The participants presented insights and lessons learned during the Journey and action plans to take these lessons forward; and took questions from a panel of reactors as well as their peers to help refine and streamline their plans.
The Learning Journey program provides participants the opportunity to take deep dives into each others’ work by visiting other members’ offices, programs, and/or beneficiary areas, and to find opportunities for collaboration and share knowledge and best practices as well.
LCF Board Vice-Chairperson Shem Jose Garcia of Vivant Foundation, Inc; Communications and Public Affairs Director Geoffrey Garcia of Pfizer Philippines Foundation; and LCF Executive Director Celine Santillan spoke at the Davao leg of this year’s CSR On the Go, held today at EMCOR Incorporated and at the Ateneo de Davao University in Davao City.
Through CSR On the Go, LCF reaches out to corporate foundations, organizations, private companies, and business communities outside Metro Manila and helps them gain a deeper understanding of corporate social responsibility.
CSR On the Go also helps attendees learn and share best practices in the delivery of social investments, opens opportunities for networking and partnership building, and helps more companies become CSR practitioners.
LCF Committee on Disaster Resilience Chair, Welfredo Dalumpines spoke at today’s University Lecture Series held at his alma mater University of Mindanao. Dalumpines is a graduate of nursing at the university.
LCF co-hosted the University Lecture Series with the university and with support from LCF Davao member AOF Foundation.
The series is in line with Commission on Higher Education(CHED) Memo 17 Series of 2017. It provides revised policies, standards, and guidelines for the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration course.
The series is also aligned with LCF’s mission to promote awareness about corporate social responsibility and to engender appreciation among students regarding the role of corporates in nation building.
Held every Thursday from February to March 2023, LCF Learning Journey program provides member-participants the opportunity to take deep dives into each others’ work by visiting a particular member’s office, program, or beneficiary area, and to find opportunities for collaboration as well.
Click here to view the Facebook album featuring the Learning Journey for 2023. The full set of pictures will be posted here after the conclusion of the program.
The success of the Annual Membership Meeting (AMM) at the Discovery Primea last November 24, 2022 was a testament to the strength of the League of Corporate Foundation’s (LCF) powerful network. With 130 member representatives in attendance from 64 corporate foundations, this was LCF’s biggest in-person event since the onset of the pandemic. Celebrating the collective efforts of the LCF team and its members, we were able to make this momentous event possible. We are grateful for the community’s support and look forward to continue building meaningful connections with our current and soon to be members.
The AMM was a day of rekindling and strengthening connections. The AMM kicked-off with a business meeting followed by a recognition of the committee chairs and incumbent and out-going board members. Loyalty awards were also given out to long-time members namely:
25 Years – INSULAR FOUNDATION, INC. | PLDT-SMART FOUNDATION, INC.
SM FOUNDATION, INC.| VILLAR SIPAG AT TIYAGA FOUNDATION INC.
15 Years – JOLLIBEE GROUP FOUNDATION, INC. | MANILA WATER FOUNDATION, INC.| NYK-TDG FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION, INC. | PHIL.GEOTHERMAL PRODUCTION CO. INC.| VICSAL FOUNDATION, INC.
10 Years – HARI FOUNDATION INC. | ICCP GROUP FOUNDATION INC. | PAL FOUNDATION INC.|SAN ROQUE POWER FOUNDATION INC.| SMCGP PHILIPPINES POWER FOUNDATION INC.
5 Years – LBC HARI NG PADALA FOUNDATION, INC. | MEGAWIDE CORPORATE FOUNDATION, INC.| SMILE TRAIN PHILIPPINES FOUNDATION, INC. | ST. LUKE’S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION, INC.| SUNWEST CARE FOUNDATION, INC. | CONRADO & LADISLAWA ALCANTARA FOUNDATION, INC.
While new member organizations were given time to introduce their advocacies:
The finale for the first half of the AMM was the announcement of the board members election results.
The second half of the AMM focused on building members’ camaraderie through a “mixer” where members got to share their aspirations for the League to make it “bigger, better, bolder”.
It was then followed by the awarding of the statement shirt contest winners, while the raffle for gifts given by members was interspersed throughout the second half to keep each member’s energy high until the program’s end.
Winners of the statement shirt contest
Team building games were also facilitated by the Committee Chairs.
Anong sagot? Alam ni Volts yan!
The turnout for this year’s AMM shows that LCF’s move for a more collaborative 2023 will be realized.
When the pandemic broke out in 2020, learners were left at home, teachers were forced to adapt to distance learning, as the world waited for face-to-face classes to resume. For schools in remote areas such as Busuanga Island in Palawan, or Bantayan, Cebu, access to hygiene facilities is among the necessities that will ensure pupils are protected against communicable diseases when they return to school.
With this, Vivant Foundation saw the need to help public school teachers and learners in far-flung communities adapt to the new normal. This includes supporting DepEd’s learning continuity plan amidst the COVID-19 pandemic by strengthening water access, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) in schools. With this, Vivant Foundation partnered with Manila Water Foundation to support the Department of Education’s WASH in Schools (WinS) program through the League of Corporate Foundations (LCF) WinS: Lingap Eskwela sa Pandemya.
Through the partnership with Vivant Foundation, 10 schools in Palawan, Cebu, and La Union were provided with 10-faucet pedal-operated hygiene facilities benefiting more than 5,000 students, teachers, and staff, upgrading the WinS star-rating of these schools to 1-star in the hygiene facility indicator of DepEd’s Three Star Approach.
Through the partnership with Vivant Foundation, 10 schools were provided with 10-faucet pedal-operated hygiene facilities benefiting more than 5,000 students, teachers, and staff, upgrading the WinS star-rating of these schools to 1-star in the hygiene facility indicator of DepEd’s Three Star Approach.
In Palawan, four schools benefitted from the project, namely Sta. Monica Elementary School in Coron, Busuanga Elementary School in Old Busuanga, Malaking Patag Elementary School in Malaking Patag in Culion, and Sta. Lourdes National High School in Puerto Princesa City. In Cebu, hygiene facilities were installed in Kabangbang Central Elementary School in Bantayan, Tayud Elementary School in Tayud, Liloan, and Buagsong Elementary School in Buagsong, Cordova. While in La Union, the facilities were installed at schools in the municipality of Bauang: Payocpoc Elementary School, Santiago Elementary School, and Guerrero Elementary School.
“Our handwashing facility is very important to our school. Teachers and learners wash their hands in our handwashing facility before entering their respective classrooms. Since it is a group handwashing facility, it can accommodate 10 learners at the same time. It is really a big help in our school. That is why our school is very thankful to our benefactor, Vivant, for giving us this special project,” said Darlene Calica, Principal of Guerrero Elementary School, La Union.
In his speech during the turnover ceremony in Puerto Princesa, Vivant Foundation CEO Shem Garcia expressed the importance of partnerships in the delivery of successful social development programs. “This partnership shows how important relationships really are to Vivant as a company,” Garcia said. “By working together, with organizations like the League of Corporate Foundations, we’re able to do more. Thank you to the LCF for creating that community among foundations where we’ve learned and grown,” he added.
The hygiene facilities are designed to respond to COVID-19 challenges, hence, include pedal-operated, properly distanced faucets one meter apart, to ensure physical distancing during group handwashing and facilitate the behavior of contactless handwashing. Each is equipped with a soap dish, to promote handwashing with soap, and with signages on the steps to proper handwashing, toothbrushing, and COVID-19 precautionary measures.
“As an organization with the core advocacy of WASH or water access, sanitation, and hygiene, Manila Water Foundation is grateful to be the implementing partner of the League of Corporate Foundations on the LCFWinS Program. This is indeed a demonstration of our collective effort and impact – working together to create the enabling environment and the right conditions for good hand hygiene in schools, for our learners and teachers,” said MWF Executive Director Reginald Andal.
Overall, #LCFWinS has benefited 147,029 individuals, 5,893 of which benefited through the partnership with Vivant Foundation, covering 10 schools in Palawan, Cebu, and La Union, implemented from May 2021 to March 2022.
Through the LCFWinS, Vivant Foundation funded the construction of 10 units of 10-faucet hygiene facilities in 10 schools in Palawan, Cebu, and La Union from August 2021 to March 2022.
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LCFWinS is a collaboration among corporations and corporate foundations in support of the WASH in Schools program of the Department of Education. It also supports the Basic Education Learning Continuity Plan of the Department at this time of the Pandemic. LCFWinS is aligned with one of the League of Corporate Foundations’ strategic pillars - Collective Impact, which is the network’s ability to convene, participate, collaborate, and build partnerships among its members and other stakeholders toward addressing gaps in social development.
May 17, 2022 was a momentous day for the League of Corporate Foundations’ CSR Institute.
Two organizations from different sectors – business and academe – are collaborating to better equip and further enhance the business sector’s Corporate Social Responsibility efforts and the people who lead them.
The League of Corporate Foundations and the DLSU – School of Lifelong Learning (SoLL) signed a Memorandum of Agreement that binds them to develop and offer a 3-unit diploma course on CSR and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles, as well as training workshops. Held at the LCF Boardroom on May 17, the MoA signing also marked the first in-person event to be held at the LCF office since the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020.
In attendance at the event were the five members of the LCF Board of Trustees, led by its Chair, Mr. Sebastian Quiniones, Jr. who signed the MoA on behalf of LCF.
Both Mr. Quiniones and Dr. Benito Teehankee of DLSU emphasized the important role that businesses play in helping the country grow economically even as civil society organizations help bridge the gap in social service delivery by assisting marginalized communities, which the government cannot do on its own. Mr. Quiniones also said that while training workshops build the capacities of corporate foundation staff, there is still so much that academic courses, such as the one to be developed through this partnership, can teach.
Other LCF Trustees present were Ms. Maricar Angeles, Mr. Geoffrey Garcia, Mr. Shem Jose Garcia, and Mr. Austere Panadero. Signing the MoA on behalf of DLSU-SoLL were Dr. Benito Teehankee, Professor of Business Ethics, and Dr. Rodiel Ferrer, Dean of SoLL.
If we as leaders, directors, investors and simply human beings don’t see ourselves as stewards of the future, we are letting down our employees, our customers and our suppliers.
Watch CEO and Amazon best-selling author, Helle Bank Jorgensen, challenge the Philippines’ business sector to take actionable steps towards realizing the future we need. Her keynote will discuss the Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) best practices and frameworks used by world-leading companies and how we can take action today. She will be joined by two reactors from the energy sector to contextualize how ESG is practiced in the Philippines.
Ms. Jorgensen is the CEO and co-founder of Competent Boards, the original and premier creator of online ESG and Climate training programs for board directors and senior business professionals. Apart from other several achievements and contributions to nurturing sustainable business practices around the world, she was also given the Global Impact Award and named one of “5 people in ESG to look out for” in 2020.
With the state of the world, the future is uncertain—but not set in stone.
We still have a chance to influence the outcomes of today for the benefit of tomorrow. The League of Corporate Foundations invites you to the 20th LCF CSR Expo “Creating the Future We Need: Striking a Path During a Period of Transition”.
Learn from leaders and gamechangers in CSR.
Get to know foundations and their sustainable initiatives that shape the country.
Find empowerment by engaging with like-minded professionals.
Be part of a movement that impacts and influences the community.
Explore your future in sustainability
Meet and learn from professionals
Discover solutions to real world challenges
Learn from leaders and gamechangers in CSR.
Early bird registration until May 31
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