CSE PROFILE
Conceived in 1996, the Center for Small Entrepreneurs
(CSE) was registered as a non-profit, non-stock organization (NGO) on
January 31, 1997
. Propelled by the belief that micro
and small entrepreneurs have the capability to become potent economic forces and
share in the task of nation - building, the Asian Social Institute and the Association
for Technical Cooperation, a Belgian NGO, founded CSE to serve as a service center
for budding, vision-driven and growth-oriented entrepreneurs.
The Center’s main thrust and focus is the development
and empowerment of the enterprising poor.
CSE believes that the vulnerable micro and small entrepreneurs can develop themselves
if given the opportunity and proper resources.
CSE wants to stimulate and promote entrepreneurship
and therefore, supports the development and improvement of the basic business management
skills of the entrepreneurs engaged in growth-oriented micro and small enterprises.
OUR VISION
A viable and sustainable entrepreneurial center, building
a society that is responsive to the developmental needs of entrepreneurs towards
justice, peace and prosperity.
OUR
MISSION
The CSE Board of Trustees, Management and staff commit
to work for the development of micro and small entrepreneurs by providing holistic
programs in function of a socially effective and efficient practice of enterprise
building in selected areas of Metro Manila in particular, and the
Philippines
as a whole.
OUR GOALS
v
To facilitate the formation of
association of small entrepreneurs for the promotion of their rights and welfare.
v
To promote entrepreneurship as
a means of poverty alleviation.
v
To ensure that CSE will attain
its financial and organizational viability and sustainability.
v
To continuously provide entrepreneurs
with formative/educational services to enhance their knowledge and skills in entrepreneurship
and enterprise development.
v
To develop the socio-economic
situation of the small entrepreneurs and the organizational condition of their enterprise,
thus promoting entrepreneurial paradigm.
v
To assist the entrepreneurs to
be financially stable.
v
To establish the structure or
mechanisms appropriate for promoting among entrepreneurs a profitable, good working
and acceptable business exchange relationship.
OUR CORE VALUES
Stewardship
Excellence
Responsibility
Vision-driven
Integrity
Commitment
Empowerment
OUR COMMITMENT
To enhance the knowledge and skills in entrepreneurship
and enterprise development, the micro and small entrepreneurs are provided with
the following programs:
1.
Entrepinoy Training
Workshops
CSE provides enterprise enhancement assistance programs
and services to ensure the growth of entrepreneurs.
a.
Start Your Own Business
Enterprise
(SYOBE)
– provides the ABC’s of business start-ups
b.
Marketing – provides tips and strategies on how to identify and satisfy
target market
c.
Purchasing and
Stock Control – provides learning tools on how to properly manage stocks
d.
Costing and Pricing
– enables you to come up with the right price for product/service
e.
Record Keeping
– equips entrepreneurs with the ability to monitor their business transactions
f.
Enhance
Your Business
Enterprise
– provides entrepreneurial assessment to help entrepreneurs decide on how to further
grow their enterprise
g.
Intermediate
Record keeping – helps entrepreneurs understand the accounts of a growing business
and efficiently manage business transactions
h.
Marketing Plan
– equips entrepreneurs with the basic knowledge in effective management, technical
skills and strategies
i.
Understanding
Financial Statement – teaches entrepreneurs to understand their financial statement
and deal with financial analysis through thorough understanding of financial ratio.
j.
Promotion for Micro Enterprises – teaches micro entrepreneurs ways of promoting
their products and services at low cost but still fabulous and effectively bring
into their enterprises more sales.
k.
Knowing Micro Taxes – provide entrepreneurs with the basic knowledge of applicable
taxes for micro enterprises and teaches them the proper computation and filling
up of forms.
l.
Entrepreneurship 101 – a free seminar that builds up foundation on entrepreneurship
and shows the areas of management that needs strengthening within the enterprise
to ensure growth and sustainability.
2.
Entrepinoy Business
Matching
A service that helps micro and small entrepreneurs
to link, mix and match their enterprises.
The business matching service is a free service offered
to an entrepreneur who has the vision of expanding his/her market and network.
CSE also offers
on-line catalog for micro enterprises.
Entrepreneurs are given the opportunity to promote their products and services through
on-line posting to the entrepcatalog.com
3.
Ka-Entrep Program
The program prepares and equips the micro-entrepreneurs
to become a responsible members of the micro-entrepreneurs’ organization whose main
thrust is the promotion of their interest, welfare and rights.
Organized on November 30, 2004, the Ka-Entrep Micro
and Small Entrepreneurs Organization of the Philippines, Inc. now boasts of 209
active members who had undergone the Value Formation Seminar.
The micro-entrepreneurs’ organization was legally
established last November 16, 2007.
4.
Entrepinoy Entrepreneurial
Events
“A respectable, catalytic facilitator in promoting
micro and small entrepreneurship through entrepreneurial events that is purposefully
designed to strengthen and enhance capacities of entrepreneurs in growing their
enterprises.”
To date, CSE has hosted twelve (12) business fora. Dubbed as Kapihang Entrepinoy, the
business fora provide a venue for micro and small entrepreneurs to learn and network
with and among each other.
CSE also organizes Trade Fair dubbed as
Negosyong Pinoy that aims to provide micro-entrepreneurs with the opportunity
to promote their enterprises, provide business opportunities, and grow their networks.
5.
Entrepinoy Publication
“A popular and sustainable publication that
empowers micro, small, and budding entrepreneurs by increasing their level of awareness
through information and education, and by serving as an effective channel of the
sector’s situations, needs, and interests in the community and the economy.”
Conceived in 2002,
Entrepinoy Magapaper has been recognized
as one of the pioneer publications that serve as a communication tool among entrepreneurs
for the upliftment of common interests and welfare.
Entrepreneurship Book provides insight on what entrepreneurship is. It features experiences of successful
entrepreneurs who started small. It also features the experiences and challenges
of micro entrepreneurs who are growing their businesses.
6.
Entrepinoy Bookkeeping
and Accounting Services
The Bookkeeping and Accounting Service Package aims
to instill in the entrepreneur an appreciation for keeping a record system. This is a 2-in-1 package that provides
a bookkeeping service and a coaching package as well wherein the entrepreneur is
taught how to do his/her own recording.
7.
Entrepinoy Business
Forms and Legal Documents
A computer-aided business forms and legal documents
make available to micro and small entrepreneurs pro- forma purchase orders, sales
contracts, promo letters, promissory notes, and other negotiable instruments.
8.
Business Memos and Correspondence Kit
Business Memos and Correspondence Kit is a compilation
of different samples and templates of business memos and business letters. It comes
with a CD for easier use and convenience.
OUR GROWING NETWORKS
Through the years, CSE has established a strong and
fruitful relationship with different institutions/organizations it has served and
partnered with in the realization of its goals.
CSE give thanks to the following networks:
A.
INSTITUTIONS WE HAVE CONDUCTED TRAININGS WITH:
1.
Adaptive Technology for
Rehabilitation, Integration and Empowerment of the Visually Impaired (ATRIEV)
2.
Advocates for Philippine
Fair Trade, Inc.
3.
Cebuana Lhuillier
4.
Centro Escolar University
5.
De La Salle Araneta
6.
De La Salle Lipa
7.
Emilio Aguinaldo College
8.
Far Eastern University
9.
Golay Bushel Phil., Inc.
10.
GS1
11.
Ka-Entrep Micro and Small Entrepreneurs
Organization of the Philippines, Inc.
12.
Kaibigan Foundation
13.
Makati
LGU
14.
Mariano Marcos State University
, Ilocos Norte
15.
Marikina
City Hall
–
Marikina
Cultural Tourism Trade Investment and Promotion Office
16.
National College
of Business Administration
17.
National Mapping and Resources Authority
18.
Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila
19.
PATAMABA
20.
Philippine Footwear Federation, Inc.
21.
Philippine Journalist, Inc.
22.
Polytechnic
University
of the
Philippines
23.
Quezon City Polytechnic College
24.
Sikap Buhay –
Quezon City
Government
25.
Small Business Corporation (SB Corp)
26.
SM Mart, Inc.
27.
St. Paul
,
Manila
28.
St. Scholastica’s College
29.
TSPI Development Corporation
30.
University of Santo Tomas
31.
University of the East
32.
Women’s Business Council
B.
INSTITUTIONS WE HAVE PARTNERED IN / SPONSORED / OR TAPPED
AS RESOURCE SPEAKERS IN OUR ENTREPRENEURIAL EVENTS:
1.
Andok’s Lechon Corp.
2.
Asialink
3.
Association of Filipino
Franchisers, Inc. (AFFI)
4.
Binalot Fiesta Foods
5.
Bureau of Fisheries &
Aquatic Resources
6.
Bureau of Internal Revenue
(BIR)
7.
Buy the Liter
8.
City Bank
9.
Cottage & Industry Technology Center
(CITC)
10.
Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)
11.
DOST Packaging Research and
Development Center
12.
DTI-BSMED
13.
Employees Confederation of the
Philippines
(ECOP)
14.
Envi Konsult, Inc.
15.
Equitable-PCI Bank
16.
ETM Tax Agent Training and
Learning Center
17.
Far Eastern University
18.
Fiorcafe
19.
Fiorgellato
20.
Globe
21.
Goldilocks
22.
Hen Lin Food Chain
23.
Home of Beauty Exclusives
24.
House of Praise
25.
Information Technology Transfer Bureau
– Intellectual Property Office
26.
Kenny Rogers
27.
Kulasa’s Chicken
28.
Lamoiyan Corporation
29.
Lapids Chicharon
30.
Lots’ a Pizza Franchise System
31.
Mancao Myotherapy
32.
Manila City Hall
33.
Mini Stop
34.
My Office
35.
Philam Life
36.
Philippine Women’s University
37.
Pinoy Fish Mart
38.
Plato Wraps
39.
Product
Design & Development
Center
of the
Philippines
(PDDCP)
40.
Ramed Foods Corporation
41.
Red
Bell
Pizza
42.
RFM Food Corporation
43.
Salt and Light Ventures
44.
San Beda College
45.
Save on Surplus
46.
Savonne
47.
Signrays
48.
Smart Choice
49.
The Hortaleza Salon
50.
Thistles and Blooms
51.
Unilever
C.
INSTITUTIONS THAT INVITED CSE FOR PARTICIPATION TO THEIR
EVENTS/ACTIVITIES/TRAININGS:
1.
Asian Social Institute
2.
Association of Filipino
Franchisers, Inc. (AFFI)
3.
Ateneo Celadon
4.
Philippine Business for
Social Progress (PBSP)
5.
Philippine Center for
Entrepreneurship
6.
Pondong Batangan Community
Foundation, Inc.
7.
Technical and Educational
Skills and Development Authority (TESDA)
8.
Technology and
Livelihood Resource Center
(TLRC)
9.
United Nations Development
Program (UNDP)
10.
United Nations-International Labor Organization
(UN-ILO)
11.
UP
Institute of Small
Scale Industries (UP-ISSI)
D.
INSTITUTIONS THAT AVAILED OTHER CSE SERVICES
1.
Ade Food Products
2.
Asian Social Institute
C
3.
Large Media
4.
MJ Espiritu Trading
5.
Ramed Foods Corporation
6.
Sanchi Kitchenette
E.
INSTITUTIONS TAPPED IN RENDERING SOME SERVICES
1.
Ancilla Enterprise Development
Consulting, Inc.
2.
Image Plus Business Solutions
3.
Mantra Media
4.
SM Megatrade – First Asia
Realty Development Corporation
5.
Stance For Greatness
6.
Trade Advertising Exhibits
and Conventions International, Inc.
F.
MEDIA PARTNERS
§
Televisions
1.
ABC 5
2.
ABS-CBN
3.
ANC
4.
IBC -13
5.
NBN
6.
RPN 9
7.
QTV
8.
UNTV
§
Radio Stations
1.
DWDD
2.
DWIZ
3.
DZEC
4.
DZMM
5.
DZRH
6.
DZXL
7.
DZXQ
8.
Energy FM
9.
Home Radio
10.
Radyo Veritas
§
Prints
1.
Business Mirror
2.
Business World
3.
Commuters Express
4.
Entrepreneur Magazine
5.
Kwentong Negosyo
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