Funding

New spring festival donations trend: Hong Bao charity

The Chinese tradition of giving gifts of money in red envelopes (Hong Bao) during spring festival turned into a new fad for China’s internet users when internet giants Alibaba and Tencent both started offering electronic “Hong Bao” during the holiday.…

2015-03-12

Public welfare crowdfunding in China: 2014’s most successful projects

Crowdfunding has recently become very popular on the internet. When crowdfunding appeared in China almost three years ago, no-one showed interest in it. It now has an impressive success rate. All kinds of public welfare projects, no matter how unusual,…

2015-01-23

Charitable organizations must disclose their funding situation once every three months

Guo Yuqiang, deputy director of the department in charge of public welfare and charitable foundations at the Ministry of Civil Affairs, stated that charitable organizations must disclose their funding situation once every three months.

2015-01-08

New regulations on government procurement of services implemented

On January 1st 2015, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the State Administration for Industry and Commerce jointly published the latest version of the "Provisional Measures on the Management of Government Procurement of Services".

2015-01-06

The 10 Public Welfare Keywords of 2014

This article highlights 10 keywords from China Philanthropy Times’ reporting on the public welfare industry in 2014.

2015-01-05

CASS: A growing share of CSO funding comes from Chinese sources

A report published by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) shows that a growing share of Chinese social organizations' funding is coming from Chinese sources and that Chinese foundations have replaced foreign foundations as the first funding supplier for the sector.

2014-12-30

Kang Xiaoguang: is social organizations’ future development hopeful?

In this interview, Kang Xiaoguang shares his thoughts on a series of issues concerning the development of Chinese social organizations

2014-12-26

Tsinghua and PKU jointly publish recommendations for the Charity Law

Tsinghua University and Peking University jointly published expert recommendations for the «Charity Law». This report touches upon all the important matters concerning charity in China, such as donations, property management, trust funds, charitable services, branches of foreign organizations in China...

2014-12-16

The Rise and Fall of the Anti-Domestic Violence Network

Ex-ADVN program officer Dong Yige analyzes the history of the influential Anti-Domestic Violence Network and the reason for its closing down in May 2014.

2014-11-24

Guangzhou stipulates that NGOs will have to report foreign funding

Guangzhou has revised its "measures on the management of social organizations" after a stricter draft version triggered public concerns

2014-11-07

NGOCN’s Notes from the 3rd China Charity Fair

NGOCN reports several findings and highlights of the recently concluded Charity Fair, held in Shenzhen from the 19th to the 21st of September.

2014-09-28

China-Dolls issues response to open letter

The China-Dolls Center has issued a response to an open letter that criticized it over alleged unauthorized fund raising. In its response the Center pointed out that it has always carried out its operations in accordance to relevant guidelines

2014-09-18

Without justice, how can we talk of public interest?

In this article, He Yongqiang strongly criticizes the open letter published by the Song Qingling Foundation and 3 other public foundations to ask the Ministry of Civil Affairs to punish the grassroots NGO Chinadolls.

2014-09-17

How different is crowd funding from illegal collection of funds?

Crowd funding has become a popular form of Internet financing. However, at this point, many are still unsure what the difference is between crowd funding and illegal fundraising.

2014-06-16

From Wenchuan to Lushan: An Overview of Disaster Relief NGO Efforts

The author analyzes the changes in NGO relief efforts between the Wenchuan Earthquake in 2008 and the Lushan earthquake in 2013.

2014-06-14

Beijing Times – Frequently changing policies leave foster families in the lurch while orphanages’ privileges are difficult to curb

Following the Ministry of Civil Affairs' new draft of the revised Guidelines for Foster Family Management, this article sympathetically describes rural Beijing families whose foster children have been taken back to orphanages

2014-05-29

Guangzhou NGOs Given Public Fundraising Authority

As part of the ongoing social management innovations in Guangdong, new Guangzhou fundraising regulations will go into effect on May 1 of this year, and will allow social organizations, civil non-enterprise units and nonprofit public institutions to fundraise publicly.

2012-05-28

Guangzhou “frees” fundraisers

The Standing Committee of the Guangzhou Municipality People’s Congress passed “Guangzhou Municipality’s Fundraising Regulations” that expands fundraising activities for all social organizations and public institutions engaged in the charitable or “public welfare” field within Guangzhou.

2012-02-29

CDB Reports

Charitable organizations must disclose their funding situation once every three months

New regulations on government procurement of services implemented

The 10 Public Welfare Keywords of 2014

CASS: A growing share of CSO funding comes from Chinese sources

Kang Xiaoguang: is social organizations’ future development hopeful?

Tsinghua and PKU jointly publish recommendations for the Charity Law

The Rise and Fall of the Anti-Domestic Violence Network

Guangzhou stipulates that NGOs will have to report foreign funding

China-Dolls issues response to open letter

Without justice, how can we talk of public interest?

How different is crowd funding from illegal collection of funds?

From Wenchuan to Lushan: An Overview of Disaster Relief NGO Efforts

Beijing Times – Frequently changing policies leave foster families in the lurch while orphanages’ privileges are difficult to curb

Guangzhou NGOs Given Public Fundraising Authority

Guangzhou “frees” fundraisers

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