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Invitation to Halogen’s Charity Gala Dinner 2016 Dear Esteemed Partners, Since our inception in 2003, Halogen Foundation Singapore has reached out to more than 109,500 students from 22 countries and across 80% of the schools in Singapore, inspiring and influencing them to lead themselves and others well. As we forge towards our 13th year, we invite you to join us at our Charity Gala Dinner, as we celebrate our Breakthroughs as well as that of our youth. At Halogen, we believe that our youth are able to overcome their self-limiting beliefs and grow to their fullest potential. We are committed to imparting the essential knowledge, tools and skills to empower the youth to breakthrough their own boundaries. Since 2014, we have added an entrepreneurship suite to our strong leadership suite to reach out to youth from disadvantaged and underprivileged backgrounds. To date, we have successfully run 8 BizCamps and 4 In-Curriculum Programmes, impacting up to 300 disadvantaged youths. Each of the youth was equipped with the entrepreneurial mindsets and skills necessary for him or her to create his or her own future; a future that can be radically different from how he or she started out. We want to be able to continue to push the boundary in making youth leadership and entrepreneurship development an impactful and relevant endeavour. It is the partnerships that we forged that allow us to build an ecosystem conducive for building young leaders and entrepreneurs. Your support and presence at our Charity Gala Dinner will go a long way in helping us achieve continuous breakthroughs. We look forward to breaking new frontiers with you, for youth. "We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future". - Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Lim Soon Hock Chairman Halogen Foundation Singapore
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Dr Ann Tan Board Member Halogen Foundation Singapore
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About Halogen
Founded in 2003, Halogen Foundation (Singapore) is a values-based not-for-profit Institution of Public Character (IPC) that is focused on building young leaders and entrepreneurs. As part of a holistic leadership and entrepreneurship development for youths, Halogen designs events to inspire, academy programmes to educate, projects to generate action, an award to recognise exceptional young leaders and builds social communities to facilitate conversations.
In 2014, we also intensified our efforts in reaching out to youths from disadvantaged and underprivileged families, through an entrepreneurship programme, Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) which we successfully licensed from the United States.
Halogen organised 3 pilot runs of the NFTE programme in 2014 and we have managed to impact more than 200 Normal Technical Stream students from 11 schools. We have received many positive feedback from principals and teachers from participating schools, as well as the many corporate volunteers, who gave their time and energy to mentor the students and to assess their business plans. Beyond 2016, we want to do more to transform youths from disadvantaged and underprivileged families into more socially and economically responsible individuals, through our leadership and entrepreneurship programmes. For example, we are in strategic discussions with partners like the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) to roll out the NFTE programmes for ITE students. We believe that the NFTE programme will help us achieve the larger objectives of (1) enhancing social mobility and reducing elitism; and (2) building an enduring and dynamic culture for entrepreneurship in Singapore. This is also in line with the government's aim to promote skills and experience as an alternative pathway to academic achievements, through SkillsFuture, for an individual to build his or her career and future.
The NFTE programme has a 28 year proven track record in equipping youths with lifelong entrepreneurship skills that cuts across all industries and sectors for them to build their careers and their future. !
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Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) “When a student recognises a good programme, they will know and participate in it. I am impressed by the quality of this programme and also the commitment and professionalism of the Halogen team.” - Mr. Martin Tan, Northlight Principal The NFTE programme is positioned as an early intervention programme that seeks to give a leg up to youth from disadvantaged and underprivileged families. NFTE targets to primarily improve the social well-being of the youth in terms of (i) building their selfconfidence and esteem, as well as (ii) developing an entrepreneurial mindset in them. PROGRAMME TRACKS AVAILABLE:
NFTE In-curriculum (School-based Programme) -
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Teachers who are selected to administer this programme in their classrooms are required to go through “NFTE University” workshop, a 4-day training programme Students will undergo 60 instructional hours spread over an average of 30 weeks of the NFTE curriculum conducted in class by the trained teachers
NFTE BizCamp -
An intensive 10-day non-residential camp where participants undergo the NFTE curriculum Run by trainers from Halogen Foundation Singapore
Besides the core programme delivery in the form of In-Curriculum or BizCamp, Halogen also provides support for supplementary elements to build a year long developmental programme for the NFTE participants, including: -
Leadership training components Business and Field visits Business Speakers Feature BizPlan Competitions Mentorship and Internship opportunities
Yearly, a teacher and a student from the NFTE programme will be selected to represent Singapore at a global gala in the United States. Some schools that have benefitted from the programme include Northlight School, Evergreen Secondary School and Pioneer Secondary School. We partnered Google for presentation coaches, Pizza Hut for business visits and G2000 for sponsorship of business attire.
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Halogen Foundation Singapore Charity Gala Dinner 2016 Sponsorship Form Date: Time: Venue: Dress Code:
25 February 2016 7.00 pm Conrad Centennial Singapore, The Ballroom, Level 2 Two Temasek Boulevard Singapore 038982 Formal
TABLE(S) SPONSORSHIP - Kindly indicate the no. of tables in the box below:
TITLE Sponsor for $50,000 (10 guests) PLATINUM Table for $18,000 (10 guests) GOLD Table for $12,000 (10 guests) SILVER Table for $6,000 (10 guests) SEAT(S) SPONSORSHIP - Kindly indicate the no. of seats in the box below:
PLATINUM Table individual seat(s) for $1,800 each GOLD Table individual seat(s) for $1,200 each SILVER Table individual seat(s) for $600 each I am unable to attend the dinner but I would like to make the following donation: $ ______________ Sponsor Particulars Contact Person Full Name (Mr/Mrs/Ms/Dr):
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Payment 1. Please make all cheques payable to “Halogen Foundation Singapore”. Kindly indicate ‘GALA 2016’ on the reverse of the cheque and mail them to: Halogen Foundation Singapore 2 Orchard Link #05-07B *SCAPE Singapore 237978 2. For internet banking, kindly transfer the payment to the account number below and key in “ GALA2016” in the reference so that we can trace the payment back to you. Development Bank of Singapore (DBS) Autosave Account No: 033-900802-8 *Please note* As Halogen Founda.on Singapore is a registered Ins.tu.on of Public Character, all dona.ons are eligible for 250% tax deduc.bles. Dona.ons received before 31 December 2015 will be eligible for 300% tax deduc.bles. As a member of Na.onal Council of Social Services (NCSS), Halogen will also be eligible to receive a 1 for 1.25 matching under the SG50 Care and Share II scheme. All funds raised will contribute towards the work of Halogen Founda.on Singapore in building young leaders and entrepreneurs who will prac.cally change the world in issues they believe in.
Contact Jonathan Wong, Communications and Donor Manager
[email protected] Tel: 6509 6700 Fax: 6509 6770
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Ivy Tse, Chief Executive Officer
[email protected]
OUR BOARD MEMBERS Lim Soon Hock [Chairman] Founder and Managing Director of PLAN-B ICAG Pte Ltd Tam Chee Chong [Treasurer] Regional Managing Partner, Financial Advisory Services, Deloitte Southeast Asia Ramlee Buang Founder & Owner, UYKO Advisory
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Cho Pei Lin Managing Director, Asia PR Werkz Pte Ltd Jessie Ho Executive Director, JHT Law Corporation Bill Padfield Chief Executive Officer, Dimension Data Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
Dr Ann Tan Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Women & Fetal Centre Martin Tan Co-Founder, Halogen Foundation Singapore Executive Director, Institute for Societal Leadership, SMU Mark Sayer Managing Director, Drayhall Group
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The Spark Fund Launch in 2016 Commencing in 2016, the Spark Fund offers Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) Class Scholarships to needy youth to embark on a one-year entrepreneurship education journey. It costs slightly less than $1,000 to put one needy student through this one-year entrepreneurship programme.
Fund Description Halogen is launching The Spark Fund in 2016 to provide entrepreneurship education for youth from poor, needy, disadvantaged, dysfunctional, marginalised and challenged families and/or are at risks. We believe our youth have great potential to become positive agents for change and positive influencers of the community. The needy youth also have this great potential to shine and must not be left behind or ignored. We seek to transform these street smart, less academically smart individuals into business smart individuals through entrepreneurship education. The Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship programme, with a 28 year proven track record from the USA, will help us empower these needy youth with lifelong skillsets and mindsets and for them to build for their careers and future. We hope to also contribute to larger objectives of: 1. enhancing social mobility and reducing elitism; and 2. building an enduring and dynamic culture for entrepreneurship in Singapore.
Contributing to the Fund - Founding Circle: We are reaching out to you to be part of the founding circle of corporations and donors of The Spark Fund. Founders may opt for a $25,000 founding contribution towards the fund (for both individuals and corporates). Naming rights will be granted for 3 years for a founding contribution of $100,000. - Spark Scholarships: We also invite you to support students under the Spark scholarship scheme. You may become a Spark Supporter for as little as $1,000, a Spark Hero for a donation of between $1,000 and $5,000 or be a Spark SuperHero for a contribution of $10,000 or more. For each $1,000 contribution, you enable one student to complete the one-year entrepreneurial programme. With your help, we hope to raise a starting pool of $500,000 and support over 500 students.
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