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Your company can help!
You only need to make a choice.
Job
/ Employment Generation
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Direct
hiring by companies and their suppliers of trained workers from
the communities |
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B.
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Sub-contracting
arrangements between companies, government/private offices,
subdivisions, etc. and homeowner associations for janitorial
services, repacking, landscape maintenance, manufacturing of
goods, food services, etc. |
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C.
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Dealership
- retailing of company products by the community |
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Employee
Volunteering
Employee volunteering
is an opportunity for employees to devote their time, skills and
resources, and perform activities recognized by the company to serve
its internal and/or external communities.
STEP-UP will need volunteers for:
A. |
Construction
of houses, community infrastructure, etc. |
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B.
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Business
planning, leadership training, bookkeeping, design |
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concepts,
etc.
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C.
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Feeding,
medical and dental mission, risk mitigation and |
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response
training
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D. |
Engineering
services, architectural designs, etc. (Technical |
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assistance)
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E.
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Use of
heavy equipment |
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Technical
assistance and use of heavy equipment are treated as restricted
contributions to STEP-UP. |
Stakeholdership
CEO or senior
officer participation/membership in city-level multi-sectoral groups
and business consensus group. This is a venue for them to engage
the other key stakeholder institutions operating in the city (i.e.
local government units, non-government organizations, church, academe)
on discussing and resolving priority development issues. CEOs’/officers’
time and expertise will be considered as contribution to the program.
We also welcome
Gift-In-Kind
- distribution of products that are needed by the
community
Funding
support to livelihood / employment generating activities
Company adopts
the entire community in terms of physical infrastructure (road and
drainage, etc.); community facilities (daycare centers); livelihood
and housing needs; technical assistance (engineering, house design,
systems development, business planning); volunteerism
Financial Assistance
on: road and drainage, water system, community center, open spaces/parks
development, landfill materials
Housing assistance
- small grants for repair and upgrading of houses
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“I
am proud of the project because unlike many for so-called
poverty reduction, here the help is pinpointed… there
is accountability, there is a scorecard. We are departing
from the mentality of a dole out.”
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Juan
B. Santos,
Former
PBSP Trustee and Chair of STEP-UP Program, Chair
Nestle Philippine |
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