Corporate Social Responsibility is a tool to make significant contributions to alleviate societal ills through civil society partnerships and collaboration, and finally, to be fully integrated with the company’s core values and business processes toward enhancing competitiveness for commercial success.As the company believes that CSR is the driving force of a highly committed business sector working effectively with communities and partner institutions to the attainment of equitable and sustainable development, the Makati Development Corporation established a program that will have more impact as it reaches more people and communities through its resources and effective partnerships with civil society groups. This shall manifest the sincerity of the company in the realization of its thrusts which include primarily the social responsibility as it develops projects that would benefit the surrounding communities toward the development of society.
‘ CSR is doing your business responsibly. It is going beyond compliance to the law, by becoming the supplier or service provider of choice (provision of quality goods and services), employer of choice (fair to employees, compliance with labor laws) and neighbor of choice (going beyond business to serve their communities through corporate citizenship), ‘’ said Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, Chairman and CEO of Ayala Corporation.