plain words. Your officers can prove, from the page itself, everything the page ever said — including its mistakes.
The Director sees the whole page. The Chief Financial Officer / Treasurer sees the whole page with the money view first — accrual arithmetic, disbursement states, report deadlines — the view an auditor's questions are answered from. The Sponsor sees the whole page with participation first: per-team counts, ranks, the certification clock. Seats are credentialed through your school's own systems; the organization never sets or sees a school officer's password. One school's seats never reach another school's page.
The receipt rule: a figure appears on the page only with its receipt behind it — a matched enrollment-and-payment pair, the signed agreement, the locked certification sweep, a disbursement confirmation, a filed report. Where the receipt is still in the future, the page shows the honest state — pending, not yet certified, awaiting report — and the date the receipt is expected.
The Muster's ledger holds schools, sponsors (adults), teams, codes, and aggregate numbers. It holds no student's name, email, photo, account, or school record — at any point, in any field, in any export. This is structural, not procedural: the system has no field to put a student's name in. If a step could not be done without student data, the step was redesigned until it could.
The discipline applies absolutely to minors — and to college students by the same rule. One posture, both divisions.
Enrollment is three steps and measured in minutes of a school's active effort. The program is designed so it never waits on one man: the presentation runs itself, the agreement signs itself, and the President's own hand is reserved for the exceptions queue and scheduled calls with batches of schools.
Step 2 — sign. The standard Participation & Grant Agreement, e-signed by your authorized officer, and executed for Hands For Honduras, Inc. on receipt under the board's delegation. The form your school signs is the form every school signs.
Step 3 — everything issues. Your codes, your open-book page drawn with your named purpose on it, the official rules, the money-split explainer, the issued creatives kit, and a first-week checklist. Your first daily explainer — yesterday's joins, yesterday's dollars, your bar's first movement — arrives the next morning, before your second school day starts.
A human, when you want one. Any school may ask for a call at any point; calls are scheduled in batches, and asking never costs a school its place or its pace. A call can answer anything — it cannot change a term. Anything non-standard is written into the exceptions queue the same day, where the President's own signature is the only key that can grant it.
Until then, this page is the whole program in the open — the split, the counting law, the privacy architecture, the calendar — published ahead of the first invitation, so a school can read it the way its treasurer would. When enrollment opens, the first schools in are the pilot field of ten in southeast Wisconsin.
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