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SGV & Co., the Philippine firm, has a history of over 58 years. To serve a wide-ranging clientele base that includes private and public listed companies and public sector organizations, the Firm offers the following:
- Assurance and Advisory Business Services
- Tax & Business Advisory Services
- Risk & Technology Services
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The SGV Foundation, Inc. (SGVF) was organized in 1966 to fulfill SGV & Co.’s commitment to social development, mainly through education.
SGVF firmly believes that the country’s greatest resource is its people, having “Investing in People” as its main thrust. This is the reason behind the Foundation’s full support for the Entrepreneur Of The Year program’s objectives to honor successful and civic-conscious entrepreneurs and to promote role models for aspiring entrepreneurs.
SGVF is a member of the League of Corporate Foundations, the Association of Foundations, and the Makati NGO Network, and is accredited by the Philippine Council for NGO Certification. SGVF is affiliated with CIVICUS, an international alliance dedicated to strengthening citizen action and civil society throughout the world
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The Asian Institute of Management (AIM) is the first and foremost graduate school of management in Asia, offering world-class graduate education that has molded Asia’s business, development, and entrepreneurial leaders and managers for more than 35 years.
Established in 1968 in partnership with Harvard Business School, the Ford Foundation, and visionaries of the Asian academic and business communities, AIM consistently makes it to the best-of-the-best lists for the exceptional quality of its full-time MBA, executive education, and Executive MBA. It has also pioneered in masteral degrees in development management and entrepreneurship.
AIM has been awarded accreditation by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS). In 2002, the World Bank selected AIM as its strategic partner in Asia with the establishment of the AIM-World Bank Global Distance Learning Center. The Asian Development Bank has also designated AIM as a center of excellence and a collaborator in delivering programs that cultivate progress in Asian societies.
AIM has received numerous citations, including the 1995 Ramon Magsaysay Award, and the 1st Beyond Grey Pinstripes Award for Business School Innovation in Social Impact Management. AIM is also the first graduate school of management in the world to be awarded ISO 14001 Certification for its Environmental Management System.
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The Bankers Association of the Philippines (BAP) provides a fundamental venue for member banks to raise and discuss the issues which affect commercial banking operations in the country. For more than 50 years, the BAP has been the unifying voice of the commercial banking industry in an environment where business interests and backgrounds among domestic banks and foreign banks, in particular, are profoundly diverse. The Association continues to serve as an integrative service provider to its 27 local and 14 foreign member banks
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The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) serves as the government's primary coordinative, promotive, and facilitative arm for trade, industry and investment activities. It acts as the catalyst for intensified private sector activity to accelerate and sustain economic growth through a comprehensive industrial growth strategy; a progressive and socially responsible liberalization and deregulation program; and through policies designed for the expansion and diversification of both domestic and foreign trade.
DTI sees its role as business and consumer champion guided by its 5-point action strategy, namely:
- Promoting and developing business, with focus on SMEs
- Preparing for the Knowledge Economy
- Lowering the cost of doing business
- Ensuring consumers get the best value for money, and
- Upgrading the quality of DTI governance.
The end goal is to grow and expand Philippine trade and industry as the means to generate jobs and raise incomes, so that Filipinos may enjoy continuing improvements in their quality of life.
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Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) is a private and nonprofit foundation dedicated to promoting business sector commitment to social development. Organized in 1970 by 50 of the country’s prominent business leaders, it has since become one of the nation’s largest and most influential business-led social development foundations. From 50 member-companies, PBSP has grown to more than 180 members, worked with some 2,900 partner organizations, provided over Php4.8 billion in financial assistance which has supported over 4,900 projects that benefit close to 2.8 million poor households. Rising above traditional welfare approaches, PBSP promotes the philosophy of efficiency, self-help and participation in improving the quality of life of the underprivileged. Its guiding principle is “Helping People Help Themselves.”
For more than three decades, PBSP has been the business sector’s vehicle in delivering organized, professional, and sustainable assistance to the landless farmers, fisher folk, rural workers, urban poor, and indigenous cultural communities. It has harnessed partnerships among the government, NGOs, civil society and donor institutions to expand the impact and relevance of its work on poverty alleviation. PBSP has found its niche in the practice and promotion of corporate citizenship, through which it has been able to help companies integrate corporate social responsibility (CSR) within their business operations, and to look at core business policies and practices in the light of their impact on society, on the environment and on development in general.
