 He also helped in the political programs of various parties and groups during the years of forming alternatives to the Ferdinand Marcos martial law regime.As Provincial Superior of the Jesuits in the Philippines from 1983 to 1989, much of his work was to support and coordinate efforts on the part of the Church in the years prior to and immediately after the People Power Revolution in 1986.In 2006, Nebres merged the Center for Community Services with the Ateneo School of Government.