The JCAP Fund at the Ayala Foundation

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The JCAP Fund at theAyala Foundation

• By
• Josefina Jayme Card
• Co-Founder, JCAP Fund
• (www.jcapscholars.org)

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Meeting a Need

• The Need Out of every 100 students who enter
  grade school in the Philippines
• 63 finish elementary school
• 33 finish high school
• 3 graduate from college
• (from the GiL_at_S brochure)
• The Goal To increase that last statistic and in
  so doing
• Decrease the gap between rich and poor in the
  Philippines
• Develop more fully our human capital assets

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What is JCAP?

• Jayme-Card-Ayala-Pathways A program to sponsor
  the college tuition and expenses of students who
  graduate from a Philippine public high school in
  the top 10 of their class
• JCAP Scholars can attend any Philippine college
  of their choice that accepts them using standard
  admission procedures

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The JCAP Partnership
Jayme-Card Families Help wih fundraising

• Ayala Foundation Steward of the monies raised,
  lending integrity, transparency, and credibility
  to the effort
• Ayala Family of Companies Will provide summer
  internships between junior and senior college
  years

PATHWAYS

• Housed at the Ateneo funded via a grant
  from the Ford Fdtn
• Selects and mentors scholars from high school
  through college

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Progress Report

• JCAPs Founding 8 Months ago
• JCAP was founded in January of this year at a
  ceremony at the Ayala Foundation, Manila
• JCAPs First Batch of Scholars
• The following June 2006 nine JCAP scholars
  started college in Metro Manila, Baguio, and
  Cotabato

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Synergy

• The Ayala Foundation and GiL_at_S
• committed to bettering the infrastructure of
  Philippine public high schools via Internet
  access
• The Ayala Foundation and JCAP
• seek to offer college opportunities to the
  brightest of these Philippine public high school
  graduates who might otherwise not be able to get
  a college education

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More Synergy A Dream

• That someday a Gawad Kalinga resident who avails
  himself or herself of Internet capabilities in
  his or her Philippine public high school funded
  by GiL_at_S will receive a JCAP college scholarship,
  graduate college with honors from a top
  Philippine college, and go on to become a great
  national leader

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Why Should You Help JCAP?

• Do you believe
• in helping to decrease the gap between rich and
  poor in our beloved native land?
• that higher education can help lower this gap?
• in helping those who have shown through their
  performance in high school that they are talented
  and motivated?
• Your dollar will go a long way
• 1,200 buys one full year of tuition and expenses
• Value-addeds of mentoring and job opportunities

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The JCAP Golden Circle

• 5,000 or PhP 250,000 will sponsor one scholar
  for his or her entire college career
• Benefits
• Named scholarship
• Link to your homepage from JCAP site, if desired

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How Can You Help JCAP?

• Its Easy! Donation Forms in Handout Packet or
  from Ayala Foundation Booth
• USA or Philippine Pesos (PhP)
• Donation in any amount or for Golden Circle
• One time or hulugan
• Online at www.jcapscholars.org (credit card) or
  mail (check payable to Ayala Foundation)
• Tax-deductible acknowledgement letter from Ayala
  Foundation USA within one week

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Questions?Interested in Helping JCAP?

• Visit www.jcapscholars.org or
• Contact
• JJ Card
• jjcard_at_socio.com
• 650-949-3282 ext 211 (work)
• 650-948-3504 (home)
• 650-279-5777 (cell)