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.

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.

Twenty one employees from First Philippine Holdings, Corp. and Lopez Group Foundation, Inc. traded a few hours of office work to paint the Nagpayong Elementary school in Pasig last June 6, 2008.

Mag-Trip Tayo sa Museums is a one-day museum visit program for public school teachers on February 24, 2007 (Saturday)hosted by the Zero In consortium project of the Ateneo, Ayala, Lopez, Museo Pambata and Bahay Tsinoy.

Korea's Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. gave the Philippines' Knowledge Channel Foundation Inc. (KCFI) a grant worth P2 million under its DigitALL Hope program, recognizing KCFI's "creative and innovative use of information technology to develop the lives of the youth."

The grant was turned over by Samsung vice president for Consumer Electronics, Dong Ha Jang in a ceremony at the Manila Peninsula Hotel in Makati in January. "We are all pleased with the progress we have made in bridging the digital divide and will work harder to empower others to do the same," Jang said.

The Lopez Memorial Museum, in cooperation with Museum Foundation of the Philippines, presents the ninth in the series Stories About Preserving Cultural Heritage on October 14, 2006, 2-4pm at the Lopez Library.

Fuzzy Logic opens on October 25, 2006 at the Lopez Museum and attempts to craft a tentative survey of how Filipino visual art and popular culture have, over time, weighed in on questions of craft, mechanization, industrialization and development, …

In a presentation before a United Nations conference and subsequently, before Filipino-American groups and international donors, Rina Lopez-Bautista, president and founder of Knowledge Channel Foundation Inc. (KCFI), shared her pioneering experience in the use of cable television in improving learning and comprehension of basic subjects in the elementary and high school levels all over the Philippines.

Phil-Asia Assistance Foundation, Inc.

It was in 1986, the country just broke free from the jaws of martial law, when the late Roberto “Roby” Moreno Lopez (youngest son of Eugenio H. Lopez, Sr.) came back from the United States. He was invited to head the Philippine counterpart of the Philippine International Aid (PIA) – a non-profit organization based in San Francisco, California. Roby agreed instantly and, according to the PIA newsletter, he “found a new meaning to his life.”

Roby, who was then a Trustee of the Eugenio Lopez Foundation and the Museum Director of the Lopez Memorial Museum, provided office space for the Phil-Asia Assistance Foundation, Inc. (or PAAFI) inside the Museum located at the ground floor of what was then called the Manila Chronicle building (Before it became Benpres Building).

In early 2004, Joy Ann Aquino, a 3rd Year student in E. Rodriguez High School in Quezon City, was watching an episode on the Knowledge Channel that featured sea snakes. Inspired by what she saw, Joy Ann set out to create a science project on sea snake venom and entered it into the 2004 Intel International Science and Engineering Contest (ISEC), a convention of over 1400 students from all over the world. Joy Ann was just a small Asian girl from a small Asian country, but on May 15, 2004 Joy Ann stood tall amongst a crowd of giants, as she turned the Philippines into the biggest little country in the world when she was named Grand Awardee for the 2005 Intel ISEC Awards.