{"id":4067,"date":"2018-04-02T09:34:21","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T09:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/?p=4067"},"modified":"2018-04-02T09:34:21","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T09:34:21","slug":"bpi-sinag-year-4-scales-up-to-celebrate-bpi-foundations-40th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/bpi-sinag-year-4-scales-up-to-celebrate-bpi-foundations-40th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"BPI Sinag Year 4 scales up to celebrate BPI Foundation\u2019s 40th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

BPI Foundation, the social innovation arm of the Bank of the Philippine Islands, announced the launch of the 4th<\/sup> year of BPI Sinag, its flagship program that accelerates social enterprises, or businesses creating products and services that aim to make a social impact in a sustainable manner, targeting the triple bottom-line of people, planet, and profit.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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(From left) StreetPark Productions Inc. President, John Aguilar, StreetPark Productions Inc. Vice President Monica Hipolito-Aguilar, Start Up Village Director Carlo Calimon, Business Banking Vice President Bong Lualhati, BPI Foundation Executive Director Maricris San Diego, Villgro Co-Founder and CEO Priya Thachadi, BPI Direct BanKo Vice President Rod Mabiasen, BPI Foundation Associate Director Tessa Calalang, BPI Sinag Prorgam Manager Sarah Alli, Bayan Academy Program Director Basil Soriao, and Bayan Academy Executive Director Philip Felipe<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

To mark BPI Foundation\u2019s 40th<\/sup> anniversary, BPI Sinag 2018 reached out to new social enterprises, launched new opportunities, enlisted new partners, and moved to strengthen the social enterprise ecosystem in the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cSocial enterprises are businesses with hearts for communities and the environment.\u201d said Maricris San Diego, BPI Foundation Executive Director. \u201cThey drive inclusive growth by approaching social problems with a business approach, helping ensure their sustainability. By helping them accelerate through BPI Sinag, they can get a better chance to be competitive businesses and impactful community-builders.\u201d<\/p>\n

This year, BPI Sinag aims to deepen its impact and reach out most especially to social enterprises in the agribusiness, healthcare, energy, and education sectors.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are priority sectors that we have identified as having the most potential to make a great impact in our country today,\u201d said San Diego. \u201cOur challenge for these social enterprises is to move beyond simply alleviating poverty and into creating wealth for Filipinos.\u201d<\/p>\n

To reach out to more social enterprises nationwide, BPI Foundation will conduct road shows from April 4 to 13 in the following cities: Cebu, Iloilo, Davao, Cagayan De Oro, Baguio, and Pampanga.<\/p>\n

New this year is the \u201cfast track opportunity\u201d where participants in these roadshows will present their business proposals for their social enterprises in a 7-minute elevator pitch, securing for them automatic inclusion in the BPI Sinag Top 40.<\/p>\n

Based on their performance, social enterprises will be shortlisted as Top 40, then Top 20 finalists, until BPI Foundation finds its Top 10 awardees for 2018. Five of these will receive Php 100,000 each, while the top 5 will get Php 500,000 each. They will also receive cash grants and continued mentorship to set themselves up for success. Just like last year, BPI Foundation will continue to offer special access to market for these SEs by inviting them to events such as the annual BPI Sinag ng Pasko, where they can offer their products and services directly to consumers in time for the holiday season.<\/p>\n

Partnering with BPI Foundation for BPI Sinag 2018 are BPI Business Banking and BPI BanKo, Bayan Academy for Social Entrepreneurship and Human Resources Development (BAYAN Academy), a social development organization that will spearhead the business workshops, Villgro Philippines, a social enterprise incubator which will help design and implement the BPI Sinag road shows, and business accelerator StartUp Village.<\/p>\n

Since its launch last 2015, BPI Sinag has been able to reach out and assist 138 social enterprises nationwide. BPI Foundation is reaching out to all of them in its first BPI Sinag Alumni Reunion. The event will be an avenue where all social entrepreneurs who participated in BPI Sinag years 1-3 can meet again after their time in the business challenge and share updates on their journey after finishing the program.<\/p>\n

Those interested to join BPI Sinag can submit their entries through the www.sinag.bpifoundation.org<\/a> or email info.bpisinag@gmail.com<\/a>. Deadline of entries is on April 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BPI Foundation, the social innovation arm of the Bank of the Philippine Islands, announced the launch of the 4th year of BPI Sinag, its flagship program that accelerates social enterprises, or businesses creating products and services that aim to make a social impact in a sustainable manner, targeting the triple bottom-line of people, planet, and profit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1570,2005,219],"class_list":["post-4067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsmakers","tag-bpi","tag-bpi-foundation","tag-csr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4069,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067\/revisions\/4069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}