Besides, transparency in the public interest
Time：2010-10-31
○ Secretary General of Zheng Weining Charity Foundation
The new question is: how to be transparent? The new question is: "How does public transparency work?", "What does it work for?" and "to whom?"
On October 24th, at the "Shenzhen Foundation Heads Training Course", this question was once again raised.This issue was raised again at the October 24th training session for Shenzhen foundation directors.
Article 11 of the "Guidelines of the Guangdong Provincial Civil Affairs Bureau on the Operation of Foundations" has just been issued, which stipulates that: the ways of information disclosure include institutional publications (such as annual reports, newsletters, etc.) and their official websites, mass media, on-site disclosure, regular postal or email forms, reports of public welfare and charitable projects, annual reports of special funds, and other feasible ways. annual report, and other feasible ways.
This is the answer to the question of "how to disclose" and "what to disclose".
And "to whom"?
And "to whom"?
In Hong Kong, our closest neighbor, and in the United States, where foundations are the most advanced, the target of "transparency" is the donor. That is to say, if the donor is a person, then "transparency" is only for this person; if the donor is a certain enterprise, the target of "transparency" is only this enterprise; if the donor is the public, then the target of "transparency" is the public. If the donor is the public, then the object of "transparency" is the public. In a word: whoever gets the money has the right to demand "transparency"!
China's public welfare has its own particularities, foundations are divided into public and private foundations, only public foundations have the qualification of public fund-raising, while private foundations are generally the source of funds is a specific donor individuals or donations to the enterprise, there is no face to face the public fund-raising power is not specific. In other words, it is public foundations that must be transparent to the public. The private foundation, only the use of funds "transparent" to the donation of a specific object that is "transparent public welfare". In addition, regardless of public, private, the government's annual audit must include, but also the use of funds for the supervision. Through layers of combing, the problem is a little clearer, the public's "transparent" power range in the public foundations, which is consistent with a period of time ago since the frequent concern about the foundation situation, "Red Ten", "Charity", "Red Ten", "Red Ten", "Red Ten", "Red Ten", "Red Ten", "Red Ten", "Red Ten", "Red Ten" and "Red Ten". ", "Charity Federation", "Youth Foundation" are among the public, the annual audit report of the relevant foundations, project reports, website publicity and so on have been introduced, but also to the public "transparency" requirements The public is also responding to the public's demand for "transparency". In today's network to change the life of the background, invisible and intangible "netizens" in the network after the invisibility of the network, it seems to have gained unlimited power, irrational voices become the mainstream. In terms of the law of development of things, this is the way to go: from irrationality to rationality. In this process, practitioners should make their voices heard, and clear away the layers of fog, so that the public can understand: the connotation and substance of transparency in public welfare, ways and means, as well as the powers and obligations of what the real regulation should be done.Starting from the transparent public welfare, and starting from the professionalism, let the public welfare credibility is gradually established, the road of public welfare will surely go wider and wider.