Survey: Over 60% of People Say Donation in Instalments Acceptable
University of Hong Kong’s medical faculty was renamed as the Li Ka-shing Faculty of Medicine in recognition of the property tycoon’s promised HK$1 billion donation. But the institutionn’s vice chancellor Tsui Lap-chee said on August 28 the university had not yet received the entire donation, which was being paid in instalments. As the result of “Philanthropic Survey”, 64.06% of the respondents say donation in instalments is acceptable.
China Plans to Set Out Philanthropic Behavior Guidelines for Child Welfare
The Ministry of Civil Affairs plans to establish an orientation mechanism for philanthropic behaviors towards child welfare, in hopes of enhancing the performance of philanthropic activities regarding child welfare, accerating the organic integration of public philanthropic resources with governmental financial and administrative resources, and facilitating the establishment of a relatively general child welfare system.
At the 3rd China Foundation Annual Conference in Kunming, He Daofeng, Senior Vice President of China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation and the country’s pioneer on micro-financing, assumed the position of the Chairman of China Foundation Center, which was previously held by Xu Yongguang.
The Philanthropic Attempts in Training New Farmers
China’s planning documents refer to migrants born after 1980 as “new generation migrant workers” and demand targeted measures to solve the problems they’re facing with. By looking into several vocational training organizations, we try to reveal the facts and puzzles in the training of this group.
Gates Foundation is Launching the Revolution on Toilets
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced the launch of the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge – China, the latest wrinkle in an ongoing initiative aimed at driving the research, development, and production of “the next-generation toilet.”
Riders for Health had won international acclaim for its novel approach to maintaining health transport vehicles in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet the organization was having trouble scaling its services at its first site: Gambia. Here is how the organization won both government support and private funding for its latest innovation.
Co-Founder of New York Farmers Market, Special Assistant for Market Development, New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets:
Bob Lewis: Re-Establish the Link Between City and Coutrysides
The successful New York’s Farmers Market was founded in 1976 with a two-fold mission: to promote regional agriculture by providing small family farms the opportunity to sell their locally grown products directly to consumers, and to ensure that all New Yorkers have access to the freshest, most nutritious locally grown food the region has to offer. Today, Bob Lewis, the co-founder of New York’s first Farmers Market is in Beijing to share his views on the important relationship between city and countrysides.
