Who's donation: The Yushu of tens of billions of funds

Yi Peng, Zhang, Liu Xiaori on the ridge outside Yushu City, the sun stays on for less and less time. In another 1 months, the snow will begin.　　Then there is the first lengthy "downtime" during the three-year reconstruction period. The construction machinery that entered the Jiegu was racing against time.　　The charitable organizations that came soon after the quake, their large sums of money, have not yet been remitted into the accounts of the reconstruction project. The Audit Office July 29 reported that its Yushu earthquake donation, "found that some places did not according to the provisions of timely contributions to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Red Cross Society and China Charity Association, involving the amount of 162 million yuan." As at July 22, $126 million has been remitted. "The audit data refer only to the parts of the Red Cross provincial chapters, the provincial chapters of the charitable association and the Civil affairs departments." In fact, more remittances are progressing slowly.　　This reporter survey learned that, as of press day, in addition to receiving more donations of the Chinese Red Cross Association (including the Red Cross Foundation), China Charity association with their respective Qinghai branch of the basic confirmation of funds allocation Framework Agreement, the other several national charitable organizations have not yet finally clear funds remittance, disbursement matters. For many charitable organizations, they are struggling to define the exact meaning of the term "remittance". July 7, Ministry of Civil Affairs with the five ministerial committee issued "Qinghai Yushu Earthquake relief donated funds management and use of the implementation measures" (hereinafter referred to as "implementation measures"), the provisions of these charitable organizations, the collection of donations to be remitted to the Qinghai provincial government, the Qinghai Red Cross, the Qinghai Provincial Charitable association's dedicated account,　　By the Qinghai province to co-ordinate the use of the arrangement. However, the policy arrangement of "remittance funds" has drawn the confusion of more than 10 national charitable foundations, and even the explicit opposition. Ministry of Civil Affairs responsible for the response to this newspaper, "is strengthening communication with these institutions." "What rights do we have in post-disaster reconstruction?" The ultimate direction of the money, how to explain to the donor? "This is all about the bottom line of charity," said a national foundation secretary to the newspaper reporter. "The organizations which have already paid the funds have also puzzled over the relevant policies."　　This seesaw between payment and refusal is highlighted as a landmark event in the field of charitable relief. Reasons for Non-payment Audit the latest data show that as of July 9, the national total received the "Yushu earthquake" donated 10.657 billion yuan.　　The funds which have not yet been put into use are 9.843 billion yuan, while the central government has allocated a special fund for rebuilding this year to 9 billion yuan. This huge donation, which is similar to the financial allocations, makes the management of Yushu right immediately apparent.　　Who is the best person to manage the tens of billions of donations? After the earthquake in Yushu, the Ministry of Civil Affairs was based on the rating of the Non-governmental organization Authority, which confirmed 15 social groups and foundations that could be launched for disaster relief.　　This is the usual practice after the catastrophe. The competent departments for the approved organizations are ministries or national institutions of the State Council. 15 institutions are: Red Cross Society (including China Red Cross Foundation), Chinese Charity Association, China Foundation for poverty Alleviation, China Foundation for the Development of aging, China Soong Ching Ling Foundation, China Guanghua Science and Technology Foundation, China Disability Welfare Foundation, China Population Welfare Foundation, China Youth Development Foundation, China Children and Adolescents Foundation, China Green Foundation, China Education Development Foundation, Chinese Environmental Protection Foundation,　　China Women's Development Foundation and China Medical and Health Service Development Foundation. Our correspondent survey shows that, in addition to the donations of more than 2 billion of the Chinese Red Cross Association, China Charity Association has been basically clear will transfer to the Qinghai side, the above 15 families still have at least 10 did not complete the remittance.　　The large number of fund-raising organizations, not even the "remittance" preparation, but still hope that the original redevelopment planning to use the money.　　According to incomplete statistics, among them, the value of the collection of more than 5 million yuan, China Guanghua Science and Technology Foundation of about 12.39 million, China Education Development Foundation about 13.69 million, China Youth Development Foundation about 26.82 million, China Children's Youth Foundation about 20.35 million Yuan, China Foundation for poverty alleviation and so on 150 million yuan.　　"The project has been drafted" is the main reason why the "unpaid" can be put on the table.　　such as the most fund-raising China foundation for poverty alleviation, according to one of its deputy Secretary-General, the foundation of a number of items have been identified with the Qinghai Provincial Poverty Bureau of the project, the implementation of these projects signed on June 19, earlier than the relevant remittance payment method issued time. Other Foundation in the "Implementation measures" issued before, but also basically made a plan for capital investment.　　Some foundations have begun to build concrete projects. This year, the first batch of more than 200 post-disaster reconstruction projects in the Yushu earthquake area began construction on July 10, with a total investment of 16 billion yuan.　　Yushu the second batch of 148 post-disaster reconstruction projects are also in the planning, the state arrangement Yushu post-disaster reconstruction project Total Construction fund for 31.65 billion yuan.　　In addition, according to the Qinghai provincial civil Affairs Office of the Secretary to the reporter introduced, plus private investment and other factors, the total amount of reconstruction funds may reach 52 billion yuan.　　Charitable organizations hold a large amount of money, the urgency of Qinghai is conceivable.　　and "unpaid" national charitable organizations, mostly through their business authorities and the "five ministries" and Qinghai Province, "communication".　　The Battle of co-ordination is a dispute that began long ago. "15 charitable organizations handed over the Yushu earthquake donations to Qinghai to co-ordinate the arrangements, this is their fund-raising before the general agreement."　　"August 2, Ministry of Civil Affairs disaster Relief and donation department responsible person responded to this newspaper said, this arrangement has been the Ministry of Civil Affairs Law and Regulation Department of the State Council, obtained approval before issuing.　　The official said the "agreement" from the Ministry of Civil Affairs April 17 issued "on doing a good job Yushu" 4 14 "earthquake Relief donated work notice" (hereinafter referred to as "notice").　　"Notice" to the Yushu earthquake relief donations subject to limit, in addition to the above 15 charitable organizations, "Other agencies shall not carry out relief donations, has received relief donations, will be raised donations to the above-mentioned institutions." The chief saidThere are provisions in the notice that make it clear that the donation should be "co-ordinated" and "This is a prior agreement of the 15 agencies to carry out donations". The document "Integrated use" stated that "Ministry of Civil Affairs coordination of the two associations and other foundations will be raised funds for disaster relief and rehabilitation of the earthquake-stricken areas."　　As a result, charitable organizations ' remittances seem to be rule-based. But these explanations are being questioned. "The notice of the public offering right to limit itself is unreasonable, it temporarily canceled a large number of charitable organizations public offering rights." It is not the result of negotiating competition, but the executive order.　　"A number of administrative law, charitable field researchers said. According to the relevant provisions of the Foundation Management regulations enacted by the State Council in 2004, the Public Offering foundation may, after registration and annual inspection, have the right to conduct public offering in accordance with its statutes. "This should not be changed by departmental files. "Since April, this reporter has repeatedly with the Ministry of Civil Affairs department responsible officials to exchange the matter." There are generally two types of responses.　　A saying says "The Civil affairs Department has the responsibility to choose the charitable organization which the populace trusts, otherwise the donation will be messy". But there are also officials said, "This is the 1998 floods, the discovery of false donations, financial management is not strict and so on, so in the disaster has been the use of this model, whether it is in line with the law of the charitable industry, laws and regulations, is indeed questionable." "In fact, these 15 charitable organizations have a strong government color, and their departments are more central ministries or national institutions."　　As a result, there is a long-standing controversy over whether these organizations have the necessary manpower and organizational strength for their fund-raising. This reporter many interviews that the 15 of the grandfather raise charitable organizations "remittance" work, in a number of places not mandatory implementation.　　15 charitable organizations have also not taken the initiative to join the relevant departments in the "seizure". "The high level of the 15 charitable organizations is also the reason for this policy to have a bigger rebound."　　One researcher said that the "concentration" of the past had made similar charitable organizations "suffer from the expense of money". This has been a quiet change in the field of philanthropy. After the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, the Red Cross Association, etc., has experimented with subcontracting of projects, allowing some small and medium-sized private charitable organizations to bid for the project of their fund-raising.　　This practice has been quite popular with the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and has made "grassroots" organizations full of expectations.　　Rule crashes but many charities have never imagined that this pattern will Yushu or cease to exist. "We are all co-ordinated by the Government and will not consider this model." Qinghai Provincial Civil Affairs department director of the August 2 in the phone told the reporter.　　Yang said that Qinghai Province has developed a detailed catalogue of 52.1 billion reconstruction projects, which can be used by charitable organizations and donors to choose good money.　　July 7, the Ministry of Civil Affairs and other issues of the implementation measures, the "method" said that it implemented the State Council May 27, the State Council on the support of the Yushu earthquake reconstruction policy measures to restore the views of the "opinion" the administrative effect is higher. The two are fully consistent with the statement of financial co-ordination: endowmentGold "All allocated to Qinghai Province, together with Qinghai Province received donated funds, integrated into the disaster recovery and reconstruction planning, the Qinghai province, the overall arrangement for restoration and reconstruction. "But the statement on the use of donated funds in the Foundation Management Ordinance gives the foundation discretion." "The Foundation shall use its property in accordance with the purposes of the Articles of association and the scope of business of the public welfare activities; The donation agreement specifies the donation of the specific way of use and is used in accordance with the agreement of the donation.　　"The specific way of this remittance is: for the charity Federation, the Red Cross charitable organizations, its remittance accounts may choose Qinghai Province Civil Affairs Hall, Qinghai province Red Cross and Qinghai Province charity Association." 15 charitable organizations of the money, so far unprecedented remit, belong to Qinghai province.　　Provincial governments and charitable organizations form an unprecedented relationship.　　In the 1998 floods, the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake and other major disasters in the management of funds, not the Red Cross, the charitable association of the National Public fund management made similar "remittance" decision.　　Officials of the Ministry of Civil Affairs explained that the above decision has taken into account the particularity of Qinghai's economic and social environment, and the reconstruction of Wenchuan after the disaster, the project input has many repetitive construction, "need systematic co-ordination". However, in our correspondent's contacts with these charitable organizations, the majority of people think that the transfer of funds to the government, there is great concern. If this can be co-ordinated at any time, it would mean that the charitable trade will be transformed into a channel for the government to absorb gold.　　"These concerns are almost inter-related, and they concern the rights rules of the whole philanthropic world."　　This reporter was informed that, after the communication with 13 foundations, the Ministry of Civil Affairs recommended that after selecting the list of items, all the fundraising items would be entered into three dedicated accounts in Qinghai Province, and the project plan and the use of funds should be issued.　　Since then, the thousands of projects such as the tender for the implementation of the specific work, is naturally responsible for the Qinghai side. Whether the government can really monitor the management of capital projects is still unknown.　　In particular, it shows the problems faced by other charitable organizations. The Red Cross, for example, has allocated more than 2 billion of its funds to the Red Cross of Qinghai province, but has always been able to control its finances with its natural relationships. "Our bottom line is that if we have a project with the Qinghai provincial government, we will oblige Qinghai province to pay for the project."　　The head of the Red Cross disaster Relief department told our correspondent.　　In the provincial discussions held in 5 June, the Qinghai provincial government had proposed that all the funds should be remitted to the accounts of its civil affairs office, but the Red Cross Association and the Charitable Association, which had participated in the meeting, had expressed their doubts, and when they finalized the remittance account, they joined the Qinghai provincial branch.　　The other 13 foundations cannot be easily aligned. "What about our day-to-day supervision of capital?"　　"A number of foundation disaster relief field officials said that charitable organizations of the day-to-day assessment of the project supervision, and the Government of the post facto audit, the practice of a huge difference." It is also said that Qinghai province is now the list of projects are not specific, it is difficult to continue to monitor each of the good moneyFlow, "may finally and the Financial fund mixed, how to explain to the donor?" "Many in charge even reveal the color of hesitation," What is the future charitable organization to do? Helping the government raise money in a disaster?　　"In the current law, the Chinese government mainly in the charitable organization registration and the Public Welfare Fund audit to carry out the management function, the charitable organization in the public offering right, the fund use decision-making and so on the right has the clear autonomy." After the release of the "Method" on July 7, a number of dialogues have been initiated between the charitable research field and charitable organizations on relevant laws, systems and governance areas.　　Many people involved in the industry have told the reporter that the payment of funds in the legal process, long-term impact, and so on, the parties have a basic consensus, and the situation and the relevant departments to communicate. In a seminar in Suzhou on July 29, a deputy director of the State Council's legal office said, "in the management and use of charitable donations, there is an urgent need to pass charitable legislation to address the administrative interference in charitable legal relations and the interests of charitable organizations and donors in some localities and departments." ”