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Time Project to be presented Key focusCommunity Building Projects:

9:00am–9:30am Community Care & � The purpose and approach to building up mutual Networking Programme help networks, partnerships, sense of belong, for “Po Tin” Residents a sense of community in a “transient” community?(Urban Peacemaker � What are the challenges and strategies?Evangelistic Fellowship Ltd)

9:30am–10:00am “Caring Estates” in Southern � What types of networks and partnerships are District (HK Southern being developed to link up the “haves” and District Women’s “have-nots” and other resources in the local estates? Association Ltd and Aberdeen � To what extent is the project on the right track Kaifong Welfare Association to enhance social cohesion in the Southern Estate? Social Service Centre) � What are the things that the organization would

do differently to increase the project effectiveness?

10:00am–10:30am Sunny Community Program � Why is the “co-operative” approach most suitable (Hong Kong Outlying for this project?Islands Women’s Association � The nature and strength of the volunteer networks Jockey Club Women being developed so farIntegrated Service Centre) � How are these volunteers going to engage other

residents and sectors in the community?

10:30am–11:00am Project to promote family � What sorts of approaches have the Child Care cohesion & a more colourful Centre taken to link up with the new arrival family life (Pok Oi Hospital families and the local families? What types of Mrs. Chu Kwok King networks have been built up so far?Memorial Day Nursery) � How to turn the attitudes of “new arrivals” from

expecting services to be willing and able to serve others instead?

� How to promote the project ideas locally? What types of reactions and support did the organization get from the community?

Building capacities, discovering potentials and empowerment

11:00am–11:30am Helping Others – � A key feature of this project is because of its focus Self-Growing Project on building up the capacity of ex-homeless people (Christian Concern for the to help other homeless people, and to encourage Homeless Association) a team of ex-homeless volunteers to work

alongside “other” church volunteers

� Others implementation experience; such as– the challenges, success and failures of those

involved– How the participants assess their gains,

their discovery of own potentials through becoming volunteers and helpers

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Time Project to be presented Key focus� The strength of the networks formed between

the ex-homeless volunteers and other partners

11:30am–12:00pm ‘Healthy Mothers-to-be’ – � The process and innovative elements used to A Women and Community developand empower the “grass root” women, Networking Project how they turn their parenting experience into (Kwun Tong Methodist Social “employment” opportunitiesService Grassroots � The development of their pride and confidence Occupational Service Unit and ability now to make a living and contribute ‘Healthy Mothers-to-be’ actively back to their local communities Club) � The formation of the cooperative as a network of

support, and � The running of the co-operative as a capacity

building exercise with women taking on the roles as financial contributions, treasurer, chairperson and program organizer

Changing mind sets and attitudes: e.g. from needing help to self-help to helping others

2:30pm–3:00pm Retired Person Volunteers’ � The challenges and successes of engaging and Association – Community drawing out the potentials of retired persons in Mutual Help Network Project volunteer services, in changing their mind sets (St James’ Settlement) and in developing an independent, self-sustained

operation model to serve others (not just self-help or advocacy)

� Methods used/to be used to develop mutual trust and care between the elders and to build up their confidence in serving others in the street level neighbourhood networks

3:00pm–3:30pm It’s all because of you: � The purposes, challenges and successes of Community Cohesion Project engaging and establishing networks amongst the (Richmond Fellowship of 3 groups of: ex-MI persons, elderly and youthHong Kong) � Strategies used to engage the three different

groupsto discover their own strength and potentials that the other group lacks – youth (energetic), elderly and ex-MI persons (life experience)

� The strength and weaknesses in the types of networks formed amongst the 3 groups, their connections with the wider community etc

� Their ability to sustain their network and promoteself-help and mutual help

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3:30pm–4:00pm Space of Dream – � What does the project aim to achieve? Youth Employment Project � How different is this project from other in the North District mentoring schemes? (Evangelical Lutheran Church � How easy or difficult is it in real life to engage of Hong Kong North the youth, the mentors as well as the community?District Integrated Youth � What are the approaches that the organization Services Centre) found work well? What are the changes that need

to make?

4:00pm–4:30pm Collaborating People in � What types of strategies have been used to Tsuen Wan Rural Area engage, develop the potential and extend the (The Yuen Yuen Institute) depth of involvement of local leaders:

e.g. the cross-sector networks being reflected in the management committee

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4:30pm–5:00pm Family Service Ambassador � How is the Family Ambassadors different from Scheme, Caritas Family Service other conventional social services delivery model? (Caritas – Hong Kong � How would this model may help to reshape Family Service) other family services?

5:00pm–5:30pm Cross Generational � The purposes and early experience of engaging Community Integration people from different generations programme (SAGE Eastern � What are the “surprises”? District Multi-service Centre for the Elderly)

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Biographical Sketch

Brahm PrakashDirector of Poverty Reduction and Social Development, Regional and Sustainable Development Department, Asian Development Bank E-mail : bprakash@adb.org

Brahm Prakash is Director, Poverty Reduction and Social Development Division, in the Regional andSustainable Development Department, of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). He has been in theADB since January 1990 and has served in various capacities in ADB: as Assistant Chief Economistresponsible for Economic Analysis and Research Division in the Economics and DevelopmentResource Center; Lead Economist and Senior Economist in Programs Department (Region West);Senior HRD Specialist in the Office of the Pacific Operations; Senior Project Economist inAgriculture and Social Sectors Department (West); and as Project Economist in the Education Divisionof the Infrastructure Department.

Before joining ADB, Mr. Prakash was engaged in several academic, research, training, consultancy andpolicy making roles in India, Sri Lanka and Canada. He was Senior Fellow (equivalent to a FullProfessor) and Head of the Educational Planning Unit in the National Institute of EducationalPlanning and Administration (NIEPA) in New Delhi (1983-88) and Reader (Economics) in the TataInstitute of Social Sciences (Bombay) during 1977-1982.

His areas of professional work and interest are: development economics, international trade andfinance, regional economics, economic policy analysis, public economics and finance, human resourcedevelopment, education, health and population, and social policies and poverty analysis. He has anumber of publications and articles to his credit.

Mr. Prakash studied Commerce, Economics and Education and graduated with Ph.D. from theUniversity of Toronto (Toronto) in 1976.

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Amy HingDirector of Community and Social Sector Development DivisionMinistry of Community Development and Sports, Singapore

Amy Hing is Director, Community and Social Sector Development at the Ministry of CommunityDevelopment and Sports, Singapore. She oversees policies for developing the voluntary sector;funding, manpower and infrastructure development for social services; and the promotion ofcommunity bonding. She is a board member of the National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre,Singapore. She has also worked in the Public Service Division, Prime Minister’s Office and theMinistry of Law.

TITLE OF PAPER

“Building Community through Partnership: Singapore’s Experience”

ABSTRACT

Singapore has had a tradition of self help and a thriving voluntary sector since its early days. Over 2decades of people, private and public sector partnership through the ‘Many Helping Hands’ approachhave helped to promote self help and community bonding and provided avenues for participation. Thepaper will give an overview of the voluntary sector and outline Singapore’s strategies for supportingground-up initiatives through resource generation and capability building. It will highlight a fewprojects which demonstrate the characteristics of effective partnership.

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Jana KunickáCo-coordinator of the Community Philanthropy Initiative, European Foundation CentreEmail : Jana@efc.be

EDUCATION

• Faculty of Arts, Presov University, Presov, Slovak Republic Majoring in Comparative Politics and Culture, June 15th 1999

WORK EXPERIENCE

• European Foundation Centre, Brussels, Belgium: Community Philanthropy Initiative Co-ordinator,October 1st 2002

• Healthy City Community Foundation, Banská Bystrica, Slovak Republic: Acting Director, May 1st

2001

• Healthy City Community Foundation, Banská Bystrica, Slovak Republic: Resource DevelopmentManager, August 1st 1999

WORK RELATED EXPERIENCE

• WORLDWIDE INITIATIVES FOR GRANTMAKER SUPPORT (WINGS): Reference Groupmember on communications, from July 2003

• WORLDWIDE INITIATIVES FOR GRANTMAKER SUPPORT – COMMUNITYFOUNDATIONS (WINGS – CF): Sub-Committee on Program Alignment member, from January2003

• WORLDWIDE INITIATIVES FOR GRANTMAKER SUPPORT – COMMUNITYFOUNDATIONS (WINGS – CF): Advisory Committee member, from November 2002

• TRANSATLANTIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION NETWORK (TCFN): Advisory Committeemember, from October 2002

• TRANSATLANTIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP (TCFF): European AdvisoryCommittee member, from October 2002

PREVIOUS WORK RELATED EXPERIENCE

• Association of Banská Bystrica NGOs: elected member of Board of Trustees, December 2000 toOctober 2002

• Regional Gremium of the Third Sector, Region Banská Bystrica: elected representative, November1999 to December 2001

• State Administration, Regional office Banská Bystrica: elected member of the Expert Group onHuman Resources for the Regional Operational Plan (European Union pre-accession procedures),December 1999 to October 2002

• National Gremium of the Third Sector: member of the national working group on volunteerism,January 2000 to October 2002

• Centre for Volunteer Activities, Banská Bystrica: co-founder and member of the Board of Trustees,from January 2000

• Centre for Communication, Co-operation and Integration of Sexual Minorities: co-founder andmember of the Board of Trustees, from November 1999 11

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OTHER WORK RELATED EXPERIENCE

• Fellow in 2002 Transatlantic Community Foundation Fellowship. Host foundation Dade CommunityFoundation, Miami, Florida, USA, June 2002

• Fellow in Community Foundations of Canada, October 2001

• Hosted or visited groups from community philanthropy organisations from Europe on developmentof community philanthropy and community foundations: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria,Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Slovakia,Ukraine, etc.

• Organised and co-organised conferences, e.g.: Community Philanthropy Initiative Sixth AnnualNetworking Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal, May 2003; European Foundation Centre 14th AnnualGeneral Assembly and Conference, Lisbon, June, 2003.

• Presented in various conferences and workshops, e.g.:

“Community Philanthropy Movement: European Overview”, Fourth Conference of RussianCommunity Foundations, Togliatti, Russia, June 2003

“Foundations Facing EU Enlargement”, Second Annual Conference of Slovak Foundations, Bratislava,Slovak Republic, June 2003

“Community Foundation Watch: Europe 2003”, Community Philanthropy Initiative Sixth AnnualNetworking Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal, May 2003

“European Perspective on Roles Community Foundation Play in Their Respective Communities”Transatlantic Community Foundation Network Plenary Conference, Newcastle, March 2003

“Introducing Sustainable Local Development and Partnerships: The Experience of CommunityFoundations“, Social Economy Conference, Prague, October 2002

“From Creating to Sustaining: The Rocky Road for Community Foundations“, Social EconomyConference, Prague, October 2002

“Co-operation in Visegrad Region”, Community Philanthropy Initiative Fifth Annual NetworkingMeeting, Brussels, Belgium, June 2002

“Community Foundations. Community Philanthropy.” Open Society Fund Conference, Vilnius,Lithuania, December 2001

“From Foreign Funding to Local Self-Sustainability”, Open Society Fund Workshop, Vilnius,Lithuania, October 2000

“Sustainability of the Third Sector in CEE”, ‘Building Civil Society’ Conference, Budapest, Hungary,October 2000

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Zhao LiqingProfessor of the Institute of International Strategic StudiesExecutive Director of the Program on Philanthropy, The Central Party School, China

Professor Zhao is research fellow at the Research Center for Volunteering and Welfare of PekingUniversity, and a member of the Board of Directors for China Family Planning Association in Beijing,China. He is also a member of the Governing Council of the Asia Pacific Philanthropy Consortiumbased in Manila, Philippine, an associate for the Asia Pacific Philanthropy Information Network basedin Sydney, Australia, and was a regional coordination editor of the International Journal of Not-for-Profit Law based in Washington, D.C.

Zhao Liqing is Professor at the Institute of International Strategic Studies, and Executive Director ofthe Program on Philanthropy, the Central Party School. He acquired his Bachelor’s degree from theDepartment of Economics at Lanzhou University in 1983 and his Master’s degree at the Institute ofWorld Economy of Fudan University, China in 1986. Since then, he has taught and researched at theCentral Party School. Prior to 1995, his primary research focus had been on economic-themed issues.

In 1995, he was awarded the British Chevening Fellowship to conduct research on NGOs anddevelopment at School of Oriental and African Studies and London School of Economics and PoliticalSciences, London University in Britain. Since his return to China in 1997, he has continued hisresearch on NGOs and philanthropy-related issues. Among his numerous publications, NGOs andSustainable Development, published in 1998, is credited as being the first book in Chinese on thetopic. He edited and published in both English and Chinese The Non-Profit Sector and Development:The Proceedings of the International Conference on the Non-Profit Sector and Development inBeijing in July 1999.

Zhao actively engages in institutional and practical philanthropic activities. In 1998, he was invited toestablish an NGO Research Center at Qinghua University, which is the first research institutionfocusing on NGO related issues in China, and served as its principal researcher and founding researchdirector. He also initiated and co-organized the International Conference on the Non-Profit Sectorand Development in Beijing in 1999, which is also the first of its kind in China. In 2003, he wasentrusted to found the Program on Philanthropy at the Central Party School of CPC.

Zhao had an one-year visit in America starting from December 28, 2001. The focus of his visit was tostudy American nonprofit organizations, philanthropy, and civil society. In Washington DC, based atthe Law School, Catholic University of America and the Center for the Study of VoluntaryOrganizations, the Georgetown University, he mainly studied civil society theories and legal andregulatory issues regarding NPOs. Based at the Center for the Study of Philanthropy at CityUniversity of New York, his research was focused on community foundations and other kinds offoundations. In San Francisco, he visited School of NPO Management at University of San Franciscoand some local NPOs, especially some community foundations, and participated in some concernedseminars. There he concentrated on NPO management. From September 23 to 25, he attended theAnnual Conference of American Community Foundations at Atlanta, Georgia. At the Institute ofCommunity Foundations, the University of Indiana, he participated in the course of CommunityFoundations Fundamentals.

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