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


— Oscar M. Lopez
Chairman, Lopez Group Foundation, Inc.

 
 

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.
 
First Philippine Holdings Corporation

First Philippine Holdings Corporation

4/F Benpres Building, Pasig City, Philippines
Telephone: (+63 2) 631 8024 to 30
Website: www.fphc.com.ph

Incorporated in 1961, First Holdings (the former Meralco Securities Corporation) serves as the leading private sector holding company in the development of the country's utilities and infrastructure. Its power generation subsidiary, First Gen Corporation, is now the largest Filipino independent power producer with a capacity of 1726.6 MW. Its power distributor, the Manila Electric Company (MERALCO), has a franchise area producing 49% of the country's GDP. Its new tollway subsidiary , the Manila North Tollways Corporation, modernized and operates the longest toll road in the country with a 433 lane-kms. Capacity. First Holdings also has strategic initiatives in manufacturing, property, and services.

The corporation's goal is to create new wealth for its stakeholders and the country by engaging in businesses that provide goods and services for the local and global markets. The business focus is on vital needs for national development in the areas of energy, infrastructure and supporting industries. The company maintains a profitable growth in these businesses by exploiting functional and management synergies and entering into strategic alliances with local and foreign groups. The corporate CSR programs include support to biodiversity conservation, education, poverty alleviation, and health. This involved provision of a mobile eye van; reforestation project at Bamban; assistance to Bantay Kalikasan; and Paliparan III Site Integrated Community Development Program.