Container 1 (cont.)
October 4th, 2009Container one is packed and has shipped to the people of the Philippines! Container two is being packed now. I just want to say thanks to everyone involved in the process of packing and sorting the large amounts of donated items, as well as those who donated goods. Everyone in the Philippines will be grateful for these acts of kindness.
Container 1
October 4th, 2009
Donation locations for food and clothing
October 1st, 2009For those looking to donate to the victims of Typhoon Ondoy (Ketsana), you can donate money through the Manny Pacquiao Foundation (via http://www.give2asia.com/mpf), all monetary donations made to the Manny Pacquiao Foundation are tax deductible. If you would like to donate clothing (clothing and food donations are NOT tax deductible through our organization) you can do so at any Island Pacific Supermarket. To find a store nearest you visit their store locator on their site at http://www.islandpacificmarket.com/store.htm.
Operation Metro Manila
September 27th, 2009The post below offers a glimpse of the damage that has occurred in Metro Manila. So far, more than 300,000 people have been displaced in Metro Manila and the nearby provinces. With damages nearing 100 million pesos (roughly 2.1 million USD) the people of the Philippines can use all the help they can get. Although it may sound like a cliche, every donation counts and will help the Philippines get through this disaster. Operation: Metro Manila is a Manny Pacquiao Foundation project to help raise funds and awareness for the destruction caused by Typhoon Ondoy. Tax deductible donations can be made at http://www.give2asia.com/mpf
To donate clothing please email us at admin@mannypacquiaofoundation.com (clothing donations are not tax deductible with our organization)
Metro Manila Flooded by Typhoon Ondoy
September 27th, 2009TV patrol news footage regarding Typhoon Ondoy
In the link above you will see news footage that shows the devastation caused by Typhoon Ondoy.
Below are photographs courtesy of flickr user: omgayeo
Manny Throws Out the First Pitch for the Giants
April 23rd, 2009The San Francisco Giants invited Manny Pacquiao to throw the ceremonial first pitch for their annual Filipino Heritage Night. The atmosphere prior to the game was, in my opinion, eerily similar to fight night rather than a baseball game. The thousands that arrived prior to the game could be heard chanting “Manny, Manny, Manny…”
The reason this is appearing on the Manny Pacquiao Foundation website is simple, by having Manny show up to the to throw the first pitch, the Giants organization was able to sell 11,000 extra tickets and raise roughly $50,000 for charity. The charities that received the donations were the Manilatown Heritage Foundation and the ABS-CBN Foundation. Even though Manny’s personal foundation was not a recipient of donations from this event, it is always great to see Manny donate his time to help benefit the Philippines and the Filipino community. The photo below is one that we were able to take ourselves, being lucky enough to be behind homeplate for his pitch.
Manny Throwing the First Pitch
We were able to meet up with Manny prior to him throwing the first pitch so that we could give him one of the shirts we made to help promote his foundation. Hopefully you will see him wearing it during training before his May 2nd fight with Ricky Hatton.
Merchandise for The Manny Pacquiao Foundation
April 18th, 2009We are currently working on a web store that will offer merchandise (we are thinking shirts/hats/sweatshirts) we will be selling. The proceeds will be going to The Manny Pacquiao Foundation of course. This will be the start of our fundraising process for the foundation, so I am excited for that.
As far as other people selling merchandise to benefit The Manny Pacquiao Foundation, if it isn’t mentioned on this site I cannot guarantee that the proceeds will actually be going to the foundation. There is a company out there at the moment that is selling shirts stating “100% of the proceeds will go to help Manny’s charity.” I have contacted them, and for their part they did say that they want the proceeds to go to Manny’s Foundation. However I have yet to get a response in regards to the donation. As of this moment I am going to assume that the proceeds will not be going directly to Manny’s foundation.
Thanks,
Anton
THE FOUNDATION IS NOW OFFICIAL!
April 15th, 2009Thanks to everyone at Give2Asia! They worked much faster than I could have imagined, I figure it would take at least a week to make the amount of progress that they have made in 2 days. For those looking to make a donation to Manny’s foundation you can do so via this link, http://www.give2asia.org/mannypacquiao. (for larger donations, Please note that credit card contributions are subject to a processing fee by the credit card companies that averages close to 3%. For this reason we suggest that large donations be made by check or wire transfer so that the full amount of your contribution will be available for grantmaking.) Contact us at admin@mannypacquiaofoundation.org and I can forward you a form that will allow you to make donations via check or wire transfer.
Thanks to everyone involved,
Anton Mazur
Manny Pacquiao Foundation joins Give2Asia
April 15th, 2009We are pleased to announce that the Manny Pacquiao Foundation has joined Give2Asia (www.give2asia.com). We met with Mike Howe (President & CEO of Give2Asia), Jennifer Lofing (Vice President of Programs for Give2Asia), and Dien Yuen (Director of Philanthropy for Give2Asia) on March 26th 2009. The meeting went extremely well, much better than I had imagined since I was extremely nervous. I want to extend a special thanks to the folks at Give2Asia for meeting with us, and also to Robbie Fabian for setting up the meeting and joining us in speaking with Give2Asia.
By joining Give2Asia we are able to immediately start our fund raising activities, rather than waiting for the long turn around time for the IRS to grant us 501(c)(3) tax exempt status. Give2Asia is helping us with all the behind the scenes stuff so that we can concentrate on fundraising. I will update the site again once we have our donation page on Give2Asia’s site, so that anyone looking to donate can do so.
Thanks to all those involved in getting this foundation off the ground. Especially Manny, Winchell, Robbie, Dee and Mi-An and everyone at Give2Asia. We should be ready to go with in a couple weeks, hopefully sooner.
Anton
Status Update of the Manny Pacquiao Foundation
March 18th, 2009Just an update for those that come across this site. The Manny Pacquiao Foundation is not yet established, although the site was created to coincide with the foundation. I personally met with Manny this past weekend (March 14-16, 2009) to get his blessing on moving forward with the foundation. Manny loved the idea of creating an organization to further help the people of the Philippines. He has agreed to allow us to proceed in developing the Foundation, and we will continue to do so. Further updates will be posted to this site as they become available. This wont happen over night, but takes time and effort to do so, just keep in mind that we are actually working to make his dream a reality.