REDWOOD SHORES, California - ABS-CBN Global North America, the U.S.-based subsidiary of ABS-CBN Broadcasting, the Philippines? largest entertainment and broadcasting company, announced last January 15 its search for its Gawad Geny Lopez Jr. Bayaning Pilipino sa America 2007.
This year, the criteria for the award will be much broader in scope. A new category has been created: the Outstanding Bayanihan Award (Spirit of Cooperation). It will focus on corporations, institutions and services that have contributed significantly to the well-being of the Filipino community in the U.S. or in the Philippines.
The new Outstanding Bayanihan Award
category was created to give the spirit of bayanihan a face. This award
also honors Filipinos residing
in the U.S. - or American citizens of
Filipino ancestry -who continue to remember their roots through selfless public
service for their less fortunate Filipino brothers and sisters.
The Outstanding Bayanihan Award shall be
conferred on a program or service that is either ongoing or a project that had
been completed by June 2006 through communal effort in the bayanihan spirit.
This program, project or service should have a measurable impact on a
sector or community in the Philippines or in overseas Filipino communities like
in the U.S.
The Bayaning Pilipino Awards was born in
the Philippines in 1994 when the late philanthropist and then ABS-CBN Chairman
Don Eugenio “Geny” Lopez Jr. and Fr. Nilo Tanalega, S.J. of Ugnayan at Tulong
para sa Maralitang Pilipino (UGAT) Foundation agreed to conceptualize a project
geared towards recognizing unsung Filipino heroes.
Raffy Lopez, ABS-CBN Global COO and
Managing Director for North America, has described Bayaning Pilipino nominees
as ‘unsung heroes of the Filipino-American community (who) embody all that is
good about humanity and inspire Americans of all types.’
The deadline of submission of nominations
is on March 30, 2007. For the criteria and nomination forms, please visit:
http://www.abs-cbni.com/bayaningpilipino2007/index.html.
Entries may be sent to: Bayaning Pilipino
Awards UGAT Foundation, Inc.
2/F ISO Annex Bldg., Social Development
Complex, Ateneo de Manila University Loyola Heights , Quezon City Or ABS-CBN
Global North America c/o Mitos Santisteban, Community Relations Manager 150
Shoreline Drive Redwood City, CA 94065
For more information, you may call ABS-CBN
Global North America’s Office of Community Relations at 650.508.6044.
