纪敏博士在COMMUNIST AND POST-COMMUNIST STUDIES(SSCI)发表论文

发布者:李广宇发布时间:2021-12-15浏览次数:474

Survival or Crisis? Funding Distribution from Grant-Making

Foundations to Grassroots Social Organizations in China

MIN J I

Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Henan Normal University,

Xinxiang, Henan, China

      ABSTRACT The 2008 Wenchuan earthquake increased the need for disaster relief and reconstruction projects in China. This disaster created an upsurge of Chinese grant-making foundations, which then increased funding expectations. Many grassroots social organizations (SOs) in China believed that going forward, this level of funding would continue. However, the majority of grassroots SOs in China are currently facing an existential crisis. Their survival is being threatened by a shortage of funding from both local and foreign grant-making foundations. This research uses an empirical analysis of grant-making foundations and in-depth interviews, as well as observational evidence accumulated over a 10-year period,to explore the distribution of funding from foundations to grassroots SOs in China. The findings show that there are a limited number of Chinese grant-making foundations and that the foundations that exist do not include grassroots SOs in their funding scheme.

KEYWORDS grant-making, foundation, grassroots SOs, funding scheme, funding distribution

 

 

(政治与公共管理学院 李广宇