Aboitiz Foundation gets re-accreditation as coop training provider

The Aboitiz Foundation recently obtained a re-accreditation as a certified technical training provider from the Cooperative Development Authority (CDA).

The foundation is the first CDA-accredited corporate foundation in the country.

The re-accreditation means more cooperatives throughout the country will benefit from the free technical trainings that the foundation is providing through its Aboitiz Business Assistance and Guidance (ABAG) program.

The other program components are education and environment.

“The foundation has been actively encouraging community engagement, helping beneficiaries, and empowering them to have a better future. We will continue implementing this program as we want to inspire and help people help themselves,” said Aboitiz Foundation managing trustee and chief operating officer Sonny Carpio.

For more than 20 years, the foundation has been assisting small enterprising organizations nationwide to be self-reliant by giving them access to income-generating livelihood, job opportunities and capability building.

Technical trainings offered are basic cooperative course, cooperative management and governance, financial management, conflict management, parliamentary procedure, leadership and values reorientation, strategic planning, audit management, records management, entrepreneurial and business management, basic accounting for non-accountants, internal control, rules formulation, cooperative standards and policy development.

The foundation’s assisted cooperatives are required to undergo these trainings as a requisite for the renewal of their certificate of good standing.

Aboitiz Foundation Inc. is the corporate foundation of the Aboitiz Group.

For further information, visit website www.aboitizfoundation.org.