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Project Operation Of Regional Public Welfare Foundations In China

Posted on:2004-09-13Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W J MengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360092493253Subject:Sociology
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In China, the relationship between the state and the society, as an important part of social transformation, has been re-positioned as the so-called "small government, big society ". There is a common characteristic between this profound change of relationship and the concurrence of the rise of civil society throughout the world, that is nonprofit sector or the third sector gradually moves into the center of both public and scholarly concern. While the mode of "small government, big society" provides better opportunities for the development of nonprofit sector, it, on the other hand, sets a higher standard for the role played by nonprofit sector.It depends on the project operation of public welfare foundations to better confront the impact brought about by further social transformation and to better provide public goods and services, which used to be the concern of government. All activities of foundations should be reflected by their public welfare projects, the success or failure of which is that of foundations. To be further, the success or failure of projects depends on the operation mechanism, or to be exactly, on all the steps of the mechanism. Based on this perspective, the author selected Hubei Provincial Foundation for Youth Development, which has been gained its fame by the implementation of "Project Hope" and "Project of Green Hope", as the object for this case study.This thesis consists of four parts, a brief summary, the case description, the theoretical analysis and the discussion.The first part gives a summary of the rise of nonprofitorganizations and public welfare foundations worldwide and the causes of this rise, the types, characteristics, functions of them, the similarities and the differences between publAic welfare foundations and philanthropic organizations.The second part describes respectively in detail the two major projects and four campaigns, laying a solid foundation for theoretical analysis.The third part, at first, extracts out of the case description all the steps like project positioning, planning, publicity-making, donate-soliciting, aiding and motivating and analyzes them respectively. The author applies resources-mobilizing mode in the "Post-totalized Society " into the analysis of donate-soliciting, aiding and the "Social Exchange Theory" into the analysis of motivating mechanism. Later, as for the fund deficiency matter, which puzzles almost all the foundations and is in close relation with project operation, the thesis puts forward solution proposals like boosting fund-raising capacity and efficiency, rationalizing the proportion of the cost and raised funds, ensuring endowment value and gainings, seeking fund aid from government.The fourth part is a discussion about possible approaches and modes of the development of nonprofit sector in China, using operation experiences from market sector as reference, the increasing speculation activities of foundations and the expansion of foundation projects to the field of social security.
Keywords/Search Tags:Public Welfare Foundation, Project Operation, Case Study
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