ADMU forum pushes creation of shared value
MANILA, Philippines – “Companies are rethinking the way they do businesses.” This is what Philippine Business for Social Progress chair Rafael Lopa shared with over 200 high school students during the one-day business workshop entitled “Ateneo Corporate Sustainability Conference 2016: Symbiosis” by the Management Engineering Association (MEA). The workshop held in Leong Hall in the…
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Water Alliance pushes for more multi-stakeholder convergence
Private sector alliance helps water utilities improve services
MB file photo– A resident of Bgy. Batasan in Quezon City started gathering gallons of water to store on the implemented shortage of water allocation. About 15.7 million Filipinos are still lacking access to potable drinking water and this number is growing tremendously due to increased demand for water, fueled by population growth and industry....
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Investing in Sustainable Development Goals makes good business sense-UNDP
Investing in Sustainable Development Goals makes good business sense–UNDP
By CAI U. ORDINARO & CATHERINE N. PILLAS, Business Mirror Investing in innovations and new business models that will help countries attain the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) makes good business sense, according to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). In a speech at the 45th Annual Membership Meeting of the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP), UNDP Philippines...
‘Solving problems together’ | PBSP aids 700,000 Filipino families in 2015
PBSP Chairman and First Pacific Company Limited CEO and Managing Director Manny V. Pangilinan (fifth from left) leads PBSP's 45th annual meeting. Others in the photo are (from left): Monark chairman Jose Antonio Banson; SGV chairman and managing partner Cirilo Noel; Roxas Holdings executive chairman Pedro Roxas; Sarangani Agricultural Co. director Paul Dominguez; Philippine Daily...
UN official to business leaders: Invest, help us attain Sustainable Development Goals
United Nations Development Programme resident coordinator Ola Almgren (L) receives a plaque of appreciation from PBSP chairman Manny V. Pangilinan and PBSP Mindanao Regional Committee chairperson Paul Dominguez, Jan. 26, 2015 at the Dusit Thani Hotel in Makati City. (Bernard Testa, InterAksyon.com) By TRICIA AQUINO, Interaksyon.com MANILA, Philippines - United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) resident...
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Watershed rehab: Airport workers plant fruit trees
Employees of GMR-Megawide troop to barangay Pung-ol Sibugay in Cebu City to plant 2,500 fruit tree seedlings. Employees of GMR Megawide Cebu Airport Corp. (GMCAC) and Megawide GMR Construction Joint Venture did their share for the environment by participating in the company’s first ever tree planting activity in an effort to help rehabilitate Cebu’s Mananga...
PBSP marks survivors resilience
PBSP celebrates the resilience of survivors and the power of collective action
Super typhoon Yolanda’s second anniversary RESTORING LIVELIHOODS. Local farmers in Brgy. Inangatan, Tabango, Leyte receive proper training on farming preparations. MANILA – Two years after super typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) ravaged the Visayas region, many of the survivors are still picking up the pieces of their lives which were severely disrupted by one of...
Xurpas CEO wins Entrepreneur of the Year Philippines 2015
By EOY 2015 The search for the Entrepreneur Of The Year Philippines 2015 culminated with an awards banquet last October 14 at the Rizal Ballroom of Makati Shangri-la Hotel where Nico Jose Nolledo, chairman and CEO of Xurpas, was named the top winner. He will represent the Philippines in the World Entrepreneur of the Year...
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A SOJOURNER’S VIEW: Affectionately remembering Bishop Federico Escaler, SJ
By Karl M. Gaspar CSsr DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 30 Nov) — Before going to bed in the evening of 28 November 2015, I stood at the veranda of the convent in the Nuing Mission Station somewhere in Jose Abad Santos, Davao Occidental watching the moonglow as it was reflected on leaves of trees inside the church...