By Gao Fumao, Global Times
He’s a Chinese government official. She’s a British lawyer. Together they publish a magazine that hopes to lift a veil of illegitimacy clouding a local NGO scene that’s thriving in a …

(By Wang Hongyi, China Daily)  SHANGHAI: The latest donation of 43.16 million yuan ($6.3 million) by a major philanthropist and 512 other entrepreneurs toward the needy has stirred controversy in the charity sector.
On Friday, Chinese …

Original Chinese interview byZhai Minglei, May 31 2008. Translated by Min Guo.
Jet Li:
I am a survivor of the Indonesian Tsunami. My family was on vacation in the Maldives the day when Tsunami came. The …

During China’s Private Foundation Forum in Beijing July 2-3, the Organizing Committee of the Forum issued the “Self-Disciplne Declaration of China Private Foundations” on behalf of the participating foudnations, highlightening the need and the wish for …

China Private Foundation Forum will be held in Beijing July 2nd to 3rd, with the theme of “China’s Privation Foundations in Growth”.
At the Forum, leaders from China’s Private Foundations will gather for the first time, to …

By Jia Xijin and Zhao Yusi
According to statistics, the total charitable donation in China in 2008 reached 107 billion RMB (15.7 billion US dollars), three times what it was in 2007, with an annual growth …

On April 28, 2009, Peter Geitherner, Ford Foundation’s First China Rep gave a talk on the history of foreign philanthropies in China at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University.
Below are notes …