Rich donations 200 million to the most demanding conditions to open domestic donations accountability precedent

Nearly 100,000 poor people in southwestern China received Cao Dewang donated 2000 Yuan "Life Saving money", Cao Dewang the process and results of the project expressed satisfaction.　　In order to control the cost of management in the scope of Cao Dewang requirements, the project staff are not equipped with SUVs, often walk the mountain road to the countryside. Wen/newspaper reporter Xiao Huanhuan entrepreneur, philanthropist Cao Dewang to the "harsh, stingy" conditions to the five provinces of the west donated 200 million yuan to open domestic donations for the beginning in the recently held in the western five provinces, 200 million yuan donation project summary Recognition Conference, from Yunnan, Guizhou and other five provinces of farmers representatives to hand-made national costumes to entrepreneurs, Philanthropist Cao Dewang, dressed him up as a "Yi Fellow". At this moment, Cao Dewang smiled.　　Recipients do not know that in the process of the good money to their hands, the amiable rich most of the time is a face, the donation to every aspect of the high alert.　　10 months ago, this donation seems to be full of "premature" crisis, because Cao Dewang put forward the harsh requirements: to 200 million yuan in half a year to the hands of nearly 100,000 farmers, and the error rate of not more than 1%, management fee does not exceed the 3%--of good money is far below the "Guild" 10%.　　The donation, known as the "most demanding donation in history," Cao Dewang even hired and formed a professional oversight committee to oversee the use of money, creating a precedent for Chinese donors to be accountable for public donations. "The most demanding donations in history" has aroused great repercussions in the society, and such harsh conditions are undoubtedly a challenge to the current donation system. The public is curious: will it become a benchmark for future public donations?　　Will the ratio of management fees and the lack of transparency in the use of donations be loosened?　　Cao Dewang said he wished he had a good head start.　　Last May, Fu Yiu Glass Group chairman Cao Dewang, Cao Hui father and son in the personal name, through the China Poverty Alleviation Foundation to Yunnan, Guizhou and other five provinces and cities of poor families donated 200 million yuan, this is the largest single personal charitable donations to date. Serious philanthropist: "The province of a point" to talk about this donation, Cao Dewang passionately said: "The southwest encountered a century of extraordinary drought, the people's life is very hard." I had a lot of pain when I was young, and I knew that taste. For some remote mountain farmers, 2000 yuan is a hope. May 4, Ching, President of China Foundation for poverty Alleviation, went to Fujian and signed an agreement with Cao Dewang. "Our foundation projects are generally carried out by the secretariat, with little involvement and implementation by the President." This time we president personally, it is evident that the degree of attention.　　Chen Hongtao, Assistant Secretary of the foundation, told reporters. In the plane from Fujian back to Beijing, Ching heart some disturbed.　　He told his colleagues that the project is not a simple "money", it is more difficult to operate than other projects, because the other side of the request is very high. To get the CAO Dewang 200 million yuan donation, is not an easy thing, he issued the condition is: the donation processThe error rate does not exceed 1%, the management fee does not exceed 3%--but at present our country "the foundation manages the measure" the highest proportion of management fee is 10%. Cao Dewang, known as "Bill Gates of China", is a legendary business geek. He had been associated with philanthropy as early as more than 10 years ago.　　1998 the Yangtze River floods, Cao Dewang donated the life of the first good money-3 million yuan, from a mess. As a young man who had suffered, Cao Dewang every penny. In his words: "The flower 10,000 spend 10,000, the province a point of the province."　　"In his opinion, make sure that every penny donated is sent to the people who should receive the money, rather than being" Maur and intercepted ". "I have money here, I see you have the ability to take away."　　"Cao Dewang said. "The most demanding in history": the foundation Defaults 30 times times. According to the contract signed by Cao Dewang and China Foundation for poverty alleviation: the foundation must distribute 200 million yuan donation to nearly 100,000 difficult masses in the southwest five provinces in half a year, and after the issuance of funds, the assessment agencies will randomly sample 10% of the Assisted families,　　If the rate of failure is found to exceed 1%, the China Foundation for poverty alleviation will compensate for more than 1% of the 30 times times (the maximum amount of compensation shall not exceed the project management fee). The management fee of the project is 6 million yuan, the money is calculated by 3% ratio. Cao Dewang said he knew that the "Guild" regulation of the proportion of management fees is 10%, he set out a 3% ratio is not deliberately "embarrassed" foundation. He asked the professional body to calculate, think 6 million yuan enough. After widespread media coverage, he became the so-called "most demanding donor," Cao Dewang to disagree: "3% of the proportion is not low, then they did not do it?" "Before we took over the project, the proportion of management fee is generally 10%;3% is too low, we have never tried, this is the foundation of the basic skills of a test."　　Chen Hongtao, Assistant Secretary-General of the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation, said that the project was not to be followed by the leadership, and even with the lack of confidence of colleagues. "The next project is to let everyone know that China's charitable funds are trustworthy and attract more people to donate more boldly," he said.　　Wang Xing, secretary general of the foundation, said. Another challenge is the 1% error rate. Chen Hongtao said that if the donation is only hundreds of people, it is not difficult to control the error rate within 1%, or even to achieve 100% accurate. However, it is very difficult to distribute the money to nearly 100,000 farmers in 5 provinces. "Who in the world needs help?" How can we make sure that money arrives in their hands safely? A large number of professionals and channels are required. "Cao Dewang doesn't care, he has his own logic. "To do things is to set the rules." "It's not that I don't trust the foundation for Poverty alleviation, and the agreement is not just about restricting the foundation." They can take me this contract with all over the leader said, ' I and Cao Dewang cooperation, the back door can not go, wrong I want to compensate '. My goal is to have a foundation for poverty alleviationShield。 If someone wants to bypass the money by the back door--Can't do it! His "harsh" is much more than that. From the very beginning, he kept a high level of vigilance and supervision over the foundation that helped him to send money.　　As a senior donor, Cao Dewang established a special oversight committee and asked the media to oversee the whole process; The Foundation will submit a detailed report on the progress of the project every 10 days.　　And the time race: 200 million donations, 6 months, 90,000 farmers "most demanding donations" to the foundation's executive power has brought unprecedented test.　　Full participation in the implementation of the project Chen Hongtao said that the determination of the recipients of the project is the most basic part of the implementation process, the need to balance the interests of all aspects of the relationship, directly related to the contract agreed the error rate can be achieved, "not good will be thankless, money also let farmers dissatisfied." "We did a survey in a village," he said. We ask a village cadres: ' Donations not everyone can have, if 3 people do not have the money, what should you do? His reply is: ' I do not want to mobilize a few old party members do not, so the solution. We ask: ' If only half of the farmers in the village can get donations, who should be assigned to them? ' The village cadres hesitated for a while and said: ' I would rather not have the money, will offend. "Light a village has been so complex, our money needs to be divided into 5 provinces of more than 90,000 households, it is difficult to imagine." "Who is the money sent to?" The foundation racked its brains. Chen Hongtao said that the project will ultimately succeed, mainly through institutional safeguards and the integration of resources.　　The Foundation first delineated 17 project counties, the project county related departments together determine the disaster-stricken village to be given the priority of the donation eligibility, lock the aided village. The village is determined, and the next step is to rule out "people" and to exclude the "rich" from the scope of funding. The regulations are very fine and the workload is enormous. "All the officials in the village, open the canteen, the family have children go abroad to study, are excluded." Village Committee and Village Group nominate eligible farmers list, and then through the democratic discussion decision, and then publicity, to the villagers published supervision report telephone, receive complaints and reports. Finally, the volunteers were organized to go to the project village to review the information of the beneficiary farmers. Thanks to college volunteers, their household checks played a key role. We have received more than 100 complaints and finally eliminated about 2% of the farmers.　　"Chen Hongtao said. In the process of work, grass-roots cadres are somewhat depressed. For example, relatives of individual township and village cadres are excluded from the beneficiary.　　They do not understand the project, or even dislike it; The huge workload also let some grassroots cadres frustrated.　　In the case of the "Beneficiary Households summary table", for example, 11 per household information, the number of recipients of 1000 villages and towns need to input 11,000 data, there can be no errors. Under normal circumstances, a township of aided farmers information, need a poverty alleviation do spend 2-3 days to complete the entry. The largest project in Guizhou province Wangmo County town, more than 4700 users need to input more than 51,000 data, the information entry staff is only the poverty alleviation do one person, the workload is astonishing. All the above work is done, the rest is how to send money problem. The lessons of "intercepting" or "shrinking" donations have made the foundation look a little more. In order to ensure that 2000 Yuan "life-saving money" is not in the process of interception, the Foundation decided: direct money into the farmers ' personal accounts, remove any intermediate links. To this end, they to the assisted farmers to receive the funds of the special Passbook.　　When the volunteers review the Farmers ' information, confirm that the passbook is in the hands of the farmers, and also require the beneficiary farmers to sign the funds. Ultra-low management fee: with dry food hiking road only to save money on the one hand to "and time race", but also to ensure that no mistakes, not waste money.　　Some people laugh, said Cao Dewang this request is "and want to run horse and want to horse do not eat grass." Cao Dewang "pre-announced", will be randomly sampling by the evaluation agencies 10% of households, if the error rate of more than 1%, Cao Dewang will claim 30 times times. And Cao Dewang give the management fee only "stingy" 3%, 6 million yuan. What to do?　　The foundation can only do everything possible. Chen Hongtao said passionately, in the face of great pressure, the foundation and the Project provinces, Project counties signed an agreement, the agreement set strict accountability provisions.　　The provincial and municipal poverty alleviation offices used thousands of village cadres to participate in the implementation of the project, so that donors, charitable organizations, government departments are tied together. To reduce operating costs, the foundation has selected more than 500 volunteers in 6 southwestern universities, two in a group, and checked into the village to determine the beneficiary's list.　　As a result of poor traffic conditions, college students in the mountains hiking, motorcycles, and even horseback riding, each group at least 20 of the day to complete the verification work. According to statistics, in order to Cao Dewang this donation project, the China Foundation for poverty alleviation dispatched more than 50 employees and more than 20 assistants, plus more than 500 university students volunteers, more than 20 social volunteers and five provinces to help the poor, the total number of executives more than 10,000 people.　　With a tight hand and a large task, the foundation and volunteers have suffered. The first difficulty is the sinister traffic conditions.　　Most project counties in the village from the township has a 1-hour mountain Road, from the village committee farthest villages need to hike 12 hours to reach. Second, accommodation and eating conditions are difficult. Volunteers spend most of their time in the town's simple guesthouse, without air-conditioning or shower. The project was carried out in a hot summer.　　The volunteers who participate in the information review work are also returning to the evening, with their own rations to solve lunch. Third, there are many hidden dangers in mountainous areas. Although the foundation has repeatedly stressed that "it is better to climb the mountain than the motorcycle", but limited to some of the project village too remote and working time is tight, take a walking tractor or motorcycle is often.　　Due to landslides, landslides, landslides or heavy rain caused by open circuit and then trapped in the mountains, and even the occurrence of traffic accidents. Because of the tight budget, the total cost of each volunteer is only 1800 yuan. For long distances, longer working hours (More than 15 days of volunteers, the removal of travel expenses, insurance, food and lodging costs appear very nervous, need to tighten.　　Most of the volunteer work during the basic living in the township 15 Yuan/Day Inn, the village on the shuttle bus.　　Arguably, 17 project counties are in remote mountainous areas, road conditions, highway risks, for security reasons, the project team should use off-road vehicles, but the SUV's daily rental to 400~500 yuan, in order to reduce costs, the foundation staff and college volunteers mostly rented minivan. Each province, the city Poverty alleviation Office Project do the day equally "is not good". "We give the provincial poverty alleviation office and Project counties according to the number of assisted farmers to provide 2 yuan/households and 5 yuan/households of the implementation of financial support, this is far from enough." Sometimes the light printing, copy passbook will be ' loss of money ', let alone grassroots poverty alleviation office to carry out the work of tolls and meal costs.　　The revelation of "the most demanding donation in history": Is there any room for a reduction in management fees?　　Recently, the independent third party disclosed the evaluation report of the project, confirmed 92150 households received 2000 yuan, error rate of 0.85, reached the CAO Dewang requirements.　　What factors affect transparency? He Dao, vice president of China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation, said that Cao Dewang opened a good head and opened the accountability mechanism for public donations in China, creating a transparent public service model. Chen Hongtao also said that the China Foundation for poverty alleviation is a welcome attitude to the accountability of corporate donations.　　He believes that the current Chinese public donations are not transparent enough, there are two reasons. First, the transparency of donations is costly. "Not transparent, not to say, to ask an independent third party to prove, but also to ask people to investigate, this cost is very high." "Second, the fund is too transparent to worry about. "If a foundation exposes a project with a 3% error rate, is this a good or bad result?" Many people are likely to think of the foundation's ability to manage because of ' 3% ' and dare not donate it. Many foundations are afraid to be transparent. "The case of Cao Dewang has now become a model for the transparency and economy of philanthropist donations, which has aroused great repercussions in the society and touched the public donation system: Does the case of Cao Dewang have a demonstrative effect?" Can you become an example of other charitable donations in the future?　　Can the 1% error rate and 3% management fee become an industry benchmark?　　The real cost is more than 3%? Some experts believe that the CAO Dewang 200 million yuan donation project can achieve such a low error rate and such a low management fee to succeed, the key is not to include a large number of administrative costs, "therefore may not be a model effect." "3% of the cost accounting is low," Jin Jinping, deputy director of the Center for nonprofit Research at Peking University, said yesterday. Throughout the process, a large number of volunteers and local anti-poverty system staff were employed, and the remuneration paid to them was relatively low. "Kang Xiaoguang, director of the Institute of nonprofit organization of Renmin University of China, said earlier:" The 3% standard is relatively low, the industry standard is 8%~10%. Public welfare organizations should also be sustainable and unable to carry out projectsStarve to death as a hero. "China Poverty Alleviation Foundation under the Poverty Alleviation Office, the poverty alleviation agencies in the implementation process of the project to share a large part of the implementation costs." "If there is no poverty alleviation system, the implementation cost will have to be enlarged 2~3 times, depending on the Bailai staff of the China Foundation for poverty alleviation."　　"Kang Xiaoguang said.　　Chen Hongtao also expressed concern that Cao Dewang the amount of the donation, which has a scale effect, other donations may not be in accordance with such a low rate of management fees to operate. He said that most foreign foundation management fee ratio is 20%~30%,10% management fee ratio is actually not high. Management fee is too low, will reduce the quality of the project. "This is also a profession, our staff also want to pay, rent, also want to live." There is a cost to the operation of charitable donations, and it is normal that donations sometimes have a partial balance. After all, the whole foundation has to run and we need money to keep talent. "A one-size-fits-all" rule should be changed, of course, with different voices, such as "a high proportion of the contribution management fees that inhibit the enthusiasm of the rich to donate". Deng, an associate professor at Tsinghua University's School of Public administration, said yesterday that Cao Dewang's $200 million donation project operated successfully at 3% of the management costs, which is a challenge to the current management fees for public donations, which account for 10%.　　This shows that some of the larger charitable foundation management costs do have a downward space. He said that the current China's "Foundation Management Measures" stipulates that the administrative costs of the highest no more than 10% of the donation. In reality, many foundations are implemented at the highest standard of 10%. In his view, this standard is unreasonable, different foundation scale different, its administrative cost is also different. Some charitable foundations are large in size and can raise more than 1 billion yuan a year, with government financial support and relatively low operating costs.　　For such a foundation, 10% of the management fee ratio is high. For some smaller foundations, a 10% per cent management fee may not be enough. "I think the larger public Welfare foundation, the proportion of management fees can be adjusted to 5%, which is more conducive to mobilizing the enthusiasm of donors."　　"he said. Chen Hongtao said that although the foundation management measures provided the "maximum of no more than 10%" management fee ratio, but in fact not all reached the ceiling ratio.　　Last year, China's Poverty Alleviation Foundation's management fee proportion is 6%~7%, "The general principle is ' can save Province '".　　Cao Dewang Resume 1946 was born in Fuqing, Fujian province, is the founder of Fu Yiu Glass Group, chairman, the group is currently China's first, the world's third largest automotive glass manufacturers. Cao Dewang's father was one of the shareholders of Shanghai Yongan department store, and his family was rich. But because of the turbulence, the family moved home to Fuqing, Fujian. In the fall, Cao Dewang grew up in poverty, the family only ate two meals a day soup water, he only read for 5 years and dropped out of school. Starting at the age of 16, he poured tobacco, sold fruit, planted fungus, and worked as a cook, repairman and agricultural technician ...　　Until the 80 's the founding of the enterprise. FromSince 1998, Cao Dewang has been keen on charities, donations to the disaster areas, donated students to build roads, to help poor elderly people ... Charitable coverage is very broad. After the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, Cao Dewang donated 20 million yuan to the disaster area. 2010, Cao's father and son donated 1 billion yuan, the whereabouts of the distribution is as follows: Yushu 100 million yuan, Southwest five provinces 200 million yuan, Fuzhou library 400 million yuan, Fuqing public welfare undertakings 300 million yuan. From 1983 to present, Cao Dewang total donated RMB nearly 1.6 billion yuan.