MANILA – Businesses belonging to the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) will be chipping in money to fund relief efforts for flood victims, its chairman Manuel V. Pangilinan said on Thursday. Pangilinan said PBSP convened last Wednesday its corporate social responsibility council to come up with ways to help those affected by widespread flooding…
EVEN public school students and teachers are pitching in to build more classrooms for public schools under the “The Entire Nation [TEN] Moves” campaign spearheaded by the private sector. The target: Build 10,000 classrooms all over the country from a P10-donation a day from 2 million donors for 10 months.
Students, teachers pitch in to build more classrooms under DepEd’s TEN Moves
TEN Moves cash donations and pledges as of June 20 totaled P18.3 million.
Education Secretary Bro. Armin A. Luistro, FSC said the Ayala Foundation, on behalf of the 57-75 Education Reform Movement, has released part of the funds to the Philippine Business for Social Progress for the construction of a two-story, four-classroom schoolbuilding at the Indahag National High School in Cagayan de Oro.
About 15,000 native and endemic tree seedlings were planted in slopes of sitio Cantipla 2 in barangay Tabunan, Cebu City yesterday, the start of a series of Saturday planting sessions by volunteers of the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP).
The kick-off of PBSP’s annual Cebu Hillylands Reforestation Caravan was participated in by 750 volunteers from 35 companies.
The site is part of the 29,062-hectare Central Cebu Protected Landscape (CCPL).
Employees from member companies will continue to take turns planting in different parts of Tabunan every Saturday until October 27 to maximize the rainy reason.
“We don’t just plant trees; we let them grow.” This is the headlining campaign of the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) as it launched the 20th run of its Cebu Hillylands Reforestation Caravan.
The annual event engages corporate and individual volunteers to not only plant trees but also help ensure their growth.
The event, also in partnership with the Visayan Electric Company (Veco), the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and KEEP Foundation, will kick off on Saturday, June 23 in sitio Cantipla 2, barangay Tabunan, Cebu City. It will run for 18 Saturdays until Oct. 20.
A start-up footwear company which sells fashionable shoes made out of scrap textile and recycled rubber bagged the top prize in the 5th Business in Development (BiD) Challenge Philippines, a business plan competition for small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
Habi Footwear, managed by 22-year old Albert Go, will represent the Philippines and compete in The Netherlands on November for the BiD Challenge international.
Habi Footwear bested 28 other SMEs present during the event.
The company started as a school project in 2011 which Go, with three other batchmates at the Ateneo de Manila University, worked on with a start-up capital of P40,000.
The Department of Education (DepEd)’s National Schools Maintenance Week, also known as Brigada Eskwela Week, kicks off todaw with several government agencies and private corporations expected to help public schools prepare for the opening classes next month.
Brigada Eskwela enjoins the community to help in repairing and cleaning public schools nationwide.
MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) kicked off on Saturday its “Brigada Eskwela” program for this year in one of its assisted schools — the Maliksi Elementary School in Bacoor, Cavite.
Since education is one of the clusters in PBSP’s Platforms for Collective Engagements (PlaCEs), the organization promotes the “Bayanihan” spirit among its member business firms. More than 100 employee-volunteers of PBSP’s member companies dedicate their weekend to the cleaning and repairing of classrooms.
MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Education (DepEd) has slated this year’s National SchoolsMaintenance Week, more popularly known as the “Brigada Eskwela” week, where public schools tap their respective surrounding community to clean and prepare their schools for the new school year, this May 21 to May 26.
DepEd said that the 2012 Brigada Eskwela will focus on sanitation and in improving the schools of indigenous communities.
Education Secretary Armin Luisto said the major thrusts of the 2012 Brigada Eskwela is the improvement of toilets and wash facilities — to give emphasis on the importance of school sanitation and hygiene.
Philippine businesses are called to fast-track their efforts for maternal and child health care in the final mile to achieving MDG 5.
With only three years left to attain the Millenium Development Goal 5 known as the reduction of maternal mortality ratio (MMR), the private sector was encouraged to use its resources to immediately address the growing gap of poor maternal and child health care in the country.
In response to the alarming issue of engagement and awareness, the Department of Health (DoH) formed the multisectoral consortium called the 162 to 52 Coalition.
Official Philippine Switch-offs Slated for Makati, Cebu and Davao Finally, Earth Hour breaches Earth! For the first time, the global 60-minute switch-off will extend to the International Space Station, where Earth Hour Astronaut-Ambassador Andre Kuipers shall stand vigil over our imperiled planet as the lights switch off on 31 March, sharing photos and live commentary….
Published in Manila Standard Today, 29 March 2012
CEBU CITY, Cebu — The Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) Visayas’ Executive Committee said it has approved some P112 million worth of projects in the last two years, even as its head in the region said more projects are expected to be established this year with its partner companies, groups and donor agencies.
The PBSP is the largest corporate-led social development foundation in the country. Committed to poverty reduction, it is the first of its kind in Asia, leading in the promotion and practice of corporate social responsibility (CSR).
Jose Antonio Aboitiz, who chairs PBSP’s Visayas executive committee reported during PBSP’s recent annual membership meeting that programs in 2010 and 2011 in the Visayas valued at P112 million were focused on livelihood, enterprise, environment, education and health programs, as well as business advisory for micro, small and medium enterprises.
CEBU CITY – The Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) said millions of projects have been implemented in the last two years even as more activities are expected this year with partner companies, groups and donor agencies, an official said. Jose Antonio Aboitiz, chairman of the PBSP Visayas executive committee, said during the group’d annual…
Changing the mind-set of sari-sari store owners from being “just a small store owner” to “an entrepreneur running a business that has potential to grow” is one way to empower people to start their own business.
Paolo Benigno “Bam” A. Aquino IV, founder of Hapinoy Store, said this was the aim of the group behind the network of sari-sari stores which he helped set up in 2006.
“We believe in empowerment. We feel this is a new form of ‘people power.’ We fight the poverty of the mind, spirit and wallet,” said Aquino during last Wednesday’s annual membership meeting of the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) Visayas at the Casino Español.
BEYOND helping the less fortunate, social enterprise is the best business model for the future, said an entrepreneur.
Speaking at the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) general membership meeting, Microventures Inc. president Paolo Benigno “Bam” Aquino IV said social enterprise simultaneously addresses spiritual, material and environmental divides in society.
While he lauds the Filipinos for being charitable, especially during times of calamities, he believes there are some poor people who do not need charity. Instead, they need help acquiring skills to better themselves.
Aquino, who organized the Hapinoy stores with his business partner Mark Ruiz in 2006, likened successful social enterprises to “a new form of people power.”
“There is dignity in livelihood. If they (poor) are able to build a business on their own, there is a dignity there that can’t be bought,” he said.
In Photo (L-R): Co-presenters of the Entrepreneur of the Year 2012 sign a memorandum of agreement to support Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Philippines 2012 – Development Bank of the Philippines Development Banking Sector Head, Benedicto Bitonio Jr., ; Philippine Business for Social Progress Chief Executive Advisor, Klaas F. Oreel; Ernst and Young…
GUIHULNGAN CITY—Whenever a truckload of relief packs pulls over the narrow street of Sitio Larena 1 in Barangay Poblacion, couple Edgar and Casiana Absin drop whatever they are doing and run fast to make it to the line. This has been a common scenario for two weeks since a 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck Guihulngan City and…
PinoyME, a non government organization, recently held its first micro-entreprenuers forum aimed at giving entrepreneurs full knowledge in running a small business and the available financial vehicles in the country. Ken Ishikawa, one of the organizers from PinoyME, said the group usually hold forums on value chain purposes and on business development services but they…
E=MC2 , (Education My Charitable Contribution); a campaign that raise funds for school children in conflict-affected and depressed areas of Mindanao, has been helping indigent children at Malangit Elementary School in Buluan, Maguindanao. Eighty-five school children have been provided with assorted school supplies to include school uniforms and shoes as part of the assistance package….
Knowing the importance of skills mastery for budding businessmen, the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) in partnership with Accenture, Inc., and ABS-CBN Bayan Academy created two-day training for BiD entrepreneurs. Sixteen Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) owners took part in the said training held last November 28-29, 2011 in Manila to hone their abilities…
