Corporate Seal
CYDF USA, INC, a California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation (A Public Charity Organization);  
founded on May 3, 2004 by Antonio M. and Rita N. Mendoza; together with some Calantas Folks;
incorporated in the State of California on April 29, 2008; has been finally granted (Nov. 18, 2008)
a 501.c3 Tax Exempt-Status by the IRS; effective on the date of its incorporation with the following
purposes:
  1. To form a crusade against abject poverty across the globe, particularly in the Philippine rural
    areas through Community-Based Scholarship Project Model
  2. To help needy orphans in the Philippines and other developing countries, by providing
    educational opportunities and mentorship support.

Specifically:
  1. To provide grants to overseas scholarship programs, including the Community Youth Leadership
    and Empowerment Program of the Calantas Young Dreamers Foundation, Inc. in the Philippines,
    such as:
    a. Community-Based Scholarship Project Model, for the indigent but deserving talented
        youths (including Aetas) designed to help them help themselves so they can help incoming
        scholars leading to breaking their cycle of poverty.
    b. Leadership Training (On Social Responsibility & SWREM Theory In Action)
    c. Research* and Development Projects
    d. Literacy (3 R's) Enhancement & Computer-Video Literacy Projects for "high-risk" youths
Mission of CYDF USA, Inc.
*CLICK this LINK for Sample Research Work of CYDF Scholars, i.e. Cherry Ann on "OUTWITTING THE BIG BUZZ"
Research Work is a significant challenge that CYDF Scholars are encouraged to pursue in relation to their chosen careers
as the result of their work can be integrated, if it is feasible with economic viability and value, into being adopted by the
Foundation and to tap it for developing a project in the community to generate productivity and local employment,
thus resulting into helping to address abject poverty in the rural areas where scholars live and come from.