Name: The 2021 Philippine Social Entrepreneurship Summit
Start: 23/11/2021 12:00 AM +00:00
End: 24/11/2021 09:30 AM +00:00

Healthy Sweets Mindanao Corporation is a social enterprise established in 2009 as a response to the fluctuating price of copra and whole nuts, and to respond to the challenge of making small farming a profitable venture. Our mission is to produce high quality, best-tasting and certified organic coconut sugar and coconut sugar-based products while helping communities through the jobs generated from creating our products.
Healthy Sweets coconut sugar is sourced purely from nature, processed with farmers' passion and produced in accordance with Good Manufacturing Practices, HACCP, and fair trade principles.

Healthy Sweets

Villgro Philippines is an early-stage impact enterprise incubator that mentors, funds, and nurtures entrepreneurs who are building innovative solutions that can transform the lives of the poor in the Philippines. We are a network member of Villgro in India, one of the oldest and largest social enterprise incubators in the world. We are a leading women-owned and women-led gender smart incubation in the Philippines.
Villgro is an early-stage impact enterprise incubator and investor. We inspire, mentor, fund, and nurture innovative entrepreneurs who are addressing the most urgent social and environmental issues.
Through customized incubation, Villgro supports early stage impact enterprises who are looking to scale. More specifically, Villgro has supported entrepreneurs in the WE Rise Accelerator Program, ShelterTech Accelerator, ReachHealth Innovation Challenge, and Ways4Waste Program, all tackling various social and environmental issues. In addition to incubation support, Villgro is proud to announce the launch of the Impact Pioneers Network, a first of its kind impact angel investing network in the Philippines. The network seeks to provide early stage risk capital for impact enterprises in the country. In addition to Villgro&rsquo;s incubation and investment activities, Villgro also hosts regular ecosystem and thought leadership events which have built a sense of community in the young and budding impact space in the Philippines. &nbsp;
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Villgro Philippines

Introduced by the Department of Trade and Industry in collaboration with select retail partners, Go Lokal! is a market access platform provided to the Philippines&rsquo; micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) for market incubation and brand testing.
To date, Go Lokal! has assisted 478 MSMEs spread out in 114 Go Lokal! stores all over the archipelago that offer a wide range of products from finely-detailed fashion pieces to top-notch home and food items. More than a hundred of these MSMEs are now regular suppliers of partner retail establishments.
Go Lokal! is not just about going local. It is about being multi-local - the appreciation of Philippines traditions, patterns, colors and style that may be local to us, but exotic to others.

DTI Go Lokal

Entrego is equipped with technology-driven business solutions and world-class facilities for business' fulfillment and logistics needs. Our warehouse and distribution centers are strategically positioned nationwide to cater to all industries, companies and individuals.
 Our services:
Courier Express Parcel - Delivery of parcels, premium documents, and bulky items for Business-to-Consumer and Business-to-Business clients with extensive value added services
 MyEntrego Mobile App - With just a tap on your phone you can enjoy hassle-free nationwide delivery. Our door-to-door services enables you to ship your deliveries without leaving the comfort of your home&nbsp;
 Warehousing - Our warehousing solutions covers your supply chain every step of the way, from supplier to warehouse to customer delivery and even reverse logistics!
 Freight Forwarding - We handle your cargo profesionally via air, land, or sea nationwide.
 Contact us for more details: inquiry@entrego.com.ph
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Entrego PH

ABOUT BANKO
BPI Direct BanKo, Inc., A Savings Bank (or "BanKo") is the microfinance arm of the Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI). &nbsp;BanKo&rsquo;s thrust is to promote financial inclusion by providing access to easy, convenient and affordable microfinance products, focusing on Self-Employed MicroEntrepreneurs (SEME). By strengthening the financial capacities of its clients, BanKo aims to create a positive impact on their quality of life, and ultimately, contribute to the country&rsquo;s economic growth.
 MICROFINANCE SOLUTIONS&nbsp;
NegosyoKo is a micro-business loan that allows Self-Employed Micro- Entrepreneurs (SEME) to fund their existing businesses easily.
PondoKo is an interest-bearing, ATM- &nbsp;based, Basic Deposit Account that &nbsp;encourages the defined target market to &nbsp;start saving and build up their funds
InsuranceKo is a personal accident micro-insurance designed to protect the SEMEs and their families from unforeseen events.
BanKo Mobile is a service that allows PondoKo individual and SEME accountholders to conduct financial transactions using a mobile device, be it a smartphone or a feature phone
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BPI Direct BanKo

Tuy Arts and Designs (TAD) is family-run social enterprise specializing in handmade abaca and sugarcane paper production. Combining their family's knowledge in design, product development, and visual arts, the enterprise has been able to manufacture upcycled products skillfully crafted by the wives of sugarcane farmers in Tuy, Batangas, providing them with an alternative source of income.&nbsp;

Tuy Arts and Designs

The Roots Collective is a Filipino ecosystem of entrepreneurs engaged in enabling inclusive entrepreneurship and growing them towards market leadership. We serve as a one-stop shop for social, grassroots, and creative brands to bridge them to the mainstream market. 
We foster a conducive environment for local enterprises and rural communities to flourish through capacity-building and collaboration opportunities for innovation on the one hand; and creative and omni-channel marketing and distribution, retail and corporate, on the other. 
As a social enterprise, we must go beyond simply following statutory and regulatory requirements, and incorporate socio-environmental justice into our business decisions.

Roots Collective

Risqu&eacute; is a footwear social enterprise that works with weavers from Buhi, Valladolid and Isabela, to create artisanal shoes through their in-house team of Marikina shoemakers. With a focus on the use of local materials, craftsmanship and inspirations, Risqu&eacute; strives to increase its impact by also providing shoe manufacturing and learning services to startup shoepreneurs who also believe in providing sustainable livelihood to their partner communities.&nbsp;

Risqué Designs

The Spark Project is a creative conscious platform that uses crowdsourcing and education to enable Filipino entrepreneurs and changemakers to start and scale their projects. Through different platforms, The Spark Project is able to provide resources, opportunities, and guidance to creative conscious entrepreneurs and changemakers alike to create impact in their respective journeys.&nbsp;
The Spark Project provides a crowdfunding platform for entrepreneurs and creators to launch and finance their ideas. People go to The Spark Project with an idea that they want to work on, and the team at Spark helps them bring it to life through a Crowdfunding Campaign. In their mission of providing entrepreneurs and changemakers the best chances for success, they also create programs by collaborating with partners to exponentially increase the chances of getting a project off the ground, scaling it and getting the awareness it deserves.
To tie everything together, The Spark Project provides a plethora of tools and resources ranging from podcasts, articles, and webinars, that will guide aspiring creative conscious entrepreneurs and changemakers to navigate through the challenges in their respective journeys.&nbsp;
The Spark Project is a space for founders, creatives, and changemakers who are passionate about using their creative talents to build sustainable businesses and for everyone who believes that making conscious choices, no matter how small, when done together can change the world. The Spark Project impacts communities and networks beyond those that they work with. Each project and endeavor taken upon by The Spark Project has goals and objectives that ensure a positive change in the way an organization creates impact. By providing opportunities to creative conscious entrepreneurs and changemakers, they are able to make lasting positive impacts in the communities that these creative conscious creators work with.&nbsp;

The Spark Project

Based in Naga City, Camarines Sur, Omnaturals Food Products aims to help local farmers explore black rice farming and promote it into a coffee alternative. It is a social enterprise also involved in the production of Usbong Pencils which are made by unemployed moms using outdated newspapers.

Omnaturals Foods

JunkNot is a social enterprise which envisions to help solve two problems our society is facing: 1.) Waste Management and its Environmental Impact, and 2.) Lack of Livelihood of the communities. JunkNot finds creative ways to tranform regular plastic waste into functional furniture pieces, while providing livelihood to a community and protecting the environment. JunkNot works with 70 women from Bgy. Alas-as, Taal, Batangas who have been actively collecting, segregating and roping their household wastes.&nbsp;&nbsp;

JunkNot Eco Creatives

Isola is a social enterprise based in Los Banos, Laguna utilizing the abundance of water hyacinth stalks, to produce exquisitely handwoven and environmentally friendly fashion accessories and homewares. Remdavies works with unemployed women and housewives thereby providing them an opportunity to earn for themselves and their families.

Isola Handicrafts

Habi promotes responsible fashion, Pinoy pride and social involvement through 100% Filipino-made, environment-friendly footwear and lifestyle items. We partner to with 10 communities all over the Phiippines, believing in a better future where opportunities are equal to anyone, and where people from underpriviledged communities are given avenues to fulfill their potential- through livelihood, artistry, women empowerment, and education.

Habi Footwear and Lifestyle

Gouache seeks to introduce canvas waxing to the local bag industry, a technique that requires each bag to be meticulously handcrafted and guarantees that each bag piece has a unique finish. No two Gouache creations are exactly the same, and like leather, your waxed-canvas bags age and grow more interesting as you wear them.
As a social enterprise, we support displaced craftsmen from Marikina and Cogeo, Rizal- providing them fresh designs that can help reconnect them to the market and tools, and infrastructure to help them create marketable, quality products.

Gouache

CalaBoo is a women-led and -operated, faith-driven social enterprise committed to righteous stewardship of human and natural resources, with a focus on empowering low-income rural women and supporting smallholder farmers. We purvey premium, artisanal, nutrient-dense dairy products from grass-fed carabaos, nourishing urban families and street children too, so many can &ldquo;Taste and See that the Lord is Good.&rdquo;
Your purchase essentially blesses 4 people groups: your family by meeting their nutritional needs (and desire for something delicious!); smallholder farmers by supporting their livelihood, low-income rural women by enabling their training for empowerment, and urban street-children through milk-feeding and ministry efforts with our church partners.

Calaboo

Villa Socorro Farm is a social-enterprise based in Pagsanjan, Laguna. It is an integrated business identity with a holistic eco-system that cultivates crops, manufactures food products, fabricates furniture, and promotes farm tourism. Its heart lies on the promise of empowering 220-strong community of partner-farmers to live with pride and dignity. As of October 2021, Sabanana is available in 18 countries, and each pack proudly states, "Product of the Philippines!"&nbsp;

Villa Socorro Farm

As a social enterprise that aims to uplift the lives of artisans in the Philippines, Woven strives to work directly with crafts communities to create products that bring value to their work, their lives, and cultural traditions. It started in the town of Basey, Samar after it was devastated by super typhoon Yolanda. While doing research and area development plans there, the founders came upon the banig weavers who created beautiful mats made from tikog and buri. With the help of various NGOs, the enterprise organized the artisans into community craft associations, maneuvered an increase in the industry price of banigs, and raised individual incomes by more than double.
Ultimately, Woven aims to craft a better opportunities for empowered craftsmen and women, for their families, and for the next weaving generations.

Woven

Everything is Pine is a social enterprise based in Baguio, Benguet utilizing abundant dry pine needles to produce high-quality accessories such as earrings, necklaces and home decors like baskets and planters. Everything is Pine works toward the continuity of the proud Cordilleran art of weaving with the help of the local women artisans of Baguio.

Everything is Pine

BAMBUHAY is a social enterprise aims to solve poverty, plastic pollution, deforestation, mitigate the effect of climate change and though the use of BAMBOO and TECHNOLOGY.
In 2015, founder Mark Sultan Gersava got a chance to visit Patikul, Sulu, one of the poorest communities in the Philippines. He discovered a lot of plastic dumped into the ocean while a lot of resources, specifically bamboo, in the community were not yet utilized. After conducting thorough research, he tried to innovate bamboo into straw&rsquo;s, mug&rsquo;s, tumbler&rsquo;s, sanitary casing and more. Being a Food Technologist by profession, environmentalist, peace advocate and social entrepreneur by passion he combined these into one concept and became Bambuhay Social Enterprise. Mark envisioned a better future for the marginalized countrymen with a strong desire for a sustainable and beautiful future for the world. He gathered young leaders and farmers with different backgrounds and abilities to give them opportunities to contribute purposefully to society by caring for the environment and provide people a sustainable lifestyle. Bambuhay is a combination of the words &ldquo;Bamboo&rdquo;, &ldquo;Hanapbuhay&rdquo; the Filipino word for livelihood, &rdquo;Habambuhay&rdquo; the Filipino word for sustainability and &ldquo;Buhay&rdquo; the Filipino word for Life.

Bambuhay

Join Prof. Frederico "Poch" Macaranas as he leads the discussion on how should social entrepreneurs and workers in the development sector build bridges. How can social entrepreneurship contribute to lessening the ever-widening gap in wealth and knowledge?
Session starts at 9:00 am of November 24, 2021.
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Prof. Federico “Poch” Macaranas, Ph.D.

Open Mic 5: Perspectives on the Urban-Rural Divide in the Context of Globalization and Development

Click here for the Main Program and Learning Forum. This will be for Day 2, November 24, 2021.&nbsp;
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Marciano “Jun” Aparevalo@bpi.com.ph

Prof. Francisco III ‘Jay’ Bernardo

Priya Jsreniva@bpi.com.ph

Prof. Marie Lisa Dacanay

Tala Bautista

Fr. Anton CT Pascual

Susan Afan

Wilhelmina Garcia

Catherine Chua

JT Solis

Johanna Jeraldine ‘Jen’ Santos

Prof. Federico “Poch” Macaranas, Ph.D.

Felicitas “Jojie” Pantoja

Carmen Roceli Lopez

Noeme Cardino

Patch Dulay

Prof. Milagros (Alim) Lagrosa, Ph.D

Maan Sicam

Atty. Geroncio Aguio

Benjamin Quinones Jr.

Arye Arevalo

Khrisma Virgilio

Joy Reniva

Owen Cammayo

Noel Tiu

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Michellie Ann Sabando

Gizelle Grace Ciudad

"Atty. Geroncio " "Aguio "

Glenda Alcantara-Pua

Mary Rose Adeva

John Xavier Francia

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