Bayanihan Foundation Worldwide
Filipinos abroad helping Filipinos at home
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
In 2007, the foundation’s President Dale Asis, went on a yearlong fellowship from the Chicago Community Trust, and traveled to his mother’s native village in Bicol, Philippines, where he was confronted by the poverty of his own distant relatives. Many of them literally wanted to travel inside his luggage and join him back in Chicago. At that time, he was working as the Executive Director of the Coalition of African, Arab, Asian, European and Latino Immigrants of Illinois (CAAAELII), one the largest immigrant-led coalitions in the country. Dale was advocating for tens of thousands of immigrants and refugees but their numbers kept increasing exponentially every year. Dale felt that he was bailing water out of a flooded basement and he was too exhausted to even look around to plug the “hole”. Dale’s visit to his mother’s village was a turning point in his life. He realized that the “hole” was the abject poverty of his own relatives and millions of workers in many migrant-sending countries
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Local Sustainable Partnerships
The Bayanihan Foundation partners with local, nongovernmental organizations in the Philippines to fund sustainable, long-term projects in education, health, environment, housing and peace building programs.
NEXTGEN Travel Fellowship
NEXTGEN Travel fellowship designed as an immersion trip for young Filipino Americans. The program promotes diaspora philanthropy; participants know more about Filipino culture; learn about the foundation’s sustainable projects; connect and develop the participant’s potential sustainable projects; and connect with relatives and the participant’s heritage.
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 paid participants on field trips
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
NEXTGEN Travel Fellowship
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of books distributed
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Related Program
Local Sustainable Partnerships
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of computer literacy/skills/technology courses conducted
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Local Sustainable Partnerships
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of clients participating in educational programs
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Local Sustainable Partnerships
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of people within the organization's service area accessing food aid
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Local Sustainable Partnerships
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of families who report they are supported in utilizing natural supports in their communities (e.g., family, friends, neighbors, churches, colleges, recreational services)
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
NEXTGEN Travel Fellowship
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of children who have a sense of their own feelings and an ability to express empathy for others
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
NEXTGEN Travel Fellowship
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of youth who consider the implications of their actions on others, their community, and the environment
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
NEXTGEN Travel Fellowship
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
The Bayanihan Foundation's long term goals are:
1) PROMOTE NEXTGEN youth leadership development
2) INCREASE philanthropy especially among young Filipino Americans locally and globally
3) ADVOCATE for other social issues affecting Filipinos in the US and abroad through strategic partnerships and linkage agreements
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Filipinos abroad are fragmented into tens of thousands of groups and hometown associations. Chicago alone has over 250 associations for a local population of 93,000 Filipinos. Many do not talk about the country’s colonial past and the cultural obstacles confronting them such as ‘crab mentality’, fragmentation, distrust and the intense competition among one another. The Bayanihan Foundation acknowledges these challenges and would like to anchor its work in these traditional values to promote NEXTGEN youth leadership development, organizing and advocacy:
• ‘Tiwala’ (trust)
• ‘Kabalikat’ (interdependence, sharing responsibilities)
• ‘Pagkakaisa’ (mutuality, helping each other)
• ‘Tradisyon’ (traditional values of helping ‘bayanihan’)
Three Action Steps:
1. Educate and build leadership of 30 NEXTGEN youth leaders that will help change legislation,
improve lives and create systemic change that will eventually decrease poverty and outmigration
2. Promote Community Power Giving Circle, encouraging integration among NEXTGEN youth and Filipinos abroad to uphold the traditions of both the Filipino culture and its host country. The concept of integration is opposite to assimilation where immigrants discard its traditional values and adopt solely the language and values of its host country
3. Partner and advocate with four Filipino groups and create linkages with them to help advocate for additional legislation that will help improve lives and decrease outmigration.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
The Bayanihan Foundation has competent and capable staff and board leaders to tackle the challenges the foundation faces. Dale Asis co-founded two immigrant and ethnic alliances: Coalition of African, Arab, Asian, European, and Latino Immigrants of Illinois (CAAAELII); and the United Congress of Community and Religious Organizations (UCCRO). He received a Master’s degree in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago and is completing his PhD studies in Social Work at Loyola University Chicago. He also helped build a network of over 120 diaspora philanthropic organizations in the Chicago area with the Chicago Global Donors Network. In 2017, Dale is currently the Financial Director at the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO), a local environmental justice organization in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
So far, the Bayanihan Foundation has achieved the following progress:
1) Disbursed thousands of dollars in philanthropic projects for the last seven years.
2) Developed 12 meaningful partnerships over the last seven years
3) Developed 1,200 database of diaspora donors
4) Developed 12 new Filipino youth leaders as part of NEXTGEN
5) Startup of Community Giving Circle stalled in 2017
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Bayanihan Foundation Worldwide
Board of directorsas of 06/13/2020
Mr. Dale Asis
Bayanihan Foundation Worldwide
Term: 2010 - 2014
Ted Kirpach
Maria Ferrera
James Castillo
Marc Butiong
Vincent Saavedra
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? No -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? No -
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? Yes -
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
Organizational demographics
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Equity strategies
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- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
- We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We disaggregate data by demographics, including race, in every policy and program measured.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
- We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We measure and then disaggregate job satisfaction and retention data by race, function, level, and/or team.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.