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Abstract
This study examines a fairly new corporate emphasis on using disaster management planning as a form of corporate social responsibility and as a vehicle for further strengthening social capital at the community level with the goal of creating community resilience to natural hazards. This corporate effort is very strong in the Metro Manila, Philippines. Through literature research and expert-opinion interview data collected, analysis of my data suggests that disaster management planning strengthens community resilience through three types of social capital: 1) bonding social capital at the family and community level; 2) bridging social capital that horizontally engages many sectors of society in common disaster planning activities, to include corporate-to-community partnerships; and 3) linking social capital that has empowered individuals and local barangay communities through the authority and funding vested in them by the strong national disaster risk reduction and management law. My research and findings suggest that corporate involvement in disaster management planning is an effective form of corporate social responsibility and that corporate disaster planning does lead to improved social capital that strengthens community resilience.