The Gerry Roxas Foundation (GRF) is one of the oldest foundations in the Philippines. Organized in 1958, it originally began as the Roxas Educational Advancement Committee, an educational trust providing scholarships to poor youth in Capiz. In 1967, this educational trust was reconstituted into a non-stock, non-profit corporation known as the ?Roxas Educational and Welfare Committee, Inc. (REWC), Inc. which then pioneered a nationwide program that recognizes the ?beginnings of individual excellence and leadership in the community? among young Filipinos known as the ?Gerry Roxas Leadership Award?.