Service to the Community
The Law Offices of C. Joe Sayas, Jr. is mindful of its social responsibility to give back to the community. The firm’s founder, Joe Sayas, has volunteered his services as a member of the Board of Directors to non-profit organizations helping low wage earners and homeless families. These included organizations like the Good Shepherd Sisters for Homeless Women and Children (“Good Shepherd”) and Search to Involve Pilipino Americans (SIPA). He has written countless articles published with the Asian Journal since the 1990s and had spoken before several community groups on employment and civil rights.
The Joe Sayas Law Foundation was established to support community projects to help non-profit organizations in protecting the rights of workers and consumers. The Foundation has extended financial grants to the Pilipino Workers Center (PWC) to help fund its Employment, Education and Outreach Program (EMPLEO) and support its other programs. The Foundation also issued a financial grant to the Filipino Migrant Center (FMC) to support its Human Trafficking program which helps victims of labor trafficking.
Recently renamed as the Sayas Family Foundation, the law firm through the Foundation is currently supporting programs seeking to address hunger. It currently works with the Columban missionary priests in its regular weekly feeding program benefitting the urban poor in the Malate Manila area. In Los Angeles, the Foundation helps support Good Shepherd’s food program that benefits homeless women and children who reside or visit the shelter.