EARTH DAY CELEBRATION. Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) member-company, Oriental & Motolite Marketing Corporation (OMMC) recently joined the 35th National Annual Convention and General Assembly of the Pollution Control Association of the Philippines, Inc. (PCAPI) in Baguio City to showcase the ‘Balik Baterya’ project. (From left) PCAPI president Joseph Dinglasan, Motolite CSR officer Connie…
THE MANILA Electric Co. (Meralco) recently donated its used lead acid batteries (ULABs) to Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) in support of the PBSP-Motolite Balik Baterya project. The ULABs were valued at P484,102, according to PBSP data. PBSP said the turnover ceremony held last April 22 at the Meralco compound in Pasig City was…
Hospira Philippines, Inc. recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the donation of their Used Lead Acid Batteries (ULABs) to Oriental and Motolite Marketing Corporation’s Balik Baterya Program through Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP). Hospira is a leading provider of injectable drugs and infusion technologies in the country. The Balik Baterya program aims to…
Immediately after the storm, help came pouring in from concerned locals, international aid organizations, and governments from around the world.
Employees from The Hershey Company Philippines vow to plant 5,000 seedlings to help reduce carbon emissions in Metro Manila For the third consecutive year, employees of The Hershey Company Philippines gathered once again for a trek on November 14, 2014. This was not a trek for everybody’s enjoyment, but to fulfill the company’s goal to…
After the devastations brought about by Tropical Cyclone Winnie and Typhoon Yoyong years ago, the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT), in cooperation with the local government of lnfanta and Real, Quezon, and the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP), tookimmediate action to provide relief operations and medical missions for the affected areas. PLDT and its partners initiated a rehabilitation plan to bring back the lush greens in the Infanta-Real Watershed Forest Reserve, one of the areas affected by the landslide. The PLDT TelePuno…
Employees of the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) planted 80,000 high-quality hardwood and fruit-bearing trees to rehabilitate a watershed forest reserve in Quezon damaged by a series of flashfloods and landslides in 2004. Known as PLDT TelePuno, the five-year project planted narra and lipote seedlings in the 80 hectares of common watershed between the…
Locals of Infanta and Real, Quezon count the seedling pouches used by the PLDT and PBSP employee volunteers. It was in the dawn of November 29, 2004 when flash floods and landslides woke up the sleeping people of Infanta, Quezon and nearby towns, after hours of continuous rains brought by Tropical Cyclone Winnie. The large…
When Typhoon Haiyan hit the small fishing village of Sua, Marilyn Belga and her family lost their homes and almost their lives. A year later, Marilyn shares her story on how the International Rescue Committee and its partner, Philippines Business for Social Progress, helped her rebuild after the storm. Read more: The IRC, rescue.org, November 14,…
Senior officials of a nonprofit organization based in the US, which helps finance worldwide projects, took part in the planting of 5,000 mangrove propagules in a recent coastal-reforestation effort by the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) on Bantayan Island, Cebu. GlobalGiving Director of Programs Britt Lake and Senior Unmarketing Manager Alison Carlman joined officers…
MANGROVES FOR BETTER COASTAL COMMUNITIES. GlobalGiving Director of Programs Britt Lake (left) and Senior Unmarketing Manager Alison Carlman (right) plant mangroves at barangay Kaongkod, Madridejos on Bantayan Island, Cebu. Almost a year after Typhoon Yolanda swept areas in the Visayas region, Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) continues to revitalize coastal communities and uplift the…
To help protect the environment from indiscriminate disposal of sulfuric acid coming from old batteries, a power-generating company based in Misamis Oriental signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with a recycling company and a non-governmental organization on Friday. Steag State Power Inc. (SPI), Oriental Motolite Marketing Corp. (OMMC) and the Philippine Business for Social Progress…
The Hershey Company has always been supportive of people’s well-being towards achieving a better life and a bright future, which likewise supports greater effectiveness in its good business performance. The Hershey Company approved a financial grant through its partner, United Way Worldwide, to provide shelter repair kits for 25 families affected by typhoon Glenda (international…
Guests and organizers of Gabay Nutrisyon Advocacy Campaign recently launched the 22nd leg of the supplemental feeding program in Paso de Bias, Valenzuela City led by (from left) Barangay Chair Fernando Esteban, Valenzuela City Mayor Rex T. Gatchalian, CDO Foodsphere Inc. President Jerome D. Ong, United Laboratories Senior Manager for External Affairs Claire de Leon Papa and…
Brother Philippines employee holds a seedling. Employees from Brother International Philippines Corporation and Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) teamed up last Saturday, October 11 for a noble cause – to save the Marikina Watershed. A total of 575 seedlings were planted in Sitio Binayoyo, Barangay Calawis, Antipolo City, as part of Brother Philippines Marikina Watershed Project….
MOA signing with Dondi Alicpala (Chief of Party, Be Secure), Tony P. Tompar (Chairman, Mactan Rock), Rene Fortuno (Director, PBSP), Arlene Castillon (HR Manager, Dow Chemical), and Cyril Arradaza (President, EVAWD) Dow Chemical, as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility, together with Brenntag, have provided financial and in-kind resources to build a mobile water treatment…
CEREMONIAL TURNOVER. Madridejos Mayor Salvador de la Fuente (center, in grey shirt) led the ceremonial turnover of shelter repair kits with representatives from PBSP, Habitat for Humanity, and Fluor Daniel, Inc. (Philippines). As part of our Project New Dawn efforts, PBSP distributed 331 shelter repair kits (SRK) to affected households in Barangay Pili, Madridejos, Cebu. The shelter…
Ikebana International (I.I.) is a non-profit cultural organization dedicated to the promotion and appreciation of the Japanese art of flower arrangement. In line with the organization’s philanthropic endeavors, Ikebana International Manila Chapter 108 through Parity Values, Inc. partnered with Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP), a foundation which has an ongoing mangrove conservation and rehabilitation…
In commemoration of the 13th signing Anniversary of R.A. 9003 or The Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000, Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) and the National Solid Waste Management Commission of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) have partnered in a Solid Waste Management (SWM) exhibit with the theme “Effective SWM…
