Our independent auditor, SGV & Co, submitted the final report of the audit of 2020 on May 31, 2021. This firmed up the provisional financial report that we submitted to the Bureau of Internal Revenue on April 15, 2021, to Read more…
Our longtime donor of Thesis Support Grants, Atty. Ma. Elena C. Ramiro, signed the deed of donation for the Dr. Mariano P. Ramiro Professorial Chair in Materials Engineering on June 1, celebrating the first day of Pres Val Reyes’ term! A Read more…
The Management Committee convened on May 12 to prepare for the annual General Membership Meeting and Board of Trustees Meeting on May 19. The UPERDFI President, Executive Director and Treasurer, and the UPCOE Dean will deliver their annual reports to Read more…
The Resource Generation Committee, headed by President Ferdz de la Cruz, met on May 7 to discuss future plans. Tito Aliga cited the feedback from sampled members re Insured Donation product that has been co-developed with Insular Life. Vic shared Read more…
The Policy Review Ad Hoc Team, led by Trustee Val Reyes, met online on May 7 to finalize the policies based on the comments from the April 9 meeting (and April 20 for the Fundraising Policy). Five policies were presented Read more…
In a two-part zoom meeting on April 21 and April 28, UPERDFI Adviser Chato Calderon (from San Francisco USA) and ED Tito Aliga took part in discussions on how to commercialize VISSER, the Science Lab in a Box. This is the Read more…
On April 28, Committee Chairman Chicho Mantaring and Val Reyes convened the Expert Panel to hear the presentations/pitches of eight UP projects that have been pre-assessed for potential UPERDFI support in moving them to market presence. Six of candidate eight Read more…
UPSCALE Innovation Hub was crowned as the Grand Champion during the PH Startup Incubator Awards Culminating Ceremony held on April 23. UPSCALE Project Leader Dr. Luis Sison received the award in the presence of DOST Sec. Fortunato de la Peña Read more…
With the confirmation of continuing support from Dr. Francis Chua, Associate Dean for Research Dr. Happy Denoga will soon announce the opening of the 2021 Competition. The traditional awarding of winners will be part of the College Recognition Rites in Read more…
UPERDFI acquired QuickBooks Online after the live testing of the software in February-March. We expect to completely migrate our 2021 transactions to the cloud after the 2020 Audit and tax-filing routines. Member Rico Ibana proposed the use of a Document Read more…