WHERE: Mall Of Asia grounds

WHEN: February 25, 2010 – Thursday, 6pm (gates open @ 4pm)

ADMISSION IS FREE!!!Please fwd to your members.

Rockatropa Guests:
Willie Villame
Sarah Geronimo
Andrew E
Randy Santiago
Wowowee Kembot Girls
Big Bands (Kamikaze, Parokya ni Edgar, Sandwich, Juan dela Cruz, Bamboo)

watch out for more details @ Tropang Kabataan for Villar or Manny Villar Official Facebook

Conducted at Nueva Ecija University of Science and Technology (NEUST), the Young Entrepreneurs Summit (YES) advocates values-based entrepreneurship as core for the country’s real development through ensured access to skills, tools and institutions.

As part of its advocacy program, the MBV pledged to donate P100,000 to the students.

“The students and the school authorities can use the money as seed capital to put up income-generating projects for the students, specially those whose families are affected by the El Nino,” the MBV said in its statement.

The summit aims to push the youth who wants to be entrepreneurs by providing them long-term support through correct values, proper training and access to institutional support to ensure success.

Villar will overtake Aquino by one percentage point under a two-cornered fight based on the survey conducted by Pulse Asia January 22 to 26, 2010 among 1,800 respondents.

The respondents were asked: “Ngayon ay mayroon akong ipapakita sa inyo na ibat-ibang listahan, kung ang mga sumusunod ang siyang mga maging kandidato sa pagka-presidente ng Pilipinas, sino ang inyong iboboto kung ang pambansang eleksiyon ng 2010 ay gaganapin ngayon?”

The “one-on-one” scenario was contained in the similar Pulse Asia survey showing the gap between Villar and Aquino closing in with the NP standard-bearer receiving 35 percent against Aquino’s 37 percent or a margin of two percentage points.

But with only Aquino and Villar pitted against each other, Villar would actually overtake Aquino to become the new proverbial “man to beat.”

The same “one-on-one” survey has a plus or minus two percent margin of error.

It was a tremendous leap for Villar, who was rating only 32 percent as against Aquino’s 62 percent during a Pulse Asia survey conducted October 22 to 30, 2009, also under the “one-on-one” scenario.

This shows Villar gained 14 percentage points from October last year to January this year while Aquino slid by big 17 percentage points covering the same period.

Villar took Mindanao with 50 percent compared to Aquino’s 44 percent while solidifying his lead in the class E voters with 50 percent against Aquino’s 41 percent.

In other regions, Villar likewise overtook Aquino in Visayas with 47 percent against the latter’s 46 percent and both running neck and neck in Luzon with 44 percent and 45 percent, respectively.

The National Capital Region (NCR) was no longer a Noynoy territory as Villar closes in with a strong 41 percent comeback (from previous 24 percent last October) versus Aquino’s fragile 48 percent (down from 69 percent in October).

The ABC economic class, which is mostly pro-Noynoy, remains an Aquino bailiwick with 52 percent (67 percent) against Villar’s 37 percent (22 percent).

The D economic class is now a “free zone” as Villar is just three-percentage point away from Aquino’s 47 percent (60 percent in October).

In the separate Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey held December 27 to 28, 2009, Villar was already closing in on Aquino by bridging the gap with 44 percent against Aquino’s 52 percent if there’s only two of them contesting the presidency.

The special December SWS survey has had 2,100 respondents.

The latest Pulse Asia survey was conducted on the same week that the Committee of the Whole of the Senate led by Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile was reporting out on the floor its committee report finding Villar guilty of road funding irregularity.

7 February 2010

The search is on for the Movement for Better Values (MBV) Idol through a videoke singing contest nationwide with P200,000 grand prize at stake for the winner.

The MBV, a national movement of small entrepreneurs, students, workers, young professionals and urban poor, said the MBV Idol will be launched in barangays nationwide where local MBV chapters are present and with the support and approval of barangay officials.

Exequiel Villacorta Jr., MBV Chairman, said the activity will also serve as the venue for the entrepreneurship forum at the barangay level in a bid to address the nagging issue of poverty and social injustice.

The activity likewise is aimed to create awareness and enlighten residents particularly the youth to elect officials with integrity to lead the people out of poverty; provide protection to overseas Filipino workers and entrepreneurial opportunity to urban and rural poor, in the upcoming May 2010 elections.

The Movement recently issued its parameters in choosing candidates in the 2010 national and local elections citing those criteria. It added the country’s new leaders must not be elected on the basis of their lineage, color or the euphoria surrounding their circumstances.

It wants leaders who are committed to give equal opportunity for all in the pursuit of quality and affordable education, economic advancement and social justice. The MBV believes Nacionalista standard bearer Senator Manny Villar possesses the values of fortitude (sipag at tiyaga), bayanihan spirit, and committed and transparent governance.

The group said the MBV Idol is open to all bona-fide constituents of the barangay to join the videoke singing contest. Applicants to the contest are required to fill up the form before deadline.

Contestant is required to bring at least 15 barangay mates to the contest venue. The contestant with the highest score wins. Score is based on the videoke unit scoring, according to the MBV Idol organizers.

MBV Idol organizers explained that contestants who tie for the winning spot must be made to sing again a song that will be picked randomly by the contest organizer. “Isang kanta lang ang kakantahin ng nag-tie na contestants. Para mas madaling ibreyk ang tie,” the organizer said.

MBV Idol winner in the barangay level will receive P5000.

Winner will upload his contest video on YOU TUBE as his entry to the national search for MBV Idol. Contestant takes care of his own video equipment.

MBV Idol organizers said the search for national winner will be based on the highest number of text votes. The MBV will provide the technology for text voting.

Venue of the contest is held in barangay covered court, barangay hall or any open space within the barangay.

For the months of November and December, the MBV Idol search have been launched already in several barangays in the National Capital Region and Luzon. In Metro Manila, these were in Manila (Moriones, Tondo), Pasay (Maricaban), Pasig (Manggahan), San Juan (Corazon De Jesus), Marikina (Tumana), Navotas (NBBS), Mandaluyong (Addition Hills), Commonwealth, Tatalon and Holy Spirit in Quezon City, Valenzuela (Gen. T. de Leon), Caloocan (Dagat-Dagatan), Las Pinas (Talon), and Malabon (Longos).

Outside NCR, the video singing contest was held in Bulacan (Malolos), Cagayan (Tuguegarao) and Quezon (Lucena).

More Barangay Idol searches are forthcoming in Laguna (Calamba), Pampanga, Batangas, Davao, Gen. Santos City, Zamboanga and Cagayan de Oro.

PRESIDENTIABLE Manny Villar advised more than 4,000 students to be entrepreneurs rather than strive to pursue a career.

“You should not all lose hope. Even if you are not rich, not smart or physically disabled, do not worry. If you have nothing, you have nothing to lose. And that is one ingredient on becoming a perfect entrepreneur,” Villar said.

Villar privately met with officials of University of Mindanao before speaking at the ‘Yes! Young Entrepreneur’s Summit’ yesterday afternoon at the school’s Embassy gym along Bolton Street. The forum was attended by students from other schools as well.

The Senate president, who still has to choose his running mate, shared that his current success is perched on a mountain of past failures and disappointments, recounting how in his early years he had to struggle to become his own boss. The two keys to his success, he said, are determination and perseverance.

Not just that, Villar said that he went there not to brag but to serve as an inspiration to the future entrepreneurs in the gymnasium. He also said on the last part of his speech that he hoped that they should all be successful someday.

“So you should also rise, rise even if you fall a lot of times,” he said to the delight of the mostly young crowd.

Meanwhile, Lili Ramirez, the co-convenor of Movement for Better Values (MBV), said the group wanted to expand the number of their followers. “We want to see more Manny Villars in our country,” she added.

Guido Delgado, the president of MBV, told Times that the goal of the group is to convince the students who attended the summit to become business-oriented persons, rather than work as employees all their lives.

He said only in entrepreneurship can the students really experience “being the boss.”
Organizers also launched during the summit the My Business Awards, a nationwide search for good business plans which are the basis for selecting awardees. Each participating school will win seed capital amounting to P100, 000 to start a business. The winning school will then have P10,000 as a cash prize.
“Of course the capital is bigger than the prize,” Delgado said.

(Mindanao Times / Sept 9, 2009 / by: Fusilero , Kristianne)

After the resounding success of the Young Entrepreneurs’ Summit (YES!) held last August 22 in Cagayan de Oro City, the Movement for Better Values is now bringing the YES! to Davao City. The YES! will be held at the University of Mindanao Gymnasium on October 8, 2009 where the keynote speaker shall be Senator Manny Villar.

About 2,000 students from various Davao schools particularly from the University of Mindanao, University of the Philippines Mindanao, Ateneo de Davao University, Rizal Memorial Colleges, Phil. Women’s College of Davao, University of Southeastern Phils., will be attending the summit. “We are very excited to stage the YES! event once again and to conduct this truly meaningful event in Davao, a key city in Mindanao. This just shows how the youth are interested in entrepreneurship as a career choice,” according to Movement Chairperson Jun Villacorta.

The Movement is an organization made up of private individuals, whose main vision is to see a vibrant Philippine economy supported by a creative and globally competitive cadre of entrepreneurs driven by honest and hard work, respect for freedom, and love of fellow men and the environment.

The values-based entrepreneurship program of the Movement has been extended to teachers, micro-entrepreneurs in Ozamis, and to students in Cagayan de Oro and Davao. One of the major activities of the Movement is the YES! which shall be an opportunity for young people to develop their interest and skill in business as it provides technical support and entrepreneurship funds to schools.

Guest-entrepreneurs in the YES! – Davao are Ms. Czarina Lim, owner-operator of Dimsum Diner, Mr. Jigger Avanceña of Galeas Trading Corporation, and Mr. & Mrs. Stax and Jill Savellano of Shiatsu Shi Ya.