The PLDT Smart Foundation: Helping improve the well-being of the Filipino People. The PLDT Smart Foundation Inc. (PSF) is a non-stock, non-profit organization that serves as the social outreach arm of the country's oldest and largest telecommunications conglomerate, the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) and its wireless subsidiary, Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) . Led by PLDT and Smart Chairman Manuel V. Pangilinan, the PSF has worked through partnerships with non-governmental organizations, educational institutions and other groups in a number of diverse causes -- education, microfinance, sports, juvenile rehabilitation, disaster response, the environment, poverty alleviation and the arts. But all these endeavors have one goal -- to change the lives of Filipinos for the better. Read more


Events

April 16, 2010 - Deadline for submission of applications for both Employees Education Grant and for the MVP Academic Excellence Award

May 15, 2010 - Deadline for submission of entries for Cinemabuhay 2010

Message from the Chairman

"As a Foundation, we realize that the Philippines faces many problems. But we are determined to make an impact on the lives of as many Filipinos as possible with the resources we do have. No matter how daunting or intractable an issue may appear, we are optimistic that solutions can be found and that Filipinos, working together, can craft them." Read more