Programs

The Many Faces of the Teacher

The Many Faces of the Teacher is an advocacy campaign aimed to extol the virtues of teaching by providing role models who can inspire excellence. It recognizes leaders who happen to be teachers, examples of true heroes who can be a source of inspiration and knowledge for their fellow teachers and students not only with their achievements but in the way they live their lives and dedicate themselves to the vocation. Together with broad-based media exposure, honorees are recognized during A Tribute to Teachers, the largest gathering of Philippine school administrators and teachers at one event.

How To Be a Highly Effective Teacher

How To Be a Highly Effective Teacher is BBFI’s long running teacher-training seminar series. Aided by a pool of resource speakers and assistance from partner organizations, How To Be A Highly Effective Teacher has maintained its focus on training teachers in specific teaching skills in the core subject areas of basic education. Since 1991, the program has involved over 500 seminars and trained more than 60,000 teachers nationwide.

Tulong sa Paaralan, Tulay sa Kaunlaran (Assistance to Schools, a Bridge to Progress)

Bato Balani’s banner school assistance program, Tulong sa Paaralan, Tulay sa Kaunlaran (TSP-TSK) seeks to provide deserving schools in underserved communities with quality textbooks and other educational materials. Since its implementation in 1993, TSP-TSK has benefited more than 1,200 public schools nationwide, with a total of almost 69 million worth of donations spread across the duration of the program. Some non-governmental and civic organizations similarly concerned with education have also been recipients of donations through the program.

Quality Teacher Magazine

Quality Teacher (QT), a recipient of the Anvil Award for Best Professional Trade Journal from Public Relations Society of the Philippines, is a quarterly magazine specifically made for educators. It aims not just to help teachers develop their professional competencies but also cater to their personal interests. It is distributed nationwide to about 4,000 through the programs of BBFI’s corporate sponsors as well as the various seminars conducted by the foundation.

Active Chess Center for Asia

The Active Chess Center for Asia aims to develop active chess as a spectator sport in the country and at the same time cultivate new talents in the sport. To this end, the center has partnered with the Grand Master Eugenio Torre Chess Institute (GETCI) in organizing the Chess in Schools Program, an initiative to promote chess in Philippine schools through exhibition matches featuring Filipino Chess luminaries as well as interscholastic chess tournaments.

Scholarships and Educational Subsidies

The Bato Balani Foundation also manages scholarship and educational subsidy programs for its corporate partners. In some cases, these involve cash subsidies for scholars’ tuition expenses, although in some cases entire scholarships are given to matriculate at selected schools that have partnered with BBFI. Additionally, BBFI also manages scholarship endowment funds from philanthropic individuals and organizations that wish to remain anonymous.