Presentation I gave during the Singapore Math Learning Festival of the Galileo Enrichment Learning Center last October 8, 2011 at the AIM Conference Center.
4. Why am I here?
• Partly it is because of Steve Jobs
“Stay Hungry,
• His
Stay Foolish”
statement (which was actually from The
Whole Earth Catalogue)
• Social Media for Social Change
10. The Yellow Boat Project
The Main Ideas
• Community-driven. Crowd-funding. Crowd-
sourcing.
• The project as a ‘virus.’
• You can start your own mini-project, right NOW!
11. "If you think you're too
small to have an impact,
try going to bed with a
mosquito in the room."
- Anita Roddick, Founder of Body Shop
17. In 10 months
Zamboanga Masbate
• 2 yellow boats (motorized; can • 25 yellow boats (1 motorized)
accommodate 20 kids per ride)
• 1 makeshift classroom (4
• 400 school bags with school supplies rooms)
• 3 medical and dental missions
• 300 school bags with school
• 1 plastic bottle light bulbs project supplies
• 2 book donations • 1 medical and dental mission
• 1 organization devoted to • 1 book donation
Zamboanga
• 1 organization devoted to
• 12 college scholars Masbate
• 1 600-meter water pipe
18. SOCIAL MEDIA BUILT OUR BRAND
One Facebook status
Friends’ re-posts
Bloggers started writing about it
One blogger celebrated his blog’s anniversary by doing
another fund-raising drive
TV, Radio, Print started to notice
27. A personal request:
1) Invite us to share our story to other
organizations and help us spread our story
2) Support our dream to help all kids who swim
to school in 12 months (learn more at
http://yellowboat.tumblr.com)
3) Buy a copy of Readers Digest’s October 2011
issue
4) Vote for us on the Liberal Project - #22 at
http://www.fnf.org.ph/theliberalproject/
Like us on
http://www.facebook.com/philippine.funds
28. Thank You!
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