BPI Foundation’s primary goal is to improve the lives of Filipinos through the core pillars of the Foundation, namely, Financial Education, Entrepreneurial Development, Sustainable Environment, and Employee Engagement. These core pillars of the Foundation are aligned with sustainable economic development goals based on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These support the national development agenda and help improve the lives of the underprivileged. Each of the bank’s CSR initiatives build on an integrated ecosystem that aims to change how people become financially healthy.

BPI’s social entrepreneurship programmes are designed to identify and train social entrepreneurs, mainly micro, small, medium entrepreneurs (MSMEs) to accelerate their businesses. BPI collaborates with the Department of Trade and Industry to reach the MSME community, and offer training programmes to help smallholder farmers build scale and practice sustainable agriculture. In 2017, 949 micro entrepreneurs and 56 social entrepreneurs from various industries received skills training in food, handicraft, fashion, ecotourism, and arts and culture across the country.

To promote financial inclusion and financial security in the community, BPI’s financial education programmes reach out to the young and old to educate them in personal financial management. The foundation has tapped YGOAL (?) for financial education for the youth. In 2017, BPI’s financial education programme helped over 97,378 grade school and senior high school students from public schools, 6,328 teachers, and 1,050 migrant workers and 250 families in managing their finances better.