After the 5.12 Earthquake, NPI worked as the liaison office for the Narada Foundation’s 5.12 Earthquake Rehabilitation Funding Project and as a result founded NPI Chengdu. In December 2009 NPI Chengdu was registered with support from local government.

Chengdu is one of the comprehensive, coordinated reform experimental areas, which seek balanced development between rural and urban areas as a component of China’s national development strategy. Concerned with disaster rehabilitation and social innovation, NPI Chengdu reached out to grassroots NPOs who participated in the disaster relief and rehabilitation. It has used the incubator project to provide capacity building, integrate social welfare resources and build a visible community services platform, all with the larger goal of providing comprehensive social welfare services to residents in earthquake-stricken areas.

In its first phase of incubation, the NPO incubator project included eight NPOs. Half this number have since graduated and are running smoothly, while the remaining four organizations will conclude the incubation phase by the end of 2010.

In December 2009, NPI Chengdu, launched the Sun Life Community Renewal Project, a Golden Sunshine Project. To this end, it set up sixteen sunshine community centers of different sizes in cities and counties throughout Sichuan, including: Dujiangyan, Shifang, Deyang, Beichuan and Mianzhu. Through a disaster rehabilitation service platform, the project provides services to local residents, which include: counseling, health promotion, employment services, care for the elderly, education for teenagers’ and the strengthening of community culture. This project developed social organizations and social workers by collaborating with existing social organizations. It also sought to develop a sustainable 5.12 Earthquake rehabilitation model which would include government, enterprises and social organizations in both disaster rehabilitation and community development.

In June NPI Chengdu, partnered with the Working Committee of Chengdu High Technology District’s Apartment Union, to begin a project focused on employee housing (the employees are mainly new graduates) and services offered by the Union, China Communist Youth League and Women’s Union. The project was based on the High Technology District’s public service platform. It is concerned with the employee’s characteristics and their needs, and as a result has structured its courses in a creative way. The project provided a series of services to employees who live in apartments in Chengdu High Technology District, including adaptive learning mechanism, counseling, emotional support, and community links, all of which attempted to inspire confident young employees, who will go on to serve as independent social constructors and pursue their dreams.

Since its founding, NPI Chengdu has remained in close contact with local NPOs and continued to target their capacity building needs. Beginning the second half of 2010 it will train rural financial cooperative organizations in earthquake-stricken areas, and provide many issue-oriented saloons to local NPOs, such as NPO registration, tax, external relations, operations and funding.

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