Hustle to Serve: Marketing Basics for Social Advocates

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The Asian Medical Students’ Association Philippines (AMSA Philippines) proudly presents Hustle to Serve: Marketing Basics for Social Advocates.

This distinctive one-day seminar aims to provide basic knowledge on marketing for student organizations as well as funding for social advocacy projects. It shall serve as an empowerment platform for youth advocates who aspire to implement carefully-crafted and financially-sustainable project s in their respective universities and communities. Basic skills and knowledge on marketing and finance shall be taught and shared in this seminar in order to more equip more young leaders in creating sustainable products, pursuing passion projects and implementing social innovation projects that benefit not only their immediate community, but the society at large as well.

Hustle to Serve: Marketing Basics for Social Advocates will feature four speakers who are trailblazers and innovators in their respective fields. The first speaker is currently the administrator of the Kristiyano-Islam Peace Library (KRIS Library) named Ms. Arizza Nocum. She will be discussing “Fund-Raising for Non-Profit Organizations.” Ms. Kirstin Lopez, co-founder of an online crowdfunding platform called The Spark Project, will be talking about the scope of her work during the talk “Crowdfunding for Community Building.” This will be subsequently followed by Ms. Roxy Navarro’s take on “Pragmatic Pursuit of Passion Projects.” Last but not the least, Nina Gerodias, Founder of the University of the Philippines Business Leagues, will discuss “Marketing for Student Organizations.”

The seminar will be held on June 21 (Saturday), 1-5 PM, at the Multipurpose Room 403, 4th Floor, Tan Yan Kee Building, University of Santo Tomas.

Escaping the City Lights

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The buildings, the different noises, the blinding lights, the angry voices of the drivers stuck in the traffic, things that can be observed in a place where time fly so fast, that if you’re not fast enough to catch up, you’ll be left out. It can be so tiring at times, you think you’ve been fast enough but in a matter of seconds, so many things can happen. This is the city. This is where I grew up, like I said it can be so tiring, but you only need to do two things in order to release the stress brought by the life in the life in here, and that is to take a break and escape.

On the night of May 29, we left the busy streets of Manila, together with my parents, my sisters, my grandma and uncle, we went on an 12 hour drive to my grandmother’s hometown, Bangued, Abra.

The car ride to Abra was really fun; stories were exchange while 90’s music is being played. Everyone shared their funny stories, trying to kill some time, except for me. I just enjoyed listening and laughing along with them.

After almost 7 hours of drive, tiredness suddenly kicked in, one by one, everyone started to drift to sleep, but I didn’t. Instead I try to enjoy the silence, I opened the window beside me and the fresh air came rushing in, it’s so calming. I looked outside and I can see these lights being emitted by the buildings, it’s not too much, but it’s something, at least for me. I'm so far away from the city. Finally. 

Donnalyn Bartolome is "KakaiBabe"

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She spills her heart out in her videos doing all sorts of stuff from DJ'ing, acting, singing, rapping, doing a monologue, and other crazy things she can think of while in "emo" mode - that state where she relates as her most creative point in time when she can come up with the most weirdest, nastiest, yet charming expressive ways while still remaining cute in front of the video camera.

Oh, yes! She's the only one who can get away with almost anything with panache while her ever-growing fans continue to love her cute antics because she is simply an adorable petite cutie pie that one can't get bored with!

Donnalyn Bartolome is a natural and candid personality who is so very tele and photogenic that you want to hug and kiss her little body tight that it could almost become flat. Nah, just kidding! Everyone just loves this 19 year old girl with a smile that could launch a thousand, if not a million, ...albums.. if given the opportunity.

But I guess that thought is about to come true as she has already launched a single titled "KakaiBabe", and soon, an album with enough tracks to sweep the nation by her lovely pop and R&B-rapping rhythm plus an endearing attitude that is worthy of praises.