(from left: Kuya Ben, Ptr. Angelo, Joan, Ivy, Joel, Jaylord, Lolo Larry Norton, Thomas Grime, Lola Ruthie, Ptr. Jonathan, Ptr. Mike, Sharon and Barbie)

On Eagle’s Wings Foundation founders Lolo Larry Norton, Lola Ruthie Vega-Norton, Thomas Grime and Ben Quinones give P10, 000 check as seed money to National Youth for Servant Leadership Inc. (NYSL) during the Bayanihan Supply Chain Conference & Trade Exhibit on November 14-15, 2008 at the College of Social Work and Community Development, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon city. During this activity OEWF founders and NYSL core group and members conducted a meeting with over 100 youth which resulted in the formation of 4 Bayanihan Centers (BC) in Caloocan (Carmelite-Tala BC, Jesus Generation BC, University of Caloocan BC, and Jesus Calvary BC). The seed money is used in financing microenterprises of NYSL members.

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We are a Washington State approved non-profit corporation that helps build the leadership and entrepreneurial capabilities of indigent or needy households in developing or less developed countries, especially the youth of those households.

We develop the self-help capacity of entrepreneurs of indigent or needy individuals through the provision of scholarship grants for training/education as well as technical and financial support for enterprise development.

On its first year of operations (2006), the Foundation provided charitable grants to one hundred thirty two (132) needy individuals, majority of them in their young teens or twenties in the Philippines, many of whom are out-of-school youth.

Our ongoing project in the Philippines, Bayanihan Savings Program, carried out by our partner organization National Youth for Servant Leadership (NYSL), organizes youth in academes, communities, churches, as well as out-of-school youth into Bayanihan Centers which inculcate leadership and entrepreneurial capabilities among its members. As of the end of 2008, NYSL has established 15 Bayanihan Centers with members ranging from 15 to 30 individuals per Center.

2009 and beyond: The Foundation will undertake two Bayanihan Youth Camps in 2009 to train leaders of Bayanihan Centers in organizing and conducting the Building Shared Vision (BSV) Learning Journey. Each Bayanihan Youth Camp will accommodate about 50 trainee-leaders.  The trainee-leaders will be deployed to various Bayanihan Centers to help in their institutional capacity building and outreach expansion.  With the equipping of Bayanihan Center leaders, NYSL projects the number of Bayanihan Centers to be established will double next year, 2010.

The nurturing of an enterprise is an ongoing concern, hence the Foundation has taken steps to make its development support more sustainable.  It has set up the OEWF Development Fund to channel institutional capacity building support to Bayanihan Centers including seed capital grants.

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by Paul Casuga

On March 5, 2009, the CSRSME Asia staff headed by Chairman Mr. Benjamin R. Quiñones, Jr. visited the Pinoy Pamilya Foundation’s (PPFI) financial centers in Calamba City, Laguna. During their visit, Mr. Quiñones talked about Building Shared Vision (BSV) with some 65 representatives from different PPFI financial centers in Calamba City and Los Baños, Laguna. Pastora Lenie Evangelista of PPFI, together with her volunteer workers and financial center representatives were also encouraged individually to share their own vision for a better Philippines.

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