Tagline: The Iluminada Dinulong Panabe (IDP) Foundation is a non-profit and non-government organization dedicated to the improvement of the Philippines Society by focusing its resource on shaping its citizen to become empowered individuals capable of responding to the challenges time.

IDP Foundation envisions worthwhile contributions addressing pressing issues like poverty and  hunger, lack or inadequate livelihood opportunities, low literacy rate, access to health and sanitation services, and environmental degradation. The foundation prioritizes the marginalized sector--- the indigenous people, those in the uplands, and the unschooled youth.

 
Objectives:

1. To undertake activities and projects that would bring about an integrated transformation in the lives of those from the marginalized sector in the Philippines.

2. To provide opportunities for learning and upgrading of skills of both mentors and students

3. To uplift the economic condition and address poverty and hunger in the uplands through introduction of livelihood activities / projects.

4. To make health and sanitation services accessible.

5. To help conserve and protect the environement through the promotion of sound environment practice.

6. To give a job opportunities to the unemployed, as well as to assist in overseas employment.

7. To provide summer job to the high school and college scholars of the foundation, giving them the means to earn and save.

8. To offer further training for formal and non-formal education through seminars for specials skills, orientations, and other forms of instruction to acquire and develop more skills.

9. To offer assistance to the Kalinga beneficiary communities by marketing their local products.

The Iluminada Dinulong Panabe (IDP) Foundation started as a vision on the part of its founder to initiate an organization that would espouse the ideals she held dearly in the heart when as a young girl in Kalinga Province, in the northern part of the Philippines, she was taken under the wings of nuns who looked after her educational needs. In high school, she was into volunteer work, assisting in community projects, a path that took her to another volunteer job with an NGO after college. Her stint that included the task  of raising funds for beneficiaries widened her perspective on possibilities to help those in need. It was then that she realized that she wanted to set up a similar organization. As early as 1990s, she started subsidizing the schooling of underprivileged youths in the said province and from then on embarked in other equally important projects to sustain the total development of the individual.

The IDP Foundation has been registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) since early 2010.

Mission:

To pave the way and be the instrument in the realization of aspirations for an improved and decent life in a sound environment, providing empowering capabilities to meet local and global challenges.

      MESSAGE FROM THE FOUNDER:

  ”A recipient of similar blessings at one point in my life, I know how it is to be in that kind of situation... At this stage in my life, there’s just this strong urge within me to continue extending these same kinds of opportunities to my countrymen. I don't expect anything in return except that, whenever possible, the initiative is passed on"    

-Iluminida Dinulong Panabe-