“The servant leader is servant first… It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead.” https://greenleaf.org
Make servant leaders out of PSHS students.
About
An Endowment Fund that would support various student-led projects, activities, and programs aimed at promoting servant leadership among students of any of the campuses of the PSHS System.
The Endowment is in honor of Dra. Cleofe M. Bacungan whose service to Philippine Science High School is an inspiring story of commitment and dedication, and above all, of servant leadership.
Project
The seed fund is donated by Batch ‘79, made as a gift to the PSHS System in honor of Dra. Cleofe M Bacungan, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of Philippine Science High School in 1964.
The Endowment Fund is kept by the PSHS Foundation and invested by the Foundation along with its other endowment funds. Each year, 80% of the proceeds (investment earnings) will be made available to students of any PSHS System campus, for use in projects or activities that are consistent with the ideals of servant leadership. The remaining 20% of the proceeds will be plowed back to the Fund to hedge against inflation, as well as to ensure growth in the value of the fund.
Donate
Support PSHS Batch 1979 and its 3.5@35 Project by writing a check payable to “The PSHS Foundation” and in the memo make a note “CMBSLEF Project of PSHS'79”. The Foundation will issue a receipt which you can use for tax purposes.
Help make the world a better place …
We cannot thank you directly, but we hope that by helping you help make the world a better place, you will feel our gratitude embedded in that good feeling one gets from being a positive influence in the world.
Get Involved
The young boys and girls who make it to any of the campuses of the PSHS System have the talent and the vast potential to lead and serve in society. To make it to PSHS, they have to be among the best and the brightest in their school, and must pass a test, that would select only a few hundreds from the thousands who apply. In school, they have an advanced curriculum, the best teachers, and such advanced laboratories.
As former students of this system of schools, we hope to contribute to these children’s holistic development – not just their academic minds, but also their values system. We offer to help open their eyes and hearts to the social realities that afflict the country. And most especially, we would like to challenge them to take up leadership positions in society so they can be in a good position to serve - and to serve with honesty, integrity, and respect for those whom they serve.
50@50
Servant Leadership
The Philippine Science High School (PSHS or Pisay) celebrated its 50th Anniversary last September 6, 2014. To commemorate this event, the PSHS Foundation aimed to raise 50 million pesos (and surpassed its target!) to fund the various programs which aim to promote “A Science High School of global standards that nurtures the country’s best and brightest to reach their full potential”.
This Project came to be known as 50@50.
Mechanics : At the start of each school year, the Trustees of the Fund will inquire with the Foundation as to the amount of endowment proceeds (80% of interest income from the previous year) that will be made available to students for the current school year. At the same time, a “call for requests for funding” will be made in all PSHS campuses to encourage students to think of projects and activities that may need funding.
Projects and activities to be funded must satisfy the following criteria:
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The project or activity must have been approved and endorsed by the School.
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The project or activity must directly involve one or more students who are currently enrolled in any campus of the PSHS System.
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The project or activity must be aligned with the ideals of “servant leadership” and ideally would involve students in some form of community engagement.
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It must be feasible to complete the activity within the academic year.
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To encourage maximum benefit to as many students as possible, the financial support given to each project or activity must be at most 20% of the funds available for a given year. This rule may be relaxed during the first 3 years of the implementation of the project.
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In case an activity costs more than the stipulated maximum, the source(s) for the remaining balance - would allow the project to be completed - must have been identified prior to approval. This is to avoid the approval of partially-funded projects that do not get implemented within the given year.
Download the application form from (please copy and paste directly on your browser) :
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3ZaES80XpLwenJJNW1XUTd3bDg/view?usp=sharing
The Trustees may decide to use additional criteria, for as long as these do not negate the above criteria.
A faculty member at a PSHS campus must be identified as the adult supervisor of each approved project. At the end of the project or activity, the students must make a proper accounting of the project --- with the proper receipts and invoices, signed by the supervisor. Failure to comply with this post-activity requirement would bar the students and the supervisor from applying for support from the Fund for future projects.
From time to time, the Trustees of the Fund may see the need to do press-releases about the projects. In such cases, it will be presumed that each student group that have benefited from the Fund would allow themselves and their projects to be featured in write-ups and press-releases.
“Dr. Cleofe M. Bacungan†’s name is synonymous with the Philippine Science High School, serving it with passion for 35 years. She passed away recently on 20 April 2014. All the major breakthroughs and milestones of the PSHS System happened during her stewardship, as Director of PSHS, and later as President of the PSHS Foundation until 2002.
She was a tireless, tenacious, unrelenting, and most persevering academic leader, focused on making PSHS the premier high school in the Philippines, with an emphasis on Mathematics and Science.
For all her achievement, she was a quiet, selfless, unassuming “little lady that moved mountains”. Her life story was a life of dedication and commitment to the Filipino youth who need a special academic curriculum and lots of creative space, so they can reach their full potential in Science and Mathematics.
“Servant leadership is a philosophy and set of practices that enriches the lives of individuals, builds better organizations and ultimately creates a more just and caring world. “The servant-leader is servant first… It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead.” https://greenleaf.org
In the special case of Dra. Bacungan†, she did not attract attention to herself, but to the great strides that her School took. She did not long for accolades nor awards, as she found fulfilment in the various achievements of the young boys and girls whom she has ‘served’ in High School.
She was foremost a servant, and the leadership role she took was essentially her most effective way to serve better.
Cleofe Bacungan