Ayala Foundation’s 2006 annual report won a Gold Award at the Wilmer Shields Rich Awards Program for Excellence in Communications 2007. The environment-themed annual report took the top honor in the annual or biennial reports category for corporate foundations and giving programs that offer grants of less than $2.5 million per year.

The Wilmer Shield Rich Awards are conferred by the U.S.-based Council on Foundations to recognize and encourage the communications excellence of foundations and corporate giving programs. The awards program highlights communications that are comprehensive, integrated, targeted, and well-timed. These must effectively explain strategies and techniques so as to inform the work of other grant makers. The award honorees will be recognized at the Council on Foundations’s 58th Annual Conference that will be held on April 30 in Seattle, U.S.A.

Ayala Foundation was also a five-time winner at the Public Relations Society of the Philippines’s 42nd Anvil Awards held last February 23 at the Hotel Intercontinental Manila. The Anvil Awards honors outstanding public relations programs and tools. Winning entries are determined by a multi-sectoral jury. This year, there were a total of 178 entries, the most entries submitted in the history of the Anvil Awards.

In the Tools of Public Relations category, AFI was awarded an Anvil Award of Excellence in the Publications–Brochure sub-category for its omnibus brochure, which was produced by Ayala Foundation and the Filipinas Heritage Library. Also in the Tools of PR category, AFI won an Anvil Award of Merit in the External Publications–Posters sub-category for the Ayala Foundation walkway ads. In the Institutional and Corporate PR Programs category, AFI received three Anvil Awards of Merit for the Gearing up Internet Literacy and Access for Students program, the 8th National Ayala Young Leaders Congress, and the
In-School Youth Engagement Program that AFI implements for the Education, Livelihood and Skills Alliance (ELSA).

This year, the Ayala group won a total of 11 Anvils, and was inducted into the Anvil Hall of Fame for the Ayala group of companies’ unified annual reports.