Build A School Foundation Inc.
Build a School – Leave a Legacy
Mission
Build 100 schools globally by the year 2025. Provide educational opportunities for poor children around the world by funding classroom constructions, school-related infrastructures, teaching and learning equipment, “need-based” scholarships and basic healthcare needs. Award Compassionate scholarships to needed college students in America and abroad.
Notes from the nonprofit
As former “Boat People” refugees from the Vietnam war, in everything we do, we believe in 2nd chance. We believe in giving differently. The way we give 2nd chance is by providing education to underserved children, creating jobs for forgotten parents, and empowering ownership to villagers. We just happen to build 100 schools. Want to help us build a school and leave a legacy?
Ruling year
2016
Founder CEO President
DTM Jimmy Thai
Main address
PO Box 720781
San Diego, CA 92172 USA
Formerly known as
BaSF
EIN
81-2295849
NTEE code
International Development, Relief Services (Q30)
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Communication
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Build 200 schools globally by the year 2027. As of 2022, we've built 114 schools, bridges, and educational projects in Vietnam, Philippines, Cambodia, Kenya, India, and Laos.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Vision100 - Build 100 Schools Globally by 2025
Mission Statement: Provide educational opportunities for poor children of the world by funding classroom constructions, school-related infrastructures, teaching and learning equipment, “need-based” scholarships and basic healthcare needs. Award Compassionate scholarships to needed college students in America and abroad.
Strategy: Foster collaborations and participations among all active stakeholders –
• Local government to provide free land and local resources
• Local enterprises to provide funding through their Corporate Social Responsibility budget
• In-country and overseas philanthropists, who value education as a solution to eradicate poverty and social inequality, to provide donations through educational and healthy-lifestyle fund-raising activities
• Leadership Foundation Academy and its graduates, who embrace the “Passion Meets Compassion” leadership development philosophy, to donate teaching proceeds and social-entrepreneurial resources for the mission.
• 50%-50% cost share
Vision200 - Build 200 schools globally by 2027
Since we crushed our Vision100 (built 100 schools globally by 2025) in May 2022, we set the next big goal of 100 more schools in 5 years.
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of children who have the skills necessary to maintain personal health
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Related Program
Vision100 - Build 100 Schools Globally by 2025
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of children who have the ability to understand and comprehend communication
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Related Program
Vision100 - Build 100 Schools Globally by 2025
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of students who demonstrate writing ability
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Related Program
Vision100 - Build 100 Schools Globally by 2025
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
* Funded the building of 114 schools, bridges, scholarships, and educational projects in poverty stricken villages of America, Vietnam, Philippines, Cambodia, Kenya, India, and Laos in the last 7 years.
* Awarded 15 Compassionate Scholarships to USA and Vietnam college students.
* 5 school sites of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Kenya are in discussion
* Future school sites: Laos, Thailand, Nepal, and Myanmar.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Foster collaborations and participations among all active stakeholders –
• Local government to provide free land and local resources
• Local enterprises to provide funding through their Corporate Social Responsibility budget
• In-country and overseas philanthropists, who value education as a solution to eradicate poverty and social inequality, to provide donations through educational and healthy-lifestyle fund-raising activities
• Leadership Foundation Academy and its graduates, who embrace the “Passion Meets Compassion” leadership development philosophy, to donate teaching proceeds and social-entrepreneurial resources for the mission.
• Optimum cost share of 50% from locals and 50% by donors/Foundation
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
* Funded the building of 114 schools, bridges, scholarships, and educational projects in poverty stricken villages of America, Vietnam, Philippines, Cambodia, Kenya, India, and Laos in the last 7 years.
* Awarded 15 Compassionate Scholarships to USA and Vietnam college students.
* 5 school sites of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Kenya are in discussion
* Future school sites: Laos, Thailand, Nepal, and Myanmar.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Vision100 completed by May 2022.
Vision200 is ongoing and we will build 200 schools globally by 2027.
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 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 take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response
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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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Build A School Foundation Inc.
Board of directorsas of 01/11/2023
DTM Jimmy Thai
Leadership Foundation Academy
Term: 2020 - 2024
Jimmy Thai
LFA Solutions Inc
Lily Thai
LT Financial Services
Mary Pastore
QCOM
Hanh Nguyen
CPA
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