To survive, any business or corporation must be useful to the society it serves.


— Oscar M. Lopez
Chairman of the Lopez Group
 

For more than a century, the Lopez family has practiced the concept of private business reaching out to their communities and the nation, not only in times of calamities, but as customary behavior. It is a behavior they have accepted as the norm. See Lopez History

Through the years, philanthropy has shifted to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), focusing on equipping communities to stand on their own. The beneficiaries are treated not as dependents but are educated to become active partners for social development.

The CSR initiatives of the Lopez Group are aligned with the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals (or MDGs) in poverty alleviation, education, environment, and health. The Lopez Group is also a champion in advocacy through its worldwide media outlets.
 



Knowledge Channel turns over new ?Salam? videos to DepEd

KNOWLEDGE Channel Foundation Inc. (KCFI) continues its peace building advocacy by producing three new video episodes of “Salam,” peace education modules incorporated into Knowledge Channel's Makabayan/Values curriculum slot in public elementary schools.

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Art Lecture on Conservation of Architecture on Aug. 16

The first ever Fine Arts School of the University of the Philippines (U.P.) called the Escuela De Bellas Artes is one fine example of conservation of architecture. Built in 1867, the two-story bahay na bato structure was designed by Felix Rojas, the first Filipino to earn an architectural degree. It also served as the residence of the first dean of the school of fine arts. The school eventually moved from R. Hidalgo St. in Quiapo to Padre Faura campus of UP, dooming Bellas Artes to its derelict state of neglect, disrepair and abandonment.

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CSR Lecture: Companies Should Go Buff

In a time when the slightest error of a company could be exposed worldwide with a click of a mouse, Bradley Googins -- the Executive Director of the Center for Corporate Citizenship in Boston College, suggests companies to “go buff” before getting “stripped.” Googins talked to 28 executives in the Lopez Group about the “Winning Strategies in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)” during a lecture on July 17, 2008 organized by Lopez Group Foundation, Inc. (LGFI).  

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Response to Typhoon Frank Update: Tapping Micro Entreprenuers for Relief Supply

What better way to help those stricken by typhoon Frank by tapping the micro enterprises? 55 year old Abelina G. Cacao, a micro-entrepreneur assisted by ABS-CBN Bayan Foundation, was mostly selling blankets and bed linens door to door. Like the erratic weather, sometimes her income spikes favorably, and sometimes she has to pack her products and admit that it wasn’t just her day.

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