JUCCCE Wants You!

Peggy Liu, chairperson of the Joint U.S.-China Cooperation on Clean Energy (JUCCCE), visited New York University this week to discuss the future of green energy in China, and to recruit volunteer support for upcoming projects.
JUCCCE, with offices in Beijing, Shanghai, and San Francisco, is one of the main accelerators of  the “green” China movement.  Broadly [...]

Social Venture Group: “Calling all of China’s Innovative Philanthropists”

Our second post from contributing blogger Carla Fernandez, who wrote about social entrepreneur Steve Koon in August.

As China’s grassroots nonprofit sector gradually develops, the age-old question that plagues the industry worldwide sharpens in focus: Where can these nascent Chinese nonprofits secure funding to get the ball rolling and to keep their operations afloat?
That’s where Shanghai-based Social [...]

Social Entrepreneur Profile: Steve Koon

Last March I connected with a global team from Kaospilot, a group of mostly Danish students from the international school of new business design and social innovation.
One of the projects they were developing during a three month stint in Shanghai focused on social innovation. I was sniffing their trail, tracking down the same social entrepreneurs [...]