Private Foundations

Children’s Hour
Website : http://www.childrenshour.org.ph

As a fundraising and grant-giving non-profit organization, Children's Hour Philippines, Inc. calls on companies and individuals to donate at least one hour of their earnings to projects that improve the lives of disadvantaged Filipino children. Children’s Hour has helped finance 545 projects and help over 609,617 children since its first campaign in 1999. Children’s Hour supports the reading program in Alabel, Sarangani, Libon, Albay, and helped improve the learning performance of children in Iriga City.

Love 14 Foundation
The Love 14 Foundation is a private charitable institution which supports various social outreach programs. It provides scholarships for tertiary education and also organizes the Search for Manila’s Five Loveliest. In 2006, Love 14 Foundation partnered with Synergeia and the Municipality of Claveria to help 1,750 grade one students become good readers in English. The program is their first in the Mindanao region.

Montinola and AMON Foundations
Driven by a common goal to share in the responsibility of improving opportunities of Filipino children to obtain quality education, the Aurelio Montinola Sr. Foundation and Amon Foundation entered into a partnership with the City Government of Iloilo and Synergeia Foundation to improve reading proficiency of grade one pupils of the District of Jaro in Iloilo. The Montinola family traces its roots from the community and has expressed its commitment to support in the locality’s development and progress.

The Montinola Reading Program was launched in December 2003 with 1,085 grade one pupil-beneficiaries. Since then, the program was scaled up by Mayor Jerry Trenas to cover the entire city.

Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP)
Website : http://www.pbsp.org.ph

The Philippine Business for Social Progress is a non-profit consortium of corporations leading the advocacy on and the practice of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate citizenship. It supports and implements programs in poverty alleviation, corporate citizenship, information technology and leadership in CSR.

To foster peace and promote community-based development in conflict areas, PBSP partnered with the Municipal Government of Barira and Synergeia Foundation to build a one classroom-building for Palangka Elementary School. The project aims to strengthen the capability-building efforts of the DIWA program by having the local government, parents and the community involved in the classroom construction. Through their own initiative, the Palangka PTCA built a stage/multi-purpose platform for use of the students.

PLDT Foundation
Website : http://www.pldt.com.ph

PLDT Foundation is the social outreach arm of the Philippine Long Distance and Telephone Company, the oldest and largest telecommunication firm in the country. Its biggest project is the Countrywide Development Wide Area Network (CODEWAN), which makes use of PLDT’s state-of-the-art fiber optic technology to provide NGOs and cooperatives with an efficient cost-effective medium for multi-sectoral collaboration.

Apart from technological infrastructure, PLDT Foundation also supports infrastructure programs for schools such as Palangka Elementary School. The construction of a classroom-building project is jointly implemented by PLDT Foundation, the Municipal Government of Barira and Synergeia Foundation. It aims to provide a more conducive learning environment for teachers and students, who have been holding classes in a wooden shed. It also aims to build the morale of the community where most of the structures have been badly damaged or completely destroyed due to rido (warring clans). The project enhances and complements the capability-building programs implemented through DIWA.

Rotary Club of San Juan North
True to its thrust of promoting literacy, the Rotary Club of San Juan North has partnered with Synergeia to implement a Reading Proficiency Program for 200 grade one pupils of Kabayanan Elementary School. The program incorporates a school-based education summit, teacher training, parents training and the provision of workbooks and teachers’ manuals. The program was launched in July 2005.

Splash Foundation
Website : http://www.splash.com.ph/foundation.php

Splash Foundation is the social development arm of health care and consumer goods giant Splash Corporation. At the forefront of corporate social responsibility, it has been providing livelihood, health and educational programs, community service and volunteer work.

Many children from Paglat, Maguindanao are now provided with school desks through the kindness of Splash Foundation.

Telengtan Foundation
Telengtan Foundation is the corporate social responsibility arm of Telengtan Brothers and Sons, Inc. The Foundation supports a Reading Proficiency program for 1,806 grade one pupils in South Upi, a fourth class municipality in the province of Maguindanao, ARMM. The upland municipality caters to Muslim and indigenous children (Iranon and Tiruray), who scored 33.0 percent in an English exam. The Telengtan Reading Program was launched in 2005.