1¡¢Overseas China Education Foundation(OCEF):
Overseas China Education
Foundation: a non-profit organization (previously SOS China Education
Fund), first registered in October, 1992 in California and officially
registered in April, 2001 in Texas. The mission of OCEF is to collect
funds to assist with education in the poor regions of China. A major
proportion of OCEF funds is contributed by oversea Chinese and warm-hearted
foreigners. OCEF emphasizes in subsidizing the under-middle school
kids who are on the verge of school dropout or the ones who lost the
opportunity to attend school in China¡¯s national major poverty counties.
In recent years, OCEF gradually developed some more comprehensive learning
assistance programs that have both breadth and depth, such as ¡°Instructors
Plan¡±, ¡°Library Program¡± and ¡°Build Schools Program¡±.
2¡¢To-Hope Volunteer Organization:
To-Hope Volunteer Organization (previously
ShanHui Volunteer Organization) is a non-profit and non-government
philanthropic organization funded by a group of oversea Chinese students
in UK with the goal to help children from the poor areas of China to
get the opportunity to study and to popularize education in China.
Its main learning assistance programs include To-Hope Scholarship,
¡°One to One¡± Project and Extracurricular Reading Program. To-Hope Scholarship
(previously ShanHui Scholarship) was funded in August, 2003 to help
national poor kids to go to school. The procedure of To-Hope Scholar
Program is that the volunteers and local teachers visit and survey
poor students¡¯ families and determine students¡¯ eligibility. They compile
a ¡°poor students¡¯ name list¡± in each semester; then, a volunteer goes
to the poor areas to pay tuition for those poor students from donation
collected.
3¡¢Tian Yang Communist Youth League Committee:
Tian Yang County belongs
to the Chinese Volunteer Poverty Alleviation Relay Program of Central
Committee of the Communist Youth League of China. TiaYang County is
located in the west of GuangXi Nationality Autonomous Region and in
the middle of YouJiang River Reaches. Within its realm, there are three
landforms ¨C plain mesa, hills and mountains ¨C which are well-known
as ¡°Two Mountains, One Vale¡±. The minorities living in this county
include Zhuang, Han and Yao. There are seven towns and eight subcounties
in this county. Among them, the poverty situation in BaBie, LeiYu,
QiaoYe, DongJing and ShenPing are the most serious. Since 2000, volunteers
of the Chinese Volunteer Poverty Alleviation Relay Program, as well
as those from Graduate Teach-Aid League and supporters for West Development
Plan, have been helping the poor efficiently. Meanwhile, as counselor
and coordinator of the county¡¯s youth volunteer work, TianYang Communist
Youth League Committee provides effective support and valuable advice
to many volunteers.
4¡¢Ming Yue Qing Feng
Ming Yue Qing Feng is non-government and philanthropic
organization, established by Mr. Yue Liao who is an official from the
Shenzhen Customs Department, and joined by his colleagues and many
others. Its principle can be stated as: Unity and Love; Faith and Help;
Its mission is to promote healthy social moral value and ethics; to
communicate with Government; to assist Enterprises; to Care about the
Poor. Its ¡°With Love¡± program, which is financed by charity donations,
is dedicated to promote learning assistance programs, which provide
school dropouts due to poverty with a chance to continue education.
5¡¢American-Chinese Culture Education Fund
American-Chinese Culture Education
Fund is an independent nonprofit, non-political and non-government
philanthropic organization registered in July, 2004 in California,
and it has been benefited from tax-free policy of the United States
Internal Revenue Service. The mission of the Fund is to help poor Chinese
children to finish their basic education, and to promote Sino-USA culture
communication and Chinese Study in US.
6.Chinese Public Welfare Clicking
Under the inspiration of the overseas charity organizations, the Chinese
Public Welfare Clicking Website (hereafter ¡°the Site¡±) was initiated
by Chincell-Tang Honey and Non-evil and Non-lewd Web together. The
Site was initiated in May, 2004, and started its operation in June,
2004. Its goal is to establish a benign interactive field among vulnerable
social groups, public welfare community, advertisers and network users.
Every time a network user clicks advertisements on this site, a small
amount about CNY0.20 is contributed to the public welfare project.
(An effective access is counted after a user clicks an advertisement
link. Thereafter all linkup pages will open. In addition, one IP address
can only by counted one clicking per day. Multi-clicks do not count
towards advertising income.) At the end of the month total advertising
income will be sent directly to the public welfare community by advertisers.
7.Fuzhou Simple Life
Found in June,
2002, Simple Life is one of the most versatile and largest outdoor
sports clubs in the City of FuZhou. Now it includes Simple Life outdoor
sports club, outdoor equipment shop, caf¨¦, outdoor forum, volunteer
consortium, study-aid consortium, zoology zone and etc. The volunteer
consortium was established in October, 2003 and has passed the authentication
of the Fuzhou Volunteer Supervision Centre. And now it has officially
become one of the community organizations affiliated to Chinese Youth
Volunteer. Its members are young and full of dreams. They participate
in volunteer activities at their free time. They create a communication
interface for the social benevolent people and build up a good platform
to make the disabled, the impoverished students and the social vulnerable
groups feel the love and concern from the society. They also set up
special funds for Simple Study-aid and Encouragement Project to help
students pursue their goals.
8.China NPO Network (CNPON)
CNPON was registered in 2001 and is a non-profit
organization. Its mission is to serve nonprofit organizations, create
intercommunication and cooperation platform among NPOs, government
agencies, and enterprises through forum, training, network and so forth.
It also devotes to impel legislative procedure of Chinese NPO. Its
goal is to promote the Chinese third sector¡¯s development, and it has
become one of the most important NPO supportive organizations in China.