Thanks to all of you, our 2025 crowdfunding campaign has already surpassed $7,000,  with 53 donors—friends, families, and dreamers who believe in education as a bridge between generations and cultures. With hearts full of gratitude, we now set our sights higher: an updated goal of $12,000. It is within reach. If each of our supporters shares this message with five or six loved ones, our circle will widen, our roots will deepen, and together we can welcome nearly 200 donors into this living community of giving.

This is more than a fundraiser—it is a movement of belonging. Every contribution builds opportunities for students to study in the Azores and beyond, strengthens our Portuguese language and cultural programs, sustains Bruma Publications and its bilingual books, amplifies the voices of our oral-history archive, and nourishes events like the Cátedra Natália Correia and the Alfred Lewis Bilingual Reading Series. Your support is a seed of continuity—a promise that literature, memory, and the Portuguese spirit will keep thriving in California’s Central Valley.

Let us dream generously and act together. Because when we build bridges of salt and soil, we are not only funding programs—we are expanding horizons and connecting generations.

Please click on the link below and donate. It is easy and secure.

https://crowdfunding.fresnostate.edu/project/48115

Building Opportunities for Students

  • Exchange and immersion: We deepen our collaboration with the University of the Azores, expanding scholarship support, short-term exchanges, and faculty-led study trips so students can experience Portuguese and Azorean life firsthand.
  • Expanded language and culture: We reinforce Fresno State’s Portuguese language offerings, support the growth of two Portuguese minors, and host visiting Portuguese-speaking scholars, poets, and artists.

Literary and Cultural Platforms

  • Bruma Publications, as the publishing arm of PBBI, furthers bilingual and translated works—including diaspora memoirs, poetry, essays, and critical studies—bringing them into the academic and public spheres.
  • Novidades & Filamentos: Our online platforms remain vital meeting places for literary, artistic, and critical voices. In 2025, we plan to publish themed issues, collaborative translations, and community-driven features that connect the Central Valley with Lusophone worlds.

Remembering, Recording, Sharing

  • Oral History Program: We’ll continue to record new voices from the Portuguese-American community, train students in oral-history methodology, and archive the interviews in the Henry Madden Library.
  • Documentary storytelling & public access: We plan to produce short documentaries, podcasts, and multimedia narratives drawn from our archive. These will be shared through YouTube, community screenings, and partner venues so that our shared stories resonate beyond academia.

Community Engagement & Leadership

  • Partnerships & programming: PBBI continues collaborations with the California Portuguese-American Coalition via the Portuguese-American Leadership Academy, nurturing leadership, civic engagement, and cultural pride.
  • Cultural events & series: In 2025, we will host the Cátedra Natália Correia, the Alfred Lewis Bilingual Reading Series, the Cagarro Colloquium, and more public lectures, poetry readings, community panels, and art exhibits—open to students and community alike.

What Your Support Makes Possible
Your generosity fuels:

  • Student scholarships and exchange stipends
  • Hosting scholars, panelists, conferences, and symposia 
  • Publication costs (editing, design, printing) for bilingual and translated books
  • Technical infrastructure and web support for Novidades & Filamentos
  • Equipment, transcription, and preservation for the oral-history archive
  • Media production (film, podcast, visual narrative) and public presentation events
  • Community programming, lecture series, and partnered events

By donating, you help connect generations, build bridges across communities and continents, and ensure that the Portuguese-speaking world enriches the lives of all students and families in the Central Valley.

Together, we move forward under the banner: PBBI- Expanding Horizons, Connecting Generations. Will you join us in this journey?