China is not short of people who donate money, the key is how to use it

Source: Internet
Author: User
This reporter Zhangqinghong world's richest man Bill Gates, "The Warren" Buffett and the Chinese rich "Bobby Feast" has been held on September 29 night, the legendary "donation Hongmenyan" brief aura and mysterious after, really left is to the Chinese public welfare cause big question mark.  In the last one months, media discussions and social thinking have gone far beyond the table of rich men.  In this regard, the Chinese youth Daily reporter interviewed the China's advocacy of social innovation and new public welfare concept of the well-known public charities-friends into the foundation for the benefit of entrepreneurs, Ms. Wang Ping. "The hottest one has long been the Chinese millionaire who will donate money, but the real Chinese are not short of people who donate money." The most we should care about is-how do you use it after each donation? How do you use it?  "said Wang Ping. "A lot of donations are not up to the benefit of the donor." From the top of the "Bobby's Feast," the huge pyramid formed by the rapid accumulation of Chinese folk wealth.  And the wealth is flowing from the spire to the public good.  The 2009 China Non-public Offering Foundation development Forum, released the "2008 China Non-public Offering Foundation Development Report" tells people, the Chinese folk Charitable fund scale, has unconsciously surpassed the old public offering foundation "Big Brother". As at the end of 2008, the Civil Ministry registered a total of 39 non-public offering foundation, the average amount of original funds reached 39.05 million yuan. The average of 82 public offering foundations is only 16.66 million yuan, less than half of the former. The industry has the view that the biggest trouble with philanthropy in China is that many wealthy people are willing to engage in charity, and it is still very rare to believe in and run a mature NGO.  This is also a big question to the "Bobby Charity Dinner". In this regard, Wang Ping said: "Since 2004, China began to have Non-public fund, the development time is very short, still very immature." So I understand the idea of ' being immature ' in a charity dinner in China. We entrepreneurs are willing to donate and prepare to donate, but we do not know where to donate. "In addition to the efficiency and credibility of some public organizations, the public has gradually questioned the effectiveness of traditional public donations," he said. Wang Ping proposed that many charitable donations now do not maximize the benefits of the donors. For example, simply send him 2000 yuan, people may form the loss of inertia and dignity, the ability to work decline, and will be in situ waiting for the next 2000 yuan, become ' wait, depend, want '. Second, the Top-down ' handouts ' will also be labeled as ' disadvantaged ' by donors, but may trigger hatred psychology. "This at least shows that simple donations do not necessarily produce good social benefits, and need to rethink the goal positioning of public welfare and the innovation of means mechanism." We should allow the donor to grow up independently, to form a sustainable development of public welfare, rather than simply scattered wealth and fill the hole. "But we can't wait for the charity to grow and the whole society needs action." "From this, friends have put forward the idea of ' new public good '." ”  "New public welfare" is no longer "donations" and "salvation" Wang Ping believes that at this stage of the "new public good", at least seven aspects should be included: advocating new ideas, open up new areas, find new impetus, integrate a new platform, try new methods, adopt new technologies, and achieve new talent. The first is "advocating new ideas". A typical example is the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, the founder of Grameen Bank, who pioneered a model of microfinance for poor, low-income people.  His bank relied on the "UNPROFOR loan" model, setting an average repayment rate of up to 98% per cent when lenders did not provide any collateral. "The significance of Mr Yunus's success lies not so much in the poverty of the poor, but in his changing the way and the perspective of the poor and giving them the confidence and ability to change." "Mr Yunus's story tells us how a social entrepreneur uses financiers to solve social problems." The three ideas advocated by friends are: emphasizing the combination of spiritual poverty alleviation and material poverty alleviation, emphasizing the systematic development and poverty reduction methods of the unity of man and nature, emphasizing that love delivery is the eternal charitable theme. "To explore new areas," Wang Ping explained, open up new areas not only refers to the development of public welfare, but also in the relief, education and other traditional areas of public interest in the development of innovative work. "For example, the government was highly organized, and civil participation was passive and disorderly." At present, the Wenchuan Foundation disaster Relief and Preparedness Management Center, in the earthquake, Yushu disaster relief in advance to establish logistics channels, set up a system of on-site rescue preparation and post-disaster reconstruction this summer, the Friends of the Foundation has just held a "new public welfare Carnival" in Shanghai. "Let entrepreneurs see the original they do not trust grassroots organizations, in fact, how much creativity, credibility, in order to promote the enthusiasm of enterprises to donate." Our platform is to try to bridge the gap between upstream philanthropists and downstream NGOs.  Said Wang Ping. As the earliest domestic concern and research foundation of social Enterprises, the Friends of entrepreneurs to support and promote the "social Entrepreneurship Skills Training" project in China, the pilot and promotion of the Foundation, following the pilot phase, 2009 again invested 1 million yuan, set up "friends into the Social Innovation Award"  It provides management, training and other support for the public service business plan that rewards and supports innovation.  Friends into the "Outstanding Social Enterprise Award" high to the army, the highest amount of money for a long time in the state-level impoverished counties Yilong County microfinance projects, the gradual exploration of the establishment of the organization Service system, service varieties, to help rural low-income farmers in the development of dignity, and won the friend into a 250,000 yuan funding Another winner, Tri Tao, designed the disability Employment Program-"design and re-sale of unused clothing".  He makes full use of the characteristics of the disabled-skilled, relatively small mobility and more focused on the work of the characteristics, so that they can fully reflect the value of the individual, in the normal way, rather than "donation" or "salvation" to participate in social employment. "Social entrepreneurs have to be entrepreneurs.Innovation spirit, Social commonweal spirit, we value is such leader individual influence in China.  "said Wang Ping.  Social organization development also need "stones" do not donate money directly to the poor, but cultivate and subsidize a new generation of young public welfare people, this trend is becoming a new wind in China's charity industry. The Southern Charitable Foundation, which belongs to the nonprofit foundation, launched this year a "Ginkgo partner growth Program" for young people to join the public service, recruiting "young people who have more than two years ' 20~40岁 and are ready to continue their careers in public service".  3 years in a row to give them 100,000 yuan per year of basic living security and funding, and guide them to develop and implement 3 years of career planning. In fact, in recent years, more and more excellent young people join in the public welfare industry, but in China's public welfare industry in the background of the initial stage, they often quickly faced a dilemma, they lack the basic livelihood protection when starting public welfare, at the same time, in the face of huge public demand and work challenges and pressure,  They often feel powerless and the industry is not recognized by their friends and society. At present, most of China's public welfare agencies, or mainly to subsidize a project, very few people for the public welfare personal growth plans. "Without these support, these young people will be struggling to develop on the road to public welfare."  The Director of Ginkgo Project said. In contrast to any recruitment, the project is not subject to such factors as professional field, educational background or physical condition.  But to let the young applicants to prove their "have faith", "have a strong sense of mission, speak principles, have responsibility, willing to work in obscurity", "have the potential", have a strong ability to learn.  Fan Xiaojian, director of the Poverty Alleviation Office of the State Council, believes that the concept of "new public welfare" is the symbol of modern society maturity. "To create an enterprise that takes social responsibility as its main goal, in the path of exploration, the friend is not alone." There are so many people, including me and us, who support them.  "Fan Xiaojian said. "Innovation has always taken the courage to take risks, especially social innovation needs to take am responsibility and drive for social progress, just as China started with special economic zones, and through experiments and experimentation, he found the way to economic development in China," Wang said. Today, in the development of the social field, do we also need the SAR and the experiment of social development? "What we are doing is not just a public good cause, is actually a social experiment, we are willing and committed to build ourselves into a cross-border cooperation of the Social Innovation Laboratory, as the ' new public good ' of the explorers, advocates, supporters, catalysts and collaborators, to promote the development of social innovation in China. "said Wang Ping.

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