201306.17
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Rebuilding after disaster: Most Valuable Partner

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MANILA, Philippines – In this light, the companies owned by Manny V. Pangilinan, who had been doing various CSR projects individually, decided to unite under the banner of Tulong Kapatid, which has become the corporate social responsibility and disaster response initiative of the MVP Group of Companies.

“In any disaster, all utilities are affected,” points out Esther Santos, president of the PLDT Smart Foundation. With companies that provide basic services – like telecommunications, water, and electricity – it made sense to join forces to enable better coordination.

“Our ability to help has multiplied,” says Jeffrey Tarayao, president of One Meralco Foundation. Because of Tulong Kapatid, he adds, “We coordinate faster. The strength of each company is maximized. We are able to utilize our core competencies and help with high confidence.”

Tulong Kapatid first made its impact with a telethon on Dec. 10 last year to raise funds for the victims of Typhoon Pablo. Though the telethon was organized in only 24 hours, the collective efforts of Tulong Kapatid companies raised over P100 million in just six hours.

201306.03
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TEN MOVES! HANDS OVER NEW SCHOOLBUILDING FOR SENDONG SURVIVORS

Student survivors of Typhoon Sendong have more reasons to rejoice. On Friday, May 24, 2013, officials and representatives from CLSA Chairman’s Trust and TEN Moves! formally handed over a two-storey, four classroom-building at Angelico J. Medina Memorial Elementary School, which serves the educational requirements of children in Barangay Sta. Elena, Iligan City. The newly completed…

201304.25
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MV Pangilinan: Allow private sector to actively help end poverty

A top businessman on Wednesday called on Malacañang to include the private sector in mapping out fresh antipoverty programs as lawmakers blamed income inequality for chronic poverty amid robust economic growth.

Manuel V. Pangilinan, chairman of the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co., said the government should allow the private sector to take an active role in ensuring that economic growth was shared and enjoyed by all classes.

201304.25
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Stopping TB through “No Prescription, No Dispensing” policy

Negros Occidental pharmacy does its share for TB control

The Negros Grace Pharmacy is a family-owned corporation with a chain of more than 36 drugstores in the cities of Bacolod and Iloilo. What is unique about this business is its part in the implementation of the Directly Observed Treatment Short Course or DOTS referral network for tuberculosis in Bacolod City. Eight branches of the pharmacy are involved.

The local DOTS referral network aims to stimulate, increase and sustain the contribution of the private sector in addressing tuberculosis (TB) control issues. It complies with strategies and standards of the National TB Program, the International Standards for Tuberculosis Care (ISTC) and the Comprehensive and Unified Policy for Tuberculosis Control (CUP).

 

201304.24
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Boysen recognizes best practices in site greening

Boysen, represented by its Vice President Johnson Ongking (seated third from left), met with the 6 community beneficiaries of the Boysen Site Greening Project. The project, implemented by the Philippine Business for Social Progress, aims to promote site greening through urban vegetable gardening in PBSP’s STEP UP areas. Boysen awarded additional garden inputs and supplies…

201304.24
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Poverty incidence unchanged, as of first semester 2012—NSCB

The National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) releases its latest report today on the state of poverty in the country. The report— using data from the Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES) conducted by the National Statistics Office (NSO) last July 2012– measured poverty incidence or the proportion of people below the poverty line to the total population.
In a press briefing, NSCB Secretary General Jose Ramon G. Albert reports that poverty incidence among population was estimated at 27.9 percent during the first semester of 2012.  Comparing this with the 2006 and 2009 first semester figures estimated at 28.8 percent and 28.6 percent, respectively, poverty remained unchanged as the computed differences are not statistically significant.

201304.19
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PBSP joins Earth Day Celebration 2013

Earth Day is celebrated annually every April 22nd. This year, Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) once again shows their support for Earth Day Network Philippines in demonstrating their appreciation of Mother Earth through showcasing notable environment programs in an exhibit: Zero Basura Olympics/Solid Waste Management, World Food Program (WFP) policy on Disaster Risk Reduction,…

201304.16
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PBSP joins 4th Philippine Business & Entreps’ Expo

Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP), the largest corporate-led, non-profit social development foundation in the country joins the 4th Philippine Business & Entrepreneurs’ Expo (PBEX) this coming April 25-28, 2013 at the Megatrade Hall 2, 5F Building B of SM Megamall.

The biggest Business-to-Business (B2B) trade show, the event will help you broaden your network through building new business partnerships. Also a platform for SMEs to launch their products, PBEX will also feature partners in the direct selling, franchising, and dealership sectors.

Expo-goers will also learn more about the Business in Development (BiD) Challenge at PBEX as PBSP, in partnership with the BiD Network, will showcase some of the social enterprises during last year’s business plan competition. A project under PBSP’s Platform for Collective Engagements in Enterprise Development, the BiD Challenge aims to generate new and innovative business concepts that merge poverty reduction and profit.

201304.12
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LEGO Foundation Charity Boxes donation to PBSP

The Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP), since 1970 is the largest corporate-led non-profit social development Foundation in the Philippines. Committed to poverty reduction, PBSP is the first of its kind in Asia ,leading the promotion and practice of Corporate social responsibility (CSR). More than 240 large, medium-scale and small business comprise PBSP. PBSP members…

201304.11
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PBSP | Assisting industrious women entrepreneurs in the Philippines

Some claim that starting a business can be affected by several elements: economic performance and trends, consideration of rivals, and social factors like gender ratio, to name a few.

In the Philippines, women have equal opportunity as men when it comes to education, political leadership, employment, and entrepreneurship. Women entrepreneurship is not only encouraged but is given needed support by the government and private groups, in fact, 51% of entrepreneurs are female.

It could be said that women entrepreneurs have indeed made their mark in the business industry. Notable female frontrunners like Cora D. Ong, founder of CDO Foodsphere, Inc., a thriving food product manufacturing company, boldly declared that “I never saw a difference between men and women. Women are very much involved now and many are very successful in their own fields.” Mariels Almeda Winhoffer, IBM Philippines’ first female country manager, came back to serve her country even after having lived in the United States for a long time. These women are just a couple of examples that prove this statement true.

201303.25
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Elsie Gaches Village completes TB training

The Elsie Gaches Village (EGV) TB DOTS Project Management Team has recently completed the Tuberculosis (TB) 101 Sessions on Prevention and Management Control for all its 140 staff. The activity is part of an ongoing P2-M project on strengthening the health care management system of EGV, funded by The Hershey Company through the Philippine Business…

201303.15
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PBSP and UBS partner to establish Coconut Nursery in Rodriguez, Rizal

Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) with employee volunteers from member company UBS recently visited Barangay Mascap in Rodriguez, Rizal to plant 157 coconut seedlings in a one hectare coconut nursery. This project, in partnership with the Ayaas-Kayrofa Farmers Associations, is one of the foundation’s efforts to support the rehabilitation of the Marikina Watershed. In photo…

201303.14
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Cathay Pacific helps improve reading skills of students

Cathay Pacific employee volunteers spend their weekend helping improve the reading comprehension skills of public school students of the Kapt. Eddie Reyes Palar Annex Elementary School in Taguig, Metro Manila. Aside from employee volunteering, Cathay Pacific also donated supplemental reading books, bags, and other school items for the kindergarten students. This is part of Cathay…

201303.07
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T’boli women weave a future with T’nalak

The muddy trail leads one to a mountain-top village of T’nuos in Takunel, Lake Sebu, South Cotabato. Mountains seem to touch the clouds in T’nuos, the high ground overlooking Lake Sebu is home to indigenous families belonging to the T’boli Tribe. Subsisting on rootcrops, vegetables, bananas, corn, and other food that abound in their mountain…