How do we participate?
July 23rd, 2008Hi, Brods and Sis
How do we participate in Alpha Phi Omega’s The Dr. Librado I. Ureta Center global gift-giving program?
Since we launched APO’s The Dr. Ureta Center on March 18, 2008, we have received pledges and paid donations halfway toward our PhP10 Million goal. Just today, Brod Arnold Mapoy pledged US$1,000 toward the cause. The message thread below contains other pledges made through our electronic mailing list services.
We accept donations in kind. For example, Our APO-PCSO lawyers from Arevalo, de Leon, Gonong, Gonzales, Marinas, Paredes, and Paredes law offices pledged a 1,000-square-meter lot in Antipolo City. The piece of land is valued at One Million Pesos. Brod Dr. Paul Villafuerte also pledged two (2) hectares of land out of his 14 hectares in the town of Mercedes near Daet, Camarines Norte.
Monetary donation will be the life blood of The Center. We wish to make it flow to make our APO building a reality by March 2, 2010, and to have it flowing to sustain the programs of APO-Philippines to make Alpha Phi Omega a viable option in college for graduating high school students and to train college men and women to be leaders, friends, and service people, so the Philippines may become a nation of fully participating citizens responsible for a greater country and a better world.
In a tiered program of global gift-giving, we can accomplish our goal of Ten Million Pesos by as few as 40 participants to no more than 10,000 brods and sis, who are only about 20 percent of our Filipino APO membership. Please see the chart below. Please note the Philippine Peso is the constant currency for our barometer.
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Highlighted in red is the PhP50,000 (US$1,250) level to illustrate two hundred donors can put us over the top.
We are putting out a full list of pledges and paid donations before the APO-ACNA convention in late August-early September. It is the same deadline we have to unveil the transparent online donation and reporting process at www.ureta.org.
For now, please note a partial list of PhP50K or above donations:
PAID DONATIONS:
PhP 50,840 — Nancy Ruth C. Ureta, director, The Dr. Ureta Foundation
50,000 — Brod Ben Castro, APO-Rho, director, The Dr. Ureta Foundation
50,000 — Sis Susan de Ono-Laset, APO-Alpha Sigma
50,000 — Grace A. Midem (through The Dr. Ureta Foundation)
50,000 — Brod Dony Rondilla, APO-Delta (through The Dr. Ureta Foundation)
PLEDGES TO BE MADE GOOD ON OR BEFORE MARCH 2, 2010:
PhP1,000,000 — Land donation of Arevalo, de Leon, Gonong, Gonzales, Marinas, Paredes, and Paredes Law Offices
250,000 — Anonymous APO Sis (texted)
250,000 — APO-Australia (verbal pledge)
250,000 — Brod Mel S Gonzales Jr, APO-Eta, president, The Dr. Librado I. Ureta Foundation
100,000 — APO-Midwest (Chicago) in care of Sis Nora Cortez-Quibal (please read her message below)
50,000 — Brod Mel V. Adriano, APO-Eta, national president, APO-Philippines
50,000 — Brod Ed del Rosario, APO-Gamma Epsilon
50,000 — Brod Elmer DeLoyola, APO-Gamma Chi
50,000 — Brod Bong Estrada, APO-Upsilon, treasurer, The Dr. Ureta Foundation
50,000 — Brod Butch Garcia, APO-Alpha Beta
50,000 — Brod Rico Javier, APO-Alpha Eta
50,000 — Brod Richard Lacson, APO-Iota, secretary, The Dr. Ureta Foundation
50,000 — Brod Art Libot, APO-Delta
50,000 — Brod Mike Lim, APO-Zeta Iota
50,000 — Sis Luvie Lumang, APO-Theta
50,000 — Brod Tony Mago, APO-Alpha Eta
50,000 — Brod Emmet Penson, APO-Eta
50,000 — Brod Atty. Rudy Salazar, APO-Iota
50,000 — Brod Jimmy Tiu, APO-Alpha Gamma
50,000 — Sis Dr. Belle Tumbokon, APO-Psi, director, The Dr. Ureta Foundation
50,000 — Brod Dr. Paul Villafuerte (plus two [2] hectares of land in Bicol)
The above partial list — close to P3 Million in pledges and paid donations — includes collective effort. For example, APO-Central Valley of California-AA accounts for almost PhP1 Million donation (Brods Ben Castro, Elmer DeLoyola, Bong Estrada, Butch Garcia, Mel S Gonzales Jr, Rico Javier, Art Libot, Tony Mago, and Dr. Paul Villafuerte, Sis Susan de Ono-Laset and Dr. Belle Tumbokon, and my wife, Grace A. Midem). Sis Nora Cortez-Quibal initiated a drive and received PhP100,000 worth of pledges from brods and sis of APO-AA-Midwest (Chicago).
Not included is another example of individual contribution meeting a collective goal. In May this year, I visited with brods and sis in Detroit MI and Windsor ON, and the fledgling APO-AA-Michigan-Windsor achieved PhP50,000 in pledges and paid donations during Brod President Cesar Frias’s birthday party. As regards APOMilano, we do not have the individual names of donors for the initial PhP15,000 from our brods and sis on the Italian peninsula.
Please note the minimum monetary donation is PhP1,000 or US$25. At this amount, it will take 10,000 of us to make our PhP10 Million goal.
It will take no more than 20 percent of our members to meet our initial goal. Our ultimate goal, however, is to make an institution that secures every cent of our donations. The Center plans to make gift-giving globally available to everyone by using the Internet.
As part of our road campaign, we visit with you to make an appeal on behalf of The Center. We also accept check donations in U.S. funds payable to ALPHA PHI OMEGA INC. THE DR. LIBRADO I. URETA CENTER (no hyphens, no slashes, please) and mailed to:
Alpha Phi Omega’s The Dr. Librado I. Ureta Center
3915 Holdrege Way
Stockton CA 95206-6428
In the Philippines, until our bank is fully set up (we are working to secure online access and report), please send checks donations in Philippine funds payable to ALPHA PHI OMEGA INC. THE DR. LIBRADO I. URETA CENTER (no hyphen, no slashes, please) and mailed to:
Alpha Phi Omega’s The Dr. Librado I. Ureta Center
17 Calumpit Street, Project 7
Quezon City, Metropolitan Manila
Sis Maybelle Raquel, The Center’s local coordinator, will make the deposits on our behalf.
Thanks for your interest in APO’s The Dr. Ureta Center global gift-giving program. Please be one of the 10K to achieve PhP10M by 2010. Thanks again and again for all you do.
True to Alpha Phi Omega, may we always be,
Brod Mel S Gonzales Jr
APO-RP Eta Zodiac 1973D 04971 Life Member
APO-USA Gamma Beta 1984 792 182567