Beijing helping people consulting service center

 Helping people, founded in 2003 on April 15, is a through professional volunteer service (ProBono) to improve the professional knowledge and supportive of the NGO capacity building civil organizations.Helping people through cross-border cooperation platform and integration of resources, for ngos to provide professional Volunteer assistance (Volunteer Service Grants, VSG), free of organisational development consulting and coaching, social psychological support and action research, capacity building, improve the social effectiveness of ngos and social innovation, promoting the sustainable development of civil society.

To encourage the trial and error and cross-border cooperation, create a new world of public welfare undertakings

Helping people - Beijing consulting service center director ZhaiYan interview

In September 2012,

When it comes to friends, we can say is called together with the five years of growth.
Friend ChengGangGang established in 2007, when the director himself with youcheng foundation team to helping people, we were very small, one inside the drum tower street a small bungalow, that time is the first time we heard about what is social enterprise, what is social innovation.Then we decree by destiny in youcheng foundation to develop the level "Chinese volunteer action plan for poverty alleviation" work together.I still clearly remember in particular, we five years ago in guangxi, sichuan and other places to visit, to see the sight of the end of China's rural development of volunteer service.Although I do volunteer service research and development work for more than 20 years, or in urban areas, but the main work, really go deep into the rural grassroots, it is the first time.I thought to my influence is very profound, from then on, in my heart for "volunteers" for poverty alleviation such a definition, began to have a new understanding and the understanding, also realized that China's voluntary service not only in the cities, more in need of development in the country.
Friends, as it were, into the foundation began in 2007, the introduction of the concept of poverty relief volunteers at the same time, also gave us a lot about social innovation and how to mobilize themselves more capability to cross-border cooperation, and government, and enterprises, and different departments together to start a new business of the heavens and the earth.
Then our cooperation with friends into increasingly deepening, in addition to the us in terms of poverty alleviation volunteer action plan, we are also in the center of the youcheng volunteers cooperation, including poverty alleviation volunteer's ability construction, and now we are friends into university and NGO leaders in China make a new ability construction of such a development program of the public leadership.
For so many years, my feeling is that in fact the so-called social innovation and constantly in public areas to explore, to practice the process, in the words of wang ping the director is in continuous development of trial and error, and so many years with the support of friends into foundation and accompanied, we in the process of actually have a lot of new discovery.We are very lucky in this five years, accompanied by friends into foundation, risk investment, they are willing to do they like the even some ShiCuoXing is such an innovative activities to support it.
In this five years, not only from the level of an organization's development, even to my personal understanding of social innovation, understanding of the real social enterprise, has the very good very in-depth an understanding and development.Helping people in these five years, we from the initial turnover of 7, eight hundred thousand, gradually developed into the now it should be said that nearly 2 million or so, our professional volunteers incubation development to thousands of people.I feel very lucky, and friends to like this really close strategic partners from the heart to thank!Because in fact for each ngos, for every social entrepreneurs, behind we all need a lot staunch supporters like youcheng foundation, otherwise we have no way to continue.