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OpportunitiesNews of China-related educational, cultural, and charitable projectsOpportunities introduces significant charitable, cultural, and educational projects that seek American business support and aims to help companies identify programs that merit their assistance. The materials contained in Opportunities are boiled down; our goal is to provide contact information and only a brief description of each organization's interests.We strongly encourage interested companies to contact the programs contained here directly, so that each firm can review the more-detailed materials that individual organizations can provide. American companies participate in a broad range of programs that bring benefit to the people of China and strengthen the bonds of US-China friendship beyond the commercial realm. Opportunities is intended to help companies explore new ways of making a difference. (Note: Neither the US-China Business Council nor the CBR is a sponsor of any project listed in Opportunities and makes no recommendation with regard to corporate assistance to any specific project.)
China's forgotten flood of 1931 ranks as the single greatest water-related disaster worldwide in the last 100 years. In Gaoyou, six Grand Canal dikes burst on August 26, after three big summer storms and a typhoon, flooding 10,000 square miles of the Jiangsu plain 10-12 feet deep for six months. Across China, there were more than 800 dike breaks, and nearly 3.7 million Chinese died, almost 15 times the number killed by the 2004 tsunamis.  Charles Lindbergh. Reproduced with permission. The exhibit will feature US aviator Charles Lindbergh's aerial photos of the flood and the rebuilding of the dikes together with Anne Morrow Lindbergh's eloquent descriptions of their flood survey flights. In an early example of US-China cooperation, the rebuilding project was jointly led by an American Presbyterian missionary and a Chinese engineer. The two men, with the support of the International Famine Relief Commission and an anonymous donor, oversaw the reconstruction of Gaoyou's six broken dikes on schedule, under budget, and in the face of constant threats and corruption from the local warlords. The dike project records were recovered from the Nanjing Archives in 2004 and brought to the attention of the Gaoyou government, which has undertaken to stage this exhibit of this lost piece of Chinese history. The exhibit is seeking support from American businesses to sponsor the 1931 Forgotten China Flood Exhibit for the fall of 2005 in Gaoyou, with a second exhibit planned for 2006 in Shanghai. The first project has a budget of ¥500,000 (about $60,000), of which the city of Gaoyou will provide ¥200,000 ($25,000). A corporate sponsorship and attribution program is available to any company contributing $5,000 or more. China Connection, based in Pasadena, CA, provides clean water and builds medical clinics and rural schools in China. It often works through the Amity Foundation (www.amityfoundation.org.cn) in Nanjing. Contact Information:
Ecologia is an international nonprofit environmental organization that works with Chinese leaders from government, business, and civil society to develop practical and replicable examples of implementing sustainable development principles. Ecologia helps communities design local projects that can be implemented primarily with existing resources and helps companies develop business plans that identify opportunities for combining pollution avoidance and reduction with increased profitability. Ecologia is looking for corporate support and local partnering opportunities. Contact Information:
EcoPlan International, Inc. has been approached by the city of Wuhan and several other cities in China to provide short-term technical assistance to improve the investment climate, with a core focus on poverty reduction. Specifically, EcoPlan has been asked to provide training to local government officials on Strategic Planning for Local Economic Development based on materials and an approach developed jointly with the United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-HABITAT). This training has been peer-reviewed by development agencies and field tested in Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe. Underpinned by the concepts of good governance, inclusion of the private sector, and the creation of a good business environment, EcoPlan's approach focuses on sustainable development and poverty reduction through participatory methods. EcoPlan has secured partial funding from UN-HABITAT and counterpart funding from Wuhan and seeks additional technical assistance funds before October 2005. Contact Information:
The Philip Hayden Foundation (PHF), a US-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, has been providing hope for special-needs orphans of China since 1995. The primary work of PHF is the establishment of children's villages in China. These villages take in at-risk and special-needs orphans, love them, provide the medical treatment needed to correct their special-needs conditions, and find loving families to adopt them. PHF is currently expanding its capacity to care for orphans by building Shepherd's Field Children's Village, which will eventually add 150 orphans to the 90 currently being cared for at Langfang Children's Village. In addition to the children's homes, a medical clinic, guest inn, and multi-purpose center will also be included in Shepherd's Field Children's Village. PHF is currently seeking charitable and in-kind donations to continue with this project. Contact Information: NOTE: The China Business Review encourages contributions to Opportunities from organizations that have developed joint US-PRC charitable, cultural, and educational projects that seek US corporate support. Interested organizations should submit full details of their project(s) in the format above by e-mail to publications@uschina.org with "Opportunities Submission" in the subject line. |
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