Established in 2009, The Henry V. Moran Foundation is a non-profit organization focused on developing and helping the youth throughout the many public schools around the Philippines.
It is the leader and pioneer in futsal development in the country, working in collaboration with the Philippine Football Federation, and in the past has helped start and develop the football programs of Tuloy sa Don Bosco and Gawad Kalinga.
Our Mission: Development through Sports
We believe that the discipline and hard work involved in playing sports is an ideal way to develop character, skill, and self-confidence – all of which are qualities needed to deal with real life. It is with this philosophy, then, that we help the less fortunate by building football and futsal programs for children and teens, and building up leaders in football coaches.
Our Vision
Happiness, Joy and Fun through Futsal.
Goals
- Leadership in Futsal Development
- Excellence and Passion in all that we do
- Character Development of coaches, referees, administrators, players, and families
- Community Development through Sports
Core Values
The purposes of which the Foundation was formed are as follows:
1. To assist the poor and underprivileged, to enhance the physical and moral conditions of their lives, to become economically secure, socially responsible and morally mature.
2. To promote, propagate, and develop sportsmanship, and camaraderie among poor and homeless, especially children, and to encourage them to participate in local, provincial, national and international sports, especially football competitions, and to promote goodwill with fellow participants. These activities may include education and training programs.
3. To engage in civic, charitable, religious, philanthropic activities, and to undertake scholarship programs and livelihood projects to uplift the standard of living condition of people in poor communities, to enhance the physical and spiritual conditions of their lives.
History of the Henry V. Moran Foundation
Beginnings
Beginnings – The Henry V. Moran Foundation (THVMF, the Moran Foundation or the Foundation) was established in 2008. THVMF is a non-profit organization focused on developing and helping the youth throughout the many public schools around the Philippines. However, its work in the community can be traced back to the Red Ribbon Bakeshops Corporate Social Responsibility program's involvement in youth sports development since 2002.
Mr. Daniel David “Danny” M. Moran founded the Moran Foundation. Danny Moran, second of the seven children of Henry V. Moran and Edita Moran, had been active in community development efforts for some time. He therefore broached the idea to his siblings of starting a foundation named after their late father, which would draw from the lessons, values, and ideals they had all learned from him as the basis for reaching out to the less fortunate. Thus, the Henry V. Moran Foundation (THVMF) was born.
Mr. Moran is a successful Filipino entrepreneur and philanthropist who played football for De La Salle University and the Philippine National team in the 1970s. After retiring from football, Mr. Moran founded and grew the Red Ribbon bakeshop chain and also based his business’ philanthropic initiatives around the concept of community, youth, and family development through sports. In 2003, the Red Ribbon bakeshop chain built a housing community with the Gawad Kalinga Community Development Foundation and also started the latter’s first sports program – Gawad Kalinga Football (GK Football). The GK Football program trained highly marginalized children from one Gawad Kalinga community and eventually spread to 15 communities nationwide.
By 2005, Mr. Moran sold the Red Ribbon business to Jollibee. After a transition period, in 2008, he decided to form a non-profit foundation that will carry on the mission of community development through sports. Mr. Moran named the foundation after his father – Henry V. Moran.
Development Through Sports
Henry Moran had been an avid sportsman. He believed that the discipline and hard work involved in playing sports was an ideal way to develop character, skill, and self-confidence—all qualities needed to deal with real life.
It is with this philosophy, then, that the Foundation’s entry point to helping the less fortunate has been through football programs for children and teens, as well as training for football coaches.
Since its inception, the Henry V. Moran Foundation has a track record of developing sustainable programs in football. The Foundation is considered by many groups to be the pioneer in using football as a tool for social development. In 2007, the Moran Foundation expanded, and began to develop Tuloy sa Don Bosco’s football program in Alabang, Muntinlupa. The Foundation’s football program has made it possible and was also responsible for organizing the inaugural Philippine teams (composed of underprivileged youth) to the 2008 Melbourne Homeless World Cup, the 2009 Milan Homeless World Cup, the 2010 South Africa Street Child World Cup, and the 2013 Special Olympics in Australia. From 2008-2013, Moran Foundation also organized festivals catered specifically to marginalized and underprivileged youth called "Football For Good." These festivals were held in La Salle Green Hills and invited teams and children from shelters, foundations, and other organizations to come together through the sport of football.
Aside from Tuloy sa Don Bosco, it has worked with organizations such as Gawad Kalinga, Manila Boys’ Town in Marikina, DSWD Nayon ng Kabataan in Mandaluyong, Philippine Christian Foundation, Muntinlupa United Football Club, Sisters of Mary, Silang Cavite as well as with the Philippine Football Federation (PFF).
In 2015, the foundation decided to shift its focus to developing futsal for public schools. As a result, it established the Liga Eskwela Futsal program working in close collaboration with the Department of Education – National Capital Region. The Liga Eskwela Futsal program trains public school teachers to run and implement futsal programs and activities. It also provides children from the public schools the chance to play and participate in futsal programs.
In 2017, the Moran Foundation also started to work closely with multinational corporations such as Allianz PNB Life Insurance Inc. in organizing nationwide futsal activities for youth futsal development in 9 cities across the Philippines. During its third year run, the Allianz National Youth Futsal Invitational has mobilized over 4,000 children in summer futsal activities.
In 2019, the Foundation also started catering to people affected by cerebral palsy working closely with the International Federation of Cerebral Palsy Football, the Philippine Paralympic Committee, the PFF, and a number of Local Government Units in a program called “Cerebral Palsy Football” or “CP Football”. The CP Football program will also be tasked to put together and field the Philippine’s first CP football team that would have competed in the 2020 ASEAN Paralympic Games in Clark, Pampanga, if the Covid pandemic did not intervene.
FOUNDATION MILESTONES
Prior to its formal establishment, The Henry V. Moran Foundation (THVMF) stalwarts began to support youth sports programs that lead and paved the way for it to fully embrace youth development through futsal in the public schools, to wit:
2004 Red Ribbon Bakeshop partnered with the Gawad Kalinga Community Development Foundation Inc. (GK) in developing a social development street football program that aims to use the sport of football to make a positive change in the lives of marginalized Filipino youth living in these communities. The GK-Red Ribbon team was formed.
2005~13 Conducted Futbol For Good (FFG) activities, or simply put: “Futbol for the good of others” which organized at least 3 FFG Festivals a year in La Salle Green Hills (LSGH) that had as many as many as 3,000 participants in these events. It included Christmas Futbol events that featured gift-giving and free meals in Ateneo De Manila University and LSGH.
FFG also started the Pinoy Futbol League/Special Futbol League catered to Filipino youth with special needs.
FFG is Phase One of the Moran Foundation history.
From the concept of FFG, the Foundation was able to breed programs and events such as:
1) Pinoy Futbol League;
2) GK Futbol / Liga GK;
3) Special Futbol League;
4) Futbol For Good Festivals;
5) Pools of players for all the international teams the Foundation entered into the Homeless World Cups (2), the Street Child World Cup, and the Special Olympics in Newcastle, Australia;
6) THVMF had its Pinoy Futbol Scholars. Although not publicized or promoted, THVMF helped get its street kids/homeless players into various schools in Metro Manila including La Salle Green Hills Night School, La Salle Zobel Night School, and College of St. Benilde. The Foundation also helped deserving scholars land jobs as well;
7). Our Pinoy Futbol Coaches were sent to train less fortunate youth in DSWD Centers like Tuloy sa Don Bosco, Nayon ng Kabataan, Haven for Children, Elsie Gaches, Haven for Women and Marillac.
2007 THVMF partnered with Tuloy sa Don Bosco (Tuloy Foundation) in developing their football program for marginalized street children and orphans living inside the Tuloy Center, and linked the program to FIFA upon which it successfully secured funding support from the international federation.
Currently, THVMF still supports the Tuloy Foundation through financial support coming from Amici (a percentage of sales of all new product launches go to Tuloy as part of Amici’s CSR program.)
The Moran Foundation also continues to provide Tuloy Foundation futsal and football training and coaching support in cash and kind.
2008 THVMF sent a first ever street football team to Melbourne, Australia to the Homeless World Cup, composed of seven street children from two institutions, namely: Tuloy sa Don Bosco and the DSWD Nayon ng Kabataan. It was coached and trained by Marlon Maro and Jesus Landagan.
2009 THVMF sent a team to the Homeless World Cup in Milan, Italy.
2010 THVMF participated in the Street Child World Cup in South Africa, a football event exclusively for street kids (boys and girls). This mixed team of 15yr olds-and-under was coached by Jesus Landagan and trained by Father Rocky Evangelista at the Tuloy sa Don Bosco premises. It won Gold in the 2nd Division versus host South Africa.
2012 THVMF worked again with GK, the Philippine Football Federation (PFF), and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to grow the initial Red Ribbon-GK program to encompass over 20 communities nationwide, impacting over 2,900 at-risk Filipino youth. The Foundation support funded the development of a social street football/futsal league called Liga GK for 12 communities in Metro Manila that is still on-going at present.
2013 THVMF formed, supported, and fielded a team of 15 mentally challenged players from Elsie Gaches Village, DSWD Nayon ng Kabataan and a SPED Center in Baguio to the first international 11-a-side football tournament organized under the Special Olympics banner and held in Newcastle, Australia. The Philippine team, called Philippine Specials, was coached by Jesus Landagan and Abner Recacho and were trained in Sagada, Mountain Province. They proudly won the Silver Medal vs India.
2015 THVMF started working with 11 public schools in the National Capital Region (NCR) of the Philippines to launch the “Liga Eskwela Futsal” program that aims to develop futsal in public schools as well as develop futsal as a tool for social development among public school children. The program covers Physical Education (PE) teachers training to deliver sports programs, specifically futsal, to public schools with a focus on both technical, social, and character development. The program consisted of free futsal coaching training for public school teachers, free futsal refereeing training, free futsal match organization training and division-to-cluster level futsal elimination games between participating schools.
2015 THVMF also organized its very first coaching course outside of Metro Manila. This was the Football Club of Sagada: nineteen public schools with 30 teachers participated in this program. THVMF sent Baguio-based coach Ariston Bocalan every weekend in August and September to teach the PE teachers. The Philippine Football Federation (PFF) contributed 100 balls. In November of that year, the Sagada boys football team coached by three of those teachers won the Gold Medal in the Provincial Meet of the entire Mountain Province.
2016 The Liga Eskwela Futsal Festival, the culmination event of the Liga Eskwela Futsal training program, was first conducted in January at La Salle Green Hills, and every year thereafter until 2020, increasing and expanding the number of schools which were participating; and adding more of the age brackets for which elementary school pupils and HS students can join.
2017~2020 Working in close collaboration with the Philippine Department of Education (DepEd), the Liga Eskwela Futsal program expanded to over 300 schools in the sixteen schools divisions in the NCR and to the six (6) other DepEd regions – Negros Occidental, Iloilo, Cebu, Marawi, Laguna, and Baguio/CAR. The program has worked in training over 500 teachers, impacting over 5,000 public school children.
2018 THVMF established together with Allianz PNB Life Insurance, and in collaboration with the PFF, the country’s first nationwide futsal tournament, the Allianz National Youth Futsal Invitational, holding local eliminations in 9 regions (Cebu, Iloilo, Bacolod, Davao, Dipolog, Cagayan De Oro, Metro Manila, Laguna, Baguio), 3 regional finals (Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao), and a National Final held in Sta. Rosa, Laguna. The program won Silver Award in that year’s Sports Industry Asia (SPIA) awards.
2019 THVMF futsal program together with Allianz PNB Life Insurance won a repeat Silver Award in 2019’s Sports Industry Asia (SPIA) awards for the nationwide futsal tournament.
2021 THVMF tied up with Tondo Football Club, due to the suspension of all sports activities brought by the pandemic, and initiated the 2nd Philippine Freestyle Football Championship, Online Edition.
2022 THVMF establish the Futsal Philippines (Futsal PH) online community page that promotes everything about the sport of futsal. This is its link: https://www.facebook.com/FUTSALPH
2022 THVMF ventured with Allianz PNB Life, UCFC, Sun Sports, and DepEd to present the Allianz PNB Life Virtual Football and Futsal Mastery Challenge, a nationwide search among the various competitors as to who will be the top winner of the Allianz Ball Mastery tilt.
2022 THVMF sponsored and supported the 23U Women’s Futsal League (June~August) and the 23U Men’s Futsal League (September~November) which were both held at the University of Asia and the Pacific. Consequently, THVMF orchestrated the women’s national futsal team (dubbed Pinay5 Futsal) formation and training program in partnership with the PFF, the Philippine Sports Commission, MVP Sports Foundation, Aim Group, Amici and Cara Mia; and together organized the national team’s face-off with the national women’s futsal team of Guam for a two-day friendly match at the Ninoy Aquino Stadium of the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex in October.
2023 The Liga Eskwela Futsal Festival resumed holding the games in La Salle Green Hills after the relaxation of pandemic restrictions.
2023 THVMF was honored in the Heroes Off the Pitch Awards for Best Community Project in Women’s Football by La Liga, a global professional sports league to encourage the growth of football in the Philippines and highlight its positive impact. THVMF was cited in February for having been able to introduce futsal to public schools across the country and create a national women’s futsal team to promote the sport.
2023 THVMF once again spearheaded the selection of the women’s national futsal team through the High 5 Women’s Futsal League starting April to June at the Tuloy Sa Don Bosco gymnasium in Alabang, Muntinlupa City. Supported by the PFF, MVP Sports Foundation, Tuloy Foundation, TikTok, Futsal Philippines, Philippine Orthopedic Institute, Inc., Amici and Cara Mia, the sports league aims to extract athletes who will comprise the next batch of players for the women’s national futsal team and who will represent the country in international friendly competitions within the year.
Community Development, Education, and Livelihood
At the same time, the Foundation is involved with community development and socialized housing through its Mountainville project in Binangonan, Rizal. It is now gearing up to provide education and livelihood opportunities as well for the community’s residents.