Community Partnerships
Community Partnerships
15% of every purchase goes to a Filipino community organization
As a social enterprise dedicated to reclaiming the Pinay identity, we firmly believe that connecting with our Filipino roots is not possible without understanding the struggles of the Filipino people in the homeland. On this page, you'll find details of our community partnerships in the Philippines and ways to further support these movements.
Sugarfolks' Unity for Genuine Agricultural Reform (SUGAR)
SUGAR is an organization based in Batangas, Philippines whose mission is aimed at the preservation of the sugarcane and sugar industry. Its work supports Sugarcane planters and workers in the Philippines, advocating for their rights to fair livelihoods and fighting against the exploitation.
As a social enterprise that has spoken out against land grabbing and advocated for the rights of Indigenous communities, land defenders, peasants, and farmers in the Philippines, Pinay Collection stands in solidarity with all sugarcane planters and farmers facing exploitation.
Bahaghari
Bahaghari is the national alliance of LGBTQIA+ advocates, organizations, and formations in the Philippines.
BAHAGHARI was founded on the first death anniversary of Jennifer Laude, and has a near-decade track record of pursuing campaigns for equality. It has co-drafted anti-discrimination bills and co-organized Pride Marches nationwide, to name a few. It has even engaged with international human rights initiatives, such as the UN Universal Periodic Review, to highlight the situation of LGBTQ+ Filipinos.
Free Our Sisters Free Ourselves
FOSFO is an international campaign, under GABRIELA, against the political persecution and repression of women activists and human rights defenders in the Philippines.
The FOSFO campaign was relaunched in 2022 after successive arrests of GABRIELA leaders. Currently, over a hundred women are political prisoners in the Philippines, with most of them coming from the peasant class. Marites Coseñas, Annabelle Quijano, Nerita De Castro, Corazon Javier, Jean Estiller, Digna Aquilino, Adora Faye De Vera, Karina Dela Cerna, Amanda Echanis, and other women who stood up and fought for a better future should be freed. They are the women, like many others, who despite the limitations imposed by society on them, are capable of fighting for their rights and against tyranny. Free our sisters, free ourselves! Free all political prisoners!
Philippine Resource Centre for Inclusive Development
Inklusibo
Inklusibo or the Philippine Resource Center for Inclusive Development is a non-profit organization supporting the informal sector in asserting livable cities and an inclusive future. They are a team of development workers, researchers, and community organizers working with urban poor communities and informal workers’ associations to amplify their demands by gearing them with knowledge and capacity.
We partnered with Inklusibo to raise awareness and funds for the Tanggol Pasada Network, in honor of Jeepney and transport workers in the Philippines, amidst the looming PUV Modernization Program.
PISTON
PISTON aims to promote and advance the basic demands of Filipino transport workers for decent and stable work, livable income, freedom of association, and all their economic and democratic rights.
PISTON has been the leading organization advocating for the #NoToJeepneyPhaseOut campaign and against the PUV Modernization program in the Philippines. They also unite and participate in advancing the demands and struggles of the rest of the working class, peasants, and other fellow poor, oppressed, and exploited by the ruling classes in the Philippines.
100% of the the proceeds from our collection at Manila Middle Ground in Comuna, Makati, are being donated to PISTON on a monthly basis.