Author: Mariel Vincent Rapisura

SEDPI Internship Program for Future Development Leaders

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Objective:

• Hone professional skills and strengthen interpersonal relationships of incoming junior and senior students in professional settings as applied in the context of development work
• Contribute to the achievement of social and commercial goals of social enterprises in the Philippines

Internship Design:
• Training on Leadership and Development Management will be provided
• Sessions on proper project management to attain project outputs set for the internship
• Weekly mentoring from the President and CEO
• Monthly team building sessions
• Field exposure to gain thorough understanding of development work
• Incentive scheme for attainment of internship program outputs
• Competitive allowance for the entire duration of the internship

Eligibility:
• Incoming junior or senior college student of any university
• Good academic performance on the area of internship being applied for
• Related experience such as class output or part time work to show competency in the internship program applied for

Internship Duration: May 8 to July 8, 2015

Internship Programs
There would be three teams composed of three to four team members in the internship program. The teams will be assigned specific areas of work that will be supervised throughout the internship program. The interns will participate in the design, planning, implementation and evaluation stages of project management. Relevant exposure trips will be extended to the interns to gain first hand understanding and contextualize their work in the greater scheme of development work. The three teams are the Information System Team, Graphic Design Team and Marketing and Communications Team.

THE TEAMS

Information System Team

The Information System Team will develop programs and applications, design databases, animations and websites that will enable SEDPI to improve efficiency when servicing microfinance institutions, social enterprises and social investors.

Possible Project Areas:
• Development of a website that will serve as information portal for social enterprises in the Philippines
• Development of a database management in monitoring social investments of SEDPI Development Finance
• Create simple phone apps that can be used in financial literacy
• Make SEDPI existing information system web-based
• Animations for SEDPI’s online courses

Graphic Design Design Team

The Graphic Design Team will create paraphernalia that will be used to enhance the visual aid tools of SEDPI. It will involve the design and development of comic book characters; creation of visuals to create more attractive presentations; and crafting infographics based on SEDPI research results. The team will work on the SEDPI’s branding manual to ensure consistency. Thee team will also closely coordinate with the Information System team for the development of animations and with the Marketing and Communications team to provide support in producing marketing paraphernalia.

Possible Project Areas:
• Character development for comic books on financial literacy
• Design and layout of comic books on financial literacy
• Creation of infographics based on SEDPI researches in social entrepreneurship, microfinance and financial education

Marketing and Communications Team

The marketing and communications team will be in charge of developing, planning and initial implementation of a marketing and communications plan for SEDPI.

Project Areas:
• Social media engagement
• Marketing plan for the following SEDPI products: training events; publications and consulting services
• Mount one training event on financial literacy
• Create marketing and communications plan to launch a book on financial literacy

APPLICATION PROCESS

DATE                     DESCRIPTION
April 12, 2015        Deadline for the submission of letter of intent and resume
April 15, 2015        Announcement of short-listed applicants
April 25, 2015        Deadline of submission of pre-internship questionnaire and sample work
April 30, 2015        Announcement of accepted interns
May 8, 2015           Start of Internship Program

Kindly use the file naming convention described below when sending letter of intent and resume. Applicants who don’t follow will not be shortlisted.
• For the Letter of intent: lastname firstname loi team (ex. garcia randolf loi information system OR garcia randlof loi graphic design OR garcia randolf loi marketing)
• For the resume: lastname firstname resume team (ex. garcia randolf resume information system OR garcia randlof resume graphic design OR garcia randolf resume marketing)



Send letter of intent and resume to info@sedpi.com.

PricewaterhouseCoopers Awards Special Recognition to SEDPI

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SEDPI Development Finance, Inc. (SDFI), the financing arm of SEDPI Group of Social Enterprises, received special recognition from the First Development Social Enterprise Awards (DSEA) held on March 4, 2015 at the Kalayaan Hall, Club Filipino in the City of San Juan. DSEA aims to recognize organizations that are committed to a social objective and are multipliers of social progress through their enterprises.

PricewaterhousCoopers (PwC) Philippines or Isla Lipana & Co. (ILC) and Benita and Catalino Yap Foundation, Inc. (BCYF) team up to support social enterprises through the DSEA. PwC/ILC and BYCF seek to recognize organizations with a culture centered on human value, and that exists to create societal impact alongside an ethical and viable business model. These social enterprises include organizations that have not only demonstrated consistent success, but have shown a commitment to scale up.

There were 27 nominated organizations for the awards. Two SEDPI partners were also nominated for the awards – Solar Solutions, Inc. (SSI) and Good Food Community, Inc. (GFC). GFC was hailed as one of the five finalists for the award. SEDPI actively participated in the incubation of SSI and GFC.

Senator Paolo Benigno “Bam” Aquino IV led the panel of judges for the selection of the awardees. He also delivered the keynote address during the awards night.

PwC is a multinational professional services network. It is the world’s second largest professional services network, as measured by 2014 revenues, and is one of the big four auditors, along with Deloitte, Ernst and Young and KPMG. ILC is the local partner of PwC in the Philippines.

Dahil sa LSE, Tagumpay! Tumigil na ang abuso sa padala

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The LSE Program has helped transform the lives of Overseas Filipinos. Many of our graduates have overcome the burden of debt, saved enough emergency savings and availed of adequate insurance coverage. Aside from these, the participants were also taught how to practice leadership and come up with a social enterprise plan.

The program is implemented under the Ateneo School of Government in partnership with Philippine consulates and embassies abroad, civil society organizations and SEDPI.

To learn more of the program, click here.

To register, click here.

“Dahil sa LSE, Nanumbalik ang Tiwala ko Sa Sarili”

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The LSE Program has helped transform the lives of Overseas Filipinos. Many of our graduates have overcome the burden of debt, saved enough emergency savings and availed of adequate insurance coverage. Aside from these, the participants were also taught how to practice leadership and come up with a social enterprise plan.

The program is implemented under the Ateneo School of Government in partnership with Philippine consulates and embassies abroad, civil society organizations and SEDPI.

To learn more of the program, click here.

To register, click here.

“Dahil sa LSE, Mas Naayos ang Plano Naming Pamilya”

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The LSE Program has helped transform the lives of Overseas Filipinos. Many of our graduates have overcome the burden of debt, saved enough emergency savings and availed of adequate insurance coverage. Aside from these, the participants were also taught how to practice leadership and come up with a social enterprise plan.

The program is implemented under the Ateneo School of Government in partnership with Philippine consulates and embassies abroad, civil society organizations and SEDPI.

To learn more of the program, click here.

To register, click here.

“Dahil sa LSE, Naka-ahon Ako sa Utang”

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The LSE Program has helped transform the lives of Overseas Filipinos. Many of our graduates have overcome the burden of debt, saved enough emergency savings and availed of adequate insurance coverage. Aside from these, the participants were also taught how to practice leadership and come up with a social enterprise plan.

The program is implemented under the Ateneo School of Government in partnership with Philippine consulates and embassies abroad, civil society organizations and SEDPI.

To learn more of the program, click here.

To register, click here.

“Dahil sa LSE, Nakapagtayo Ako ng Negosyo”

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The LSE Program has helped transform the lives of Overseas Filipinos. Many of our graduates have overcome the burden of debt, saved enough emergency savings and availed of adequate insurance coverage. Aside from these, the participants were also taught how to practice leadership and come up with a social enterprise plan.

The program is implemented under the Ateneo School of Government in partnership with Philippine consulates and embassies abroad, civil society organizations and SEDPI.

To learn more of the program, click here.

To register, click here.

PDTF Holds Review Workshop

On February 16-17, 2015, the People’s Development Trust Fund (PDTF) held a workshop to review current policies, practices, trends and action planning in Pasig City. Representatives from the basic sectors, accredited service providers and government agencies were present during the review workshop.

People’s Credit and Finance Corporation (PCFC) is mandated administer PDTF under Executive Order 110. PDTF is a fund created under the Social Reform and Poverty Alleviation Act (Republic Act 8425). The act mandates the development of nationwide network of viable and sustainable microfinance institutions and microenterprise business development service groups that are able to deliver effective and efficient microfinance services to the poor and help them develop enterprises.

SEDPI’s President and CEO, Mr. Mariel Vincent Rapisura, delivered input on “Sustainable Social Enterprise for the Economic Empowerment of the Poor through Capability Building.” SEDPI is an accredited service provider of the PDTF. Since 2008, SEDPI provided capacity building services to at least six microfinance institutions all over the Philippines. The microfinance institutions have a total outreach of 197,300 poor households. Mr. Rapisura emphasized in his talk the importance of enhancing market-based solutions to address social problems. The MFIs who benefited from PDTF were Agricultural and Rural Development for Catanduanes, Inc. (ARDCI), Kasagana-Ka Development Centre, Inc. (KDCI), Mount Carmel Rural Bank (MCRB), Progressive Bank, Inc. (PBI), Abuyog Saint Francis Xavier Credit Cooperative (AFCCO) and Community Rural Bank of Catmon (CRBC).

“Dahil sa LSE, Natuto Akong Pumili ng Tamang Insurance”

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The LSE Program has helped transform the lives of Overseas Filipinos. Many of our graduates have overcome the burden of debt, saved enough emergency savings and availed of adequate insurance coverage. Aside from these, the participants were also taught how to practice leadership and come up with a social enterprise plan.

The program is implemented under the Ateneo School of Government in partnership with Philippine consulates and embassies abroad, civil society organizations and SEDPI.

To learn more of the program, click here.

To register, click here.