The Aboitiz Group of Companies led by PBSP-founding member Aboitiz and Company (ACO), continues to touch the lives of Filipino communities programs on education, enterprise development, primary health and childcare. The Aboitiz Foundation, implementing arm of ACO’s social development programs, coordinates with other Aboitiz companies for their respective CSR initiatives.  Among the Group’s achievements are the following: 1,300 scholars supported every year, 261 classrooms built, over 1,000 computers donated, over 60 computer labs refurbished, and over 15,000 students who have benefited from library kit donations. Under enterprise development, the Aboitiz Foundation conducts technical skills training and the microfinancing of deserving cooperatives. In primary health and childcare, it constructed 18 piped water distribution systems for marginalized communities and conducts medical, dental and optical missions. Aboitiz subsidiaries also initiate and implement projects in their local areas of operations.

Andres Soriano Foundation, in partnership with Cuyo, Palawan, implements a coastal resource management project for Manamoc Island that aims to improve the lives of the coastal communities. The project established a 108-hectare Marine Protected Area or MPA on the coastlines covering critical marine ecosystems where seven marine sanctuaries and two mangrove forests are now protected….

Central Azucarera Don Pedro launched its Kabuhayan Week in 2009 in collaboration with Roxas Foundation, Inc (RFI) with the theme, “Flourishing the Entrepreneurship and Volunteerism Spirit.”  The activity showcased the products of 20 entrepreneurs who succeeded in posting product sales worth Php137,000.  In Nasugbu, Batangas, about 100 children took part in RFI’s six-month supplemental feeding…

SM Foundation, supported by the SM Group, donated school buildings to 27 public schools and its College Scholarship program produced 1,180 graduates. In 2009, 52 out of its 105 graduates received Latin honors.  In health services, the Foundation has reached out to 300,000 beneficiaries, renovated 54 public hospital wards, health clinics and activity centers.  To…

The Smart Schools Program (SSP) of Smart Communications, Inc. promotes Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in basic education through partnerships with public schools, its officials, and parent-teacher-community associations.  Specifically, it aims to provide public school teachers with internet access through PLDT group’s online access and teacher training on ICT.  This is implemented through PBSP with…

Unilever’s Clean Water Sustainability Program has four components: a solid waste management project, the rehabilitation of Pasig River in partnership with LGUs, the conservation of Laguna de Bay, and a Water for Life program that bats for the conservation and reforestation of La Mesa and Ipo dams. The company implements nutrition programs in partnership with…

Under the community building programs of Antonio O. Floirendo, Sr. Foundation, ANFLOCOR was able to construct public school buildings for the benefit of school-going children in Mindanao. Recently the company partnered with Davao Agriculture Ventures Inc. and Del Monte, Philippines to build a school building in Barangay Merangeran, Bukidnon. 200 children will be able to…

Banco de Oro Foundation partners with Gawad Kalinga, Catholic Relief Services (USA), International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to build homes for the poor.  More than Php40 million has been invested in 72 houses in two towns of Bulacan and houses for another 100 families living in danger zones. BDO also…

Community development initiatives of Bioessence are done in partnership with the Bio Alternative Health Care Institute of the Philippines (BIOAHCIP) Training Center. The Center implements a sustainable livelihood program for the less-privileged members of the community by offering affordable massage therapy training. Apart from this, Bioessence gives out scholarships and ensures ready employment for their…

CDO Foodsphere Inc. founded Odyssey Foundation Inc. (OFI) in 2004 to aid impoverished children and to promote child education and health research. It developed a supplemental feeding program called Gabay Buhay that involves partnership building, research, training, and feeding monitoring and assessment.  Gabay Buhay has helped 120 children in Valenzuela City and in the recovery…

The Conrado and Ladislawa Alcantara Foundation, Inc. of C. Alcantara and Sons, Inc. launched a four-month school-based feeding program in Saranggani province.  Pupils of Alabel Central Elementary School, Kawas Central Elementary School, and Alegria Central Elementary School were provided a daily breakfast of rice porridge mixed with milk called MilkMIGS (Milk Masarap Inumin, Garantisado sa…

CEMEX Foundation of Cemex Asia Pte. Ltd. won recognition for its “Adopt-A-Species” program since its launch in 2007. This project aims to promote biodiversity conservation by encouraging companies and individuals to “adopt” a specific species on the “red list” identified by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.  In this way,…

With a workforce steeped in volunteerism, Citi for more than 108 years now, has taken a leadership role in helping create economically healthy communities. In the Philippines, Citi’s citizenship efforts focus on issues where it can naturally contribute its resources and expertise as a financial services company: Microfinance, which helps individuals become economically self-sufficient; Enterprise…

Edward Keller (Philippines) Inc. (EKPI) implements a waste management program called “5R’s at EKPI”. The five “Rs” stand for Recycle, Re-use, Reduce, Return to Vendor (returning reusable containers that help companies cut costs), and Refuse to Buy (non-environment-friendly products). These advocacies are strongly encouraged among and practiced by EKPI employees and business partners. Other environmental…

In 2010, First Holdings increased its participation in the clearing of Pasig River through active support for BayaniJuan sa Calauan, a poverty reduction program that aims to transfer informal settlers residing in disaster-prone areas in Metro-Manila to a safer relocation site. To date, more than 4,000 families from Estero de Paco have been relocated to…

Flying V through the Academe Foundation, Inc. builds learning centers that provide value formation, reading, writing, and arithmetic classes to indigent children between three and six years of age.  Since the program started in 2004, Flying V has educated 1,099 children in Rizal, Davao, Batangas, La Union, and will soon be expanding to reach children…

Harbest Agribusiness Corporation implements the Harbest Educational and Livelihood Program (H.E.L.P.) to impart modern agricultural technologies to vegetable and fruit farmers, thereby helping to raise their income.  This training program is a hands-on course held in partnership with the Department of Agriculture, Department of Agrarian Reform, NGOs and LGUs. The company’s three-hectare farm land was…

IBM Corporate Service Corps’  “Helping Create Interactive Flood Maps for a Smarter Philippines” won the Asian CSR Awards in 2009.  In this project, IBM experts from Germany and India collaborated with the Philippine National Institute of Geological Sciences to develop www.nababaha.com, an online interactive flood hazard map for the country. Aside from serving as a…

Eight-hundred children and their mothers recently benefited from ICTSI’s Lusog-Dunong Project in Parola and Isla Putting Bato, Tondo, Manila. The project is a six-month feeding program for Day Care and Grade 1 students with capability building for mothers.  The mothers attended seminars on responsible parenthood, child and maternal care, nutrition, personal finance management and microfinance….

Jollibee Foods Corporation (JFC) established the Jollibee Foundation in 2005 that integrates the strength of the food service company into its social development programs.  The Foundation’s Busog, Lusog, Talino (BLT) in-school feeding program provides daily lunch for undernourished Grade 1 and 2 pupils in public schools all over the country. Low-cost, nutritious meals are prepared…