Celebrating Social Development in the Philippines

This year’s Social Development Celebration (SDC)!, a development trade fair and a development forum series which includes the Civil Society Dialogue with 2010 Presidential Candidates on December 11 are among the highlights of SDC 2009.

Time to use our coconuts!

Exhausting. That’s exactly how I would describe a two-day conference aimed at formulating a roadmap for small  group of coconut coir players. How I managed to survive the lengthy hours of scribing the discussions among government, suppliers and funding agencies – is a feat that I have yet to reflect on. 
 I remember what my teacher [...]

Fueling communities through conscious supply chain management

So I used a lot of big words in my title but to keep it simple, I’d like to make Ayala Lands as an example on how companies can sustain local economies by choosing community-based enterprises to supply their industrial needs that include:
1. Recycled paper production (or paper production using raw materials such as grass) as alternative [...]

Oneline.ph: increasing chances for non-profits to be noticed

I’m sure you know a lot of non-profits out there who have the best skilled and well-intentioned people with the noblest missions on earth but they just do not know how to say their messages in a powerful way. It might be a problem of audience-message mismatch, visual packaging, core message develepment or campaign strategizing.
If [...]

Oh, profits!

It was good to hear that the Department of Trade and Industry has immediately banned retailers from increasing the prices of basic commodities, steel and cement  in Metro Msnils following the declaration of a state of calamity due to the impacts of typhoon ondoy (international name, Ketsana). But it wasn’t also surprising to see that [...]

First Filipino sustainable lifestyle mag now available

 
The first Filipino green magazine on the sustainable lifestyle is finally here! It is published by ECHOstore Sustainable Lifestyle in partnership with Mediag8Way Publishing
So what does G in Gen G stands for? For the generation wants to live with G: Green, Good, Grateful, Giving, Generous, Groovy, Groupie, Grounded, God-loving,
and whatever else that can define the [...]

Grab an IBON Planner now

This is my favorite Christmas gift to friends and colleagues. It’s just so handy that it fits in my kikay bag plus  it comes with valuable socio-economic national indicators like GDP, labor force, inflation etc. Although they are available in NBS, I just always ask my friends in IBON to reserve copies for me because [...]

Social enterprise sector in the Philippines: in the folds of an identity crisis

For all the accolades that the social entreprise “sector” has received during the recently concluded 1st Social Enterprise Conference, there are two questions that remained hanging in limbo:: first, can ethical enterprises — and mostly small at that — can surive fierce competition in an unethical economic system? If there are models that has shown that it can, how can [...]