Presentation I gave during the Singapore Math Learning Festival of the Galileo Enrichment Learning Center last October 8, 2011 at the AIM Conference Center.

1. “eighty percent
of success is
showing up.”
—Woody Allen

2. “There are no
accidents in
life.”
— Master Oogway (from the movie “Kung Fu Panda”)

3. Why am I here?

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

6. “The countries that
out-teach us today
will out-compete us
tomorrow.”
- Pres. Barack Obama

7. “Unless you are
AWESOME, you will
be outsourced…”
- Auren Hoffman, Founder & CEO,
Rapleaf

8. THE YELLOW BOAT PROJECT
Jay Jaboneta
Fire Starter, Philippine Funds for Little Kids

9. IT IS NOW SO EASY TO BE CONNECTED…

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

12. Show video of the swimming kids in
Masbate

13. It all started in October 2010 with a single
conversation…
ONE goal:
Build a boat.

14. The result in 5
months…

15. 1 yellow boat…
200 school bags with school supplies
1 medical and dental mission
1 organization devoted to Layag-Layag

16. The result in 10
months…

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

19. How to get
there?

20. • THINK BIG
• FIND A FEW
SOULMATES
• DESIGN
DIFFERENT

21. “You have the chance to make the world a better
place as a result of what you do.”

22. Drop a stone in a
bucket and the
ripples radiate
out.

26. Will you help
us infect more
people?!?

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!
If you want this presentation…
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