Let every act of participation
reach a real need

NPI provides clear, sustained pathways for individuals and companies to turn goodwill into long-term action grounded in methods and relationships.

Building Connections through Encounters
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Bringing Participation into the Field
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Turning Goodwill into Action
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Get Involved

From one experience to sustained action

Open dialogue and employee engagement programs help more people find the form of participation that fits them.

Deep Issue Engagement

Mantou Circle

Enter real-world settings and find your own path to social participation

Mantou Circle is for people who want to understand social issues systematically, meet frontline changemakers and turn concern into action. Each year, participants explore four issues through research, field visits, opportunity assessment and sustained engagement.

Who It Is For

  • Seeking a systematic understanding of social issues
  • Ready to contribute expertise, resources or networks
  • Looking for a long-term pathway into philanthropy
  • Interested in giving, corporate partnership or impact investment

Capabilities and Outcomes

  • Deep understanding of four annual issues
  • Research on at least 12 social innovation projects
  • Visits to 4–8 representative organizations
  • Dialogue with at least 12 experts and frontline changemakers
  • A personal social-participation action map

How NPI Supports

NPI provides issue research, project curation, expert and practitioner connections, field visits, action exchanges and year-round observation, helping participants translate insight into advice, connections, partnership, giving or impact investment.

Program Journey

  1. Issue research and ecosystem mapping
  2. Social innovation project research
  3. Institution visits and expert dialogue
  4. In-depth issue field visits
  5. Post-visit action exchange
  6. Issue action report and follow-up

Stories from the Field

Cohort 1 Field Story
Silver Economy Study Journey

Participants visited representative eldercare and silver-economy settings to examine institutional care, home and community support, age-friendly design and entrepreneurship, translating learning into their next steps.

  • Real-world field visits
  • Service-model observation
  • Dialogue with practitioners
  • Personal action planning
Corporate Participation

Employee Social Engagement

Connecting employee capabilities with real social needs

For companies building long-term engagement mechanisms, NPI co-designs programs around corporate culture, employee strengths and social issues, enabling employees to move from one-off volunteering to sustained, methodical action with a sense of growth.

Who It Is For

  • Companies improving the quality of employee engagement
  • Organizations strengthening culture and cohesion
  • Teams applying professional skills to create social value
  • Companies seeking real settings and long-term partners

Capabilities and Outcomes

  • A clear engagement theme
  • Employee recruitment and participation mechanisms
  • Co-created action in real issue settings
  • Evidence of employee growth and social impact
  • A sustainable annual engagement plan

How NPI Supports

NPI provides issue matching, partner selection, program design, employee training, field delivery, risk management and reflection so corporate resources reach real needs effectively.

Program Journey

  1. Corporate needs and employee profile
  2. Issue and nonprofit partner matching
  3. Participation product and action design
  4. Training and field action
  5. Reflection and long-term planning

Ways to Participate

Skills-based volunteeringCommunity issue experiencesEmployee team co-creationNonprofit project supportResource and communications support

Stories from the Field

Employee Volunteer Story
Stray Animal Coexistence Action

Volunteers combined onsite and remote collaboration at Shanghai Cat Island, improving storage and care environments while learning about animal welfare, community coexistence and teamwork.

  • Onsite and remote collaboration
  • Improved care environment
  • Animal welfare awareness
  • Team participation
Employee Volunteer Story
Co-creating Inclusive Settings with Youth with Intellectual Disabilities

Technology volunteers and nonprofit partners explored AI-supported social-scenario training alongside nature, art and real-world interactions, helping young people strengthen social adaptation and inclusion.

  • AI social-scenario training
  • Real-world interaction
  • Art and nature co-creation
  • Inclusion advocacy
Employee Volunteer Story
Inclusive Running with Visually Impaired Partners

Employees learned communication, guiding and safety methods before pairing with visually impaired runners, building trust through equal participation and preparing for sustained inclusive sport volunteering.

  • Professional guide-running training
  • Paired outdoor running
  • Safe collaboration
  • Long-term volunteer growth