SC Johnson & Son, Inc. is a corporate partner of the AmCham Foundation in its Educational Assistance Program for poor but deserving Filipino youth. It has sent 20 youths yearly for a vocational course at Don Bosco Technical Institute (DBTI) and for about 16 years already they are able to reached out more than 100 scholars. Every year they provide tuition, school miscellaneous and graduation fee, school uniform with supplies and bag, as well as OJT allowance if needed and other psycho-social activities.
Chevron Philippines Inc. is a corporate partner of AmCham Foundation since 2015 in its Social Investment program that values the health, safety, and education of communities where it does business.
Chevron and AmCham Foundation’s youth development and education program has responded to the call of Department of Education for private sector participation in public education by developing a project entitled the Caltex “Fuel Your School (FYS)” Energy for Learning program which would provide funding for classroom projects for the highest-need public senior high schools which is aligned with the goals of DepEd’s K to 12 Basic Education Program. Caltex Fuel Your School help thousands of high school students get quality learning equipment to keep them interested in key fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math – fields where Caltex own global network of operations require the most experts.
Through the years, Caltex Fuel Your School has reached 1.7 million student beneficiaries and 6, 086 educators in 148 schools across the country.
The Emerson as part of their corporate social responsibility activities offers to provide financial support to qualified and deserving college students under the Emerson Scholarship Program through ACFPI’s Youth Development and Education assistance initiatives. In support of ACFPI’s thrust to help its scholars find gainful employment after graduation, Emerson commits to hire the scholar into a suitable entry-level position after rendering their on-the-job training. Emerson provides tuition fee, monthly school and transportation allowance and OJT allowance to 89 scholars.
One of our Corporate Partners is Ford Group Philippines whose umbrella CSR program is Ford Motor Company and Globalgiving International Grant that provided school to work opportunity to disadvantaged but deserving out-of-school youth to become productive citizens and help contribute in nation building. The Ford scholarship grant was launched on June 2016 with 20 scholars and up to present were able to support 111 automobile mechanic students in Don Bosco – Technical and Vocational Education Training Center in Makati City. The scholarship grant offers full tuition fee, miscellaneous and graduation fee, on-the-job training allowance, school uniform with supplies and bag, and Ford E-Learning Entry Level Course required for Ford technicians which is an online Standardized Training and Resource System Examination consists of 10 different courses.
The partnership between Ford Group Philippines is not only limited to Scholarship Program but also extended to the Community Outreach Projects such as Medical and Dental Mission with Children’s Activities; Visit to the Elderly and the Abandoned, Distribution of School Supplies to the children’s in need, House Build or Refurbishing Project. These projects is helping the communities in terms of accessible and free medical and dental consultation as well as provision of free medicines and vitamins; helping the Home for the Elderly and the Abandoned for the basic needs as well as medicines of the residents elders; the House Build Project is helping the community residents in building their houses thru the “sweat equity” strategy. In all of these projects, Ford employees are involved by volunteering their time in giving back to the community where their business mostly operates. Through the years, Ford Philippines and American Chamber Foundation is identifying and implementing projects that help improved the lives of the people in the communities.
Philip Morris Philippines Manufacturing Inc./PMFTC, Inc. started its partnership with AmCham Foundation in 2006 through the implementation of its Corporate Social
Responsibility (CSR) projects to the tobacco farmers and there families as well as to other related PMPMI CSR related initiatives. In 2010, the partnership grew into more than a million pesos worth of grants to implement their CSR projects such as disaster response, health and access to free medicines, livelihood support and training activities, education related projects and environmental initiatives. For disaster response, about 30,000 families who were affected by man-made or natural calamities were provided for relief goods. More that 500,000 families across the country received free medicines and had access to health care. Several regions in the country were given livelihood trainings and equipments to improve the income of marginalized Filipinos. More than 15,000 students received school supplies and more than 10 schools were repaired, repainted and even built additional classrooms. More than 75% of AmCham Foundation projects and activities are PMPMI/PMFTC funded.