FULL BASKET BELIZE
Supporting Students and Communities in Belize
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
A high school education in Belize is not free. It costs approximately US$800 per year to educate each student. This is a formidable financial barrier to many Belizean families whose typical monthly income is US$800 or less. Full Basket Belize (FBB) provides annual scholarships of US$500 to deserving students to help them meet these expenses. In a family with boys and girls of school age, females are often denied the chance to attend high school due to family monetary constraints. When girls are educated, they marry later, have fewer children, and their families are healthier. Educated females have the ability to generate more income. That is why FBB gives approximately 75% of its scholarships to females because we know that a lack of education severely limits a girl's future and serves to perpetuate the cycle of poverty so prevalent in Belize. We also support small grants for community projects in education, health, environment, youth leadership, and community economic development.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Scholarships
Full Basket Belize provides scholarships to deserving secondary school students in Belize.
Community Project Grants
Full Basket Belize provides small community project grants for environmental, education, health, youth leadership development, and grassroots economic development in Belize.
Where we work
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of scholarship applications received
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adolescents
Related Program
Scholarships
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Beginning in school year 2020-21 we allowed only 3 rather than 5 applications/school, reducing total # of apps.
Number of scholarships awarded
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adolescents
Related Program
Scholarships
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of community project grant applications received
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Economically disadvantaged people
Related Program
Community Project Grants
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of community project grants awarded
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Economically disadvantaged people
Related Program
Community Project Grants
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Total dollar amount of scholarship awarded
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Related Program
Scholarships
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of high school seniors who graduate from high school on time
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
At-risk youth, Economically disadvantaged people
Related Program
Scholarships
Type of Metric
Context - describing the issue we work on
Direction of Success
Increasing
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Our scholarships help to break the cycle of poverty, especially for deserving, needy high school students.
Our community project grants help Belizeans help themselves to improve their lives and that of their families and communities.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
For our scholarship program, we solicit the help of schools around the nation of Belize to identify their most deserving and needy students for annual scholarship support.
For our community grant program, we solicit applications from various communities and non-governmental groups throughout the country in an effort to find creative and deserving projects that benefit Belizeans in their communities and environs. We focus on the areas of education, health, environment, youth and community economic development.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We have a dedicated board of directors and group of volunteers, all of whom have lived, worked, or visited Belize and know the conditions that the Belizeans face in their everyday lives. These folks volunteer countless hours with no pay to ensure that our scholarship and community grant programs are fair, honest, and wide-reaching.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Since 2005 we have awarded 460 scholarships worth and average of $500 each and more than 88 community project grants worth an average of $1000 each.
While our fundraising amounts are small, we are gradually increasing our outreach to locate additional funding sources which will enable us to award more scholarships and project grants in the future.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback, We ask the people who gave us feedback how well they think we responded
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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FULL BASKET BELIZE
Board of directorsas of 01/30/2024
Mr. Ron Herring
Jo Link
Full Basket Belize
Jeffrey Cleveland
Full Basket Belize
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Not applicable -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Not applicable -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No