In honor of Mother's Day this year, the Transparent Fish Fund is raising funds to provide surgery for three mothers in China who suffer from heart disease. YOU can be part of this effort! For every new "like" on the TFish Fund facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/tfishfund), $1 will be donated towards the fundraiser.
Please share the post with your friends and spread the word! With 2000 new fans, we will be able to give one mother the opportunity to receive a new heart. I would like to share with you a recent memorable encounter I had while visiting a watch-repair shop.
There is a small watch-repair shop called House of Treasures near where I live. I frequent the shop enough that I've given it a Chinese name—Zhen Bao Wu. The shop owner is named Brad, a jolly and kind boss. He greets people even when he is repairing watches, and he always asks me about any updates regarding the TFish Fund. I made sure to bring him our 2012 Donor Book when I went in to the shop. He was surprised by all the projects we had been supporting, and, in particular, he was intrigued by the hemophilia project. I found out that his daughter’s boyfriend has hemophilia and, in addition to suffering from the illness, has to pay expensive medical bills. Congratulations to the Jenny Lin Foundation and the Burma Humanitarian Mission for successfully completing the 2012 Dollar-for-Dollar Matching Program! These two non-profits were selected to participate in our inaugural program based on their effectiveness, program impact, and shared vision of cause and financial transparency.
This year, the Jenny Lin Foundation raised $2405. As part of the Dollar-for-Dollar program, the Chao Foundation matched that amount, contributing to a total of $4810 that will be donated to the cause of furthering music education and scholarship for Bay Area’s youth. The Burma Humanitarian Mission raised $9311, matched also by the Chao Foundation, for a total donated amount of $18622. This amount will go towards the organization’s mission of supports community based health-care and education projects that improve lives of the Burmese people. Please join us in commending the success these amazing organizations. Each week, we select and highlight the best photos from our partners out on the field. Check out more detailed updates from each NGO by clicking on its name below "Category" on the right of this page. Enjoy these photos from the month of October! NPI Social Entrepreneur Magazine discusses TFish Fund's role in funding grassroot NGOs in China8/2/2012
The Non-Profit Incubator (NPI) has published their Social Entrepreneur Magazine (社会创业杂志, a project funded by the Ford Foundation. The cover story discuses "Grassroot organizations recount Funding Party" which mentions Transparent Fish Fund's crucial impact in providing funding for growth of grassroot organizations in China. We will have it translated into English. In the meantime, please see the magazine in Chinese. About NPI: NPI is an aggregation of several NGO Supporting organizations which operate with contributions, both financial and otherwise, from international and domestic charity foundations, government agencies, enterprises and academies. Since its establishment in Jan 2006, NPI has worked to promote social innovation and cultivate social entrepreneurs in China by granting crucial support to start-up and small to medium sized NGOs and Social Enterprises. www.npi.org.cn
Thank you for your positive participation in Transparent Fish. In May, another 2 organizations have promoted to be partners of Transparent Fish. They are Angel House Rehabilitation Education and Activity Center and Hanzhong City Hope Community Volunteers Association.
At the same time they can obtain 3,000 RMB Transparent Fish fund. Welcome our new partners to participate in public welfare course. In addition, another 5 organizations may apply to be partner of Transparent Fish. If the budget passes the audit, they can obtain 3,000 RMB which is used for programs or administration, please act now! Original article written by Nancy Nguyen, translated by Ma Shishi, and edited by US intern Isabel Auyeung. In order to ensure financial transparency, the TFish partnership includes three stages of collaboration: TFish Friend, TFish Associate Member, and TFish Strategic Partner. The exciting news below, provided by our executive director Nancy Nguyen, concerns four NGOs that were recently upgraded to become TFish Strategic Partners.
-- Exciting news! Four of our partner organizations have qualified to become Transparent Fish Strategic Partners. They are the following: Zhou Yong Hong Counseling Center: http://www.toumingyu.org/group.php?group_id=381 AnHui Farmers’ Cooperative: http://www.toumingyu.org/community/440/ Grass-Roots Experts: http://www.toumingyu.org/community/277/ Light of Love: http://www.toumingyu.org/group.php?group_id=320 On behalf of Transparent Fish, I express my sincere gratitude towards their cooperation and support. We are very pleased by our common vision and aspiration to serve those in need. Let us work together and do our best! We all know that there are many excellent NGOs on this platform, as there are many interesting projects and touching stories. We look forward to receiving more updates from our new Strategic Partners and continuing to promote them. Nancy Nguyen TFish Executive Director -- Original news article translated by TFish staff Shishi Ma, edited by intern Kaitlyn Cheung. Every quarter, our executive director Nancy writes a short article to update TFish friends and partners about the most recent progress that Transparent Fish has made.
-- T-Fish has already helped partners Wild Lily and Little Red Scarf CARE finish fundraising for the first quarter. These two organizations have provided materials such as stories, photos, and financial reports to display transparency with their activities. T-Fish has processed these materials into a donor’s book, which will go towards operating oversees fundraising initiatives. As of yesterday, T-Fish has helped raise $1333 for the Wild Lily’s “One Egg Plan” for the first quarter of year 2012. Along with this, T-Fish will be funding $1715 for the administrative costs of Wild Lily, for a total funding of $3048. T-Fish has successfully helped raise a total of $2953 for Little Red Scarf CARE. The funds have covered: scholarships for 5 students; costs for special sicknesses; and gifts, nutrition, and study tools for post-surgery recovery. Everyone can see information about fundraisers, amount of funds, and supporting projects on the right side of the platform of T-Fish. Details of donations can also be accessed by logging onto the T-Fish fundraising website (www.tfishfund.org). We welcome your attention and inquiry. We thank all of our colleagues for their support! We also encourage each organization to post its project and service stories on our T-Fish platform. We look forward to further interaction with each organization and hope to establish a strategic, cooperative partnership. Let’s build the future of NGOs together! Thank you. [China Weekly 1-5-12] The only prerequisite for grassroots NGOs to receive free assistance from the Transparent Fish Lab is that they must play by its rules. NGOs must make public all their funding and expenditures, becoming financially transparent. The five staffers of the Transparent Fish Lab sit on the floor cross-legged during a meeting. Taken by reporter for China Weekly/ Pan Wang.
Yi Yang’s job is to “chat” with grassroots NGOs everyday. “We hope to provide you with free assistance, including a free texting platform, web promotion, marketing, staff training, and funding etc.” On the other end of the line, a hesitant voice carefully repeats the same question, “it’s really for free?” “Yes, but, you must promise to make your finances transparent, organizing and publishing your accounts online every month.” At this point, Yang gets a little nervous. In her experience, when the conversation gets this far, the other party may remain silent for a while, hang up the phone abruptly, or ask her “what do you really want?” She must patiently explain: she is not investigating them; if the NGOs accomplish financial transparency, it will improve their credibility, allowing them to garner more funding and support, why not? Yi Yang is a member of the Transparent Fish Lab. The man who founded and currently funds this organization is named Ping Chao. This condition (of financial transparency) to receive assistance is instigated by Chao. Chao told a reporter from China Weekly that he hopes to make the Transparent Fish Lab website a school for Chinese grassroots NGOs, helping them to form the habit of transparency through three years of training. As someone who funds more than a dozen NGOs in China, Chao does not care about other people’s opinions on his “conditional aid.” Some have asked him, is conditional aid still truly public service? He says, of course, transparent mechanisms allow the money to be delivered to those who need it most, “this is what’s most lacking in Chinese NGOs, and the most important.” Thank you to our East Villagers interns, who recently raised over $1200, fully funding the remaining Transparent Fish Fund children listed on The School Fund's website. In fact, they raised more than was necessary, and we were thrilled to be able to use the extra funds toward special prajects for Little Red Scarf, like a pacemaker for Jingbo, a baby with congenital heart disease and cleft palette.
To express their gratitude, Mr. and Mrs. Chao took the interns out to lunch this past weekend, during which we were able to get this beautiful photo for our holiday newsletter! To read the newsletter and see the team's Christmas photo, click here or click read more. |
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