After Guo Meimei, problems followed.
Time:2011-07-07
The first question is whether this round of fervor caused by Guo Meimei can really make the stunted third sector self-reflection, so that the public can increase a little bit of common sense of charity, or whether it just stays in a war of words and turns into a recreational event like Yanzhaomen.
What would make people discuss charity as much as they do pornography? The world's biggest problem has been solved by a girl named Guo Meimei. The question is whether this round of fever caused by Guo Meimei can really make the stunted third sector self-examination, so that the public to increase a little bit of common sense of charity, or just stay in the war of words, turned into a pornographic photo like entertainment events.
Guo Mei Mei, then.
Today I saw Mr. Wang Rupeng, Secretary General of the Red Cross, interviewed by a reporter in response to the incident, more or less introspective between the lines, for example, he admitted that this is a concentrated outbreak of the public's lack of openness and transparency of charities, and also said that to promote openness and transparency, and to improve the level of standardized management, which is the domestic all charities All to strive to do things. However, this introspection is not enough. So far, as China's largest charitable organization receiving donations, the Red Cross still does not have a mechanism and system for managing and publicizing donations to the public, and donors still have no way of knowing where the billions of dollars of donations from private citizens and legal entities go each year, which is not justifiable in any case.
Is it so difficult to be transparent and open? In some of the old villages in the south, still retains the custom of "do society", in short, it is a holiday each family to put together a little money to entertain the gods, and then killed a pig equal share, each time the end, the leader of the farmers will be posted in front of the ancestral shrine to inform the townspeople of the red list, every penny used in what place. The leader was in awe of the money, knowing that the public had entrusted him with the job and that he had to account for it.
I am particularly willing to go to Hong Kong to participate in a variety of fundraising activities, in Hong Kong, even a small fundraising, but also must go to a Chinese and an English newspaper to publish a public announcement, Hong Kong's charitable culture is a participatory, charitable happy, happy charity, not the kind of come up with a number of poignant stories, and then publish an It is not the kind of charity that comes up with some miserable stories and then publishes an account number, and the public's money goes in, like a black box, and there is no way of knowing where it will go in the future.
Nowadays, the new public welfare organizations open and transparent has become a trend in the industry, the foundation center network last year's "light China" action, is to urge the foundation financial transparency, the results found that the financial disclosure, "lack of annual reports", and even intentionally dive foundations are old public foundations, on the contrary, the last few years registered foundations newcomers to show due transparency, some foundations such as the True Love Dream Foundation even held a special conference each year to release their own annual report, the ordinary farmers still have the common sense of openness and transparency as the charity industry bosses why are they slow to act? Why are the charity industry bosses slow to act?
Let's revisit some of the United Nations Declaration of Philanthropy on the definition of "charity": charity is the voluntary donation of money and time by private citizens and legal entities to disadvantaged groups. It means that the government's duty is to provide public services to taxpayers and make rules, not to be the subject of charity. China's third sector non-profit organizations have certain structural problems due to historical reasons, such as the main staff of the organization comes from the government, and the main reliance on the government to carry out related activities and work, so some people call it the "second government", which is inconsistent with the function of the non-profit organizations, and is not conducive to the real development and improvement of the industry. Guo Meimei, then, hopefully, is a slap in the face of China's charity industry, and can lead to the improvement of the industry.