Who is the BFA
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The Brazilian Foundation of America is a Non Profit Organization under the 501.C.3 status which was established in New York and has two primary goals: the first one is to provide benefits to the Brazilian communities in the United States and abroad. The second goal is to help other Non Profit Organizations in the United States, Brazil and in any other countries to set up and accomplish beneficial projects to further aid the children and their families.
The organization has the purpose or purposes to promote, further and selected charitable activities through grants, funding and financial assistance to various individuals, institutions and organizations; to aid, encourage, stimulate, foster and promote education, sports, artistic and cultural activities through grants, bequests, gifts or otherwise to individuals, groups, intitutions and organization; to accept, hold, invest, reinvest and administer any gifts, bequests, devises, benefits of trusts (but not to act as trustee of any trust), and property of any sort without limitation as to amount or value and use, disburse or donate the income or principal thereof exclusively for charitable purposes; to raise funds and solicit donations from interested individuals, charitable, educational and scientific organizations and foundations, and other interested organizations and foundations, agencies, institutions,associations and corporations and to administer and expend such funds in furtherance of the corporate goals and purposes; to receive, establish and maintain a fund or funds of real or personal property, or both, and subject to any restrictions and limitations hereinafter set forth, to use and apply the whole or any part of the income therefrom and principal thereof exclusively for charitable, scientific and educational purpose either directly or by funding programs or projects that accomplish such charitable, cultural and educational purposes.
Performance
The BFA supports initiatives in the United States, Brazil or in any part of the world where it will be invited to contribute. All the programs and projects follow the “The Eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)” of the ONU, in which we are a credited.
We work next to educational NGO’s, institutions, private sector and individuals to establish together partnerships that come to generate financial support to place the projects in practice.
To implement self sustaining programs next to diverse communities in the form of cooperatives of work or associations and to share these programs with other organizations that need to impliment these programs in its communities.
To implement self sustaining programs next to diverse communities in the form of cooperatives of work or associations and to share these programs with other organizations that need to impliment these programs in its communities.
Explore the programs of the BFA and you certainly will find in one or more of them good initiatives that with your knowledge could work better or with your goodwill to support us.
BFA in U.S.A.
We develop local projects uniting the communities, where our goal is to join the cultures of the Brazilian and American communities with its opened doors to help in the best way. It offers legal assistance, ESL Classes (English as a second language), Portuguese Classes, Capoeira, lectures on immigration, laws, support with consular information, dinner/dance events, barbecues in the park , sporting events etc. are examples of some of the activities offered by BFA/USA.
BFA in Brazil
In elapsing of the actions of the BFA in U.S.A., some Brazilians who had known it or had been called to help, had shown interest in developing social projects in devested communities in Brazil and its native land. The first community to be taken care of was the community “Das Pedras” in the City of Forteleza suburb, under the name of “Project Sun Ray”, where semi professional courses, sports for the children and access had been implemented towards the health for the community beyond promoting events of social inclusion.
Vision
Everyone has the right to acquire a worthy life.
Not just for charity - but yes to SOLIDARITY.
Mission
To stimulate the socially excluded people and to discover SOLIDARITY from the community work and in the execution of self-sustaining projects, where the participants can conquer a quality of life through the income of its proper work and/or study.
CHARITY
Feminine substantive.
In the Christian vocabulary, the love that moves the will to the search accomplishes of the good of outrem and looks for to identify itself with the love of God; ágape, love-charity. Benevolence, compassion. Beneficence, benefit; begging.
In the Christian vocabulary, the love that moves the will to the search accomplishes of the good of outrem and looks for to identify itself with the love of God; ágape, love-charity. Benevolence, compassion. Beneficence, benefit; begging.
SOLIDARITY
Feminine substantive.
Moral feeling that ties the individual with the life, the interests and the responsibilities of a social group, a nation, or the proper humanity.
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