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Offshoring a philanthropic concept
Other than driving the economy, many businesses offer the additional value of philanthropy especially with the growing prevalence of corporate social responsibility. Adapting the concept of the BRIDGE program, Matthew Mee-Lee and Techmonde Corp. employees plan to open a whole new philanthropic possibility in the Philippines that has the potential to help a significant proportion of the destitute millions in the country.
Mee-Lee draws a blueprint that will enable the company and its employees to engage in community giving both through time and money. The concept is a rudimentary adaptation of the BRIDGE program which Matthew has learned from Steve Metter, CEO of MW Group, Ltd.
"We encourage employees to pick a local community program to donate their time to," he said. "And for every hour they spend in that program we pay in to a general pool and that money gets donated to another community program."
According to Mee-Lee, in a country where the immediate concern is to provide for the needs of the family, the principles that this program offers are a good way of instilling a sense of public service to the archetypal corporate employee, and Techmonde Corp. opened a separate but identical opportunity for social involvement.
By setting a culture of public service through the enactment of the BRIDGE program, Techmonde Corp. may establish itself as a unique kind of BPO, offering their services both privately and publicly. The gains gathered by the Philippine economy through its BPO industry may not be immediately and directly felt by the indigent population, but the added incentive of social responsibility engaged upon by offshore companies can make all the difference.
Sources:
Techmonde Corp. <http://www.techmonde.corp>
Business Process Outsourcing Association Philippines <http://www.bpap.org>
Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Philippines <http://www.outsourcing.ph>
Business Process Outsourcing in the Philippines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia <http://www.wikipedia.org>
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