Programs

TeachSTEM Master's Scholarship

The GBF TeachSTEM Scholarship Program supports aspiring and practicing educators who champion STEM in their schools and communities. The scholarship application for the Academic Year 2024-2025 is ongoing until April 30, 2024.

Graduates

4

Active Scholars

157

Founding Year

2019


TeachSTEM College Scholarship

The GBF TeachSTEM Scholarship Program supports aspiring and practicing educators who champion STEM in their schools and communities. The scholarship application for the Academic Year 2024-2025 is ongoing until April 30, 2024.

Graduates

57

Active Scholars

296

Founding Year

2018


STEM Agri Scholarship

In partnership with Universal Robina Corporation, the Gokongwei Brothers Foundation promotes sustainable agriculture in the Philippines by offering community-based scholarship programs to the next generation of farmers in the country.

Graduates

5

Active Scholars

6

Founding Year

2019


Iskolar ni Juan Tech-Voc Scholarship

GBF grants a fully subsidized one-year technical vocational scholarship with employment opportunity at URC and other business affiliates to senior high school graduates and college undergraduates who are interested in industrial machine operation. Application deadline is on February 16, 2024, for INJ Batch 21.

Graduates

494

Active Scholars

69

Founding Year

2014


GBF-Gokongwei Group STEM Scholarship for Excellence

GBF in partnership with Gokongwei Group business units awards this college scholarship to outstanding college students in the field of STEM. The scholarship application for the Academic Year 2024-2025 is ongoing until April 30, 2024.

Graduates

352

Active Scholars

248

Founding Year

2011


GBF Young Scientist Award Scholarship for Excellence

YSA is a full STEM college scholarship granted to the top winners of Philippine-based STEM competitions. For the past years, GBF has partnered with the Department of Education for its annual National Science and Technology Fair (NSTF) and the Department of Science and Technology - Science Education Institute for its regular imake.wemake:create.innovate.collaborate.

Active Scholars

19

Founding Year

2019


GBF Next Gen Scholarship for Excellence

The GBF Next Gen Scholarship for Excellence is a college scholarship program for outstanding children and siblings of Gokongwei Group employees. The scholarship application for the Academic Year 2024-2025 is ongoing until March 31, 2024.

Graduates

218

Active Scholars

120

Founding Year

2010


Juan Community For Education

The Juan Community Program is GBF’s commitment to bring its programs and new interventions in education to more Filipinos who need these the most across the nation. By developing strong and sustainable STEM communities in areas where our business units serve, GBF contributes to building the nation, one community at a time.

Community Beneficiaries

3,173


Juan Community For Resilience

Equally important to GBF's mission is to respond to the needs of our local communities to help them bounce back from crisis. Through Juan Community for Resilience, GBF provided support throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and conducted relief operations immediately after Typhoon Odette's devastation.


STEM Collab Community

STEM Collab is GBF's engaged community of STEM teachers. It is also a capacity-building program that provides free and bite-sized learning sessions.


Ateneo de Manila University Gokongwei Brothers School of Education and Learning Design

GBSEALD aims to help elevate education through the formation of educators, educational leaders, policy makers and other learning professionals. Envisioned to be a center of excellence and leadership in education, especially in Science, Math, Reading and Writing, it seeks to be able to contribute in improving educational policy and practice through its graduates.


De La Salle University John Gokongwei, Jr. Innovation Center

JGIC works toward becoming a major hub of multimedia gaming revolution and interactive entertainment in the ASEAN region. GBF aims to provide the future-ready Filipino leaders with the best technical training and education in interactive media and game development, a continuously emerging industry in the digital economy.


Elizabeth Y. Gokongwei Ethnographic Stoneware Resource Center

The resource center located on the fifth floor of the National Museum of Anthropology, is the fruit of a partnership between the National Museum of the Philippines and GBF, with the goal of providing universal access to the knowledge that may be gained from the study approximately 1,000 stoneware and earthenware ceramics from the National Ethnographic Collection.


De La Salle University Gokongwei College of Engineering

The De La Salle University recognized GBF’s endowment by renaming its engineering institution as the Gokongwei College of Engineering in 2011. It is recognized by CHED as a Center of Excellence for Chemical Engineering, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Industrial Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering programs as Centers of Excellence, and a Center of Development for Computer Engineering.


Ateneo de Manila University John Gokongwei School of Management

The John Gokongwei School of Management has become one of the nation's top management schools, producing first-rate graduates who have moved on to become successful managers and entrepreneurs, leaders, and changemakers in organizations of all sizes in the Philippines as well as abroad.


GBF Technical Training Center

The facility in Calamba, Laguna, is the new home of GBF’s Iskolar ni Juan Tech-Voc program. Furnished with complete state-of-the-art training equipment to be used to better service hundreds of scholars and manufacturing technical workers, the improved facilities would keep the GBF at par with the fast changing technological developments and demands.


DepEd NSTF Sponsorship for Young Scientist Awards

The National Science and Technology Fair (NSTF) is an annual event of the Department of Education (DepEd) where bright young minds gather to present their scientific research and discoveries amid the changing world. Aside from the award, GBF also grants scholarships to the winners to help them pursue a degree in Science, Technology, Mathematics or Engineering at their dream universities in the future.


DOST-SEI Partnership for GBF Young Scientist Awards

GBF and the Department of Science and Technology – Science Education Institute share the goal of recognizing and empowering young emerging scientists to become future innovators and nation builders. With this partnership, the Foundation will select Young Scientist Awardees from the finalists of the annual imake.wemake: create.innovate.collaborate, a competition for young Filipinos that showcases their creativity and innovation.


Project Future

A major thrust of GBF for STEM educators is the establishment of an innovative, scalable, and high-impact professional development program. GBF engaged IDEO, a global pioneer in Design Thinking, to conduct the process of designing the program’s blueprint.