A Brown Company, Inc. (ABCI) believes in the fundamental principle of loving and caring. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is basically part of ABCI’s corporate culture by practicing responsibility and accountability.
As a socially responsible corporate citizen, ABCI follows these four pillars of CSR:
Promotes responsible leadership
One that exemplifies integrity, values, spirituality and genuine concern of all the company’s business partners and stakeholders.
Heralds stewardship
Improves industrial peace in the work place
Builds relevance to society
Corporate Social Responsibility
A Brown Company, Inc. and its subsidiaries and associates employ a collaborative approach with the various sectors and communities they are engaged in. It has continued to undertake sustainable CSR programs that would further boost growth of its partner communities and stakeholders.
COVID 19 Molecular Laboratory in Philippine Red Cross - Cagayan de Oro Chapter
In 2020, the Company contributed to the installation of the 1st COVID19 Molecular Laboratory Facility in the region sometime 4Q 2020 as one of the flagship projects of the PRC – Cagayan de Oro Chapter to help contain the COVID-19 virus. ABCI shouldered the civil works of the lab.
ABCI Scholarship Program
Since 2011 the company has been providing scholarship to deserving students from the Higaonon Tribe in Kalabugao, Bukidnon and Opol, Misamis Oriental. The Company currently has 2 scholars attending Opol Community College. Since 2011, the Company’s scholarship program has sponsored 18 students of which 7 have graduated and obtained their college degrees in Business Administration and Education.
Blood-Letting Activity
Since 2009, in partnership with Philippine Red Cross, ABCI has organized an annual bloodletting activity dubbed “Dugong ABrown”. On its 11th year, the activity was held in Cagayan de Oro City on February 13, 2020, with a total of 67 bags of blood or 30,150 cc of blood were donated. Since the start of the program, a total of 89,100 cc or almost 598 bags of blood were donated by ABCI employees.
A Brown Employees Credit Cooperative (ABECCO)
The company supports and is instrumental in the creation of A Brown Employees Credit Cooperative (ABECCO). The employees’ coop serves as a vehicle of inclusive growth, driving development, encouraging & promoting self-help as an engine for economic growth and poverty alleviation
ABECCO is registered with CDA-10. From the initial 34 cooperators at the inception when organized in June 4, 2019, the membership has grown to 137 as of May 31, 2021. As credit coop, ABECCO promotes thrift and wise use of money and undertakes savings and lending services among its members. It generates a common pool of funds in order to provide financial assistance and other related financial services to its members for productive and provident purposes.