Vission:  
To see self-sufficient families responding to the needs of their community and pursuing a collective effort for their development.
Mission:  
To make the love of Jesus Christ be felt by the poor in our midst by providing opportunities that promotes spiritual transformation and total human development.
 
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Business Development Services

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT SERVICE

It is an integrated approach in developing business or enterprises. Its immediate aim is to establish productive and sustainable businesses or enterprises. Its key result areas of operation are; Infrastructure Support, Finance or Credit Assistance, Product Development, Market Linkages, Training/Technical Assistance, Advocacy, and Input Supply.
Conduct of activities such as trade fair, data banking and livelihood skills summit aimed to develop and enhance the productivity of the clients.

Business Creation Program

This program's objective is to create new economic units, applying a theoretical and practical methodology developed in covenant with CENTRAL PHILIPPINE UNIVERSITY or other Institutions, in order to convert an idea into a successful micro-enterprise.

The program relies on a specialized software to evaluate the entrepreneurs capacity and the viability of the idea. Specialized consultants develop the business plan, and follow up in order to execute it and carry out his business, assuring market insertion.

Technical Education

It is aimed to prepare qualified labor for micro-enterprises and to incorporate adequate technology for productive systems.

For this training, TSKI counts with modern production plants for each specific area. Our educational process begins with the simplest and empirical production systems, and goes on involving technology to the most advanced and appropriate systems for micro enterprises.

Food Preparation
Fabric Management
Retailing
Beauty Saloon Training
Business and System Administration
Personalized Labors
Call Centers
Others

Technological Services

Design Center
We count on a team of fashion, industrial, and graphic designers who develop advertising material, catalogues, corporate image, branding, stationary products, line selection, packaging, among others, to support the micro-enterprises, providing added value to their product and adapting it to market demands.

Food Laboratory
With a modern infrastructure and high technology, TSKI will offer quality and sanitary evaluation of food products in order to improve their production systems, and to apply correctives that will guarantee confidence and security to the final consumer. Services include:
Nutritional Facts Analysis
Physiochemical Analysis
Microbiological Analysis.
Good Manufacturing Training
Sanitary Diagnosis
Advise in National Sanitary Registration/ Certification

Technological Improvement
TSKI will advise micro-enterprises in their productive processes and equipment, in order to improve their efficiency, productivity, and organization, through technical adaptations to their technological processes.

Product Development
TSKI will offer micro-enterprises the possibility to develop new products standardized formulation, laboratory analysis, licenses and registrations, guaranteeing innovation and excellent quality.

Market Research
By means of the continuous Investigation and analysis of the different economic sectors, TSKI will offer micro- enterprises, specialized information of their specific sector. This tool facilitates the decision making process on market and commercial strategies.

Advisory

This program aims to increase productivity and competitiveness in micro-enterprises. Our pool of professionals, by means of a specialized software, developed in alliance with CENTRAL PHILIPPINE UNIVERSTIY or other institutions, analyze critical areas in order to formulate for an action plan to work out with the accompaniment of our specialized consultants.

Merchandising

In order to close the integrated services cycle, TSKI will support micro-enterprises‘ product commercialization by different means. First with the planned Trade Center in Boracay a project developed that will work as commercialization channel between small manufacturers and the formal distribution channels. On the other hand, along the year, TSKI will organize different trade fairs in the malls in order to bring together both producers and buyers.

Financial

Financial Services:

Micro Loans
TSKI will work with an advanced credit technology and an automated credit operation that allows an easy, agile, and rapid way. Risk is calculated by a "Credit Scoring" system developed for such end. Since most of our clients do not have access to commercial Banking, TSKI will become their only credit alternative.

Loans for TSKI Services
TSKI will grant loan to its clients to avail of the TSKI’s Business Development Services .

Seed Capital
Keeping in mind the need of inflowing capital to the micro-enterprise or for the acquisition of fixed assets for its growth and development, TSKI will offer the seed capital program, in which a fiduciary fund operates as a partner, contributing the necessary capital, advising the company and participating in its decision making. It is a temporary investment, it lasts as long as the project does. When it is completed, and the micro-enterprise is strengthened, the fund withdraws.

SEMINARS AND SKILLS TRAINING

TSKI conducts value formation seminars, management and entrepreneurial skills training that aim to enhance the capability of its clients, to develop in them their capacity to be responsive in their quest for self-sufficiency. Aiming that these trainings shall create total transformation among them.

TSKI conducts technical and livelihood skills training in coordination with Local Government Units (LGUs) National Government Agencies (NGAs), other non-government organizations (NGOs), people’s organizations (POs), civic and religious organizations who are also involved in the livelihood and skills development to promote and facilitate value adding of productive assets of the clients.

EDUCATION PROGRAM

TSKI offers short term courses, through its Microfinance SUCCESS Institute on microfinance related topics and post graduate degree leading to Masters in Business Administration (MBA) and Masters in Public Administration (MPA) in partnership with Philippine Christian University (PCU) - Manila.

Also, TSKI was accredited as the Grameen Banking Replicator (GBAR) Training Center at Visayas by the People’s Credit and Finance Corporation (PCFC).

 


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