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Overview
Building Baja’s Future (BBF) is a nonprofit organization based in Baja California Sur, Mexico. BBF is a world-class organization committed to helping educate bright, ambitious teenagers determined to overcome limited opportunities to reach their full potential as individuals and become community leaders. BBF is also a nonprofit corporation incorporated in California. These designations allow BBF to grow through the support of its friends and supporters.
BBF awards deserving young men and women scholarships for their college education. With BBF, young scholars also gain access to well-rounded programs where their talents are recognized, nurtured, and strengthened.
BBF believes that by providing opportunities through education, it helps improve the quality of life of its students. BBF’s work ultimately helps students understand and apply the enlightening and life-changing possibilities of higher education.
Does more than provide college scholarship aid to economically-challenged students. BBF also work to identify areas of life and learning that some of its scholars missed out on at home or at school.
Our History
The seed for BBF was planted in 2006. At that time, Cecilia Portilla, and her husband, Jacinto Avalos, along with two friends, began offering college scholarships to a few well-deserving Los Cabos college students. With the promise these young students demonstrated, a decision was made to quickly formalize the effort. By 2008, more than 30 young scholars had received financial help for college.
BBF was incorporated in early 2012 and began offering specialized programming to scholars in areas that go beyond financial support. Next, BBF expanded its offerings to help as many young college-aged men and women as possible. In fact, the number of BBF scholars has grown exponentially since 2008.
The BBF Tree of Life
In eight critical areas, what we call the BBF Tree of Life, our students receive the support and assistance they need to grow into whole and conscientious individuals.
Current Technology
Economic Assistance
Artistic Expression
Emotional Help
Health Assistance and Physical Activity
Cultural Life
Psychological Help
Counseling and therapy is available for our students when needed. This time of life brings with it many challenges. Some emanate from home and family, sometimes from school. Whether problems are rooted in the present or the past, we support and help our scholars so that they may thrive.
Social Life
Logo and its Story
Leave Your Mark on Baja. Lend These Students a Hand!
It is our hope and our belief that the BBF logo and slogan communicate both an expression of need and a clear path forward.
Think of the hand in our logo as a creative representation of both our past – our DNA – and our future: what we will pass on.
The style of our logo recalls our Mexican heritage and the cave paintings from pre-historic Baja California. But it’s also a modern artistic interpretation that represents this moment – and the pressing needs of our scholars, sponsors, and donors.
Will you leave your mark on Baja? Will you lend these students a hand?
