Monthly Archives: August 2010

In the non-profit realm, there have been fewer hotter topics discussed than the "social enterprise". it is an organization that, if asked to define, would have a spectrum of definitions that were at times vague, romantic, and would leave a lot of questions open about the real difference between an NGO and a social enterprise. Were there really a core difference. In China, this is no different,…

In her post Things are Different Here, Emily D'Ath touched on the issues that companies face in China when engaging in CSR.  It was a post that, as you will see in my comments to her, hit a bit of a nerve, and in a good way. It made me think about what the real barriers to effective philanthropy in China are. It is a deeply complex issue that reaches outside of any internal issues that a don…