2015 DSEA booklet - Developmental Social Enterprise Awards

Solution for social change
Developmental
Social
Enterprise
Awards
Awarding ceremony
4 March 2015
Kalayaan Hall, Club Filipino
Greenhills, San Juan City
jointly presented by
About DSEA
The Developmental Social Enterprise Awards aim to recognize developing
and viable organizations who are committed to a social objective and are
considered multipliers of social progress through their enterprises.
Isla Lipana & Co./PwC Philippines and the Benita and Catalino Yap
Foundation Inc. (BCYF) team up to support social enterprises through the
DSEA that will seek an organization with a culture centered on human
value, and that exists to create societal impact alongside an ethical and
viable business model. These social enterprises include organizations from
the cottage industry up to medium-sized enterprises with a maximum
asset cap of PHP50m, that have not only demonstrated consistent success,
but have shown a commitment to scale up.
Cover photo by: Susan P. Talampas
www.dseawards.com
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Program
Session
5.00pm
Registration and
exhibit
6.30pm
Invocation
7.00pm
Opening ceremonies
7.10pm
Participants
University of the Asia and the
Pacific Chorale
Philippine National
Anthem
University of Asia and the
Pacific Chorale
Opening Remarks
Antonio S. Yap
Chairman
Benita and Catalino Yap
Foundation Inc.
Atty. Alex Cabrera
Chairman and Senior Partner
PwC Philippines
7.15pm
AVP
Developmental Social
Enterprise Awards
7.25pm
Intoduction of Panel of
Judges and Keynote
Speaker
Lexi Schulze
Master of Ceremonies
Host, ANC
7.30pm
Keynote address
Hon. Sen. Paolo Benigno
“Bam” Aquino IV
Senator
Republic of the Philippines
7.50pm
Awarding proper
8.35pm
Networking
UP Medicine Chorale
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Judges’ profiles
Senator Paolo Benigno “Bam” Aquino IV
Senator
Republic of the Philippines
Senator Paolo Benigno “Bam” Aquino is the youngest
senator of the 16th Congress of the Republic of the
Philippines. A multi-awarded youth leader and social
entrepreneur before being elected into the Senate, he is
also the Philippines’s first social entrepreneur-senator.
In 2003, Bam became the youngest head of a
government agency when, at 25, he was appointed as
the Chairperson of the National Youth Commission, the
primary national policy-making body for Filipino youth.
After his stint in government service, Bam co-founded
the social enterprise The “Hapinoy” Program, which has
since received global awards for its program that helps
lift poor Filipinos out of poverty through micro-finance
and micro-enterprise support. In 2008, he was awarded
a scholarship to the Executive Education Program on
Public Policy and Leadership of the Harvard University
Kennedy School of Government.
Bam has dedicated his entire career to empowering the
youth and the poor, and helping thousands of Filipinos
improve their lives through access to opportunities and
crucial support systems.
Because of his work, Bam received the following awards:
Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum in
2006; Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Philippines in
2010; Asian Social Entrepreneurs of the Year in 2011;
and Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World in
2012.
He currently chairs the Senate Committee on Trade,
Commerce, and Entrepreneurship and the Senate
Committee on Youth.
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Antonio S. Yap
Chairman
BCYF
Mr. Antonio S. Yap has had over 40 years of experience
in putting up initiatives and institutions for social
development, particularly in education, business,
Corporate Social Responsibility, social enterprise and
philanthropy work.
He worked as a volunteer in various NGOs and NGOrelated projects, such as setting up the National Folk
Artist Awards (Manlilikha ng Bayan), setting up the
Kapampangan Development Foundation (KDF). He is a
Charter Member of the Rotary Club of Makati Ayala.
Today, his work focuses on transforming education
having served as immediate past-president of the
Philippine Association of Private Schools, Colleges and
Universities (PAPSCU), as well as being a Board Member
of COCOPEA. He currently serves as president of SACT
College System and is Chairman of the Benita & Catalino
Yap Foundation whose mission is creating innovative
social solutions through purposeful volunteerism, CSR
3.0 (citizenship, sustainability and social responsibility)
and social entrepreneurship.
Alexander B. Cabrera
Chairman and Senior Partner
PwC Philippines
Alex, both a Certified Public Accountant and lawyer, is
the Chairman and Senior Partner of PwC Philippines
since 2013. His exposure in public practice lies in audit,
tax, business advisory and legal services. He specializes
in tax planning and business mergers and acquisitions.
Before becoming Chairman and Senior Partner, he was
Tax Managing Partner since 2006. He is the managing
partner of Cabrera & Company, a law firm he founded in
2002.
He spearheaded the Philippine Gems campaign, a
nationwide search to identify the country’s next wave of
tourist destinations. It is one of five Gold finalists in the
2014 Asia-Pacific SABRE Awards.
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Judges’ profiles
He likewise led Philippine Resiliency: a Gem Uncovered
project that sought the insights of top Filipino CEOs in
the Philippines. It won an Asian Publishing Award for the
firm in 2010.
Alex is a columnist of the Philippines’ leading print and
digital newspaper, The Philippine STAR, with his “as easy
as ABC” column published every Sunday.
The Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants
presented him the Young Achiever Award in 1998 for his
outstanding achievements in public practice.
He holds a Bachelor of Science in Accountancy from
the Philippine School of Business Administration,
which in 2006 named him as one of its outstanding
alumni. He earned his Juris Doctor at the Ateneo de
Manila University in 1994 and became a lawyer in
1995. Alex attended a leadership and management
program at Harvard Business School in 2006. He is
currently completing Wharton University’s CEO Global
Transformation program.
Cherrylin M. Javier
Assurance Partner
PwC Philippines
Che Javier is an Assurance Partner of PwC Philippines
since 1999. With over 25 years of experience in auditing,
design of internal control system, due diligence review,
business operations review, as well as Sarbanes-Oxley
related engagements, Che’s extensive experience is one
of the foundations of the firm’s audit practice.
Che is the lead partner of the firm’s Consumer and
Industrial Products Group with over 120 professionals.
She concurrently serves as the firm’s Finance Partner.
Despite her busy schedule, Che finds time to
occasionally write for BusinessWorld where she has
written, among other topics, about mitigating corporate
fraud, wind energy, state of industrial and consumer
products industries, and even how a beauty queen’s
story is relevant to the manufacturing industry.
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Jerry T. Clavesillas
Director III
BSMED - DTI
Jerry T. Clavesillas is presently the Director III of the
Bureau of Small and Medium Enterprise Development
(BSMED) of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).
He has been in government service for 35 years, having
spent the entirety of his career serving the SME sector.
He is the Philippine representative to the Asia Pacific
Economic Cooperation (APEC) Small and Medium
Enterprise (SME) Working Group as well as the
Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)
SME Working Group and oversees DTI’s programs for
SMEs such as: Shared Services Facilities Project, SME
Roving Academy, National Industry Cluster Capacity
Enhancement Project (NICCEP), and Promotion of Green
Economic Development (ProGED).
Gil Miguel T. Puyat
Director
IRC Properties, Inc.
Gil Miguel T. Puyat is the Director of IRC Properties, Inc.
(formerly Interport Resources Corporation) since March
12, 2008. He earned his Marketing Strategy Course
at Asian Institute of Management, M.A Economics
(candidate), at University of San Francisco, and BS
Agriculture Economics, at University of Wisconsin.
His present business affiliations include: Chairman
and President, TFS Credit Corporation; Chairman and
President, Tambunting Puyat Pawnshop, Inc.; Director
and President, Dell Properties, Inc.; Director and Vice
President, Loyola Group Marketing and Management
Corporation, Director, Loyola Memorial Chapel, Inc.;
Director, Loyola Cemetery Services, Inc.; Director,
Philippine Pawnshop & Jewelry, Inc.; Director, Omega
Finance, Inc.; and Director and Treasurer, Militan
Management Corporation.
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Judges’ profiles
Rene M. Fortuno
Chief of Party
MIDAS - PBSP
Rene Fortuno is the Chief of Party for the
Microenterprise Disaster Assistance Fund for Resiliency
(MIDAS) program at the Philippine Business for Social
Progress (PBSP)
MIDAS is a two-year USAID-funded program that
aims to institutionalise a wholesale credit window that
micro finance institutions can access for onlending to
disaster-affected micro entrepreneurs. The long-term
vision is to enable microenterprises to bounce back
from a disaster to a productive and competitive level
where they can mitigate negative impact of future
disaster risks.
Advisors
Felino A. Palafox
Principal Architect and Founder
Palafox Associates
Felino A. Palafox, Jr. is a prominent Filipino architect,
urban planner and environmentalist. He is the Principal
Architect-Urban Planner and Founder of Palafox
Associates.
Arch. Palafox is in the field of planning and architecture
for four decades serving both the government and
private sector. He was educated in Christ the King
Seminary, University of Santo Tomas, and University of
the Philippines. For continuing education, he took up an
Advanced Management Development Program for Real
Estate at Harvard University and attended seven other
special courses.
He is the first architect-urban planner president of the
Management Association of the Philippines (MAP)
in 2011 and president of the Philippine Institute of
Environmental Planners (PIEP) for 2013 and 2014. He
is a Fellow of the United Architects of the Philippines
(UAP).
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Advisors
Benjamin De Guzman
Advisory member
BCYF
Mr. De Guzman holds degrees from the University of
the Philippines, namely, Bachelor in Arts and Bachelor
of Science in Business Administration and a Masters
in Business Administration. He took up management
units in Germany, Spain and Australia. He is fully retired
but was Past President of the Rotary Club of Pasig,
the Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association of the
Philippines, Chamber of Filipino Drugmakers Association
and the Monterrazas Homeowners Association.
He headed a group study exchange team to Michigan
and Wisconsin for the Rotary International. He also
led the Group Study Exchange Team for the Rotary
International in London.
Mr. De Guzman serves on boards and advisory groups
with the Philippine Red Cross, Rizal Chapter and the
Benita & Catalino Yap Foundation.
Noreen Marian C. Bautista
OIC Program Officer
BCYF Institute for Social Enterprise & Development
Noreen is a social entrepreneur who co-founded a
social enterprise that won the Business in Development
Challenge Philippines in 2009 and represented the
Philippines in the International BID Challenge in
the Netherlands. Her work with social enterprise
communities fuelled her zeal to catalyze entrepreneurs in
order to bridge the wealth inequality in the growing but
unevenly distributed economy of the Philippines.
She is now the Social Entrepreneur-in-Residence at St.
Mutien College.
Noreen graduated with honors at the John Gokongwei
School of Management, Ateneo de Manila University with
a degree in Bachelor of Science in Management major
in Communications Technology, minor in Enterprise
Development. She is also part of the Global Shapers
Manila Hub – the youth community of the World
Economic Forum and the youngest member of the
Board of Directors of the Philippine Science High School
National Alumni Association.
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Nominees’ profiles
3846 Social Enterprises Inc.
3846 Social Enterprises, Inc. was
established in 2010 to create a sustainable
program that would provide scholarship
grants to poor but deserving Filipino
students enrolled in schools run by Mano
Amiga Academy, Inc., a non-profit school.
Everest Academy Manila 3846
38th Drive, North Bonifacio
Global City, Taguig 1634
Bistro 3846 is Mano Amiga’s first social
enterprise that delivers a unique and
nurturing cafeteria experience. It currently
caters to students of Everest Academy and
the Australian International School.
E: mithi.bistro3846@
gmail.com
T: +63 (2) 882 5019
locals 105, 126
Alternative Indigenous Development
Foundation, Inc. (AIDFI)
AIDFI Bldg. Murcia Road,
Brgy. Mansilingan
6100 Bacolod City
E: aidfi@hotmail.com
T: +63 (34) 446 3629 and
+63 (34) 446 2330
M: +63 (908) 866 8953
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The Alternative Indigenous Development
Foundation, Inc. (AIDFI) was organized in
1991 by a group of development workers
doing a socio-economic program for a sugar
workers union. Working in remote areas of
Negros, they observed the absence of basic
services, especially water for drinking and
irrigation.
AIDFI focused on the use of appropriate
technologies in solving basic needs
including organic agriculture. Over the years
it has developed and manufactured around
15 technologies to help communities live
better lives. The technologies included
water pumps, latrines, Pico hydro, biogas,
solar heaters, windmills for electricity
generation, and equipment for agricultural
production and processing. Its local model
of the hydraulic ram pump became its
flagship technology and the most sought
after in bringing precious water to upland
communities.
Business Enterprise and Career
Mentors, Inc. (BECMI)
2F 574 Argo Bldg., EDSA
corner P. Tuazon Avenue
Cubao, Quezon City
E: elolopez@yahoo.com
T: +63 (2) 438 2241
Armed with Gandhi’s guiding principle on
change and responding to the challenges
that confronted many organizations during
the Asian Financial Crisis in the 1990s, a
group of multi-talented social entrepreneurs
answered the call to be the “change agents”.
The basic problems at that time, and even
today, were how to keep business viable
and to sustain employment due to the
re-engineering and downsizing activities in
most industries. The group realized that the
ideal strategy was to equip organizations
and people with new, competitive
knowledge and skills to enhance business
sustainability and growth.
As a social enterprise, it continues to serve
the needs of over 30 social enterprises
and business organizations with a labor
force of over 50,000. It is anchored on
the basic precept that companies are
the business drivers and job generators.
Therefore, balance must be maintained
between development and growth of human
resources and business viability.
Bisquitilla, Inc.
JGSOM, Loyola Schools
Ateneo de Manila University
Quezon City
E: mikaoreyes@gmail.com
M: +63 (917) 599 1439
Bisquitilla is a student-run start-up business
created in the Ateneo University’s School of
Management Business Accelerator (SOMBA)
business incubation program. It is a food
retail company specializing in pastries and
desserts. Bisquitilla Artisanal Confections
sells homemade Filipino dessert treats with
an updated gourmet twist.
It is currently offering its stake on the South
American Alfajores cookie, combining its
traditional composition with new and unique
flavors that will definitely delight customers.
Bisquitilla products will be sold through
points of purchase (bazaars and expos), as
well as through phone and online orders, in
both single purchases and gift boxes.
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Nominees’ profiles
Coffee for Peace
Coffee for Peace started as an incomegenerating project of Peacebuilders
Community, Inc., a mission agency focusing
on advocating for “Peace”.
Unit 1 GF, MacArthur Highway
Matina, Davao City 8000
E: joji@coffeeforpeace.com
T: +63 (82) 297 3139
M: +63 (928) 522 2128
The company did research on coffee
availability in the Philippines, especially
the Arabica variety, because it grows
best on highlands. They found out that
the Philippines used to be the Number 2
exporting country of coffee in the 1600s.
Coffee Arabica is available in Mindanao.
The company experimented on the
possibility of marketing their coffee locally
and globally. They want it of global standard
because if they want to compete locally, they
must first sell it outside our country.
Dalareich Food Products
Purok 5, Booy District
Tagbilaran City, Bohol
E: dalareich@gmail.com
T: +63 (38) 501 9854
M: +63 (918) 419 0542
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Dalareich Food Products, known as
Dalareich Tableya started in 1994 and
has been manufacturing native chocolate
products (unsweetened chocolates) or
commonly known as “tableya” ever since.
The company is starting to serve foreign
markets like Korea, Australia, Abu Dhabi,
Singapore, Canada and the United States
online through the company website,
especially to Filipinos abroad. Today it
requires about 1,000 kilos of cacao per day
to serve its orders. They are being assisted
by Department of Trade and Industry Bohol
through its EPP-RIPPLES program and the
Department of Science and Technology 7
under the SET-UP program.
Deo’s Aquavermiponics
7 Ipil St., Progressive Village,
Tagapo, Santa Rosa City
Laguna 4026
E: dmagbal@yahoo.com
T: +63 (2) 782 4385
M: +63 (917) 865 9050
Deo’s Aquavermiponics started in July 2011
as a personal hobby that progressed over
time with the help of friends and through
research and innovation. In May 2012, it
won the Shell Green Enterprise Award and
became one of the top 10 winners in the
Philippine Business for Social Progress-BiD
Challenge 2012.
Deo’s Aquavermiponics manufactures and
fabricates portable aquaponics systems.
Aquavermiponics is a portable eco-system
that raises fish and plants together. Vermi
or earthworms help convert fish waste
into compost to better fertilize the plants.
Fishes provide fertilizer and nitrogen to the
plants. In the process, the water that passes
through the roots of the plants is filtered
and oxygenized and goes back to the fish
tank. No harmful chemicals are applied. To
enhance the growth of fish and plants, Deo’s
adds naturally occurring minerals and mix
of herbal extracts to duplicate the natural
ecosystem found in mountain springs and
rivers.
Dia-Beat This!
Room 205 John Gokongwei
School Of Management
Building
Ateneo de Manila University
Loyola Heights
E: jayne.orlina
@obf.ateneo.edu
M: +63 (926) 681 7241
Started as Jayne Lois Orlina’s and Jac Lin
Yu’s Marketing 102 project. In April 2014,
what was merely a marketing project DiaBeat This! became a full-fledged business
duly registered under the DTI and BIR. It
aims to be the beginning of the solution to
dietary problems of people with life-altering
diseases such as diabetes and hypertension.
Dia-Beat This! wishes to take a more
aggressive marketing approach that
will show how a perfectly balanced and
nutritious meal can be just as enjoyable as a
combo meal from a fast-food chain or even
a bottle of soda.
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Nominees’ profiles
Ecosystems Work for Essential
Benefits, Inc. (ECOWEB)
009 Toribia A. Lluch St. Lluch
Compound
Camague, Tubod, Iligan CIty
9200
E: ecoweb2006@gmail.com
T: +63 (63) 221-0322
M: +63 (917) 723 0397
EcoWEB was organized in 2006 to respond
to four major interlinking problems: poverty,
conflict, environmental degradation and
poor governance. It aims to empower
communities by building partnerships to
enable sustainable community development
processes and programs that would address
these problems.
Among the initiatives of EcoWEB was the
development Ecorganic enterprise under
its Sustainable Livelihoods Program. In
partnership with a number of organized
farmers and women, the company produced
natural fertilizers and pest repellent under
the tradename “EcOrganic”. Improving on
the natural farming system technology,
they have produced a very effective natural
fertilizer utilizing local bio-waste materials
enhanced with natural micro-organisms as
well as pest repellent that made use of local
plant materials and essential oil extracts.
ENTIRE Bags and Accessories
Rm. 205 JGSOM Building,
Ateneo de Manila University
Loyola Heights, Katipunan
Quezon City
E: entiremnl@gmail.com
M: +63 (917) 520 3000
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The company first saw the waste created
from used and worn out rubber tires.
Instead of throwing it away, the group
decided to recycle the rubber tires and
create products designed out of the recycled
rubber bicycle tires.
Global Organic and Wellness
Corporation
90-C 4th St., Mariana
New Manila, Quezon City
E: bernie.berondo43
@gmail.com
Telefax: +63 (2) 416 3100
M: +63 (949) 610 5880
In the early 2005, the Philippine
Development Assistance Programme
(PDAP) implemented a program to help
develop two sunrise industries—organic
rice and muscovado sugar. The program
provided technical support to more than
20 farmer associations and cooperatives in
strengthening their production, processing
and marketing capacities.
In 2009, eight groups organized themselves
into what is now the Global Organic and
Wellness Corporation (GlowCorp). Their
goal is to empower farmers by helping them
create a common marketing platform where
they can control the price, and how their
products are to be connected to the market.
GlowCorp is the first marketing corporation
in the Philippines that markets organic
products owned by the farmers.
Good Food Community Inc.
303 F Loyola Heights
Condominium
23 F dela Rosa corner
Esteban Abada
Loyola Heights, Quezon City
E: char
@goodfoodcommunity.com
T: +63 (2) 722 7534
M: +63 (917) 895 2427
The founder discovered Community Shared
Agriculture in 2010, through SIBAT. She
believed that the innovative distribution
model could catalyze social transformation
by providing a meaningful connection
between farmers and consumers.
The pioneer team won in the “I Am a
Changemaker” competition in 2010 and won
the grant to launch the project in 2011.
Good Food Community, Inc. is working with
over 50 farmers in three partner communities
in Capas, Tarlac, La Trinidad, Benguet and
Bauko, Mountain Province.
Good Food creates an alternative
distribution system that connects city folk
with farmers through community — shared
agriculture. By offering customers fresh
harvest shares for a fixed period, they are
able to shift the focus of mass production to
improving quality, nutrition and seasonality.
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MAG Starlight Industries, Inc.
Annex 35, John St.,
Lot 1 Block 10
Betterliving Subdivision
Paranaque City
E: anngendrala@yahoo.com
T: +63 (2) 821 0813
+63 (2) 776 22 66
M: +63 (998) 959 9311
+63 (905) 174 0884
Room 303 Mission Medical
Plaza 17
Ortigas Ave. Ext., Rosario,
Pasig City
E: docmacky@yahoo.com
T: +63 (2) 658 9022
M: +63 (920) 912 6761
Clinic: +63 (2) 655 0162
+ 63 (2) 655 0166
local 303
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The company was for formed ten years
ago and started as a manufacturer of
handmade decorative/scented candles.
These products made its way to retail trade
channels, catering to middle- and high-end
markets. Five years into the business, the
company has expanded to develop product
lines in the mosquito repellent category
using Citronella essential oil as its active
ingredient.
Consumers responded with a positive
demand for their Citronella candles. This
paved the way for the company to support
marginalized farmers by buying their
Citronella oil, encouraging them to make use
of marginal areas for Citronella farming. The
partnership provided farmers with a steady
market for their oil, giving them a steady
form of livelihood and better.
Medical Mission Group Metro Manila
East Hospital and Health Services
Cooperative
The Medical Mission Group Hospital and
Health Services Cooperative was founded
in 1991 in Davao City as the first health
cooperative in the Philippines. The dismal
health situation in the country prompted the
founders to put up a health cooperative that
is owned and operated by doctors, nurses,
employees and the community.
In a cooperative health facility, the medical
staff and employees have a voice on how
to run the affairs of the business. They can
nominate or run for directorship during the
annual general assembly and exercise the
democratic practice of one man, one vote.
Patients as members or kamay-ari have a
voice and may also participate in the affairs
of the coop.
National Pharmaceutical Foundation,
Inc. / HEALTH Plus
1840 C Quirino Avenue,
Pandacan, Manila Philippines
E: npf_healthplus@pldtdsl.net
T: +63 (2) 564 3580
+63 (2) 563 5668
+63 (2) 588 0030
M: +63 (922) 882 7696
+63 (918) 922 5165
One of the social needs in the health
sector was the lack of access to essential
health care services by around 30% of the
population.
A project was initiated by the Department
of Health with support from the German
government through GTZ (technical
assistance) and KFW (financial package
from this German development bank). The
scheme was to set up a central procurement
and distribution network to establish
community pharmacies in far-flung villages
where there are no quality, affordable and
essential medicines.
The owners of the community pharmacies
many of them Botika ng Barangays are
NGOs or cooperatives. The supply chain
is owned and operated by the National
Pharmaceutical Foundation, Inc. that
hires professionals to ensure an efficient
procurement system of high quality and very
affordable medicines.
NIAIS Paper Products
Ateneo de Manila University,
Loyola Heights
E: kenalexandrecoseto
@gmail.com
M: +63 (917) 886 9897
NIAIS Paper Products started out as a
project for the Ateneo de Manila University
School of Management Business
Accelerator (SOMBA), as a requirement
for the enterprise development minor. The
founder thought of what the Filipinos lack,
and that is self-expression.
Aside from selling paper products (i.e.
notebooks), NIAIS provides a venue where
customers can sit, reflect and play with
different mediums of expression and art
materials, and where they can creatively
design their notebooks, parlay issues, make
a statement, or provide solutions. NIAIS
promotes freedom of self-expression.
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Old Balara Christian Community
School
01 Tandang Sora Avenue,
Quezon City
E: anji255@gmail.com
Home: +63 (2) 931 9182
School: +63 (2) 931 6155
Principal: + 63 (2) 404 8932
M: +63 (917) 847 0785
The Old Balara Christian Community School
(OBCC) is a non-stock, non-profit enterprise
established in 1987 as a church outreach
program in an urban poor community in Old
Balara, Quezon City. Over the years it has
helped young people to stay in school and
develop attitudes that saw them through
College.
The OBCC group hopes to transform
the young to be “salt and light” of the
community. They inculcate values, work
habits and life skills in children from
kindergarten to high school, so that they
can be their best in whatever they choose
to be in the future, whether as workers or
as entrepreneurs, for the glory of God and
country.
PhilSmile
47 Esteban Abada Street,
Loyola Heights, Quezon City
E: camille@philsmile.com
T: +63 (2) 512 2144
M: +63 (918) 282 5776
Professor Dean Yang of University of
Michigan has years of research experience
on remittance behavior patterns. Following
on the new rigorous approach of randomized
controlled trials and focus on remittances as
a new leverage for development, aside from
traditional Official Development Assistance,
he was granted funding (US$103k) from
USAID to test a simple idea: education direct
payment from Overseas Filipinos in Rome,
Italy, mainly to schools in Luzon.
The operations on the ground were subcontracted to Innovation for Poverty Action
(IPA) with the support of Dr. Jose Campos
(PAPSCU President and then Chairman of
COCOPEA) to help the coordination with
schools.
The key findings from Edupay was that more
than a third of OFW wanted to send the
money directly to school and when OFW can
send remittances for education, they were
increasing their remittances by 15%.
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Pitaka Lifestyle
7F C Francisco St. San
Agustin Village, Brgy Talipapa
Quezon City 1116
E: aplocsin@gmail.com
T: +63 (2) 455 3798
M: +63 (917) 845 9844
+63 (917) 490 5566
Pitaka Lifestyle started last 2010 as an
effort to recycle used tarpaulins and provide
functional items to the market. Its only
product at that time was the coin purse or
wallets.
Among others, Pitaka Lifestyle’s aim is also
to promote the Filipino pop culture by way
of printing Pinoy designs unto its wallet
and variants. During its transition phase
last 2013, Pitaka Lifestyle has managed to
find a connection of sewers in the Payatas
dumpsite, whom are among the majority
profit-sharing holders as of this time.
SEDPI Development Finance, Inc.
Unit 303 Loyola Heights
Condominium
23 Dela Rosa St., Loyola
Heights, Quezon City
E: dimples.sacdalan
@sedpi.com
T: +63 (2) 433 8795
M: +63 (918) 274 1975
SEDPI Development Finance, Inc. (SDFI)
was born out of common vision, and a goal
of helping out other people get essential
tools--education and finance--to improve
their living condition, and perhaps one day
move out of poverty.
SDFI addresses systemic problems that
hinder the provision of basic services to
economically empower the poor. It started
in 2008 as the financing arm of the Social
Enterprise Development Partnerships, Inc.
(SEDPI), a capacity building institution in the
fields of microfinance, financial literacy and
social entrepreneurship.
SDFI was initially established to address
the need of microfinance institutions, more
particularly those with smaller operations,
on capital infusion to accommodate the fast
changing landscape of microfinance and
become sustainable.
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SolarSolutions, Inc.
RM109B ISO Building
Ateneo de Manila University
Loyola Heights, Quezon City
E: reyguerrero
@solarsolutions.ph
M: +63 (917) 766 3338
+63 (922) 834 0026
SolarSolutions aims to empower
communities and individuals through
renewable energy. It focuses on delivering
products and services that give great value
and produce highly positive social impact
for all customers through a profitable,
sustainable, and innovative social enterprise.
They provide research and development
services, technical consultation on the
design and deployment of renewable energy
products.
The team comes from different fields but
shares common experiences in dealing with
communities with no electricity. They are
composed of individuals with high technical
expertise and advanced degrees from the
following fields: solar technologies, physics,
math, law, electronics and communications
engineering, mechanical engineering,
entrepreneurship, social enterprise, finance,
economics and development.
Sentro ha Pagpauswag ha
Panginabuhi, Inc (SPPI)
National Highway, Brgy.
Cawayan
Catarman 6400 Northern
Samar
E: sppi07@yahoo.com
M: +63 (999) 924 7651
A community-based seaweeds social
enterprise (CBSSE) project was initiated
by SPPI in 2010 to assist local fisherfolk in
coastal towns of Northern Samar to take
up seaweed farming as additional source
of income. A few groups in Barangay
Landusan, Capul, adopted seaweed farming
earlier in 2010.
Since then, SPPI has helped local fishers
experience CBSSE. Fishers’ and farmers’
organizations were formed to become
seaweeds producers helping them earn
significantly and gain new livelihood and
entrepreneurial skills and become involved in
community development.
Recently, an island-wide PO federation –
the Capul Farmers, Fisherfolk and Food
Processors Federation (CFFFF) – was
formed to enhance their voice in municipal
and provincial development affairs, and to
represent the island’s seaweed producers in
the Seaweeds Net.
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Staff Search Asia Service Cooperative
2nd Floor ARGO Bldg,
574 EDSA cor. P. Tuazon,
Cubao, Quezon City
E: nicspellejerajr
@yahoo.com.ph
T: +63 (2) 376 3075
+63 (2) 3321341
M: +63 (917) 524 0704
Staff Search Asia Service Cooperative (SSA
for brevity) is a provider of job contracting,
manpower, and outsourcing services. SSA
was conceptualized under the principles of
Republic Act No. 6938 otherwise known as
the “Cooperative Code of the Philippines”,
which was later amended through Republic
Act No. 9520 or the “Philippine Cooperative
Code of the Philippines of 2008”.
SSA was organized in 2001, as an
association of persons with a common bond
of interest, to achieve their social, economic
and cultural needs and aspirations by
making equitable contributions to the capital
requirement, patronizing their services
and accepting a fair share of the risks and
benefits of the undertaking in accordance
with universally accepted cooperative
principles.
SSA’s main objective is to provide its
members, who were mostly unemployed and
displaced individuals with jobs/employment
with assured security of tenure.
Technominds-Easco Inc./Siglo
Unit 1124 Tytana Plaza,
Oriente St. Binondo, Manila
E: alvin@technomindsinc.net
T: +63 (2) 353 6852
M: +63 (917) 894 6561
Given that the Philippines is the text
capital of the world and with a mobile
market dominated by prepaid users, the
company started Technominds-Easco Inc.
in 2010 with the idea of creating a Microentrepreneurship platform called D-Loads.
This would allow an ordinary mobile
subscriber to start an E-loading business for
a capital as low as PHP100.
In 2012, the group competed in the Intel Asia
Pacific Challenge (one of the two teams that
won the Philippine leg and went to India) and
that’s when things started to change. Like a
business, the company’s main objective was
to maximize profit but their vision changed
to that of solving poverty in the country.
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Nominees’ profiles
World of Outbound, Corp.
G/F Balai Lakbay, 2 Alondras
Street corner Congressional
Avenue Extension
Mira-Nila Homes
Brgy.Pasong Tamo
Quezon City 1107
E: info@lakbaykalikasan.com
T: +63 (2) 932 7818 to 19
M: +63 (917) 500 4796
+63 (922) 800 4796
Field trips are a staple among schools
which make us of this informal method of
learning by validating things learned inside
the classroom in the real world. The industry
of tour operations for field trips was actually
started by the Virtucio family in 1983. Prior
to this, schools organized their own field
trips. Booking with tour operators, such
as Family Tours, became second nature
among schools because they were able to
outsource a competency to a third party.
This competency is about sourcing the best
possible rates for bus chartering, talking to
venues and assembling tour guides.
Zing! by JSYK Enterprises
JSYK, Inc. is engaged in the business of
retailing food and beverage products. In
particular, the company plans to focus on
the sale of ready to drink cold-pressed juices
under the trade name Zing!
RM 205 John Gokongwei
School of Management
ADMU Loyola Heights,
Quezon City
E: robmsgo@yahoo.com
M: +63 (917) 568 9331
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Established in September 2014 as a sole
proprietorship, JSYK, Inc. was born out
of the idea that the industry is dominated
by sugar-filled food and drinks, depriving
modern people of access to products that
are beneficial to their health. Through its
flagship brand Zing!, JSYK aims to solves
this problem by providing consumers with a
healthier alternative.
Organizers
The Benita and Catalino Yap Foundation
(BCYF) was founded in 1993 to help
implement social development projects of
the SACT College System. Its first project
was to create an Awards and Recognition
Program, under which the Dalubhasang
Tanglaw Award recognized the most
outstanding public school teacher.
The foundation was also involved in sports,
institution building and education projects,
which resulted in the creation of community
based schools and the offering of various
scholarships – it is estimated that at least
around 5000 of these have been graduated
as of SY 2014-2015. Around nine years ago,
the focus of CSR-based social enterprise
started with the organization of the Institute
for Social Enterprise & Development.
Isla Lipana & Co. is the Philippine member
firm of the PwC global network. Our firm
has provided professional services in the
Philippines for 92 years. We stick to the
highest quality standards in delivering audit
and assurance, tax and advisory services
within and outside the Philippines.
Isla Lipana & Co.*
* PwC member firm
At PwC we believe in being ‘part of it’: part
of the global conversation and movement
towards responsible business practices
that create positive change in the world. We
have many capabilities that are relevant to
Corporate Responsibility – the same ones
we use in our businesses every day – and
we aim to put these to use working with
others to make a difference Through our
own Corporate Responsibility agenda, we
support and advocate social enterprise as
part of its focus on community engagement.
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