Research On Path Complement Of Official Charities' Internal Governance

As a necessary supplement to our social security system,Charity is called the third allocation of social resources.In the course of the rapid development of philanthropy in China,official charities have been playing an important role in rescuing vulnerable groups,easing social contradictions and promoting social fairness,civilization and progress.It has made an indelible contribution to the cause of socialist modernization in our country.In recent years,however,frequent philanthropic scandals have pushed official charities to the forefront.Philanthropic scandals emerge in endlessly,although closely related to the lack of external supervision,the root lies in the common defects of internal governance such as "insider control" in officialcharities,which have not yet formed a perfect internal governance model.A better internal governance is not only beneficial to the effective operation of official charities,but also to the improvement of their own credibility and even the sustainable development of the whole charity.In recent years,under the double pressure of public opinion and self-development,official charities have taken a series of measures in the aspect of internal governance.Although they have achieved certain results,there is still a large gap compared with sound internal governance.Under this background,it is of great theoretical and practical significance to explore the plight of the internal governance of official charities and the deep reasons behind it,and to construct the internal governance path in a targeted way.Based on the theory of property right,principal-agent theory and stakeholder cooperative governance theory,this paper selects M Charity Federation and N Philanthropic Foundation as typical cases of official and folk charities.By referring to the relevant literature,the internal governance of charity is subdivided into three aspects:the concept of organizational culture,the structure of internal governance and the mechanism internal governance.Taking the above three aspects as the framework,the article firstly compares the advantages and disadvantages of internal governance of official and folk charities,and focuses on excavating the difficulties faced by official charities and the advantages of internal governance of folk charities.Through comparison,it is found that there are advantages and disadvantages in internal governance of official and folk charities,but generally speaking,official charities are faced with many difficulties in organizational culture concept,structure of internal governance and mechanism of internal governance.In contrast,a group of advanced folk charities,such as One Foundation,have done quite well,and many experiences of internal governance are worth learning from folk charities.Then,the article summarizes the plight of the internal governance of official charities,and analyzes the deep reasons behind it.Finally,aiming at the predicaments and its reasons of internal governance of official charities,and on the basis of fully drawing lessons from the beneficial experience of the internal governance of advanced folk charities,on the one hand,it discusses the premise and foundation of improving the internal governance of official charities.On the other hand,starting from "idea,structure and mechanism",it constructs a concrete way to perfect the internal governance of official charities in China.