As I was reviewing my short presentation for the CSR Audit I made for my company, I am happy to realize that my Company is able to contribute a lot to the society. At the moment we have tie ups with several non profit institutions. Below is an excerpt from the CSR audit paper I made to highlight the existing CSR programs we have:
Good Works - The CSR
Program
JPMorgan Chase in the Philippines has been actively engaged
in doing good works in targeted communities partnering with different
non-profit organizations locally for community development, education, culture
and arts. Its social initiatives locally ranges from providing literacy
programs for underprivileged children to improving health and nutrition habits
in children and adults, and training local residents to become entrepreneurs.
JPMorgan Chase Philippines is also a founding donor to The
Mind Museum, which provides grants for the construction of the. Partnering with
Ayala Foundation, the Firm also works to improve the public school system by
providing teacher-training programs under the Center for Excellence in Public
Elementary Education (CENTEX) schools.
JPMorgan Chase Philippines has also partnered with World
Vision. At present, some 500 children are benefiting from the Firm’s community
development program in Baseco, Tondo by providing these children access to
education, health and nutrition as well as livelihood projects for the families.
The Firm has also engaged with ABS-CBN Bayan Academy for
“Entrep-Eskwela,” a social entrepreneurship education program that includes
training programs for grassroots entrepreneurship and management. A unique
feature of the program involves JPMorgan Chase employees mentoring community
residents on growing their livelihood projects to become real enterprises. JPMorgan
Chase also has an active participation on Gawad Kalinga’s projects. On several
occasions JPMorgan Chase employees get invitations to participate on GK’s
community building projects on several locations within and around Metro
Manila.
Apart from these tie-ups and partnerships with non-profit
organizations, JPMorgan Chase Philippines also initiates its own CSR programs.
Regular CSR programs include:
a.
Book drive
b.
Back to school program
c.
Sole for souls
d.
Donation drive and fund raising for calamity
victims.
e.
Tree planting
Book drive and back to school programs are usually initiated
before school year starts. The committee solicits used text books and school
supplies to be given to underprivileged school children and assist them on
their basic need to start the school year. Sole for souls is a program which
intends to provide slippers, a basic foot ware, to the needy children on remote
areas of the country. Lastly, tree planting activities are done once in a while
in selected areas to address environmental concerns. To further promote the CSR
program of the Firm, a committee is being maintained to drive the different advocacies.
Employees are asked to regularly update their profile on the web portal which
asks them to indicate their areas of interest, schedule and availability to see
which activities they can fit in and contribute to. Participation on the
different activities is voluntary.
Though we are actively performing CSR activities along with other organizations, I believe we can still do better by having our own program which will have more impact to the society by making them more self sufficient and improve their living. This can be done by giving them livelihood programs. We can adopt a number of baranggays around the site and each department can be in charge of one baranggay. Another improvement that our Company can consider is taking better care of the environment. Free drinks and coffee are given to employees and we have vendo machines on every floor of the building. Vendo machines make use of paper cups. I thought of why not make use of reusable tumblers instead? We can ask employees to bring their own tumblers and this will reduce the amount of garbage produced. At the same time, trees can be saved. This is a very simple initiative yet, would impact the environment a lot.
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