Internationally renowned NGO

Greenpeace: one of the most influential environmental NGOs in the world today. Since its opposition to the nuclear testing site in Alaska in 1971 in the United States, Greenpeace has become world-famous for its radicalism, tenacity, and determination.

Doctors Without Borders: Founded in France in 1971, it is mainly composed of medical aid volunteers with the purpose of providing medical aid to people, especially disaster relief aid.

International Foundation for the Welfare of Animals: Founded in 1969, its purpose is to prevent cruelty to animals.

The Ford Foundation: Founded in 1936, it is one of the largest private foundations in the world. In 1988, the Ford Foundation was one of the first international non-governmental organizations allowed by the Chinese government to set up offices in China.

Save the Children UK: One of the largest international non-governmental organizations in the UK, founded in 1919, it is an important member of the Save the Children International Alliance. Save the Children UK is headquartered in London and carries out projects in more than 60 developing countries around the world.

Japanese Sasakawa Peace Foundation: Founded in 1986, in order to further promote Sino-Japanese friendly relations, the Sasakawa Peace Foundation and the China Association for International Friendly Contact*** jointly established the Sino-Japanese Friendship Exchange Fund, with a total amount of 100 billion yen (approximately 650 million yuan), which is the largest special fund for people-to-people friendly exchanges between China and Japan to date.

Well-known domestic NGO

Friends of Nature

On June 5, 1993, several founders of Friends of Nature held China’s first non-governmental spontaneous environmental Seminar - "Linglong Garden Conference". On March 31, 1994, Friends of Nature was established, marking the birth of China's first non-governmental environmental protection group registered with the Ministry of Civil Affairs. The founders are Liang Congjie, Yang Dongping, Liang Xiaoyan and Wang Lixiong. Among them, Professor Liang Congjie, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a tutor at the Chinese Culture Academy, serves as the president, and Professor Yang Dongping, an expert on social, cultural and educational issues, serves as the vice president. Friends of Nature supports government policies, regulations and measures to protect the environment and cooperates and supervises them as much as possible. Over the past ten years, Friends of Nature has accumulated more than 8,000 members, including more than 3,000 active members and nearly 30 group members. We have won more than 15 domestic and international awards, such as the "Asian Environment Award", "Earth Award", "Giant Panda Award" and the Philippines' "Raymond Magsaysay Award". Members from all over the country enthusiastically carry out various environmental protection work locally. Many members have won awards at all levels. There are more than ten NGOs initiated and founded by Friends of Nature members. After ten years of establishment and development, Friends of Nature has become an environmental NGO with good credibility and influence in China. It has contributed to the development of China's environmental protection cause and civil society, and has become one of the iconic organizations.

NGO Development Communication Network.org

NGOCN, for short, was initiated by two volunteers and established in 2005. It is one of the largest NGO communication platforms in China. It aims to communicate through the Internet interact with reality, promote public participation in social services, and build Chinese civil society. The NGO development exchange website provides a large amount of information about the dynamics of the NGO industry, recruitment and other information, and has set up a Kunming grassroots public welfare support center on the ground to support aspiring young people and the participation of grassroots organizations. Various NGO-related learning practices,

"Green Rivers"

to promote and organize natural ecological environment protection activities in the upper reaches of rivers, promote the development of Chinese non-governmental natural ecological environment protection work, and improve The environmental awareness and environmental ethics of the whole society are aimed at achieving the sustainable development of the social economy in the basin.

The main tasks of "Green Rivers" are: organizing scientists, journalists, domestic and foreign environmental groups, etc. to conduct a series of environmental scientific investigations in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River; establishing a natural ecological environment protection station at the source of the Yangtze River; and publishing Promote publications and art and audio-visual works on ecological and environmental protection; carry out mass environmental protection activities and international academic exchanges on ecological and environmental protection.

The activity currently being promoted by "Green Rivers" is the "Protect the Source of the Yangtze River, Love Our Nature" plan.