This project is now in update mode. Check back regularly to see how things are progressing.
thanks so much
Thanks to all who have donated. Please do ask your family and friends to do the same. We are about 30% behind were we were at this time in prior years. We hope you can pass the word to your family and friends.
$25
Friend
As a Friend, your donation could assist PBBI in the Portuguese oral history collection and all the preparations to get the oral histories into our Collection.
$50
Supporter
As a Supporter, your donation of $50 could help us achieve the goal of building community through outreach to community organizations. This fosters more contact between our students and the community, as the students do oral history projects and connect with the Portuguese-American experience.
$100
Patron
With a $100 Patron donation, you could assist us in achieving the goal of building community through outreach to community organizations to foster more contacts between our students and the community. The students do oral history projects and connect with the Portuguese-American experience and have more BRUMA publications available for our students in our Language and Culture Classes.
$250
Pillar
As a Pillar, your $250 donation could help us develop and sustain our cultural activities for students, including the Portuguese Language Student Youth Day at Fresno State, which brings many high school students throughout the Valley and the State to Fresno State. We also have a dynamic speaker series that connects our students and community with the rich culture of the Portuguese-speaking World.
$500
Benefactor
As a Benefactor donor, your $500 donation could ensure that our conference series and Bruma publications projects will reach as many students as possible, allowing the students and the community at large to learn about the Portuguese-American experience in our multicultural Valley and State as register our stories and create our narratives.
$1,000
Legacy
As a legacy donor, you could assist us in bringing Portugal and Portuguese-speaking cultures, especially the culture of the Azores, to our students and our valley through translations, publications, presentations, and talks. The books, translated into English, are offered to our students in our courses at no charge. As a legacy donor, you could help PBBI to build an array of projects that build community and will enable us to continue our daily projects of NOVIDADES and FILAMENTOS, both reaching our Fresno State students and the community at large, creating a strong Diaspora on the West Coast of the US.
