On June 22nd, 2007, Tencent Charity Foundation was formally approved by the State Council and the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and was established as a national non-public offering foundation. It is the first charitable foundation initiated by an Internet company in China. Its purpose is to devote itself to charity, care for the growth of teenagers, advocate corporate citizenship and promote social harmony and progress. Tencent Charity Foundation implements charitable assistance and public welfare activities for the society. In addition to vigorously participating in social charities such as disaster relief, poverty alleviation and poverty alleviation, it will also actively provide help for the healthy growth and education of young people. At the same time, in order to cooperate with the foundation, Tencent has set up a "volunteer" organization within the enterprise, regularly organizing employees to participate in public welfare activities, helping the poor and giving love. Tencent's vision is to be the most respected Internet enterprise. The establishment of charitable foundation shows that Tencent has confidence and ability to undertake more social responsibilities. Main responsibilities: (1) social charity activities such as helping the poor, helping the disabled, providing disaster relief, and fighting the epidemic; (2) Accept donations from social organizations and individuals, mainly Tencent; (3) developing youth education and other social education development projects; (4) Other businesses approved by the competent department. As of June 5438+00, 2009, Tencent Charity Foundation has donated and promised to donate more than 58 million yuan, mainly carrying out six public welfare projects: Tencent Charity Foundation takes "joining in charity, caring for the growth of young people, advocating corporate citizenship and promoting social harmony and progress" as its purpose, and takes "one platform, two interactions, three directions, and releasing the power of love based on the Internet" as its core strategy. At present, Tencent has donated more than 96 million to Tencent Charity Foundation. Previously, Tencent Charity Foundation invested more than 40 million yuan to carry out a series of public welfare projects with education development and poverty alleviation as the core. In the May12 earthquake, he took the lead in donating more than 22.5 million yuan, and mobilized Tencent netizens to donate more than 23 million yuan, which was used for earthquake relief and post-disaster reconstruction at the first time. Tencent Public Welfare Foundation will rely on Tencent's core advantages, make use of the influence of Tencent and QQ brands among teenagers, and build a public welfare interactive portal through Tencent Public Welfare Network to provide an efficient and convenient public welfare platform for public welfare organizations, volunteers (netizens) and donors, thus promoting the healthy and rapid development of public welfare undertakings in China. Every year before the Spring Festival, it is the beginning of China people's reunion. No matter where people start, there is only one destination, and that is "home". However, the sudden rain and snow made it extremely difficult for Spring Festival travel rush to go home this year. Continuous rain and snow and freezing rain caused power grid interruption and road congestion, and hundreds of thousands of returning passengers were stranded. Guangzhou Railway Station alone stranded more than 200,000 passengers. While all relevant government departments are making full efforts to carry out disaster relief work, all sectors of society are also actively carrying out rescue operations, supporting each other and tide over the difficulties together. 65438+1On October 29th, Tencent Charity Foundation announced that it would join forces with Guangdong Red Cross Society, Guangdong Youth Volunteers Association and other institutions to start emergency rescue procedures to help stranded passengers and provide food, drinking water, clothes and medicine for those who are unfortunately prevented from going home.