泰乐文化传播中心“中国志愿组织的法律能力建设项目”

TAI LE Cultural Publicity Center-

“Building-up Juristic Ability among Volunteer Orgs in China” Program

 

 

Brief Introduction

 

About the center-

     TAI LE Cultural Publicity Center: “TAI”-peaceful and auspicious; “LE”-optimistic and joyous. These two Chinese characters indicate our spirits of intensive proficiency, legal framework building and sincere volunteering, and our devotional enrollment into building up the juristic ability among college volunteer organizations. Lawyer Tian Kun, one of the Ten Great Volunteers in Beijing, participates in our center in a full scale with authoritative experience of his study in NGO’s legal framework for years.

     Tai Le Cultural Publicity Center focuses on: NGOs that protect volunteers’ legal rights; NGOs that sparking the building-up of juristic ability among commonweal orgs; NGOs that devote to intercede the conflicts in volunteer work; NGOs that deal with the enhancement of citizens’ social juristic ability; NGOs that regard volunteers’ psychological health; NGOs that support to build legal framework in all kinds of commonweal orgs.

 

About the program-

     We aim to enhance the building-up of NGOs’ juristic ability in China, and to seek suitable training patterns and local service systems for Chinese NGOs so as to improve their ability at dealing with juristic affairs. 

     With our endeavor we hope to see a steady forwarding of the Commonweal in China, with an enhancement of orgs’ juristic ability, to prevent conflicts in advance, and to coordinate and solve conflicts properly. At the same time, volunteers’ psychological health will be cared with great humanism spirit.

 

About the background-

     Going under the Reform and Opening-up Policy for more than twenty years, Chinese government has narrowed its functional area, which leads to general existences of some social problems along with the economy-cored development—some of the problems are rather serious. Who other than the government will take the responsibility to solve these problems? And who else will provide non-profit public services for the government? In such sense, NGOs in China is an essential force to our society, and also a key power to pursue a harmonious society.

     Ideal needs to be realized. Today’s NGOs in China are still at a beginner’s level, in short of both funds and talented people. The shortage in turn causes a vicious circle of fundraising, organizing and practicing activities. Generally these orgs are with great passions and creativities. Because of their lack of experience, however, China’s non-profit orgs’ relevant knowledge and skills are limited. In spite of many NPO cultivation courses given in recent years, the number of people access to those courses is relatively small, and the teachers giving the courses are not all familiar with the local orgs’ factual environment, which leads to an impractical teaching, thus, during activities many grass roots are blind to professional plan and basic theories. Nevertheless, there are even less courses related to juristic ability building. As a conclusion, we can see that NGOs in China hardly have any specified knowledge or experience in juristic field.

     With the lack of juristic ability, but only kind hearts, good wishes and enthusiasms to devote themselves to the society, yet the NGO leaders haven’t realized how important it is to prevent invisible conflicts and how necessary it is to establish a juristic cognition—evidence cognition, contract cognition, etc.—along with their volunteer spirit.

     Besides, the building-up of the college volunteer groups’ juristic ability is absolutely necessary. Take Beijing as an example—there are more than 150 full time high education institutions in Beijing, and there are hundreds of college volunteer groups. Many student leaders are facing to the problems that “how to arrange the volunteers? How to coordinate with them? How to keep the volunteering activities run sustainable?” At present, most college volunteer groups and volunteers themselves ignore their own juristic ability enhancement. More and more cases warn us that the enhancement will greatly help to avoid many unforeseeable risks, to protect volunteers’ legal rights, and to solve underlying crisis.

 

About our tenet-

   “Building-up Juristic Ability among Volunteer Orgs in China” Program aims at preventing conflicts in advance, assuming as the “Health Guidance” for NGOs in China. 

 

About our current work-

l        First survey of the juristic ability building among college volunteer groups

l        First survey of NGO managers’ juristic cognitions

l        First hot line for volunteers’ psychological health

l        First hot line for commonweal orgs’ juristic affairs consultation

l        First website for the building-up of commonweal orgs’ juristic ability

                                                            

                       TAI LE Cultural Publicity Centre

                                       2007-03-18