http://hausercenter.org/chinanpo Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:10:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en (China's State Administration of Foreign Exchanges recently promulgated the  Notice on Issues concerning the Administration of Foreign Exchange Donated to or by Domestic Institutions, effective on March 1, 2010. It will affect how organizations get donations from and to overseas. See the original law at http://www.safe.gov.cn/model_safe/laws/law_detail.jsp?ID=80303000000000000,24&id=4 in Chinese.  The article below ... http://hausercenter.org/chinanpo/2010/03/chinese-government-promugated-regulation-regarding-donations-from-and-to-overseas/   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 gray area of Chinese society. Edited by Wang Liwei, vice-mayor of Guan County in Shandong Province, ... http://hausercenter.org/chinanpo/2010/03/a-biligual-magazine-from-china-on-philanthropy-the-charitarian/ (By Shawn Shieh, Novermber 1, 2009) ...Lu Fei. He’s not one of the better known activists out there, but he’s an interesting character and has done a great deal for civil society organizations and social causes for someone so young. He’s really an atypical Chinese youth, but also at the forefront of ... http://hausercenter.org/chinanpo/2010/02/profile-lu-fei-founder-of-ngocn/   (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 entrepreneur Chen Guangbiao stood behind a wall of banknotes at the Industrial and Commercial Bank's ... http://hausercenter.org/chinanpo/2010/02/chinas-new-philanthropist-got-critized/ The Art of Doing Good: Charity in Late Ming China (Hardcover) by Joanna Handlin Smith  Hardcover: 424 pages Publisher: University of California Press; 1 edition (March 11, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 0520253639 ISBN-13: 978-0520253636 Product Description An unprecedented passion for saving lives swept through late Ming society, giving rise to charitable institutions that transcended family, class, and ... http://hausercenter.org/chinanpo/2010/02/new-book-the-art-of-doing-good-charity-in-late-ming-china/ (Original in Chinese by Tian Kai, PhD., School of Government, Peking University. Translated by Hong Liu of Harvard University.) Since mid to late 1980s, board of directors system (the board system) has become an important theme in international studies on non-profit organizations (Middleton, 1987; Conforth, 2003; Ostrower & Stone, 2006). Since 1990s, the ... http://hausercenter.org/chinanpo/2010/02/the-development-and-operations-of-the-board-of-directors-system-in-chinese-nonprofit-organizations/ On the 18th October 2009, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) held a press conference on “2009 China’s Corporate Social Responsibility Blue Book” and development of corporate social responsibility (CSR) of top 100 China’s corporations in Beijing, China. In the conference, they released the indexes and evaluation of China’s top 100 ... http://hausercenter.org/chinanpo/2010/01/china%e2%80%99s-corporate-social-responsibility-report-2009-40-of-china%e2%80%99s-top-corporations-are-csr-bystanders/    By ANDREW JACOBS, New York Times, Published: December 2, 2009  (Abridged from artilce entitled "H.I.V. Tests Turn Blood Into Cash in China")  ...Although not trumpeted in its promotional materials, the foundations (Gates Foundation) other goal is more far-reaching: to empower the small but growing crop of nongovernmental groups that stand a better ... http://hausercenter.org/chinanpo/2009/12/gates-foundation-empowering-ngos-in-china-the-chinese-way/ By Shan Juan (China Daily) Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) committed to fighting HIV/AIDS in China will soon get legal status to operate, as the government is considering legally recognizing these organizations, experts close to the situation said. These efforts will help the fight against AIDS, said Shen Jie, secretary general of the government-backed ... http://hausercenter.org/chinanpo/2009/12/china-daily-ngos-to-get-legal-status-from-government/ The number of grassroots nonprofit organizations in China has been growing rapidly over the past several years.  The question of how this new group of players that drives the momentum of civil society evolution in China, to retain a sustainable source of funding, has attracted the attention of many social entrepreneurs and scholars ... http://hausercenter.org/chinanpo/2009/11/hauser-center-event-dec-2-social-enterprises-philanthropic-investment-in-china/