Author: Mariel Vincent Rapisura

Fundamentals and Methodologies of Microfinance Market-Based Financial Product Design and Development Delinquency Management Financial Analysis Accounting for Non-Accountants Branch Audit Branch Operations Branch Viability Business Development Services Business Planning for Microenterprises Cash Flow and Credit and Background Investigation Center Formation and Loan Application Process Character and Capacity-Based Lending Color-coded Bookkeeping System Conflict Management Customer Care…

Clarice finished her undergraduate degree in Sociology at the University of the Philippines Diliman, emerging as one of the honor students in her batch. Having finished her course in October, she then became a Research Assistant to her thesis adviser and then shifted her employment path from academe into corporate setting when she worked for…

Ann Carl Bailey graduated Cum Laude with a degree in Business Management Honors from the Ateneo de Naga University. Prior to joining SEDPI, she first worked as a business process associate for an insurance company. She later realized that her interests lie in development sector so she got involved with the eSkwela Project, a UNESCO Awardee…

Melinda Gabuya holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Legal Management and a minor degree in Cultural Heritage Studies from the Ateneo de Manila University. Prior to SEDPI, she worked for Smarter Good—a US Ashoka Fellow-led global enterprise that provides program and administrative services for social enterprises and non-profit organizations abroad. Her passion for the culture and…

Maria Kharmita Lising graduated from Ateneo de Manila University with a Bachelor of Arts major in Management Economics and minor in Financial Management. During college, she was involved in different socially-oriented organizations. She was Vice President for Projects of the Ateneo Special Education Society (SPEED), an organization that caters to children with special needs. Shortly…

Denise Subido graduated cum laude from Ateneo de Davao University (ADDU) with a degree in International Studies, major in Asian Studies.  She has worked as a research assistant to several sociology professors in ADDU and has interned with United Nations Development Program – Action for Conflict Transformation (UNDP-ACT) and the Philippine Overseas Employment Agency (POEA).…

Enid Kathleen Madarcos earned her degree on Sociology (cum laude) from the University of the Philippines at Los Baños. In her college years, she has been a student assistant and an intern for the International Rice Research Institute. After graduation, she worked as a researcher and writer for a company that profiled the municipalities in…

Florence Adviento finished her degree in Management Economics at the Ateneo de Manila University.  After graduation, she worked for the Corporate Banking Group of Metrobank, one of the country’s top commercial banks.  Shortly after her stay in the bank, she returned to SEDPI, having rendered volunteer work to it in its inception. As part of…

Edwin Salonga is the Chairperson of SEDPI Group of Social Enterprises, which includes development consultancy, socially responsible resource mobilization, social enterprise incubation, and foundation. His main competence is in social development, specifically in the fields of social entrepreneurship, financial education and microfinance. A lecturer at the Development Studies Program of the Ateneo de Manila University,…

Emilenn Kate Sacdalan-Pateño graduated with a double degree in Development Studies and Economics from the Ateneo de Manila University.  She completed her Master’s Degree in International Community Economic Development at the Southern New Hampshire University, United States of America.  At present, she is a lecturer at the Development Studies Program of the Ateneo de Manila…