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"I WANT TO THANK BRITISH
YOU SO MUCH. AMERICAN
YOU'RE OPENING FOUNDATION
OF TEXAS
THE DOORS TO MY
FUTURE. YOU'RE CHANGING LIVES
THROUGH EDUCATION
HELPING MY
FAMILY. YOU'RE CONTACT

HELPING ME BAFTX
FURTHER MYSELF, PO Box 421234
Houston TX 77242
FURTHER MY [email protected]
ACADEMIC LIFE." www.baftx.org

Hadley Pearce Ratliff
Benjamin & Jennifer Fink
Undergraduate Scholar 2020
Majoring in Biology at University of Texas

OUR MISSION Achievements in 2020

Formed in 2006, the British American 1 8 7 6 8 %B A F T X r e c e i v e dUp
Foundation of Texas (BAFTX) raises funds to undergraduate
award college scholarships and academic scholarship
programming to gifted and ambitious young a p p l i c a t i o n s on 2019
people from low income households in Texas
and the UK. BAFTX awarded Compared to
funding worth
Education liberates our minds and elevates $137,000
our state of understanding and potential. The $190,000
value of education is lifelong. It is the solution in 2019
to poverty and crime. It improves economies,
"I AM SO GRATEFUL FOR increases employment, political interest and Including our Women in
EVERYTHING THAT YOUR civic participation. Higher levels of
FOUNDATION IS DOING employment and healthier economies in turn first 6 S T E M
AND JUST WANT TO LET can serve to decrease tax burdens. It is the awards
YOU KNOW HOW most efficient and effective solution to so
IMPORTANT THESE many social issues and, bottom line, countries Since 2007 BAFTX has supported
FUNDS WILL BE TO THE prosper when their citizens are educated.
PROGRESSION OF MY 790young people in
CAREER." Concurrently, tuition and fees at public achieving their goals
colleges in Texas have more than doubled
Wesley Coombs over the past 15 years. On average, the cost of Supporting scholars at
Crestwood Equity Partners attending college surpasses the combined
Undergraduate Scholar 2020 cost of a student's financial aid and expected 12 colleges
Majoring in Mechanical Engineering family contribution by $8,000 per year. When
college tuition costs become unmanageable, in Texas and the UK
at University of Houston it can have a direct impact on the college
dropout rate and the figures are shocking. And

Eighty-nine percent of low-income first- $1.38 million awarded
generation college students leave school since 2007
without a degree. Four times the rate for
second-generation students.

And yet a college degree has a higher return
on investment for a graduate in the United
States than in any other nation. BAFTX
scholars are all low income and nearly all first-
generation college students.

At BAFTX, we believe that it is an injustice to
humanity to deny or obstruct any person from
the pursuit of an education. We hope that you
will join with BAFTX to rectify this inequity.