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NEPA Organization

NEPA OFFICERS:  The Incumbent Board

NEPA CHAPTERS: Guide to the Building and Operation of Chapters

NEPA MEMBERS: Guide to the Recruitment of New Members

NEPA Officers

Incumbent Board

of NEPA

These were the officers elected during the widely-publicized special assembly of active NEPA members in June 2005, who were acclaimed anew during the 71st anniversary reunion at Club Filipino in November 2005.

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NEPA Chapters

Guide to Building and

Operation of Chapters

NEPA’s PRESENCE in a vast number of localities across the country is crucial in the association’s efforts to help build and interlink robust local community economies. Such presence can only be effectively embodied by active NEPA chapters. As this organization prepares to refine and fully implement its By-Laws to respond to the needs of its current programs and to further stabilize itself in time for our Diamond Anniversary in 2009, we have to build a big number of such chapters.  

As of the latest patterns of practice, a NEPA Chapter consists of no less than seven individual NEPA members in good standing, led by elected officers (Chapter President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer and a Public Relations Officer), and meets in a pre-scheduled monthly meeting (like last Friday of the month, at a regular venue).

A NEPA Chapter discusses, plans and implements all the program items of the organization as applicable to its base locality.  It may recommend and initialy process the recruitment of new members for work outside the Chapter.

It also discharges internal functions, including the recruitment. education,   tasking  and discipline of members,  and  addresses other internal organizational matters including the raising, budgeting and disbursement of material resources.

The founders of a new chapter shall submit to the NEPA National Secretariat copies of the NEPA Application Form accomplished by at least seven members, the tentative schedule of its monthly meeting and a list of elected officers, to be formally confirmed by the NEPA national leadership in a congratulatory message signed by the NEPA national president.

NEPA Chapter meetings shall have the following format:

1. Call to Order

2. Invocation Prayer

3. Singing of the National Anthem

4. Reading of the Dekalogo ng Tangkilikan

5. Acknowledgment of Members Present and of Guests

    from other NEPA organizations

6. Acknowledgement of Guests from outside NEPA

7. Welcome Remarks by the NEPA Chapter President

8. Remarks from other NEPA Chapter members.

9. Remarks from other Guests

10. Artistic Presentation (preferably by a NEPA  chapter

     member(s) or member(s) of her/his/their family/families.

11. Discussion of Pre-Scheduled and Urgent Topics

12. Closing Remarks

13. Adjournment

14. Fellowship

NEPA is currently building chapters in Provinces/Cities and among students of business and economics courses. The NEPA Secretariat will prepare a standard format for Charter of NEPA Chapter to be approved by the organization after a consultation conference among the leaders of the chapters.

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This is a chapter from the NEPA Members' Handbook of 2005

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NEPA Members

Guide to Recruitment

of New Members

THE PRESTIGE to be carried by members of NEPA can only come from the historic achievements of the organization. NEPA has had a great track record spanning a good part of the last century and that is of permanent record we can all be proud of. But life has to move on.

This organization cannot even think of resting on its laurels, while it witnesses wide-eyed the worsening current conditions obtaining in Philippine society, especially in the economic field. We have therefore decided to embark on a very difficult path. We have  programmed efforts for a radical revival of the Philippine economy and resolved to strain all our collective and individual capabilities to push these programs to fruition.

We know that after visioning, studying and planing comes the heavy task of implementation. This will have to be done across the archipelago and in all the localities that we can convince people and entire communities for these efforts. 

NEPA therefore needs a multitude of members who are ready to get out of their comfort zones to contribute with their kagandahang-loob and lakas ng loob, their time, talent and treasure to the nationalist cause espoused by NEPA. We have to  seek out, recruit and cherish such honorable Filipinos to become and remain as NEPA members fully partaking, and substantially contributing to, whatever prestige NEPA membership will be conferred by history.

Although we do need a  multitude of members, quality has to take the precedence over quantity. The personal character traits of our members  should reflect the basic honorable traits of our noble race, including a sense of creativity, responsible initiative and flexibility, a high standard of excelence in performance, and a firm determination to carry our efforts forward.

Their commitment should be based on a very high degree of self-motivation.  Reluctant persons, herded into our association like cattle or sheep by any charismatic or compulsive personality, would only create a flabby and ineffective organization. But honorable, determined and energetic members will surely self-replicate many times over and create both a high-quality membership and a fairly large one.

All of us NEPA leaders and members are therefore expected to develop ourselves continuously into such members, unceasingly seeking clearer understanding of NEPA’s analyses and programs enough to present well-thought-out contributions and even amendments to them, and be intimately familiar with the ordinary people’s conditions and views. Each member should have a personal program to acquire the capability to explain all the contents of this handbook, availking themselves of all the opportunities to be given by NEPA to develop such a capabilty.

The self-development being undertaken each member should reflect in an increasing volume and clarity of explanations she/he is giving to other people within her/his sphere of influence. It is to be assumed that each NEPA member would have such a circle of relatives and friends and NEPA’s messages to the nation would logically reach these people through the NEPA  members in these circles or informal and formal discourse.

Sooner or later, some or most of these people being effectively educated by NEPA members would motivate themselves to participate in NEPA activities and to express interest in becoming members themselves. Our efforts must be directed at recruiting the self-motivated more and not in having to motivate the recruited.. The recruitment of any Filipino into NEPA membership should therefore be in consideration of giving a synergizing mechanism (organizational entity and structure) for the person’s need to actualize her/his self-motivation and not at all due to NEPA’s or NEPA Chapter’s need for more members.

Recruitment of new NEPA members will depend on the effective promotion by NEPA chapters and its members of NEPA’s principles, vision, programs and activities.

In the words of the NEPA By-Laws of 1987 (Article I): “Any person...who cares for the economic development of the Philippines, who believes that the country’s economy should be free from foreign domination, and who agrees that economic protectionism is a necessary policy that will hasten the achievement of industrialization, and who is accepted and remains a member of good standing of any of the officially recognized Local Organization Member of the national organization, is correspondingly recognized as an Individual Member of the association.”

To be active NEPA members in good standing, a person has to fill up an Application Form, pay dues and attend most of the regular meetings of the NEPA chapter she/he belongs in.

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This is a chapter from the NEPA Members' Handbook of 2005

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