China Children's Charity Federation, why do you want to check it yourself?

Recently, Wu Huayan, a female college student in Guizhou who was seriously ill and weighed only 43 kg, died of illness. The 9958 Rescue Center of China Children's Charity Foundation, a non-governmental charity organization that collected donations from the society in her name, was widely questioned by the society because of a series of controversial operations during the rescue period.

Starting from 65438+ 10/3, the writer Chen Lan bombarded Weibo for the first time, and raised three sharp questions: why didn't the fundraising of 1 10,000 give Wu Huayan the best medical conditions; It is almost unheard of to raise 6.5438+0 million yuan but allocate 20,000 yuan. Ercihui has a large fund pool. It is legal but unreasonable to charge 6% project execution fee in 9958, which violates the nature of public welfare.

In addition, Chen Lan said that the funding problem of 9958 has a long history and there are many disputes with the recipients. For example, children with leukemia have to wait for the operation fee, but 9958 has delayed funding until the child dies.

In the face of the surging wave of doubts, on June 5438+1October 65438+April 4, the 9958 Rescue Center of China Children's Charity Association replied in its official Sina Weibo that it ignored all kinds of "inside stories" that gradually broke out on the Internet.

As a national public offering foundation, why can it "self-examine" instead of asking the competent authorities to intervene in the investigation or hire a more credible third-party agency to investigate when facing major doubts and major trust crisis tests?

And the so-called "survey results" can be announced almost immediately in the face of doubts? The sloppy results of the survey and the perfunctory writing of the survey make people believe that this is actually from the hand of a charitable relief foundation with the name of the country.

What kind of organization is "9958"? Let's see what kind of charity this is. "9958", called the 9958 Children's Emergency Relief Project of China Children's Charity Foundation, is a private brand project under the China Children's Charity Association.

The project was formally established on July 1 2065438. Its help-seeking, volunteer participation and donation hotline 400-006-9958 is also the first emergency hotline for children in China, and it is known as "120" for civilian children.

Official website, China Children's Charity Association, shows that China Children's Charity Foundation was established on 20 10 and 12, and it is a national public fund. The competent business department and the registration authority are both the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

The relief objects of the Foundation are mainly orphans (including children orphaned by AIDS), street children, dropouts, problem of juvenile and other children with special difficulties. The information disclosed on its micro-charity fundraising page shows that the Southwest Executive Team of 9958 Children's Emergency Rescue Center is responsible for Wu Huayan's fundraising work.

It is such an institution that has won numerous awards in a short period of ten years and is highly recognized in related fields. For example, 20 15 won the highest honor of China Public Welfare "The Most Influential Project of the Ninth China Charity Award"; 20 16 won the second Yangtze river public welfare award and the annual Yangtze river public welfare project nomination award; 20 17 top ten brands of public welfare projects in China ranked ninth.

In the face of major doubts, can institutional self-examination convince the public? Article 95 of the Charity Law of the People's Republic of China stipulates that the civil affairs departments of the people's governments at or above the county level shall establish a credit record system for charitable organizations and their responsible persons and make it public.

The civil affairs department shall establish an evaluation system for charitable organizations, encourage and support third-party organizations to evaluate charitable organizations, and announce the evaluation results to the public. When faced with major doubts or a major crisis of trust, the intervention of third-party institutions is particularly necessary. This is the consensus of modern management science.

The first idea of the organization is not to ask the competent department to send an investigation team to investigate, or to hire a third-party agency to intervene in the investigation, but to set up an investigation team innocently and draw its own investigation conclusions like lightning. What credibility can such a survey conclusion have? It is conceivable that some conclusions of this survey are only perfunctory and evasive.

Sure enough, the organization is full of loopholes in the process of answering questions. For example, although the reply personally confirmed the fact of "raising one million yuan to allocate 20 thousand yuan", it admitted that Wu Huayan's medical expenses were all borne by the local government in Guizhou, but explained that "the township government and their families requested to keep the operation for future use".

In this regard, Liang Zeng, deputy head of Shabahe Township, Songtao County, Guizhou Province, responded: The government only provides help and does not interfere with fundraising and donations. After the local government responded, the official statement of the China Children's Association deleted the relevant parts of the township government.

Relevant departments should take the initiative to intervene in the investigation and exercise their supervisory responsibilities. We believe that the lack of strong supervision is the main reason for a series of problems that are full of loopholes and have no credibility.

Let's take a look at the relevant practices of foreign charities. For example, charities in the United States are divided into two categories: private funds are generally established by individuals or companies, and when the society needs them, they spontaneously donate to institutions and individuals. The public offering foundation has no property and needs to rely on social donations when it is established. The Red Cross is a typical charity organization. No matter what kind of organization, it needs the supervision of independent management Committee.

According to the law, all charitable organizations in the United States enjoy tax incentives. Therefore, it is necessary to report the detailed business situation to the government every year, and it is not allowed to carry out commercial activities outside the scope of registration, and it is the responsibility to accept the supervision of the third party. In general, the board of supervisors should have at least five members, who are selected through open recruitment, and need to ensure that members cannot have any fund lending relationship with the supervised institutions.

The financial statements of charities are audited by independent accountants every year, and even the minutes of the supervision Committee are complete; Whether the organization manager himself or his family will benefit when carrying out public welfare undertakings; How to deal with misconduct reported by employees; Whether the appointment method and process of the main * * * are fully open.

Many seemingly small details need to be reported to the government clearly, such as whether the members of the supervisory Committee have received labor remuneration. In addition, these materials should be completely open to the public and anyone has the right to consult them. According to the law, charities should spend at least 5% of their assets every year for public welfare areas that they pay attention to when registering.

In addition to government supervision, there are many independent rating agencies that can play a supervisory role. For example, "CharityNavigator" is the largest website in the United States to rate charitable organizations, and it is also a non-profit organization established by social donations.

They evaluated more than 5,500 of the largest charitable funds in the United States and published a survey report on their websites. For example, 10 organizations with the highest public evaluation will be listed, and 10 organizations with the lowest rating but the highest CEO salary will also be listed. The reason why American society plays a great role in supervising charitable organizations is that many Americans are very willing to help those in need, but they don't want to see their hard-earned income abused.

Article 97 of the Charity Law of the People's Republic of China stipulates that any unit or individual who finds that charitable organizations and charitable trusts have violated the law may complain and report to the civil affairs department, other relevant departments or charitable industry organizations. Civil affairs departments, other relevant departments or charitable organizations shall promptly investigate and handle complaints and reports.

I believe that since this incident was exposed, the above-mentioned relevant departments have received various real-name reports on the China Children's Association and its projects, many of which were disclosed online. We have reason to believe that the relevant departments will respond quickly, send personnel to investigate all kinds of projects and statements since the establishment of the China Children's Charity Association, exercise their supervisory responsibilities, and give an account to all donors and netizens who care about this matter.