PLDT Innolab’s Academy is a learning center for key PLDT enterprise clients, offering value-added technical development classes. This gives your company’s IT personnel the opportunity to upgrade and refresh their knowledge on the management of various networking and communication technologies.
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SME Academy Resources
Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company–Innolab (PLDT Innolab)
Launched in 2003, Innolab is a place for PLDT customers to develop innovative ICT products and business solutions. It is a venue for testing and simulation of ICT products and services, learning through demos and hands-on experiences, training and education, and research, development, and collaboration. Innolabs currently operate in Baguio, Manila, Subic, Clark, Davao, and Cebu.
BPW Makati PH Mentoring Programs
BPW Makati PH Mentoring Programs
Philippines BUsiness for Social Progress (PBSP)
The PBSP is a community-group focused on using the community development model to reach its clients. It has a primary committment to fostering the establishment and improvement of local community organizations, such as various sorts of cooperatives, marketing groups, village-level NGOs involved in delivery of community services, education bodies and local professional and civic groups. PBSP’s credit-based income generating programme (CIGP) involvement is, therefore, largely one implemented at arms length through loans and grants to such organizations for CIGP purposes. PBSP also sees itself as being able to play an important part in poverty alleviation in the Philippines as a broker between micro-enterpreneurers in poverty and those domestic and foreign agencies in the formal modern economy that have resources currently denied the poor for one reason or another. In both the brokering role and as a direct lender to community-based groups, PBSP channels resources that are on-lent for income-generation purposes.
Foundation for a Sustainable Society, Inc (FSSI)
FSSI believes in providing opportunities to communities to improve people’s means of living in a sustainable manner and in scaling-up social enterprises. It provides: Enterprise Loan – is for acquisition of additional capital assets and for increasing working capital of an enterprise engaged in commodity production, processing and marketing. Loan amount is up to Php 20M. Maturity is 1 year to 5 years; and a Start-up Enterprise Loan – is intended to support up-scaling of a newly established enterprise that promises to contribute in improving participation of target social sector in a local value chain. Loan amount is up to Php3M. Loan maturity is up to 5 years; and more.
Department of Science and Technology
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) launched the Small Enterprise Technology Upgrading Program (SETUP) in response to the call for more focused programs of assistance for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). SETUP is a nationwide strategy to encourage and assist SMEs to adopt technological innovations to improve their operations and thus boost their productivity and competitiveness. The program enables firms to address their technical problems through technology transfer and technological interventions to improve productivity through better product quality, human resources development, cost minimization and waste management, and other operation related activities.
Active Alliance Finance Corporation
An SME loan package by the Active Alliance Finance Corporation.
Philippine Export-Import Credit Agency (PHILEXIM)
Guarantee Program for SMEs by PHILEXIM provide guarantees on short term loans to persons or entities licensed to engage in export-oriented activities, as well as activities which, in the determination of TIDCORP, promote and develop the capital goods and import-substitution industries.
Small Business Corporation (SBCorp.)
Programmes offered by SBCorp that caters to servicing SMEs in finance.
Panco de Oro Universal Bank (BDO)
Whether you want to expand your business or purchase additional inventory, BDO SME Loan offers you financing options with your business needs in mind. We provide loan facilities that can be used to help you manage your cash flow more efficiently or acquire property and equipment for higher productivity.