Springboard Foundation

Springboard Foundation

Founded	November 15, 2002
Type	Non-profit, Interest group
Location	Paranaque City, Philippines
Key people	John Milne and Annette Helbig
Mission	To support and protect the general welfare and rights of the less fortunate Filipino children
Website	www.springboard-foundation.org

Springboard Foundation (SBF) is a non-government organization based in the Philippines that focuses on raising funds to help the less fortunate Filipino children secure a better future thru various outreach programs. Founded in 2002, Springboard Foundation has already tapped numerous organizations that have similar goals with them to help realize their objectives.^[1]

Overview

SBF is headed by John Milne, Chairman of the Board and Annette Helbig, President and CEO. It was registered last November 15, 2002 at the Philippine Security and Exchange Commission as a non-stock and non-profit corporation by five incorporators, whose aim is to provide a positive and caring environment for poor Filipino children. This fund raising foundation in Paranaque City has five Board of Trustees. The foundation consists only of one regular staff, one project-based staff, one part-time staff and several volunteers at present. Membership fees and donations from individuals and from corporations are its main source of income.^[2]

One of the main goals of SBF is to address the high volume of out of school youth in the Philippines by building schools and day care centres as well as provide scholarship programs to deserving and qualified candidates.^[3] Malnutrition is also a very serious problem in the Philippines that SBF is continuously working on with its numerous partners and sponsors thru their feeding programs.^[4] Quick access to health care is also another objective that SBF continuously provides to its benefactors with the help of their partners thru hospital renovations, donation of medical equipment and medicines.^[5]

SBF supports their beneficiaries thru their own programs but they also team up with other organizations to widen their reach. HOPE Worldwide Philippines, one of the main beneficiaries of SBF that also concentrates on the welfare and development of at risk Filipino children from selected parts of Manila, is by far the beneficiary that has received the biggest chunk of assistance from the foundation amounting to more than 12 million pesos worth of cash and in kind donation. As of November 2011, SBF has a total of 59 beneficiaries that have received support from the foundation.^[6][7]

SBF Ideals

SBF Vision

Filipino children growing up in nurturing homes with access to good education, nutrition, medical care and good quality career opportunities.

SBF Mission

To raise funds to develop healthy, nurturing environments for children in the Philippines.

SBF Goals

To build schools and day-care centers.'

To renovate pediatric government hospital wards.

To purchase of medicines and life-saving equipment.

To establish micro loan funds for young enterprising mothers as source of livelihood.

To provide tools and equipment for vocational training.

To install family development projects.

To implement essential nutrition programs for children.

To support homes for abandoned, abused and neglected children.

To support birthing homes and knowledge and development centers for women.

To supply sport equipment, musical instruments and art materials and other teaching aids to schools and homes for children.^[8]

Live Match

Live Match is the most notable event that Springboard Foundation has when it comes to raising funds for their projects and beneficiaries. Live Match is a live professional boxing event that features world-renowned Filipino boxers as well as amateur fighters. Aside from watching live boxing, other sports related activities such as auctioning of world class sports collectables, are also being held for guests to take advantage of to help raise more money for the foundation.

So far, SBF has held four successful Live Match Events for four consecutive years starting last 2004 up until 2007.

During the first ever Live Match event last 2004, the foundation was able to collect a net total of 2 million pesos from individuals and organizations who attended the fundraising.^[9][10]

In 2005, Live Match II was attended by more than 600 SBF supporters and the foundation was able to rake in a total of 2 million pesos at the end of the day.^[11][12]

Live Match III that was held last 2006 is by far the most successful Live Match event that SBF has had. At the end of the affair, the foundation was able to collect a total of 2.3 million pesos from their supporters that was later distributed to 11 SBF beneficiaries.^[13]

The fourth Live Match held last 2007 was able to amass over 2 million pesos with most of the money coming from generous individuals who bought auctioned items like a signed and authenticated boxing glove of Muhammad Ali for the price of Php 150,000 and Lance Armstrong’s signed 2005 Tour de France jersey for Php 80,000.^[14][15]

Team Up Projects with Other Non-Profit Organizations

Eyeglass Project – SBF together with A Better Chance Foundation gave away a total of 560 pairs of eyeglasses to chosen underprivileged students from two public elementary schools in Manila for two consecutive school years 2009-2010 and 2010-2011.^[16][17]

Springboard AETA School – SBF joined forces with EVA Foundation in 2005 and erected the very first Springboard Aeta School in Orion, Bataan.^[18]

Repainting of Marco Polo Care Center (MPCC) – Together with Virlanie and the Philippine Navy, SBF helped in repainting MPCC, a shelter for street children last 2010.^[19]

Ondoy Relief Drive – When typhoon Ondoy “Ketsana” hit Philippines in 2009, SBF extended their help together with the assistance of its long time organization/foundation partners to the people they can reach out to mostly in the provinces of Laguna and Rizal by going on site and providing the relief goods themselves to the victims.^[20]

Top 20 SBF Beneficiaries as of November 2011

HOPE WORLDWIDE PHILIPPINES - is an organization that aims to empower Filipino families and communities to protect and support the rights of Filipino children.

ONDOY (Typhoon Ketsana) RELIEF OPERATION - SBF teamed up with several other non-government organizations such as Asian Student Christian Foundation, Hope Worldwide, WeInternational Foundation and Red Cross Village in Calamba to help typhoon victims from different parts of Luzon when Typhoon Ondoy hit the country.

GIVE A LIFE FOUNDATION

A BETTER CHANCE FOUNDATION (ABC) - is a charitable institution that helps poor but deserving Filipino children get quality education.

JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN FOUNDATION - is an organization whose goal is to reach out to the less fortunate children in Metro Manila who are either abandoned, abused, neglected or orphaned.

KINDERHILFE PHILIPPINEN - a children's shelter that takes good care of more than one hundred abandoned and/or abused children in Manila.

ASCODE FOUNDATION

THE PHILIPPINE CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION - an organization held by Jane Walker, a British national, that targets to educate not only the Filipino children from the slums of Tondo, Manila but also to provide livelihood projects and opportunities to women in the same area.

TULOY FOUNDATION - a charitable institution that shelters street children in Manila.

KALAYAAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

ASIAN STUDENT CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION - a non-government organization that provides shelter and education to Filipino children.

DR. JOSE FABELLA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

ENTREPRENEUR VOLUNTEER ASSISTANCE (EVA) - is a charity foundation whose goal is to help the indigenous people, the Aetas, who were displaced when Mount Pinatubo erupted.

NAGPAYONG HIGH SCHOOL

ANGELES BAHAY BATA CENTER - is a non-government institution that promotes the welfare of street children in Central Luzon.

COMMUNITY AND FAMILY SERVICES INTERNATIONAL (CFSI)- according to their website, CFSI is a humanitarian organization committed to peace and social development.

BATANG PINANGGA FOUNDATION. - is an organization that assists other caring communities that aims to shelter and provide much better life conditions to the street children in Cebu.

SHIPHRAH BAHAY PAANAKAN / THE LITTLE CHILDREN’S HOME - Shiphrah Bahay Paanakan is a birthing home to underprivileged pregnant women and The Little Children's Home is an organization that helps abandoned, orphaned or neglected child find a foster family through legal adoption.

VIRLANIE FOUNDATION - founded by Dominique Lemay, a French national, this non-profit and non-government foundation that targets the welfare of street children in Manila.

BARANGAY MERVILLE

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