SHENZHEN, China, May 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently, One Foundation released its 2023 annual report. According to the report, in 2023, One Foundation will receive more than 792 million public and corporate donations and trust trust, receive more than 573 million yuan in donations and material donations, and 444 million yuan in public welfare expenditures (some project funds will be spent on a year-end basis), and through more than 20 brand projects and public welfare actions, it will unite more than 1,400 social organizations and caring teams across the country, and drive 260,000 volunteers to act together, helping more than 6.91 million people to improve their difficulties and live a more dignified life.
Led by party building and driven by mission, we will do a solid job in public welfare projectsOne Foundation has always adhered to the principle of "Party Building Leading, Mission Driven". In July 2023, the Shenzhen International Philanthropy Institute of the Communist Party of China and the Joint Party Branch of One Foundation were awarded the honorary title of "Advanced Grassroots Party Organization of Shenzhen Social Organizations"; At the beginning of 2024, the United Party Branch was selected as a demonstration site for party building work of social organizations in Guangdong Province. In response to the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and Northeast flood disasters and the 6.2-magnitude earthquake disaster in Jishishan, Gansu Province, One Foundation has set up temporary party branches on the front line of disaster relief, adhered to the guidance of party building, and participated in disaster relief in a professional, standardized and orderly manner.
People in need are helped, and children grow up healthy, happy and safely, which is the most important thing that people who are enthusiastic about public welfare want to see. Children in the affected areas of the 6.2-magnitude earthquake in Jishishan, Gansu Province in 2023 wrote a postcard after receiving the warm package: "There was an earthquake in my hometown, and people ran out of the house that night, and everyone cried...... You came to the disaster area for the first time, the fire uncles ran to Dahejia Town to rescue the wounded, and the next day everyone lived in a house (tent), and volunteers came in groups, thank you, you have worked hard! "From its inception to the end of 2023, with the support of the One Love Family, One Foundation has worked with about 2,000 social organizations and caring teams and more than 2.9 million volunteers to help more than 42 million people improve their difficulties. The increase in social benefit data is the continuous convergence of more love, the life of more family members is gradually getting better, and more smiling faces are showing in front of you.
One Foundation actively responds to the national rural revitalization strategy, gives full play to its institutional advantages and the experience accumulated in participating in poverty alleviation work, and does a good job in rural public welfare services. From 2021 to 2023, One Foundation has invested more than 920 million yuan in rural revitalization actions, benefiting more than 1,400 counties (cities and districts) in 30 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government), including 97 key counties for national rural revitalization and 30 counterpart areas in Shenzhen, benefiting more than 19.75 million people. Under the guidance of the Shenzhen Municipal Headquarters for Counterpart Support to Xinjiang, we responded to the state's call for social organizations to participate in Xinjiang aid work through the special fund of "Shenzhen-Kazakh Solidarity and Good Deeds".
With the support of all sectors of society, One Foundation has built a full-chain working mechanism and targeted projects in the disaster cycle of disaster prevention and mitigation, emergency disaster relief and resilience reconstruction in the field of disasters, implemented child care and development projects in child protection, child health, child development, and special needs children on a large scale, explored and supported various innovative projects in environmental protection, elderly care, women's support and talent development, and continuously optimized the governance mechanism, forming a sound risk control system such as fundraising, finance, project management, internal audit and external audit. For the twelfth consecutive year, it has received a perfect score in the China-Base Transparency Index.
Ma Weihua, chairman of the One Foundation, said that the One Foundation will adhere to the concept of "doing my best, everyone is for the public good" in line with "everyone is responsible, everyone is responsible, and everyone enjoys a social governance community", and advocates "everyone is responsible" in the process of participating in social governance, promotes "everyone is responsible", and realizes "everyone enjoys". In the next stage of development, One Foundation will continue to focus on the three major areas of disaster relief, child care and development, and public welfare support and innovation, and continue to deepen and develop in the following aspects: improving disaster prevention, mitigation and relief, and major public emergency handling and support capabilities; consolidate and expand the achievements of poverty alleviation, and solidly promote rural revitalization; Committed to children's development and promoting innovation for public welfare; Improve the risk control system and improve the efficiency of business management.
One Foundation's mission is to "create a platform for everyone to participate in public welfare". To this end, One Foundation continues to unite many Internet platforms, caring enterprises and social organizations to expand the ways and forms of public participation in innovative ways, contribute funds, materials and professional capabilities to public welfare, and make public welfare a basic way of life in modern society. In 2023, One Foundation will have in-depth cooperation with a number of Internet platforms and caring enterprises, linking the love of all walks of life and cooperating in innovative projects, and its results will gradually appear.
In 2023, One Foundation, together with Tencent Charity Platform, Tencent Foundation, Tencent Growth Guardian, Tencent Games, Tencent Sustainable Social Value Business Unit (SSV), WeChat Pay, etc., will continue to carry out public welfare projects and activities such as "99 Giving Day", "Little Red Flower Day", "Warm Home Project", "Smart Sports Double Hundred Program" and "1,000 Fundraisers Funding Program", and actively explore new donation products of "sharing donations" to continue to contribute to public welfare innovation.
In 2023, One Foundation will join hands with Alibaba Charity Platform, Alibaba Charity Foundation, Renren 3-Hour Charity Platform, Alibaba Employee Charity, Xianyu, Taotian Group's charity baby caring merchants and caring netizens in multiple industries to support the development of the charity industry by carrying out public welfare projects and activities such as "XIN Yibai Plan", "95 Charity Week", "Charity Baby Disaster Preparedness Project" and "Wish".
In 2023, One Foundation, together with Alipay Charity Platform and Ant Manor, will actively participate in public welfare projects and activities such as "Super Charity Day", "Normal Disaster Preparedness", "Answering Questions", "Donating Steps" and "Topic Activities", and work with Alipay to build high-quality projects that users can trust, and at the same time make charity participation more interesting and effective.
In 2023, One Foundation, together with the Meituan Charity Platform and more than 50 enterprises across the country, launched the "Hometown Donation" through the "Meituan Rural Children's Playground" public welfare program and a number of joint advocacy activities, relying on Channels to present project information in multiple dimensions and help rural children grow up healthily.
In 2023, One Foundation, together with ByteDance Public Welfare Platform, ByteDance Public Welfare Foundation, Love Talent, Douyin E-commerce, ByteDance Employee Public Welfare Jumping Candy, etc., will promote the public's in-depth understanding and participation in public welfare by carrying out public welfare projects and activities such as short video content advocacy, "Love and Good Things" and "Byte Disaster Preparedness".
Li Fuhan, a monthly donor of One Foundation, said: "At first, I joined the monthly donation because of the influence of Mr. Jet Li, and along the way, I felt that participating in public welfare was to give back to the society and repay the help and kindness encountered on the way to life. I hope we can all cherish the goodness in our hearts and act for it to become a better version of ourselves! "
On the road of public welfare and charity, more and more families are walking side by side. As Ma Weihua, chairman of the One Foundation, wrote in the "A Letter to the One Family" in the annual report: One Foundation was launched in 2007 and started from "1". Behind every donation is a good thought, a heart of public welfare; Every help is the transmission of goodwill, and it is also the germination of goodwill.
On December 29, 2023, the Charity Law of the People's Republic of China was amended for the first time, taking multiple measures to promote the development of philanthropy, marking another step forward in the rule of law for philanthropy in mainland China. In the future, under the leadership of the Party and the government, One Foundation will continue to adhere to the strategic model of "one platform + three fields", that is, to build a professional and transparent public welfare platform, focusing on the three major areas of disaster relief, child care and development, and public welfare support and innovation, and strive to be an innovative practitioner of public welfare forces.