In today’s MSNBC article Beijing starts locking poor villages at night, it is being reported that Beijing’s migrant communities will effectively be locked down in an effort to prevent crime. According to the article, residents entering and exiting areas will be asked to show their documents (assumed to be Hukou and/or temporary residence permits) at [...]

The Evolvement of Philanthropy in China In this latest BigThink piece (my favorite site for all things intellectual), author of PhilantroCapitalism, Matthew Bishop, answers a few questions on philanthropy in China. The clip is quite timely as I just finished reading the book 2 weeks ago (highly recommend), and was a book tha provided a [...]

As part of our work to define and support the efforts of China’s social entrepreneurs, the Collective Responsibility Social Entrepreneur have been working on a series of exercises. Exercises that are mean to begin developing a framework that defines what is a social enterprise (non and for profit) is in China, as well as to [...]

With the last 2.5 years being the most active time in China’s recent history of citizen based philanthropy, it has become clear that the level of opaqueness in the system has become a real issue for some.  That while the historical system of donations, largely fuelled by corporations looking to leverage their donations into something [...]

This is an old post that I originally had at another site, but while catching up on some reading, I was reminded by the power of the interviews we did last summer, the stories we began to tell, and the sense of respect I have for China’s migrant workers Earlier in the year while a [...]