CARD MRI is a world-class leader in microfinance and community-based social development undertakings that improves the quality of life of socially-and-economically challenged women and families towards nation building.
CARD MRI is committed to:
- Empower socially-and-economically challenged women and families through continuous access to financial, microinsurance, educational, livelihood, health and other capacity-building services that eventually transform them into responsible citizens for their community and the environment;
- Enable the women members to gain control and ownership of financial and social development institutions; and
- Partner with appropriate agencies, private institutions, and people and community organizations to facilitate achievement of mutual goals.
In fulfilling our mission, we shall be guided by the highest standards of ethical behavior and the core values of competence, family spirit, integrity, simplicity, humility, excellence and stewardship.
Competence. Believing that excellent products and services for its members come out of competence, CARD MRI keeps raising the work knowledge, skills, and values of its staff through continuing formal and informal training and education. CARD has truly become a learning organization.
Family spirit. CARD MRI builds and nurtures family spirit for a lasting relationship with its employees and members. More than showing care and endearment and sharing of learning experiences, the staffs and members of CARD MRI commits personally to the social and economic development of the members and their families. This value does not promote protection of employees’ and members’ to the extent of sacrificing honesty and integrity.
Integrity. The strength and sustainability of a microfinance business rest on honest and trustworthy operations. Hence, CARD MRI leaders continuously motivate its staffs and members to be honest in all its dealings by showing themselves as models of honesty and worthy of their trust. Moreover, it has remained transparent in all the things that it does.
Simplicity. CARD MRI has chosen to serve the marginalized sector of society, which is characterized by deprivations in nearly all social and economic factors including food, shelter, clothing, job, and education. Excesses in words and deeds insult and isolate the members. Hence, CARD MRI staff is expected to show simplicity to every one, any time and anywhere.
Humility. An act of true humility is when a CARD MRI staff considers everyone as co-equal and ignores social and economic status in favor of the noble mission of improving the lives of those who have less in life. Humility is being one with members in spirit and aware of their needs.
Excellence. The success of CARD MRI is rooted in the ability of its leaders and staff to continuously create, innovate, and challenge the existing paradigm to ultimately assist the socially and economically challenged families improve their lives. Its continuing effort to be better than its best is captured in its motto “Up to the next level.”
Stewardship. One important way to achieve sustainability is effective management and judicious use of resources. Resources fuel the organization and hence must be handled with utmost care. Moreover, most of these resources are entrusted to us by members, staffs, and other stakeholders. CARD MRI should continue to uphold the highest standards of stewardship of financial, human and institutional resources.
OUR TEAM
Our team is composed of highly motivated people, from the rank and file to senior executives, whose dedication is unparalleled, Our executives and most of the senior officers have more than so years experience under their belts in managing and running a social enterprise. Their education from different disciplines have proven to be effective tool in realizing the goals of CARD MRI, similar to well-oiled machine, working in perfect synergy towards one direction or goal: eradicated poverty in the Philippines.
ACHIEVEMENTS
THE 2008 RAMON MAGSAYSAY AWARD
FOR PUBLIC SERVICE
Ramon Magsaysay Award Presentation Ceremonies 31 August 2008, Manila Philippines
Dr. Alip receiving the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service in behalf of Center for Agriculture and Rural Development Mutually Reinforcing Institution [CARD MRI] for successfully providing self sustaining financial service fro half a million Filipino women and their families.
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
- 2007 – Prize for Excellence in Community Economics Development, SNHU, USA.
- 2005 – People Power Award given by Former President Corazon.
- Aquino.
- Card was given Plaque Recognition and Appreciations by the Peoples Credit and Finance Corporation on September 14, 2003 for having successfully extended microfinance services to 110,798 clients.
