6.1 Social Care

PSC aspires to be engaged in long-term and sustainable participation and investment in charity rather than merely driven by short-term trends. Furthermore, the Company pursues charitable endeavors that correspond with its core business, allowing stakeholders such as business partners, suppliers, employees, and customers to contribute to society through charitable initiatives. Also, by initiating various charitable events, we hope to inspire a wider range of stakeholders to engage in philanthropic endeavors, diversify engagement, and expand event scale, thereby realizing the philosophy of “giving what we have taken from society back to society.”

PSC Scholarships and Grants for Elementary School Students from Economically Disadvantaged Families

Since 2001, PSC has been collaborating with various charitable organizations to provide scholarships to economically disadvantaged families through an annual initiative carried out in partnership with our subsidiaries in October. In addition to employees, participation has grown to include our employees' family members and PSC customers, and the Company allocated an extra donation of NT$ 200 for each participant to support scholarships for economically disadvantaged families. The event has yielded significant results in the past years. Starting in 2020, the scholarship program has been modified, with the Company providing the full scholarship amount as a donation.

We have founded the PSC Scholarships and Grants for Elementary School Students from Economically Disadvantaged Families with Taiwan Fund for Children and Families since 2008 and extended it to junior high school students since 2010 and senior high school ones since 2013. As of the end of 2022, President Securities Corporation and our subsidiaries have raised a total of NT$ 42.5 million for the scholarships, and assisted a total of 10,776 disadvantaged students: 6,245 at elementary school, 2,811 at junior high school, and 1,720 at senior high school.

In 2022, inspired by gratitude letters from scholarship recipients, the Company readapted a true story of a child realizing his dream into a short film, Amusement Park Dream.

Taiwan Fund for Children and Families’ Foster Family Invitation Project

We have become a regular sponsor of the “Open to Love” foster family invitation project launched by Taiwan Fund for Children and Families since 2011. Our branches advertise this project every year to help the helpless and deprived children find a warm and safe haven to live a happy life. As of the end of 2022, we have participated in this project for 12 years with more than 4,606 foster families joining to have taken care of 57,740 children

Support for the Disadvantaged

We support disadvantaged groups. In addition to donations, we provide a stage for them to perform their talent. In the Company's internal events or family days, we invite underprivileged groups to stage performances. We also support charity lottery tickets. At the end of the annual Lunar New Year holidays, we put lottery tickets in red envelopes (scratch-offs or lottery tickets) and give them out to employees, to help them adapt to work after a long holiday period and achieve the government's goal of “buying lottery tickets for charity purposes”. Rather than buying tickets from the head office of Taiwan Lottery, we buy such tickets from various distributors to help more disadvantaged distributors in need. We purchase handmade biscuits from the Children Are Us Foundation as afternoon snacks for each department to encourage disadvantaged entrepreneurs.

Anti-investment Fraud Program

In 2022, PSC focused on the theme of investment fraud and launched a program, “PSC - Your Spear and Shield in the Stock Market.” Leveraging our expertise in investments, we organized a series of initiatives, including online forums, interactive games, trial sessions for PSC advisory services, the establishment of an anti-fraud knowledge base and a dedicated anti-fraud consultation hotline, aiming to raise awareness among the public about investment fraud issues and prevent fraudulent activities.