Corporate Tie Ups and Collaboration with ICanServe

ICanServe welcomes opportunities to develop collaboration or corporate tie-ups to increase the foundation's program reach and revenues to fund its programs and projects focusing on education, screening and treatment. In turn, ICanServe gives its partners an opportunity to make a positive impact on the fight against breast cancer and engage its employees and consumers.

Collaborating Through Flagship Programs

I Can Serve has regular flagship projects that corporations or companies can sponsor. Usually, there is a donation structure in place. These events are: 

1. Silver Linings – the biggest homecoming and forum for breast cancer survivors held every three years. The venue changes from one city to another.
2. Tickled Pink -  a benefit bazaar showcasing hard to find, high quality merchandise.
3. “ICanServe: A Network of People, Places and Services for the Philippine Breast Cancer Community,” a guidebook updated at least every three to four years. The first and only one of its kind.
4. Pink Kitchen – a food festival featuring tops chefs without restaurants and chefs who don’t have restaurants in Metro Manila.
5. National Breast  Cancer Screening Program – Barangay Health Workers are taught how to detect early breast cancer among the  underserved and uninsured women in the communities.  ICanServe together with city officials all around the country develop a breast cancer screening program that is sustainable  and relevant to each city.   

Collaboration with Retailers or Events Group 

1. Retailers can create  or designate a special merchandise they will sell and donate a percentage of its profits to ICanServe.
2. Events group can identify ICanServe as one of the beneficiaries of the event.  

ICanServe welcomes other arrangements but are bound by the availability of its volunteers—should any be needed for the tie-up—and a fixed calendar of activities for a given year that has been planned at least six months prior, and other parameters defined in its guidelines seen below. 

Guidelines for Collaboration / Corporate Tie-Ups with I Can Serve foundation

1. Until a Memorandum of Agreement has been reached, the use of Information on Breast Cancer Service, I Can Serve, ICanServe, I Can Serve Foundation name, logo or any of its   licensed marks or names of programs  is strictly prohibited. (Please note the pink ribbon is the universal symbol for breast cancer awareness and may be used without the permission of the I Can Serve foundation, or any foundation.)
2. The corporation or organization that wants to partner with I Can Serve must have been in business for at least three years and is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
3. Request for collaboration or tie up must be put in writing, addressed to the Committee on Advocacy and Collaboration. Please enclose company brochures,  reports on past collaborations that are similar in nature to the one that is proposed to I Can Serve.
4. The corporation or organization wanting to partner must be willing to sign a Memorandum of Agreement that will cover the parameters and conditions of the partnership including minimum assured contribution.
5. With regards to a corporation or organization donating a percentage of the sale of a product, I Can Serve requires full disclosure regarding the benefit to the organization on all packaging, advertising and promotional materials in clear and unambiguous terms. I Can Serve can help provide information materials.
6. The partner corporation, organization must agree to allow I Can Serve reasonable access to books, records etc relative to the program/promotion and to providing a final accounting report at the end of the program and/or partnership.
7. If the campaign includes plans for an official spokesperson, the I Can Serve foundation should be able to provide input in the selection of this individual to be certain that  messages communicated are consistent with the foundation image and values. 
8. Should I Can Serve require the use of a member of the I Can Serve foundation as host, guest, speaker, endorser,  and propose a compensation package, clearance must be obtained from the foundation.
9. The partnering corporation or organization must agree to publish the I Can Serve Foundation’s helpline: 632-6873942, website:www.icanserve.net, email helpline: icanserve@yahoo.com, and provide consumers with breast health information.
10. For percentage of sales on products, any amount can be donated to I Can Serve as long as it is a minimum contribution of 15% of retail price or P 50,000, whichever is bigger.
11. For products for the collaboration, a sample must be provided for review of proposals involving a product. Drawings and/or photos clearly describing the product may be acceptable if product is in development.
12. I Can Serve cannot be associated with tobacco, excessive drinking, illegal drugs, products that harm the environment, products not approved by the Department of Trade and Industry, Bureau of Food and Drugs ; companies and organizations that  discriminate against sex, religion, race; companies with a controversial image. 
13. For event planning, at least 6 months is recommended as leadtime. Should I Can Serve have other activities that year that come in conflict or would cause difficulty in garnering the help of its volunteers, event will have to be postponed of cancelled.
14. For outright donation where I Can Serve does not help plan and implement the program, where the use of I Can Serve will not be made known to the media, but known to the organizers and mentioned verbally in the event or by a small group to the guests, a minimum contribution of P 25,000.00 must be guaranteed.
15. For collaboration on non selling events, a minimum contribution will be stipulated in the memorandum of agreement. However, this should at least cover the expenses I Can Serve will incur.
16. Should a  partner back out in the middle of the planning or implementation of a project, I Can Serve may charge for expenses incurred up to that point.
17. Volunteers of I Can Serve are not expected to sell products or tickets.  I Can Serve cannot provide a mailing list of its members. 
18. Depending on the degree of participation of I Can Serve in the planning of an event (selling or non selling), and the kind of contribution to be made by the partner, the Memorandum of Agreement will stipulate how I Can Serve will be introduced (for eg: “for the benefit of I Can Serve,” “I Can Serve and (name of company) presents” etc.)
19. For special events, selling or non-selling I Can Serve must have the option to   have a booth at no extra cost  to the foundation and be allowed to sell its fund raising products.
20. Should I Can Serve be a beneficiary among many others, it cannot be lumped with other beneficiary organizations that are health related or organizations not in good standing with the community.
21. I Can Serve has regular flagships where corporations and organizations can come in. Usually, there is a donation structure in place. These events are: Silver Linings (the biggest homecoming and forum for breast cancer survivors), Tickled Pink (a bazaar of never been seen before high quality products), the  book, “I Can Serve: A Network of People, Places and Services for the Philippine Breast Cancer Community” and in the works is the national breast cancer screening program pilot project