Here’s what the guys behind Idea!s-Creatives have to say about their organization:
Idea!s is a social enterprise run by a group of young creative professionals who simply want to make people aware of the great stuff people are up to nowadays.
We provide multimedia communications solutions for development organizations. We construct strategically planned designs and materials that cater to the specific needs of cause-oriented organizations. By patronizing our services, our paying clients help us subsidize and support smaller organizations with their communications needs.
Why development organizations?
Because we believe in the positive change these organizations contribute to society. We believe these initiatives must be heard
MISSION AND VISION
Ultimately, we wish to see a society that is aware of and receptive to the different social issues and causes. We wish to see a public that is participative in addressing the different problems in society. We believe that one way of attaining this is through effective and focused communications.
Idea!s exists to empower non-profit organizations through creative, strategic communications. We seek to prime communications as the most potent advocacy and fundraising tool among non-profit organizations.
Find out more about the five originative brains helping to shape developmental communication and the way NGOs speak to their publics. Listen to the full interview here.
Visit the Idea!s-Creatives website for more information about their cause.
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Web-magazine mental_floss features “Fruit Pickers Under the Mango Tree”, painted by the prolific artist Fernando Amorsolo in 1937. Andrea Fernandes, mental_floss contributor, writes:
Visit mental_floss to read more on Fernando Amorsolo.Saturday marks the 117th anniversary of the birth of Fernando Amorsolo y Cueto (1892-1972). Amorsolo, who is described as “one of the most important artists in the history of painting in the Philippines,” was and continues to be one of the most popular Filipino artists.
Games were organized and prizes were given away to the children as they wait their turn for the medical check-up. This is the 2nd year that the Sun Valley-based CWL has organized such event in their township. The medical mission was held at the Avelino D. Tolentino gymnasium, May 23rd. 
Paranaque, Philippines - More than 200 disadvantaged children and adults received medical care from volunteer doctors and nurses at the recently held medical mission at Barangay Sun Valley, Paranaque. Organized by the Catholic Women’s League (CWL), the free medical intervention provided check-up, consultation, medicines and surgical circumcision to residents of the Paranaque village.
Noel Guevara talks about Pelicola.tv, the first internet television site in the Philippines.
Noel Guevara’s adult life centers mainly on the fulfillment of his childhood dreams. This has also been the focal point of his career as an entrepreneur. In 3rd year high school, Noel delved in to the world of freelance creative work, and eventually started his first business venture, Burnwater Design Studios, in 2002 with the help of a friend.
His passion for creative arts has translated to a profitable entrepreneurial endeavor. And with the foundation of Pelicola.tv, Noel is able to work with Philippine music greats such as Wolfgang in the internet television’s Alive at the Womb channel—something that he could only imagine during his younger years when he listened to the bands’ tunes.
It seems that everything has been moving on the right direction for Noel, but his successes as an entrepreneur and creative artist are not without their own share of sacrifice, compromise and hardship. But as a veritable entrepreneur, he faces the risks head on to do what he does best.
“Just do what you really want to do,” Noel, 26 years old, advised the younger generation. “Dreams are not meant to be kept in your head.”
“I think they should be pursued, but at the same time, don’t expect that it’s going to be easy. Accept that it’s going to be hard. But if you really believe in it, go for it.”
In this Greater Good Philippines interview, Noel talks about the important role that his family has played in molding his personality and shaping his mindset. He shares the significance of his work through Pelicola.tv in promoting Filipino creativity, and narrates the joys and pains of founding the first internet television site in the Philippines.
Learn more about Noel Guevara, executive producer of Pelicola.tv and executive director of Burnwater Design Studios, and his insights on faith, learning, mentorship, entrepreneurship and pursuing one’s passion—only here on Greater Good Philippines.
A born leader, Phillip “Boyet” Dy attributes his indelible sense of leadership to the most unconventional of source—a father he has never known well. Boyet’s dad passed away when he was nine years old, leaving behind only a curiosity of what his father was like as a political figure.
“To an extent, the only thing that I know about my father is that he was a leader,” Boyet said, during an interview with Greater Good Philippines. “My fiancée pointed out to me that maybe my deep interest in leadership is influenced by the fact that it is the only thing I know about my father and in a sense, getting to know more about leadership is getting to know about my dad.”
He has become an active student leader for most of his academic life and is now at the forefront of promoting social change and action through his web-based, youth-veered endeavor.
“As early as Grade 5 I was already running for student council position,” Boyet said. “Even now in my line of work we do leadership development and that is something that I have energy for. This love for leadership, this interest for leadership is pretty much connected to my family background”
Find out more about Boyet Dy, training manager for AIM’s TeaM Energy Center and co-founder of Duyan ng Giting and OneTama and his advocacies, only here on Greater Good Philippines.
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