Secretary General of Zheng Weining Charity Foundation

In recent years, domestic non-profit organizations (referred to as NGOs) have sprung up, showing a spurt of development, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, by the end of 2010, the number of various types of social organizations in the country has reached 439,000. Even so, compared with the western developed countries, our social organizations (including NGOs) per capita is far behind. In addition, insufficient funding is still the main problem faced by many social organizations.

The question has long been asked: do we follow the money or the mission?

Many social organizations, in order to solve the problem of funding, will be based on the requirements of the funder to do the project, some of the project itself is already contrary to the mission of the organization, do or do not do? Do it or don't do it? Do it, what about the mission? If you don't do it, where does the money come from?

So entangled, what a dilemma!

Life's dilemmas are never like this, and there is absolutely no standard answer.

So, more often than not, people choose this way: one part of things is done to live, and the other part is done for a mission.

This still does not fundamentally solve the problem, and even more often than not, we do, follow the money further and further away, completely deviated from the original intention, and can not take into account the mission.

" Social enterprise, i.e., solving society's problems by means of business. The UK has been exploring this for decades, and by 2009 there were more than 62,000 social enterprises, contributing up to 24 billion pounds to the UK economy that year. The Social Enterprise Coalition [UK] describes the characteristics of social enterprises as: business-oriented, social objectives, and social ownership. The goals of social enterprises include: meeting social needs, creating jobs, promoting employee development, building social capital, and promoting sustainable development.

It seems that promoting the development of social enterprises is an effective prescription for solving social problems, and an effective way to dock commercial enterprises and non-profit organizations, and the social responsibility of commercial enterprises, and the sustainability of non-profit organizations have found their way out under the framework of social enterprises.

This is the best answer to the conflict between mission and living.

If you can't live, the mission can't be realized; if there is no mission, living is meaningless.