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What is a charitable foundation
1. Funded Foundation: The funds raised will be mainly used to support other organizations to carry out community services or public welfare projects;

2. Operating foundations: Operating foundations use the raised funds for their own public welfare projects or cooperate with other foundations to carry out projects, and generally do not accept funding applications from other organizations;

3. Comprehensive Foundation: While operating its own projects, comprehensive foundations also provide financial support to other non-profit organizations.

The above is the mode of operation of charitable foundations.

The business scope of charitable foundations is 1. Raising funds: raising and managing special funds and various charitable funds that meet the purpose of the association; Accept donations from natural persons, legal persons and other organizations, and accept donations from international and non-governmental organizations and individuals from Taiwan Province, Hongkong and Macao; Accept other donations entrusted by the Provincial Civil Affairs Department; Carry out other lawful social fund-raising activities;

2. Poverty alleviation: organize various social activities to support vulnerable groups; Participate in poverty alleviation work;

3. Disaster relief: assisting the government to carry out disaster relief work, undertaking disaster relief assistance projects, and receiving and distributing money and materials donated by associations at home and abroad;

4. Charity assistance: carry out various charity assistance activities such as helping the elderly, helping the orphans, helping the disabled, and helping students;

5. Public welfare assistance: participating in and promoting other social charities such as culture, education and health; Organize volunteer teams and carry out various forms of charitable activities;

6. Exchanges and cooperation: Strengthen contacts and cooperation with domestic and foreign non-profit organizations, closely communicate and cooperate with non-profit organizations in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao, and provide help and services to people, enterprises and various institutions that set up charitable causes.

What is a charity fund? Charity fund is a team organization, which aims to raise funds for the disadvantaged groups. Its main characteristics are organization and freedom. Charitable funds can also be divided into public offering and private offering. Generally speaking, corporate charitable foundations belong to private charitable funds. Such funds have no right to raise funds from the society, and the society cannot actively donate to them. Most charitable funds are public offerings, that is, the public can donate to them spontaneously, and charitable funds themselves can also call on the public to donate to them. The funds obtained will be operated by special personnel and used to help vulnerable groups or places where charitable funds themselves are needed. This paper mainly writes about the operation mode and related knowledge points of charitable foundations.