In 2005, Xu Yongguang left the China Youth Development Foundation and became the vice president of china charity federation, deputy director and secretary general of the organizing committee of the first China Charity Congress. After completing the press conference, Xu Yongguang quietly disappeared from people's sight, which made many people who cared about him spend a lot of time speculating. In CCTV's "Love Story in Spring 2007" program, Xu Yongguang announced that Du Nan Community Chest will allocate the first phase of100000 yuan to support the education of migrant workers' children. Xu Yongguang said: The investor is Zhejiang Du Nan Group. The registered capital of the foundation is 1 100 million yuan, and the company has also set up a larger public welfare fund, which will continue to donate to the foundation as needed.
The chairman of the group is from Wenzhou, and Xu is a fellow friend. 18 years ago, they went to sea almost at the same time, and Zhou was engaged in commercial profit-making industries; Xu is engaged in non-profit public welfare undertakings. Facing his friends in those years, Xu Yongguang said: An official will make the official bigger and better, a businessman will make the business bigger and better, and I will make the public welfare bigger and better. This life is enough. They are all very successful. Zhou has made his business bigger, and he wants to turn the ideal of "realizing himself and returning to society" into reality; Xu successfully runs the public fundraising foundation and Project Hope, and hopes to become an excellent non-public fundraising foundation. Zhou he can be described as reaching the same goal by different routes.
Xu Yongguang is not gratified that the Hope Project is getting bigger and bigger, but worried more and more. What he is worried about is that the education problem of poor children in rural areas has just been alleviated by the national "two exemptions and one subsidy" policy, and the education problem of children of migrant workers has emerged again, and the problem is more serious. Xu Yongguang hopes to do one more thing in his lifetime, that is, sprinkle nectar for the education of children of migrant workers.
Xu Yongguang's idea coincides with Zhou Qingzhi's, and it has also been unanimously recognized by all shareholders of Du Nan Group. Du Nan Group participated in various charitable activities, but Zhou Qingzhi never thought that filling out donation checks was the whole of charity. Zhou Qingzhi believes that China needs a mechanism so that people with wealth can make full use of their own resources and wisdom to repay the society in the most effective way. "Scattering wealth" and "gathering wealth" also need ability.
"What I want to do most is to explore the best way to repay the society. I regard it as a second venture. " Zhou Qingzhi made it clear that a foundation dedicated to serving the public interest should be established. Funding public welfare projects to improve the educational environment of migrant children will be the key choice of Du Nan Foundation. The most outstanding event of Du Nan Foundation is the birth of new citizen program.
In 2007, the first meeting of the first board of directors of Du Nan Foundation determined the mission of "supporting non-governmental public welfare". By scanning the social environment in China, we decided to take the education of migrant workers' children as the main concern area, and named the core project "New Citizen Plan". The "new citizen plan" includes new citizen schools and new citizen public welfare projects. The purpose of the new citizen school is to let the children of migrant workers study hard and study hard. The new citizens' public welfare project helps the children of migrant workers grow up healthily in all aspects and better integrate into the urban society.
On July 12, 2007, following Children's Day on June 1 2007, Nalada Foundation began to invite public tenders for the construction of a new civic school for non-profit organizations, and at the same time, invited tenders to fund public welfare projects concerned with the growth of migrant children. This marks the official launch of the "new citizen program" of the Narada Foundation aimed at improving the growth environment of migrant children.
In 2008, Du Nan Group will also donate 654.38 million yuan to the Foundation, bringing the total expenditure of the Foundation to 654.38 million yuan. With the healthy development of the foundation's funding business, Du Nan Group's donation to the foundation will gradually increase. Among Zhejiang businessmen, Zhou Qingzhi keeps a low profile but does not make public. Xu Yongguang said: "Zhou Qingzhi is an entrepreneur with social ideal, and doing charity is part of his social ideal. His experience, experience and knowledge are all comprehensive. He worked in the government, that is to say, from the public sphere to the private sphere. Now the foundation is just a leap from the private sphere to the public sphere. He has long been concerned about the public welfare field and has an understanding of the situation of international public welfare organizations, so his feelings about being a foundation are very accurate and in place. "
Zhou Qingzhi requires that when deciding on large-scale funded projects, the personal background of the recipients should be investigated. He asked for this because he wanted the Du Nan Foundation to be the best foundation. I have this confidence. This will be a standardized foundation, a standardized sample of' scattered wealth'.