Lifestyle Tips — social enterprise

Proudly Pinoy: Setting the Gold Standard in Local Products

The Good Store Christmas Bundles 2024 Proudly Pinoy: Setting the Gold Standard in Local Products With the success of our Filipino athletes at the recently concluded Olympics, Filipino Pride is at an all-time high. This proves that if we support local Filipino talent, we can achieve outstanding results. The same is true for our local products.   With the right attention and support, we will see local crafters, social enterprises, and indigenous communities flourish and achieve THE GOLD STANDARD in local product manufacturing.   This year, we have once again put together only the best products from local communities across...

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CHRISTMAS GIFTS THAT GIVE BACK TO THE COMMUNITIES

Christmas is the season for sharing, giving, and loving. We always want to show appreciation for the people we love and give them the best gifts for Christmas.   We have gathered only the best products from local communities all over the Philippines to give you an amazing set of Christmas gift suggestions for this year. Each of these curated gift bundles were carefully picked so you can be sure of their good quality.    But not only that! All of these products have a story and a community with a special cause that they support. This makes your purchase...

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Five Curated Gift Boxes for Any Occasion

Are you an HR manager looking for branded and curated gifts for your company’s events? Are you looking for tokens of appreciation for your guest speakers? Are you a business owner searching for gift items for your stakeholders, partners and suppliers? Are you having a hard time looking for a gift for your eco-warrior friend who is living a sustainable life? Do you want to give your foreign guests an all-Filipino gift box? If you answered yes to any of the questions above, then this is for you. We have here 5 curated gift boxes which are perfect for any...

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What is a Social Enterprise?

The co-founders of The Good Store with some of the local social entrepreneurs and community partners.   A 2015 report by The British Council describes the social enterprise scene in the Philippines as vibrant and growing. As early as 2007, there were already 30,000 registered social enterprises in the country as stated in the report. Ms. Maria Angela Flores of the PH British Council notes that the majority of these social enterprises are product or commodity-based. It is in these sentiments that they have founded the I am a Changemaker Social Enterprise Competition in 2009. Through that program, they were...

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