FPIP’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs are designed to improve the living condition of families in the host and nearby communities in Sto. Tomas and Tanauan City, and also to strengthen rapport with local officials and leaders.

The proactive CSR programs are anchored on nine major areas: capability building, employment, cooperative and livelihood, scholarship, small infrastructure projects, health and environment improvement, and sports development.

Since its initiation in 1999 to this date, FPIP’s CSR has already gained considerable mileage, evident in its accomplishments and recognitions such as the PEZA Award for Outstanding Community Project for 2000, 2001 and 2002 and for Environment Performance for 2002, 2005 and 2007. One priority aim of FPIP CSR is to enable the community people to stand on their own and make themselves socially and economically empowered.

Such is the background of one of the five people’s organizations organized by FPIP— the Bayanihan Multi-purpose Cooperative (MPC) in Brgy. Laurel, one of the seven host communities. The cooperative started its sewing livelihood project with a meager collective working capital of P12,500, with a few members using their own sewing machines as voluntary contribution. To bolster their operations as the cooperative is commissioned to sew requirements of two locators, FPIP facilitated thee loan packages and donations of sewing machines from the Department of Trade and Industry’s Batangas office.

In response to their clamor to own a sewing facility, FPIP facilitated again a donation of a small lot from the Department of Education and a building from the congressional funds of Rep. Vicky Reyes.

Today, Bayanihan MPC has 36 active members and a net worth of P1.2 million. It has been a recipient of various recognitions from the local government of Tanauan and the Japanese Embassy, among others.