Joint Philanthropy, also known as Collaborative Philanthropy, is defined as investors and nonprofits working together toward a social cause. Joint Philanthropy is of great significance to developing the social sectors and solving social issues. In China, the existing social issues are massive, wide-ranging and complex. The Joint Philanthropy, compared to single sectors with less power and resource, is more likely to find solutions with magnified effect to social issues by virtue of resource integration, capability complementation, and knowledge reciprocity within the collaboration among involved sectors.
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Preface: September 20, 2021 marks the 33rd “National Dental Care Day” in China. On this day, local health committees, hospitals, NGOs, and companies actively make advocacy efforts to enhance the public’s understanding of oral health and the importance of developing good health habits. Therefore, VA would like to talk about public advocacy and how to maximize the possibility of success in advocacy activities, hoping to inspire organizations that conduct public advocacy.
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Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China has taken children’s development as a major strategic task. The country as a whole adheres to the principle of giving priority to children, vigorously develops children related service, and further improved the laws, regulations and policy system to protect children’s rights. In the end, children’s survival, security and development have made great achievements under the guidance of national policies. This year marks the first year of China’s Fourteenth Five Year Plan, and it is also an important timeslot to formulate a new ten-year outline for children’s development, which means children’s development face unprecedented opportunities. Therefore, VA selects some topics which was the focus for central government in recent years including early childhood development, children’s protection, children’s mental health and obesity, and presents the main findings in this essay.
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The ocean covers 70% of the earth’s surface. While it is the home to over half of the known species on the earth, ocean provides living space, atmospheric environment, food and livelihood for human beings. Meanwhile, ocean’s health influence the survival of the earth and human beings, but its’ status quo is not optimistic.
As June 8th marks the 13th “World Ocean Day” and the 14th “National Marine Awareness Day”, VA would like to present the observations on marine conservation in China and globally.
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The year of 2020 will be remembered. For the first time in the last 18 years, I can’t fly across Atlantic to celebrate my son’s birthday. Christmas will not be white this year. Yes, COVID-19 ravaged our life, business, and cast doubts in the future: will the world really never be the same?
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At present, one-third of the world’s food is lost or wasted at various degree in the process of food production and consumption. With China’s rapid economic growth and improvement of living standards, the problem of food waste has become increasingly prominent. What roles can NGOs and social enterprises play in reducing food waste, which has been a topic of global concern? What are the opportunities and approaches for these organizations to contribute? Here Venture Avenue is to provide some thoughts and suggestions.
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Community property is not only directly related to the quality of life of community residents, but also plays an active role in community governance. According to statistics, by the end of 2017, there are more than 110,000 property management companies in China and serve nearly 700 million people.
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Preface: On August 26, 2020，VA participated in the China Foundation Development Forum 2020 Summit as a representative of the industry support organization. Several guests had a debate on “foundation and social resource allocation”, which inspires us to share some observations on this topic based on the experience of foundation evaluation and strategic services from a third-party aspect.
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The enthusiasm for discussions on social enterprises seems to have ceased abruptly after the debate between Yongguang Xu and Xiaoguang Kang three years ago. After the heated argument on the topic of “what is a social enterprise”, it is not so much that everyone has reached a consensus of seeking common ground while reserving differences, while it is better to say that everyone is tired of disputing. The debate on the definition of social enterprise, no matter how exciting it is, is actually powerless. Firstly each counterpart has their own standingpoint of argument, and the focus should not be on the definition but on the preference of each players. Secondly to make an analogy if social enterprise is a cute baby, its loveliness should not be on the name, the essence of social enterprise lies in its capability to solve social problems by market approach.
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Establishing community company by the community residential committee is a novel way to tackle problems of community development and governance.
Given by the condition of taking fight against the COVID-19 pandemic into regular status, community as the frontline of prevention and disease control, its importance in Chinese social governance is further highlighted. How to promote community governance has become a critical issue for government and the whole society. For instance, Chengdu took the lead in exploring innovation of community governance in China. In 2017, it published “30 principles of urban and rural community developmental governance” (No.27 Paper) in which the government clearly put forward the “community development governance system” ,is“ led by the party at grass-roots level and the government at grass-roots level, features in pluralistic participation, joint governance, and mutual development”.
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