We use our creative skills to help the initiatives we care about get their messages across. We craft creative communications solutions, and offer our multimedia and design expertise in realizing these solutions. The services we offer range from communications planning, writing, designing for print and web, to audiovisual production, animation and photography.
We’re pretty well-versed with new media, and use this extensively. Both personally and professionally.
We also launch independent initiatives, which are aligned with our creative groove—Pechakucha Night Manila is a venue for designers and everyone else with stories to tell—to share, network and collaborate. Design to Make a Difference is an event that encourages students and young creatives to explore applying their creative skill to social missions. We’re also cooking up an online publication of the same name. Oneline is an online platform we’re launching soon that connects creatives and mission-based organizations in a platform that allows them to connect, communicate and collaborate. Whew.
At the end of the day, we kick up our feet (and walk with our hands).
Hmmm. Technically speaking, we are a social enterprise by virtue of the fact that we measure our enterprise not simply by means of the financial bottomline. We measure our enterprise also by the indicators we have set to give a clear enough picture of social impact. It is not uncommon when instances occur in our office that the social benefits outweigh the financial bottomline (wise or unwise, we’re still around, aren’t we?).
A social enterprise in the simplest terms, is a legal entity (whether for-profit or non-profit) that carries one or two more bottomlines apart from financial—either social, environmental, or both.
Three years ago (when we were younger youth than we are now), we decided to fling all caution to the wind, and quit our jobs in order to pursue Idea!s.
Well—we did have the hopes of getting startup financing and mentoring from the Youth Social Enterprise Initiative (www.ysei.org). Luckily enough, we did. Our first year was quite rough—delayed funding, literal storms and blackouts, and even a break-in at our former office location (cue: dramatic music swells)—but we persevered. Our relationship with YSEI has been great, they even assisted us in getting scaleup funding from one of our most generous donors—Microsoft—in 2007.
In a nutshell, we all thought Idea!s was something we would pursue farther down the road, with financial stability and mental and emotional maturity on our belts. But why miss out on all the fun in the prime of youth?
Changing the world is all the more fun when you get to experience even a tiny bit of what you’ve set out to do.
Because in our own way, as trained designers and communicators, we wanted to be able to what we can to create positive change—in the best way we know how.
And—isn’t being in the business of spreading information and inspiration awesome in itself? There are just so many great things going on, inspiring people and collectives who are doing world-changing things right under our very noses. We think what they’re doing is so great, their stories and missions should be relayed to the world with every bit of awesomeness these great actions justify (no matter how small they seem).
Wait—is that a trick question? Since every client and case is unique, we’d like to be able to be able to give you a clear picture of exactly what the project entails. In order to do so, we would have to communicate further with prospective clients—talk over the phone, exchange emails, have you come over and visit the office, or exchange a coffee or two.
Since subsidized rates are part of our enterprise, we’d like to request for your consideration for a few days in order for us to properly evaluate prospective projects, and send our formal proposals.
