Year: 2013
Funding notes of SEE Foundation fund administrator: Project proposals SEE基金会资助官员的资助笔记：项目书 By Tu Shiwen 涂释文, Green Youther 青年环境评论, December 23, 2013 http://www.ngocn.net/?action-viewnews-itemid-88966 A SEE Foundation employee talks about their experience dealing with project proposals, noting the importance of revising and refining…
Deng Fei wants to register a nationwide public foundation 邓飞欲注册全国性公募基金会 By Yan Bing 闫冰, Philanthropy Times 公益时报, December 17, 2013 Deng Fei – one of the Chinese NGO sector’s most well-known and influential figures – received national recognition last week…
Survey: the salaries of the staff of public welfare organizations are lower than the social average 调查显示：公益组织人员薪资低于社会平均水平 By Wang Hui 王辉, The Beijing Times 京华时报, December 16, 2013 http://epaper.jinghua.cn/html/2013-12/16/content_48782.htm A recent survey of 54 public welfare organizations in Beijing, Guangzhou,…
The 2011 Guo Meimei scandal has become the stuff of Chinese urban legend. This article, excerpted from the 2012 China Blue Book of Philanthropy, seeks to present a balanced account of how the scandal unfolded and what its impact was on the Chinese Red Cross, and the philanthropic sector as a whole, and the measures the Red Cross is taking to reform itself in the scandal’s wake.
Wang Zhenyao: Turning around to face the past three years without regret, this is the life that I wanted 王振耀：转身三年不后悔 这是我向往的生活 By Hou Lixin 侯力新, Phoenix News Public Welfare 凤凰网公益, December 10, 2013 Wang Zhenyao has now spent three years…
The third method of solving a medical dispute – an example of an NGO mediating 医患纠纷第三种解法, 一个NGO组织的调解样本 Shandong Evening News 齐鲁晚报, December 09, 2013 http://epaper.qlwb.com.cn/qlwb/content/20131209/ArticelB03002FM.htm?jdfwkey=c0dcf2 Normally in China disputes over medical treatment are dealt with internally in a hospital or…
The CDB staff have been very busy over the past few weeks attending events across China, read some of their reviews.
Assistant Director of CDB (English) Tom Bannister reports on the recent publication of a rankings index in which Chinese NGOs got the chance to rate the foundations that fund them.
Could it be that homosexuals cannot take part in public welfare work? 同性恋难道不能做公益吗？ By A Qiang, China Development Brief 中国发展简报, December 02, 2013 http://www.chinadevelopmentbrief.org.cn/newsview.php?id=8303 The Executive Director of LGBT group PFLAG China writes about the hurdles that the Ministry of…
At the end of October, China’s ‘Environmental Protection Law’ was again discussed in the NPC Standing Committee's third investigation. The discussion touched upon the requirements for public interest lawsuits, and meant that once again society focused on the issues surrounding legal action.
Look forward to the ‘wealthy generation’ becoming the ‘benevolent generation’ 期待“富一代”成“善一代” http://hunan.ifeng.com/gongyi/gyzx/detail_2013_11/25/1504776_0.shtml Changsha Evening News 长沙晚报, November 25, 2013 The article discusses how generational attitudes towards charity and philanthropy are effected by affluence, predicting a brighter future for the generations…
Public welfare talent is in extremely short supply: nearly two tenths of public welfare workers earn less than a 1000 Yuan a month 公益人才极度匮乏：近两成从业者月薪1000元以下 By Zhang Xiaoxiang 张枭翔, China Philanthropist 中国慈善家, November 18, 2013. The problems facing Chinese public welfare…
This is the second installment of a case study examining a Chongqing environmental NGO that uses a novel and effective way to supervise local government agencies and companies.
Su Wei: Chinese NGOs must explore new ways to respond to climate change 苏伟：中国将为NGO参与应对气候变化开拓更多途径 By Zhou Rei 周锐 and Yu Lan 俞岚, China News Network 中国新闻网, November 16, 2013. www.chinanews.com/gn/2013/11-16/5510849.shtml Su Wei, the deputy head of the Chinese delegation at…
The ‘Foundation Supervision Regulations’ were issued in June of 2004, opening the door to the non-governmental funding and establishment of private foundations. In November of that same year, the fourth Plenum of the 16th Central Committee put forward their “social construction” concept.
Fu Tao, CDB’s Senior Researcher, reports on a relatively new environmental NGO in Chongqing that has established a regular pattern of interaction with the local Environment Protection Bureau.
In order to give readers a glimpse into the dynamic Chinese NGO sector this new column will summarize some of the events that CDB has participated in over recent weeks.
NGOs grade their funders, only 1.5% of foundations have previously funded grassroots organisations NGO首次给资助方打分 仅1.5％基金会资助过草根组织 By Wang Hui王辉, Beijing Times 京华时报, November 11, 2013 http://gongyi.qq.com/a/20131111/007069.htm Taking inspiration from Taobao’s buyer-seller ratings, the “China Foundation Evaluation List” conference announced the publication…