Modes of Providing Charitable Assistance and Innovations

Abstract

Charitable assistance refers to the social behavior of a charitable organization to provide gratis assistance to the social groups that are in difficult circumstances yet incapable of helping themselves. It can be given in the form of materials or of services for spiritual support and belongs to the third distribution of social wealth.

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Notes

1. 1.

   Salamon (2004).

2. 2.

   Yang (2002).

3. 3.

   Standing Committee of NPC of PRC (1999).

4. 4.

   Civil Affairs Ministry of PRC, “Guiding Outline for Development of Charities in China (2011–2015)”, on July 15, 2011.

5. 5.

   Liu and Li (2012: 37).

6. 6.

   China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation, “2003 Love Package Program Work Summary”, http://baoguo.cfpa.org.cn/project.action (2014/10/20).

7. 7.

   Peng (2012).

8. 8.

   Yang (2012: 113).

9. 9.

   Yang (2012: 113).

10. 10.

    Yang (2012: 114).

11. 11.

    Yang (2012: 117).

12. 12.

    Yang (2012: 163–166).

13. 13.

    Yang (2012: 166–167)

14. 14.

    Song (2012: 25)

15. 15.

    Standing Committee of NPC of PRC, 1999.

16. 16.

    Song (2012: 26).

17. 17.

    Liu and Yang (2012: 39).

18. 18.

    State Council of PRC (2014).

19. 19.

    Ministry of Civil Affairs (2013).

20. 20.

    Xu (2012: 133).

21. 21.

    Liu (2013: 158).

22. 22.

    Xu (2010: 179).

23. 23.

    Zhu (2015: 9).

24. 24.

    Wang (2014b: 162).

25. 25.

    Ministry of Civil Affairs, “A Profile of The Third China Charity Fair”, http://fss.mca.gov.cn/article/csshjz/tzgg/201409/20140900699422.shtml(2014/9/12).

26. 26.

    China Charity Federation, “Children First Regional Development Program”, http://cszh.mca.gov.cn (2014/10/22).

27. 27.

    Wang (2014a).

28. 28.

    Xu (2014).

29. 29.

    Xu (2014a).

30. 30.

    Gan and Liu (2014).

31. 31.

    Zhang (2014).

32. 32.

    Cairang (2013).

33. 33.

    Liu (2009).

34. 34.

    Li (2014).

35. 35.

    Xu (2011).

36. 36.

    Y. Xu, “Eight Types of Foundations in China”, http://news.foundationcenter.org.cn (2014/11/28).

37. 37.

    Ministry of Civil Affairs of China, “Opinion on Strengthening and Improving the Construction of Charity Supermarkets”, on December 31, 2014.

38. 38.

    Wang (2014b: 90).

39. 39.

    Yang (2012: 37).

40. 40.

    PRC Ministry of Civil Affairs Research Institution (2014).

41. 41.

    Wan (2008).

42. 42.

    Zi (2006).

43. 43.

    Mo et al. (2010: 251).

44. 44.

    Xu (2009).

45. 45.

    Author unknown, “Feeding America: American National Center of Food Banks”, China Development Brief, on August 13, 2012.

46. 46.

    Xu (2005: 311).

47. 47.

    Wikipedia (2014).

48. 48.

    Xu (2010: 183).

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   Jianguo Gao & Yunhua Wu

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   Jianguo Gao

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