After a life lived in frugality, former Taiwanese soldier Hu Shou-hung donated everything he had, the equivalent of 30,000 US dollars, to charity. The 88-year-old, who rents a shabby house in the small town of Hsinpu in the island's north, hit the headlines when he gave his life's savings to a veteran group to help orphans of deceased members, but he did not do it for fame.
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Focus Taiwan: Philanthropic vegetable vendor happy to be home
Vegetable vendor and philanthropist Chen Shu-chu returned home Sunday after being honored in New York by Time magazine for her charitable donations over the past decades.
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Philanthropy and Law in Asia (1999)
Philanthropy and Law in Asia (1999). A collection of reports from ten Asian nations (Australia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, The Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam), this publication provides a comparison of the laws and public policy regulating and influencing the nonprofit sectors in those countries. A helpful guide for governments, nonprofits, foundations, and international organizations who wish to understand the ways in which nonprofits are regulated and structured throughout the region.
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Governance, Organizational Effectiveness, and the Nonprofit Sector (Manila, 2003)
Governance, Organizational Effectiveness, and the Nonprofit Sector (Manila, 2003).
This conference tackled issues of governance and accountability in the regional NPO sector, its relationship with government, and recommendations for future action.
To download the conference proceedings, please click here .
Forbes: Asia's Heroes Of Philanthropy
HONG KONG -- In billionaire Ananda Krishnan's climb to success, one of the first rungs on the ladder was a philanthropic gift--a scholarship to earn his undergraduate degree at Melbourne University.
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Taiwanese people donate time and money for charitable purposes, but only to family members and close acquaintances. They are not accustomed to giving to strangers. Giving money to an intermediary organization to manage and use the money on the donor's behalf for different charity works is also very uncommon.
