Charity defends 'paid' volunteers
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But does it work?
Although controversial, the model of using paid fundraisers appears to have worked for Shilehui.
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A donor of Shilehui gives money to a girl in Yunnan. |
Fang said the organization has raised 12 million yuan in the first eight months of this year, compared with 9.18 million in 2011 and 2.7 million in 2010, and helped some 7,300 families in need.
An official who gave his name only as Mao at Jinhua's civil affairs bureau, said on Tuesday that Shilehui had passed all annual inspections on its operations and financial management since 2009.
China has no specific regulation on the use of paid volunteers, according to Meng Zhiqiang at the Ministry of Civil Affairs' philanthropy division.
Song Zonghe, information director for the China Charity and Donation Information Center, a nonprofit organization in Beijing, said paid fundraising is common in developed countries, and suggested the controversy it triggered in China was due to the public being ignorant of how charities are run.
Song urged the government to speed up the development of a standard for the profession, and to create rules to allow a reasonable proportion of donations to be deducted as payment for fundraisers.
Deng Guosheng, a professor of philanthropic studies at Tsinghua University, agreed and called for the establishment of an industry association to guide and supervise the conduct of fundraisers.
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