Introduction 3 An urban poor homeowners association The struggle in the 1990s of more than 500 displaced urban poor families from Sitio Mendez, Barangay¹ Baesa organized under the Alyansa ng mga Samahan sa Sitio Mendez, Baesa Homeowners Association (ASAMBA) has resulted to their return to their community under an on-site, in-city relocation supported by the Quezon City government. The families camped out for one and a half months at the Quezon City Hall, staged daily protest actions, held lobby activities and regular dialogues with city officials, and won the broad support of various sectors, including religious and local officials. This resulted in their return to Sitio Mendez marked by the more than six-kilometer Martsa ng Tagumpay (March of Success) which was participated in by 5,000 urban poor. The “victory” of Sitio Mendez was claimed as a victory of the urban poor sector in their fight for land tenure. A community-based health program Bantay Kalusugan Pampamayanan (BKP, Community Health Watch) is a community-based health program established in 2013 in a community of urban poor relocatees from Metro Manila in the City of San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan Province. It has a health clinic and a component emergency transport system. With over 1,000 members, the BKP has survived funding problems and has become an independent and sustainable healthcare program through their own organizational efforts. To assist in its projects, it has established partnerships with civil society groups and the academe. It has a core of volunteers and a Secretariat that coordinates and manages its various committees on health monitoring, health education, and rescuers. Women social entrepreneurs The Ma-Igting na Samahan ng mga Panlipunang Negosyante ng Towerville (Association of Social Entrepreneurs of Towerville or Igting) is a peoples’ organization composed mainly of mothers living in Towerville, City of San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan Province. The members were also once informal settlers in Metro Manila. Between the years 2000 to 2010, they were relocated to Towerville as part of the government’s plan to remove informal settlers from so-called danger zones or due to impending development projects. Once relocated, they faced the harsh reality of the relocation sites—mainly the absence of basic services and livelihood opportunities. Through the help of a Korean non-government organization (NGO), Igting was formed to address the lack of livelihood in Towerville. Drawing from the principles of social enterprise and community organizing, Igting has since become a sustainable sewing business providing livelihood for its forty members. 1 The barangay is the country’s basic administrative unit, akin to a village.