{"slug":"one-meralco-foundation","name":"One Meralco Foundation","tagline":"Meralco's corporate foundation, whose One For Trees program has planted over 3 million trees since 2019","description":"One Meralco Foundation (OMF) is the corporate foundation and social development arm of the Manila Electric Company (Meralco), launched in 2011 to consolidate the Meralco group's CSR programs and based at the Meralco compound in Pasig City. Its One For Trees program, started in 2019, plants and nurtures native trees and mangroves with community partners and paid tree farmers at reforestation sites around the Philippines, including the UP Laguna-Quezon Land Grant in Siniloan, the Taguibo watershed in Butuan, Katunggan It Ibajay in Aklan and Del Carmen in Siargao. As of April 2026 the program reported 3,045,104 trees across 36 sites.","website_url":"https://www.onemeralcofoundation.org","logo_url":null,"founded_year":2011,"org_type":"nonprofit","scope":"national","headquarters":{"city":"Pasig","region":"Metro Manila","country":"PH","lat":14.5869,"lng":121.0614},"volunteer_url":null,"donation_url":null,"events_url":null,"featured":false,"trees_on_record":3045104,"primary_activity":"reforestation","activities":[{"slug":"reforestation","name":"Reforestation","primary":true},{"slug":"mangrove-restoration","name":"Mangrove restoration","primary":false}],"updated_at":"2026-11-08T00:02:16.194Z","url":"https://treerm.org/org/one-meralco-foundation","markdown_url":"https://treerm.org/org/one-meralco-foundation.md","api_url":"https://treerm.org/api/v1/organizations/one-meralco-foundation","data_note":"All figures are the foundation's own numbers as reported in Philippine press features (Daily Tribune) rather than a published annual report: 2,727,433 trees as of June 2025 and 3,045,104 trees across 36 sites as of April 2026, with 165,141 trees added in 2025. The foundation's website returned server errors during research, so these were not checked against its own publications. 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