Updated: 2011-12-17 15:37 (Xinhua)
BEIJING – The Ministry of Civil Affairs issued a new guideline Friday to offer suggestions to charity groups on how to disclose donation information in the wake of doubts about the transparency …
Regulation on Fundraising in Guangzhou City was passed in the 45th session of People’s Congress Standing Committee of Guangzhou Municipality recently. In the original draft of this regulation, a legal person was not allowed to conduct fundraising. However, such restriction has been removed from the regulation. It now allows social organizations, civil non-enterprise organizations and nonprofit organizations to conduct fundraising with a special permit. This fundraising should be conducted in a certain period of time and in a restricted geographic area of the city. Furthermore, only organizations involved with charity work related caring for the elderly, handicapped and orphans, helping poor and disaster relieving are eligible for this fundraising permit. According to this regulation, charity organizations can apply for this permit through the Civil Affairs Department of Guangzhou Municipality Government. Necessary information and restriction will be put on the fundraising permit, including the organization’s name, the purpose of this special fundraising, in which way and when and where the fundraising will be conducted. Each fundraising permit is only good for three months but it is extensible with a new application before it gets expired. The regulation requires every fundraising organization must control its fundraising cost below 10% of the funds raised. Also, each organization will be held for accountable and can be punished for violating the regulation.
(Translated and summarized by Yan Ding, Harvard Kennedy School, based on a report from Nanfangribao, i.e. Southern Daily, 10/27/2011 http://gd.nfdaily.cn/content/2011-10/27/content_32159928.htm )
From the Guo Meimei-induced Red Cross scandal to the Lu Meimei-led China-Africa Project Hope controversy, China’s charity causes underwent a trust crisis in 2011.
During the Fourth Session of the 11th National People’s Congress in early …
(Curated & Translated by Golden Bridges: Yang Mingzhe, He Yuan, Lilly Kam, Dustin Goujon & George Ding)
NOVEMBER’S TOP 10 HIGHLIGHTS:
A recent survey conducted by Yuan Yue’s Black Apple group shows that the three most popular charity fields …
Female Sex Worker Social Networks and STI/HIV Prevention in South China
From: PLoS One. 2011; 6(9): e24816. Published online 2011 September 13.
Author: Joseph D. Tucker, Hua Peng, Kaidi Wang, Helena Chang, Sen-Miao Zhang, Li-Gang Yang, Bin …
Background
With more and more attention drawn to charity in China, the public has increasing demands of Chinese charitable organizations to improve their transparency. According to the “No. 31 Auditing Results Announcement” issued by the National …
Earlier this year, the Ministry of Civil Affairs began amending the three regulations for non-governmental organizations (NGO), the Regulations of Foundation, the Regulations of the Registration of Non-governmental Organizations, and the Provisional Regulations for the …
Shanghai, Yicai.com, 2011-11-15
Chinese government has recognized the increasing needs for professional social workers. Although the government has already launched the Certificate of Qualification in Social Work in 2008, the college education and vocational training system …
(Curated & Translated by Golden Bridges: Yang Mingzhe, Faye Pu, Emily Jiang, He Yuan, Lilly Kam, & George Ding)
OCTOBER’S TOP 10 HIGHLIGHTS:
Unlawful money-making by nonprofits such as in Lu Meimei case has attracted attention of senior government officials. Tough …
(Curated & Translated by Golden Bridges: Yang Mingzhe, Faye Pu, He Yuan, Lilly Kam, & George Ding)
TOP 10 HIGHLIGHTS:
Global Fund AIDS project to lift China grant freeze at end of month, may allow grassroots NGOs to apply …
Xinhua News Agency, October 11, 2011
The Red Cross Society of China (RCSC), which was involved in a scandal regarding the misuse of its donations earlier this year, announced that it will make changes to its …
By GILLIAN WONG, Associated Press – Aug 23, 2011
BEIJING (AP) — A high-profile global health fund that has come under pressure to clean up corruption has ended its dispute with China and will resume hundreds …
Grow the Social Entrepreneurship Field in China
Ashoka (www.ashoka.org) is the world’s largest association of social entrepreneurs — men and women who are creating new institutions and system-changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems. Since …
Translated by Wenjun Yu of Tsinghua University of China
Is there a need for companies to carry out philanthropic activities? According to Michael E. Porter, “corporations can use their charitable efforts to improve their competitive context–the …
By Maeve Wang, Harvard College 2011
Dr. Zhuang Ailing has been a philanthropist before philanthropy was a defined concept in China. Over the course of her career, Zhuang has played a key role in developing the …
