The nonprofit sector in China is at an unprecedented historical moment. With the outburst of public philanthropic awareness and actions unleashed by the 2008 earthquake and the Olympic Games in Beijing, as well as corresponding government reforms, the year of 2008 has been called the "First Year of Philanthropic China."
Purpose
The Nonprofit Organizations in China Domain focuses on the key challenges facing the growing Chinese social sector. The purpose of the domain is to provide bridges between scholars and practitioners to make constructive contributions to the development of the social sector in China through research, education, and service.
Activities and Results
We carry out activities that advance three types of results for scholarship and practice with and about the nonprofit sector in China:
Expand the Social Impacts of the Sector
1. Support universities and nonprofit centers committed to building the capacity of the Chinese social sector: Currently partnering with Peking University Center for Civil Society Studies (PKU-CCSS).
2. Develop executive education workshops for Chinese nonprofit organization leaders and philanthropists: Currently delivering advanced workshops in partnership with PKU-CCSS and Sun Culture Foundation in China.
3. Support relevant policy making and system building in China.
Enhance Awareness of and Advocacy for the Sector
4. Foster conference, speaking and media engagements that will enrich public conversation and debates about the role of nonprofit organizations in China.
5. Provide a platform at Harvard for leaders in the social sector in China.
6. Support opportunities for Harvard students to engage with nonprofit organizations in China (e.g., internships, employment, course and research projects).
Build Knowledge and Learning about the Sector
7. Build an English resource website on nonprofit practice and scholarship in China: see Nonprofits in China blog.
8. Organize academic seminars and conferences that advance scholarship on the sector.
9. Encourage and enable curriculum development that enables Harvard students to learn about the Chinese social sector.
10. Facilitate development of teaching cases on nonprofit organizations in China.
11. Support the translation and publication of books and research articles on the social sector in China in both English and Chinese.
Domain Steering
Committee
Xing Hu, Domain Manager
L. David Brown, Senior Fellow
Charles (Zhiyuan) Cheng,
Mid-Career Fellow
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Advisory
Committee
William Alford, Henry L. Stimson Professor of
Law at Harvard Law School; Vice Dean for the Graduate
Program and International Legal Studies; Director of
East Asian Legal Studies; Chair, Harvard Project on
Disability.
Lincoln C. Chen is President of the China Medical
Board. Dr. Chen was the founding director of the Harvard
Global Equity Initiative (2001-2006), and in an earlier
decade, the Taro Takemi Professor of International
Health and Director of the University-wide Harvard
Center for Population and Development Studies
(1987-1996). In 1997-2001, Dr. Chen served as Executive
Vice-President of the Rockefeller Foundation.
Peter F. Geithner is an advisor to the Asia Center at
Harvard University and a consultant to the Asia Pacific
Philanthropy Consortium, Rockefeller Foundation,
Sasakawa Peace Foundation, and other organizations. Mr.
Geithner was Ford Foundation’s first representative in
China.
William Kirby, T. M. Chang Professor of China
Studies at Harvard; Spangler Family Professor of
Business Administration; Director, Fairbank Center for
Chinese Studies.
Elizabeth J. Perry is Henry Rosovsky Professor of
Government at Harvard and Director of the
Harvard-Yenching Institute. She is a comparativist with
special expertise in the politics of China.
Anthony Saich,
Daewoo Professor of
International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy
School，Director
of the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and
Innovation, and Faculty Chair of Asia Programs and the
China Public Policy Program, Executive Committee Member of
the Fairbank Center of China Studies and Asia Center
of Harvard.
Faculty
and Researchers Involved
Chris Stone, Daniel and Florence Guggenheim
Professor of the Practice of Criminal Justice; Director
Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations and Program in
Criminal Justice Policy and Management
Jame Honan, Senior Lecturer on
Education
Marshall Ganz, Lecturer in Public
Policy
Joan Kaufman, Lecturer in Social Medicine at
Harvard Medical School and Founding Director of the AIDS
Public Policy Training Project at the Kennedy
School
Bill Ryan, Research Fellow
Colin Maclay, Managing Director of the Berkman
Center for Internet & Society
Christopher Marquise, Assistant
Professor of Business Administration