Social Enterprise in the Philippines“Moving the Society Forward”

-It AIMS to directly

address social needs and other non-financial goals through their own products, services or through the work rendered by marginalized people or volunteer workers within the organization.

Social Enterprise

-originated by Bill Drayton (Founder of Ashoka Foundation)

Profit Maximization Business (Business Enterprise)

Business Enterprise with CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility)

Social Enterprise (Social Business)Non-Government Organization (For Profit)

Non-Government Organization (Non-Profit)

Definition from SENS:

A business that operates with an idea that the profits

earned by selling products or services serve to achieve a

clear social mission.

It means that earned funds do not serve to increase the

assets of individuals - but are invested in socially useful

purposes, such as hiring people who have difficulties in

finding a job, social and medical services, education,

environmental protection and cultural activities in the

community.

Social Enterprise

Social Entrepreneurs play the role of change agents in the social sector by:

Adopting a mission to create and sustain social value (not just private value)

Recognizing and relentlessly pursuing new opportunities to serve that mission

Engaging in a process of continuous innovation, adaptation and learning

Social Entrepreneurs play the role of change agents in the social sector by:

Acting boldly without being limited by resources currently in hand

Exhibiting heightened accountability to the constituencies served and for the outcomes created

Definition from House Bill No. 6085: MAGNA CARTA for SOCIAL ENTERPRISES

Social Enterprises refer to organizations engaged in providing

goods and services that are directly related to its mission of

improving social well-being.

-It generates profits or surplus with due regard to social and

environmental costs, and makes a pro-active contribution to

social and environmental problems.

PRIMARY Stakeholders/Beneficiaries: Marginalized Sector of

Society

Social Enterprise

How will the Bill help the Social Enterprise Sector?

Provision of accessible non-collateralized loans thru special credit windows with a Guarantee Fund Pool

Comprehensive insurance system to reduce vulnerability to climate change/calamities

Resources for comprehensive capacity development for SEs and poor as partners

Proactive SE market development program promoting principles of fair trade

How will the Bill help the Social Enterprise Sector?

R&D on strategic economic subsectors, appropriate technologies and innovations to democratize access of poor to quality basic social services

Preferential treatment in government procurement including coverage of performance bonds

Tax exemptions and tax breaks

Cash incentives (i.e. at least 25% of minimum wage for social enterprises employing PWDs)

Social Entrepreneurs in the Philippines

Tony Meloto

Social Entrepreneur of the World (World Entrepreneurship Forum, 2012)Chairman of Gawad Kalinga Foundation

Founded in 2008 by: Anna Meloto-Wilk, her husband Dylan and her

sister CamillePrimary Goal:

To use business to build a better Filipino society, especially for the poor

Core Principles: Pro-Philippines

Pro-PoorPro-Environment

-Products are 100% manufactured in the country and raw materials are sourced locally

-Employs several Gawad Kalinga (GK) residents from GK Enchanted Farm in Angat, Bulacan

-Empowers GK farming villages to grow and produce high-standard ingredients

-Sourcing some of the essential oil ingredients from local farmers’ cooperatives in Bicol and in Negros (ex. Citronella Oil for Citronella Bug Spray)

Pro-Philippines

-Employs GK residents from nearby communities in QC and provides fair living wage more than the minimum wage required by law and full time benefits

-Helps marginalized farmers through partnership with PFEC and AIDF (Philippine Federation and Environmental Concern)(Alternative Indigenous Development Foundation, Inc)

-Human Nature provided a Php 300,000 grant to AIDFI that will help increase their lemongrass oil production to another farm in Murcia, Negros Occidental.

-Its GOAL is to develop multiple farms that will grow an industry for Philippine essential oil and extracts.

Pro-Poor

-All the raw materials are naturally-derived, free from toxic chemicals and environmentally-friendly.

-Guarantees the integrity of the products through placing the natural seal on its product labels

-Uses PET recyclable bottles in packaging their products-supports “Balik Bote, Bigay-Buhay” Program

Pro-Environment

1. Ingredients are biodegradable and at least 95% natural (the same standard set by the Natural Products Association in the USA).

2. The ingredients come from a renewable resource with no petroleum compounds, and are also processed in a way that doesn't harm the environment.

3. A product may contain a "non-natural" ingredient, but is only permitted if there is no readily available natural alternative, at which point, the ingredient meets strict criteria on human and environmental safety and biodegradability.

It gives awareness to the product users the ingredients used .

Natural Products

Product Ingredients: What’s IN and What’s NOT?

Synthetic Chemical

What It Does To You

Human Nature’s Natural Alternatives

LEGEND:

Bayani Brewrefreshing brewed beverages

Social Enterprise Partners:

Trese – t-shirt merchandise

Kape Maria- coffee

Red Carpet- specializes in locally-made furnishings, weaving items that utilizes indigenous deisgn and materials

Gourmet Keso

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Achievements of Social Enterprises in the Philippines

Built sturdy structured-homes in clean and beautifully landscaped communities

Achievements of Social Enterprises in the Philippines

Families were able to send their children to school

No longer poor, no longer hungry

Let us support and patronize the products of our local social entrepreneurs.

Let us support Gawad Kalinga’s nation-building operations through volunteering.

Collect and surrender empty plastic bottles in your village to these social enterprises and they will convert it to a recyclable material.

Fundraise for them to support social improvement activities.

Sponsor an event. Generous donations.

How will you help change the world?

http://www.gk1world.com/home http://humanheartnature.com/buy/content/category/advocacy http://www.sens.rs/en/social-entrepreneurship http://

socialbusinesssummit.net/venue/enchanted-farm-social-businesses

http://www.pef.ph/phocadownload/Social-Enterprise-Bill_HB-6085.pdf

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