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SUCCEED, Inc was founded in 2004 by individuals coming from big and established Civil Society Organizations like Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement (PRRM), Philippine Network of Rural Development Institutes (Philnet), Philippine Partnership for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Areas (PHilDHRRA), among others.

The formation of SUCCEED was motivated by a challenge that social development oriented business and economic support services can be delivered to the marginalized communities and micro-small and medium enterprises without being perennially dependent to foreign and local project grants.

The services offered by SUCCEED ranges from capability and capacity building both in the entrepreneur and social enterprise level and attune their capacities to the current developments in the specific industries they belong.

Key to its own internal capacity and capability building, SUCCEED continuously conduct monitoring and research on industry trends while broadening its contacts among key industry leaders in the private sectors particularly with firms that have defined and well meaning Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs.

SUCCEED operates with a lean and mean human resources. It mainly draws its strength from pool of organic and external consultants. Basically SUCCEED is a pulsating organization. It expands as more project accounts are coming in and shrinks back to the right size when these accounts are accomplished.

Aside from being a business development service provider, SUCCEED also operates its own enterprises in the form of direct business ventures and joint ventures. The past successes and failures of its ventures had provided SUCCEED real life and practical lessons that it raises into theory by incorporating them in the content of its education and training modules.

SUCCEED believes that grant funding for Philippine social development projects will constrict over time as foreign aid attention will shift to other countries that are in more depressing conditions. It also believes that fund for social development projects should primarily come from our own local initiatives and resources as it manifests our society taking primary responsibility and accountability to address our own social problems and development challenges, and SUCCEED likewise believes that we, Filipinos especially the CSOs have both the physical and psychic resources to do that.

SUCCEED also takes cognizance of several driving forces that will create economic opportunities if being wisely tapped for the benefit of both the CSOs and marginal communities they served:

1. The billions of dollars annual remittance by 10 million Overseas Filipinos that can be tapped for investments in communities.
2. Information and Communication Technologies as enablers in tapping the technology, financial and market resources not only in the Philippines but also around the globe.
3. Global warming and Oil Peak that will pave the way for a new business frenzy -- the search for viable alternative and renewable sources of energy as substitutes for the hazardous and depleting supply of petroleum oil.
4. The inevitable paradigm shift for CSOs and non-profits -- in terms of fund sourcing. The shift from foreign grant dependency to harnessing local opportunities for fund raising. This will spell the rise of social enterprises among NGOs as they will be compelled to urgently learn the ropes of creating wealth (and operational fund) through social enterprises. More on Succeed...