China Philanthropy

Tweeting with China's Social Entrepreneurs

Keeping up with all the latest in Chinese philanthropy is now just a tweet away. Crossroads just posted a list of China's "socialpreneurs" that he follows on Twitter. We've reprinted the list below, but he's asked readers to submit more so check back on their site for additions to the list.

West China Story

I'm in Beijing this week, meeting with few overseas clients as well as gearing up for Give2Asia's philanthropy conference on Thursday.  Apart from extremely high winds, Beijing weather has been uncannily California-like the last few days!  (Sometime in the future I will write about the differences between Beijing and Shanghai in terms of the non-profit sectors, I promise, but not today!)

This afternoon I spent some time catching up with Dr. Kenny Lin, CEO of Town and Talent Technologies an innovative IT solutions company with a strong philanthropic bent towards Western China.  To put it more strongly, Dr. Lin's organization is one of the few local companies in China that I have seem which are directly engaged in charity with a large scope in western regions of China.