Oscar Moreno Lopez, a famend businessman and president and chairman of First Philippine Holdings Corp. (FPHC) has made a reputation within the Philippine enterprise neighborhood. Greater than the successes for which FPHC has attained, nonetheless, Mr. Lopez additionally endeavored in serving to tackle the nation’s social considerations, as seen in his management of foundations that sought to reply to the wants of communities, in addition to protect and enrich the nation’s artwork and tradition.
The Eugenio Lopez Basis, the place Mr. Lopez served as chairman and president, homes the Lopez Museum and Library. The museum consists of native collections together with gadgets belonging to Jose Rizal and artworks from Juan Luna and Felix Hidalgo, and hundreds of artwork collections as properly. As an honor to proceed the legacy of its founder Don Eugenio Lopez, Sr., the muse was established to help, promote, and enhance Filipino artwork and tradition.
The muse additionally has packages that concentrate on serving to people perceive and recognize native artwork, particularly the Tradition and Artwork Schooling Program, which supplies numerous workshops and discussions on artwork and tradition, and the Dialog Program, which carries out conservation analysis and evaluation of artworks and digitization of artwork sources.
One other social and charitable group the place Mr. Lopez served is the Lopez Group Basis, Inc. (LFGI). As the company social duty arm of the Lopez Group of corporations, LFGI supervises the group’s CSR packages, which concerned addressing points from the power, actual property, communication, and manufacturing trade.
In keeping with the Philippine Council for NGO Certification (PCNC), the muse accomplishes its targets via partnership and CSR initiatives so as to promote and protect cultural heritage.
Lately, LGFI is placing these into motion by incorporating volunteerism and scholarships. As an illustration, the muse’s packages embrace livelihood help, scholarships, coaching of households and individuals with disabilities, and donations for amenities. Furthermore, the institution of LGFI aligns with the precept and beliefs of the Lopez household, which values nationalism and public service.
Maybe his most notable social contribution is the Oscar M. Lopez Middle for Local weather Change Adaptation and Catastrophe Threat Administration Basis, Inc., extra often known as the OML Middle, in 2012. He envisioned this group as “an establishment that will help the era of the science and expertise wanted for constructing resilient communities.”
Among the many middle’s packages embrace Mission Upturn, which intends to create a list of native local weather adaptation practices within the nation; Sea Degree Rise Mission, which goals to equip decision-makers in coastal cities with sensible data to assist their communities adapt to local weather change’s affect on rising sea ranges; and the Local weather Resilience Problem, a daily seek for options that construct and improve the nation’s local weather resilience.
In a speech on “Skilled Ethics for Strategic Leaders” delivered in 2012, which might be accessed by way of lopez-holdings.ph, Mr. Lopez pressured how essential it’s for corporations to uphold social duty and assist remedy social and environmental points.
“Any enterprise, can solely survive for so long as it is ready to serve the wants of society in a fashion that’s accepted by society as reliable and invaluable,” he stated.
“For the Lopez Household, it has by no means been concerning the wealth or the cash. Reasonably, it has been about having companies that can endure and outlast us, companies capable of serve the wants of society in an sincere and legit approach. Because of this we’re so specific about our price system, our so-called Lopez Method,” he added.
“With out that anchor, with out the stabilizing affect of a price system that embodies our historical past and the legacy of those that have preceded us, we might not have the ability to suppose long-term; we might not have the ability to suppose strategically. This, in the end, is the worth of moral rules, in strategic management.” — Angela Kiara S. Brillantes