Funds and Grants
Permanent Infrastructure Fund for the PSHS Foundation
Bing and Elise del Rosario had donated, at two different times, the first in 2002 and the second in 2014, three million pesos (P3M) to the Philippine Science High School Foundation. The Php3M had been earmarked for the del Rosario Infrastructure Fund. They donated P1M each in the name of their three children, Ricardo (PSHS 2003), Cristina (PSHS 2006) and Francisco (PSHS 2010). Bing (PSHS 1971) and Elise (PSHS 1972) are also PSHS alumni.
Jaime “Bing” del Rosario was Chairman and President of the Philippine Science High School Foundation from 2004-2006.
“In our own small way, we‘re trying to help keep the cause of the Philippine Science High School System alive”
Funding for UP College of Engineering’s Study Now Pay Later Program and Scholarship Grants to Incoming Engineering Freshmen
Another regular beneficiary of OSSFFI donations is the College of Engineering in the University of the Philippines Diliman campus. Like the Philippine Science High School System, the UP System gets very little support from Congress, with its annual budget getting reduced each year. This despite UP being the premier institution of higher learning in the country, leading all other schools in the international rankings.
UP’s engineering college was founded in 2010 and has grown to become the largest college in the entire university system. As of 2025, UP’s College of Engineering had graduated nearly 25,000 engineers, with the highest number being Civil Engineering, followed by Industrial Engineering, and then Mechanical Engineering. But since 2006, the Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research had graduated the most number of students.
In 2024, the del Rosario’s donated 1.5M for the Study Now Pay Later program of the UP COE alumni association. This was on top of the P1M that the Foundation donated when the program was first launched, back in 2017.
“As staunch advocates in the education sector, the del Rosarios established the One Small Step Forward Foundation, Inc. to support public schools, contributed to the UPAE Study Now Pay Later Program and to various activities of the UP College of Engineering, particularly the UP Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Departmentreported In the Loop, the UP Engineering Foundation monthly newsletter.”
In September 2024, the del Rosarios set up a Scholarship Fund to support six engineering freshmen from low-income families in the provinces, starting their freshman year all the way to graduation. Despite the highly-advertised free tuition, a typical freshman is still faced with transportation, dormitory, food, laundry, school supply expenses, and project-related costs that are simply out-of-reach of the typical provincial high school graduate.