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 youth 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:
    "to empower indigent but deserving talented youths living in abject poverty found in
    Philippine rural areas like Bo. Calantas and Nabuclod Aeta Community located in
    Floridablanca, Pampanga through a Scholarship Program 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.
    (Barrio Benedicto is formerly known as Barrio Stable)".

    Whereas, the "Pay-It-Forward" book describes its methodology in the following manner:
    "It all started with the social studies teacher's extra-credit 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".

    The common theme expressed between the Pay It Forward" book and the 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. CYDFI Philippines
    has adopted SWREM Theory In Action as its methodology since its establishment in August 2000
    until its full legal registration at the Securities and Exchange Commission in the Philippines in
    August 2002 with a website address at www.cydf821philippines.com  and a Pay It Forward
    Foundation is established with a website address at www.PayItForwardFoundation.org

    It may sound unrealistic, ideal and visionary but "SWREM" as a concept 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 make a difference in the life of youth to effect change for
    the better in a socially responsible manner, based on the Principles of SWREM Theory In Action.

    In a nutshell, when you believe in this methodology and translate it into 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 Program 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
    Philippines rural areas like Calantas, Nabuclod and Benedicto, to name a few... for a start!
                                                              ...The CYDFI Founder
SWREM Theory In Action: A Methodology On
Community-Based Scholarship Project Model
And Pay-It-Back VS Pay-It-Forward Model