Our vision is the Total Human Development including Spiritual, Psychological, Ecological and Material Development. Spiritual development is a process of growth of man's relatedness with God. Psychological development is a process of growth of man's relatedness with himself and with others around him. Ecological development is a process of growth of man's relatedness with mother nature. Material development is a process of growth of mans relatedness with all of his material needs.

All these four aspects are integral with each other as a whole. Each one striving to develop itself within the context of the existence of the whole. Industrial and material development therefore must be carried out with utmost prudence, care and within the framework of Total Human Development.

This vision provides a guiding framework for lasting and sustainable development where the parameters and strategies of sustainable development are operational throughout the society, which the foundation hopes to pursue. It's approach adheres to the following principles of lasting sustainable development.

• PRIMACY OF DEVELOPING FULL HUMAN POTENTIAL
  People are at the core of development initiatives.
  

• HOLISTIC SCIENCE AND APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY
  The search for solutions to be complex milieu of development problems has to be undertaken with the perspective that situates specific problems in the larger social and ecological context. This approach facilitates the development and use of appropriate technology.

• CULTURAL, MORAL AND SPIRITUAL SENSITIVITY
  Nurturing the inherent strengths of local and indigenous knowledge, practices and beliefs while respecting the cultural diversity, moral norms and spiritual essence of Filipino society.
  

• SELF-DETERMINATION
  Respecting the rights and relying on the inherent capacity of the people to decide on the course of their development.

• NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY
  Self-determination at the level where the norms of society and the specifics of the local ecology inform national governance. Includes human and environment security as well as achieving and ensuring security and self-reliance in basic staple foods. Recognizing the crucial role of farmers and fisher folks in providing for the nutritional needs of the nation.

• GENDER SENSITIVITY
  Recognizing the importance and complementary roles and the empowerment of both men and woman in development.

• PEACE, ORDER AND NATIONAL SECURITY
  Securing the right of all Filipinos to a peaceful and sound existence.

• SOCIAL JUSTICE, INTER/INTRA-GENERATION AND SPATIAL EQUITY
  Ensuring social cohesion and harmony through equitable distribution of resources and providing the various sectors of society with equal access to development opportunities and benefits today and in the future.

• PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY
  Ensuring the participation and empowerment of all sectors of society in development decision-making and processes [and to operate inter-sectoral and multi-sectoral consensus.

• INSTITUTIONAL VIABILITY
  Recognizing that sustainable development is a shared, collective and indivisible responsibility, which calls for institutional structures that are built around the spirit of solidarity, convergence and partnership between and among different stake-holders.

• VIABLE, SOUND AND BROAD-BASED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
  Development founded on a stable economy where the benefits are economic progress are equitably shared across ages, communities, gender, social classes, ethnicity, geographical units and across generations.

• SUSTAINABLE POPULATION
  Achieving a sustainable population level, structure and distribution while taking cognizance of the limited carrying capacity of nature and the interweaving forces of population, culture, resources, environment and development.

• ECOLOGICAL SOUNDNESS
  Recognizing nature as our common heritage and thus respecting the limited carrying capacity and integrity of nature in the development process to ensure the right of present and future generation to this heritage.

• BIO-GEOGRAPHICAL EQUITY AND COMMUNITY BASED RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
  Recognizing that since communities residing within or most proximate to an ecosystem of a bio-geographic region will be the ones to most directly and immediately feel the positive and negative impacts on the ecosystem, they should be given prior claim to the development decisions affecting that ecosystem including management of the resources. To ensure bio-geographic equity, other affected communities should be involved in such decisions.

• GLOBAL COOPERATION
  Building upon and contributing to the diverse capacities of individual nations.
  

Operationally, lastijng and sustainable development is a development that draws out the full human potential across ages and generations and is, at the same time, ecologically, friendly, economically sound, politically empowering, socially just and equitable, spiritually liberating, gender sensitive, based on holistic and integrative science, technologically appropriate. It builds upon Filipino values, history, culture, excellence and rests upon strong institutional foundations.