At the beginning of the birth of One Foundation, it advocated the global public welfare concept of "One Foundation, One Family", and implemented the charitable interaction mode of 1 yuan per person per month, so that the family cared for each other. Today, it has raised more than 270 million yuan.
Xu Yongguang, Secretary-General of Nalada Foundation, pointed out that the cooperation with China Red Cross Society is an innovation worthy of recognition for One Foundation, which promotes the concept of "small donation and big public welfare", but this subordinate form obviously cannot meet the needs of the sustainable development of One Foundation.
In June this year, on the day the One Foundation Public Welfare Research Institute was established, Jet Li said frankly that doing public welfare is much more tiring than being a star.
He has said on many occasions that he is not a grandson, but a true grandson. "These three years may really be the release of energy accumulated in 20 years, which is very tiring."
Jet Li once mentioned that he wanted to set up a private charitable foundation in China, which would make it easier to raise funds. He revealed that when the One Foundation cooperated with the World Health Organization, the United Nations Development Programme and the Clinton Foundation, it was in an awkward position because it did not have its own identity.
Ms. Shen, the head of a special fund under a public offering foundation, is deeply touched by this situation without independent identity. Ms. Shen pointed out that the special fund has no independent official seal, and all public welfare activities she wants to engage in must be approved by the competent authorities.
However, this process is extremely complicated, and it often takes many chapters to do one thing. For example, one of their public welfare cooperation projects took half a year to finally pass. During that time, she made dozens of phone calls every day. "What should I do if the leader of the competent unit is on a business trip? Wait until he comes back and stamp it? " Ms. Shen pointed out that the independence of identity makes it impossible for special funds to freely display their fists and feet.
Everyone in the charity industry knows that there is something wrong with the identity of the One Foundation. However, when Jet Li first complained to the public and mentioned that the One Foundation project might be interrupted, people began to speculate on the One Foundation: Is the One Foundation project really impossible? Or is there a problem with the cooperation with the China Red Cross?
The staff of the One Foundation said that the public misunderstood the statement that the One Foundation might be interrupted. Jet Li himself had hoped to achieve a breakthrough in the identity of One Foundation through three years' efforts, but it was misunderstood as a "three-year period". "Our cooperation with the China Red Cross is not limited to three years." At present, the charitable projects of One Foundation are proceeding as planned.
The staff of One Foundation pointed out that Jet Li talked about this matter on his own initiative in Face to Face, hoping to arouse the attention and discussion of the society through the development and difficulties faced by One Foundation, so as to find an effective way to solve the identity problem of non-governmental charitable organizations. According to industry sources, at the beginning of this year, One Foundation began to apply for a public offering foundation in the Ministry of Civil Affairs, hoping to give the One Foundation an independent and legal status.
"If One Foundation wants to be a public offering foundation, it will definitely leave the China Red Cross. The two sides have talked about separation many times. " According to insiders, this kind of breakup is not "divorce" but "marriage". When the One Foundation grew up, the China Red Cross married it and let it get married. As of yesterday, the China Red Cross has not responded to this.
A staff member of the foundation said that once the public offering foundation is registered, Jet Li hopes to manage the foundation through a professional team. This also confirms what Jet Li said in Face to Face: If the charitable foundation is finally approved, he will step down and hand it over to a collective management committee leader. "When you can't see Jet Li in the One Foundation and the Institute, it is the dream of the One Foundation, and it is moving towards professionalism." At the inaugural meeting of One Foundation Research Institute, Jet Li expounded the goals of One Foundation.
According to Xu Yongguang, Jet Li will not be the president of the foundation applying for public offering. The board of directors of the foundation will be a group of big entrepreneurs, most of whom are members of the board of directors of the One Foundation Public Welfare Research Institute.
However, at present, the application for public offering foundation of One Foundation is not smooth. Xu Yongguang said that he is still not sure why. However, he guessed that it would be even more difficult for One Foundation to be a comprehensive Public Offering of Fund like china charity federation, instead of specializing in a certain field, because it has a private identity.
As Jet Li mentioned in Face to Face, "Everyone thinks it's a good thing, but there are still some problems that can't be solved. This is a trouble, the so-called hair will be white. " The staff of One Foundation said that the application of the office fundraising foundation has been encouraged by many people, but there are still some problems that are difficult to solve.
Therefore, whether the application of the One Foundation's public offering foundation can finally be approved, the staff of the One Foundation said that they are still waiting. At present, there are two kinds of domestic foundations: public offering and non-public offering. Public foundations have the right to raise funds from the public, while non-public foundations have no right to raise funds from the public. There are only a few precedents of private offering foundations in China.
According to the statistics of the Ministry of Civil Affairs in the third quarter of 20 10, there are 1977 foundations in China, including nearly 1000 public foundations, including the Red Cross Societies in various provinces. Due to the state's encouragement policy, the number of non-public offering foundations has grown from the first one in 2004 to more than 900.
Liu Zhongxiang, director of the Foundation Management Office of the Civil Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, pointed out that in recent years, the growth rate of public fundraising foundations is much lower than that of non-public fundraising foundations, because the state encourages non-public fundraising foundations in policy, but does not encourage public fundraising foundations. "99 1, this number is enough."
Liu Zhongxiang pointed out that because public offering is to raise funds from the society, if there are too many foundations, it may cause public resentment against charitable donations.
However, Liu Zhongxiang also stressed that it is not to limit the development of public foundations, because there are not many influential public foundations at present. Therefore, we should first develop existing public offering foundations. If a well-done non-governmental charity organization wants to be a public offering foundation, it can still pass, not be killed with a stick.
Wang, dean of the One Foundation Public Welfare Research Institute of Beijing Normal University and former director of the Department of Social Welfare and Philanthropy Promotion of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, pointed out that public funds in China should be measured not by quantity, but by qualified standards. "If you want to issue shares publicly, you must meet the administrative standards."
There are only 1800 foundations in China, which is far from the number of nearly 65,438+million in the United States. In fact, since the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, the charity enthusiasm of ordinary people has been developing at a high speed. It's just that the growing enthusiasm has formed a huge contrast with the existing system. All the people in the charity industry contacted by the reporter pointed out that most of the existing public offering foundations are founded by various government departments and have a strong official color.
"Charity belongs to the people and should be returned to the people." Xu Yongguang believes that charity is done by the government and is an offside behavior of the government. The government itself is both a referee and an athlete, which will lead to the absence of supervision. There will be many problems in maintaining the official color of public offering foundations for a long time.
For example, the government will use administrative power to apportion donations, which is a common phenomenon of charity and donation. Once a charity has an administrative level, its officials should be responsible to the government first. "In order to protect their work, we must listen to the government."
In addition, the administrative power of the government is often used to do charity, which does not win by transparency and fund management efficiency, resulting in unfair competition within the charity industry. Under this system, many public foundations often fail to put protecting the feelings and respecting the rights of donors in the most important position, which is not conducive to stimulating the public's charity enthusiasm and spreading charity culture.
Private placement and public offering foundations will pay great attention to transparency and efficiency in fund raising and fund use, and only by this can they win. This will undoubtedly bring pressure and challenges to the vast majority of existing public foundations.