Every year, TAYO Awards Foundation seeks all corners of the Philippines to find the 10 best youth organizations through the projects they lead on the grassroots level. Since 2002, TAYO has accumulated more than 1,000 participating youth organizations in its network and has directly provided financial and capability-building assistance to over 200. At the National Finals, at the end of a year's search, youth organizations receive up to Php 50,000 cash grant, excluding other prizes.
National award-giving bodies and agencies in-charge of recognition and incentives only focused on individual accomplishments (e.g. Outstanding Scientists, Young Men, etc.). But after the People Power in 1986 in the Philippines, we have proven that only a united, collective effort brings about true societal and holistic change. Not only that, but the front liners in revolutions have been, and always will be, the 15 to 30-year-olds of our nation--the youth.
The Ten Accomplished Youth Organizations or TAYO Awards Foundation, Inc. was established mainly to (1) provide assistance to deserving youth organizations and their local projects on the ground and (2) give the 15 to 30-year-olds the national recognition they truly deserve. Through this, TAYO is also able to (3) maintain the most extensive and updated youth organizations database in the Philippines.
More than 1000 youth organizations (that's over 15,000 youth leaders) have benefited and continue to benefit from the services and opportunities TAYO can offer. Projects assisted by TAYO from the very first search in 2002 still run today. Because the assistance TAYO provides through the search are both financial and capacity-building, not only are young leaders discovered and honed but the sustainability of their projects on the ground are contributed to and further ensured.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
