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Our mission is to be enriched in helping build a stronger and better educated community, by providing scholarships to students who have earned through achievements and envision their participation in higher education.
2022 Scholarship Award Night
Thank you to everyone that joined our Scholarship Award night. We awarded Nine graduating high school students. Each awarded $1,000 in scholarships by the Bill de la Fuente Scholarship Foundation on June 15th, 2022. On this sixth annual awards night, the foundation’s leaders hosted a dinner, guest speakers, and a raffle before presenting the award winners with their prizes. These scholarships were all donations from our North County small businesses, friends and family.
Bill said, "Everyone wins in this endeavor, our local Small businesses become part of the solution in building an educated community. Students win because they not only receive funding but they also know they are being supported by the same community from which they came from. Students and Sponsors actually meet and know they are all one, interdependent community."
Our Small business sponsors are no strangers to challenges and know what it takes to get things accomplished. It is a true effort to say, "Let me give back and make a difference in the life of someone else." We do not raise funds from corporations or grants. It is important to us that it comes from these small business owners who want to make a difference and help their local communities.”
Each of the scholarship recipients are from high schools in Escondido, Oceanside, Vista, Carlsbad, Fallbrook and San Marcos and completed the AVID or Migrant Education curriculum, a set of classes dedicated to college preparedness. AVID stands for Advancement Via Individual Determination https://www.avid.org/
These speakers honored the scholarship recipients and offered their own stories and experiences as motivation. One such speaker was ESL Matriculation coordinator Carmelino Cruz, Who spoke to both the students as well as the parents on the dynamics of continued Education for both students and parents as well as the challenges that many students from low-income immigrant families face.
The Keynote speaker, Vista Schoolboard President, Cipriano Vargas was himself a Scholarship recipient almost 20 years ago. His eloquent and motivational presentation inspired everyone present, his topic being the Evolution of Education.
The funds awarded to these students will help them pay for the costly tuitions that Universities demand. It was out of this necessity that the Bill de la Fuente Scholarship foundation was formally established in 2017. Prior to the foundations formation, there was a very similar organization called the Comerciantes Latinos Asociados which was headed by Bill de la Fuente himself until his retirement in 2015. It was his retirement that inspired Claudia I. Tapia to create this new foundation in his honor and to continue his vision.
"Mr. Bill de la Fuente has been a personal mentor to me for many years,” said Tapia. “I think that one of the things that I really saw in him and his leadership was that he’s always had much integrity in what he represented, how he did it, and why. He was never someone who was swayed or influenced by finances or titles or any other source of vanity. He was always honest and truthful about wanting to make a difference in the lives of hardworking students that are to him and to all of us, the future.”
Bill said, "Everyone wins in this endeavor, our local Small businesses become part of the solution in building an educated community. Students win because they not only receive funding but they also know they are being supported by the same community from which they came from. Students and Sponsors actually meet and know they are all one, interdependent community."
Our Small business sponsors are no strangers to challenges and know what it takes to get things accomplished. It is a true effort to say, "Let me give back and make a difference in the life of someone else." We do not raise funds from corporations or grants. It is important to us that it comes from these small business owners who want to make a difference and help their local communities.”
Each of the scholarship recipients are from high schools in Escondido, Oceanside, Vista, Carlsbad, Fallbrook and San Marcos and completed the AVID or Migrant Education curriculum, a set of classes dedicated to college preparedness. AVID stands for Advancement Via Individual Determination https://www.avid.org/
These speakers honored the scholarship recipients and offered their own stories and experiences as motivation. One such speaker was ESL Matriculation coordinator Carmelino Cruz, Who spoke to both the students as well as the parents on the dynamics of continued Education for both students and parents as well as the challenges that many students from low-income immigrant families face.
The Keynote speaker, Vista Schoolboard President, Cipriano Vargas was himself a Scholarship recipient almost 20 years ago. His eloquent and motivational presentation inspired everyone present, his topic being the Evolution of Education.
The funds awarded to these students will help them pay for the costly tuitions that Universities demand. It was out of this necessity that the Bill de la Fuente Scholarship foundation was formally established in 2017. Prior to the foundations formation, there was a very similar organization called the Comerciantes Latinos Asociados which was headed by Bill de la Fuente himself until his retirement in 2015. It was his retirement that inspired Claudia I. Tapia to create this new foundation in his honor and to continue his vision.
"Mr. Bill de la Fuente has been a personal mentor to me for many years,” said Tapia. “I think that one of the things that I really saw in him and his leadership was that he’s always had much integrity in what he represented, how he did it, and why. He was never someone who was swayed or influenced by finances or titles or any other source of vanity. He was always honest and truthful about wanting to make a difference in the lives of hardworking students that are to him and to all of us, the future.”
2021 SCHOLARSHIP AWARD NIGHT
Thank you to everyone that joined our 5th annual Scholarship Awards via Facebook Live on Wednesday June 16, 2021. We wish them the best. Click here to see our Facebook live stream.
Please click here to learn more about our 2021 Scholarship Recipients.
Please click here to learn more about our 2021 Scholarship Recipients.
2020 Scholarship Award Night
Thank you to everyone that joined our 4th annual Scholarship Awards via Facebook Live on 6/25/2020. Even though we were unable to have our traditional dinner event we are happy to celebrate our 2020 Scholarship Recipients hard work and dedication. We wish them the best. Please click here to learn more about our 2020 Scholarship Recipients.
4th Annual Scholarship awards ceremony via FB Live
Join us this Thursday June 25th, 2020 at 6 pm as the Bill de la Fuente Scholarship Foundation will livestream our 4th Annual Scholarship Awards Ceremony through Facebook live. Although we are unable to have our traditional awards ceremony, we want to make it as special as we can under our current circumstance. Please join us via Facebook by clicking here.
Social Informativo:
K-16 Learning Together To Ensure Student Success
Thank you to everyone that came out to our Social Informativo last week. Thank you to Brenda Hall and
Carola Sorano Humerez for speaking and informing our community. Thank you to Tamales Jovita for the delicious Tamales. This event had amazing energy!
Event Sponsored by Point Mortgage
Carola Sorano Humerez for speaking and informing our community. Thank you to Tamales Jovita for the delicious Tamales. This event had amazing energy!
Event Sponsored by Point Mortgage
Latino Book & Family Festival 9/28
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Latino Book & Family Festival on Saturday September 28th at MiraCosta College.
This is an event you don't want to miss. Don't forget to mark your Calendar!
This is an event you don't want to miss. Don't forget to mark your Calendar!
2019 Scholarship Award night
Huge thank you to all of our sponsors that have made our second annual scholarship foundation possible. It is amazing to see how big of an impact we can have on our community when we come together for a good cause. Last year we awarded 5 scholarships! Thanks to our awesome sponsors we were able to award 7 amazing students. Thank you to everyone that came out and supported our second scholarship award night. To many more to come!
Social Informativo February 27, 2019
The Bill de la Fuente Scholarship Foundation invites you on February 27 for our First Event of the year Featuring our Guest Speaker Nicole Martinez Senior Director of Migrant Education Region 9.
Join us for a great cause and great food for $25 per person. The proceeds will go towards the Bill de la Fuente Scholarship Foundation.
Join us for a great cause and great food for $25 per person. The proceeds will go towards the Bill de la Fuente Scholarship Foundation.
2019 Strategy meeting
The Bill de la Fuente Scholarship Foundation getting together and mapping out our strategies for 2019! Big goals for 2019!
Social Informativo October 17, Tamales Jovita
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We had a great time at our Social e Informativo, eating some delicious Tamales by Tamales Jovita. Jovita was a previous CLA scholarship recipient and we are very thankful to have her support with her generous donation to our 2019 Scholarship Campaign.
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First Scholarship Award NIght
Thank you very much to everyone that helped make our first scholarship award night a success. It is with the help and support of our community that helps give back to our community and our future leaders. With the help of our community and our sponsors we were able to award 5 scholarship recipients for the class of 2018! Congratulations!
Find out more about our Class of 2018 Scholarship Recipients by clicking here.
Find out more about our Class of 2018 Scholarship Recipients by clicking here.
Meet and Greet With Martha Alvarado
Thank you very much to everyone that came out to meet Martha Alvarado this past Wednesday. It is with the help and support of our community that helps us have these great events to further the education of our future leaders.
Social e Informativo, May 2, 2018
Join us on Wednesday May 2, 2018 as the Bill de la Fuente Scholarship Foundation invites you to meet Martha Alvarado running for VUSD School Board, District 3 at Wildwood Restaurant.
Join us for a great cause and great food for $25 per person including 3 raffle tickets! A percentage of the proceeds will be donated to the Bill de la Fuente Scholarship Foundation.
Don't forget to follow us on our Instagram and Facebook to stay update on all of Bill de la Fuente Scholarship Foundation's events.
Join us for a great cause and great food for $25 per person including 3 raffle tickets! A percentage of the proceeds will be donated to the Bill de la Fuente Scholarship Foundation.
Don't forget to follow us on our Instagram and Facebook to stay update on all of Bill de la Fuente Scholarship Foundation's events.
Thank you for coming out to our first event of the year!
Thank you to everyone that came out to support our first event of the year. Glad everyone was able to Meet and Greet our School Superintendent Dr. Linda Kimble. Stay tuned for more events to come in the future!
MEET AND GREET WITH OUR NEW SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT FEBRUARY 7, 2018
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Please join us next Wednesday, February 7th for our first event of the year! Come down to Wilwood restaurant to Meet and Greet our School Superintendent, Dr. Linda Kimble.
Join us for a great cause and great food for $20 per person! A percentage of the proceeds will be donated to the Bill de la Fuente Scholarship Foundation |
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Bill de la Fuente Scholarship Foundation Featured in San Diego Union-Tribune
Thank you to The San Diego Union-Tribune for the support and writing an article about our Non-Profit. Click below to read the article and get to know what the Bill de la Fuente Scholarship Foundation is all about!
Muchas gracias a The San Diego Union-Tribune por su apoyo y escribir un atriculó sobre nuestra Fundacíon. Has click abajo para conocer más sobre Bill de la Fuente Scholarship Foundation en el articuló.
Thank You To Everyone That Came Out To Our First Annual Dinner Event
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