| One day, a young person asked me to explain the mission of the Foundation on how the Scholarship Project Model to empower indigent but deserving talented youths is implemented. After explaining the content and process on how the Scholarship Project Model is designed, he quipped to say, "So, the scholar has to pay back". Then, I remember a book I bought from Barnes and Nobles entitled "Pay It Forward" (Hyde, 1999) that talks about a topic very much in line with the Mission Statement of the Calantas Young Dreamers Foundation, Inc. (CYDFI Philippines), that is: |
poverty found in Philippine rural areas like Bo. Calantas and Nabuclod Aeta Community through a Scholarship Project Model, with a methodology called "SWREM Theory In Action" that is designed to help them help themselves so they can help incoming scholars leading to breaking their cycle of poverty as they learn to become socially responsible with implications, not only to personal but community growth and development; and, to promote replication advocacy of said Model in other communities beginning with Benedicto, another barrio in Floridablanca, Pampanga".
following manner:
assignment: come up with a plan to change the world for the better, and do it. Twelve-year old Trevor McKinney began by doing something good for three people. But instead of paying him back, he asked them "to pay it forward" by doing a favor for three more people, who in turn would help three others, and so on, each act a link in a chain of human kindness".
Mission Statement of the Foundation is the concept of "ripple effect" in which they only differ on how it is presented and implemented. Their difference is in the methodology! For the Calantas Young Dreamers Foundation, Inc. (CYDFI Philippines), its methodology is called "Spiral With Ripple Effect Motion" (a.k.a., SWREM Theory In Action); whereas the book, it is "pay-it-forward" itself.
is simple, doable and excruciatingly challenging but rewarding and fulfilling because if you are in search for a deeper meaning in life, this is a good recipe! This can be your own crusade in search for a deeper meaning in life where you don't expect anything in return but to feel good about knowing that you participate in the process of helping to make a |
| SWREM Theory In Action: A Methodology On Community-Based Scholarship Project Model And Pay-It-Back VS Pay-It-Forward Model |
responsible manner, based on the Principles of SWREM Theory In Action.
action, you are an other-centered person. The Calantas Young Dreamers Foundation, Inc. believes in this methodology and has legally translated and declared to put into action the "ripple effect" concept into reality by using it as the core methodology of its operation to accomplish its mission of "empowering indigent but deserving talented youths empower themselves so they can empower others..." and addresses this by creating a theory called "SWREM Theory In Action". SWREM Theory, as a guiding principle in the operation of the Foundation, is implemented on a longitudinal basis with a continuous loop characteristic. All it takes to implement this visionary situation is to dip in and put in our Penny of Goodness to share it with those who need it most. Remember, growth begins with a penny of goodness! When each of us recognizes the power of numbers bundled together in magnanimity, it can move on and change the world for the better. This kind of approach is not expecting anything in return but to feel good about knowing that you empower others to empower themselves. This is about being and having an "other-centered attitude" to help make a difference in the life of others, coupled with an unconditional intent to really want to help make a difference in the life of "indigent but deserving talented youths" through the Scholarship Project Model espoused by the Calantas Young Dreamers Foundation, Inc. This is where the Mission of the Foundation will be challenged for it will take a lot of maximizing limited resources to make it happen by "empowering indigent but deserving talented youths help them, help themselves, so they can help incoming scholars leading to breaking their cycle of poverty as they learn to become socially responsible". The CYDFI Founders believe that the success of the Foundation to become a self-sustainable non-profit entity is predictable due to the SWREM characteristic of the methodology for which the book nicely puts it, "Pay It Forward". Thanks to the author of the book, and so next time I will encounter a young person again with the same question, I will simply tell him/her that: "CYDFI Scholars don't pay back, they only pay forward". SWREM Theory In Action is the key methodology towards predictability of self-sustainability of the Calantas Young Dreamers Foundation, Inc. to effect community growth and development in Philippine rural areas like Calantas, Nabuclod and Benedicto, to name a few... for a start! . ..The CYDFI Founder |
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