So many emails to pile through my inbox, but ironically, many of them are about the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. In light of the recent things happening with Avon in China (see e.g.,
this post at the Wall Street Journal’s law blog), it seems like FCPA compliance and enforcement is coming towards MNCs doing [...]
Back in 2008 during the Sichuan quake, I posted
this list of charities doing work in China in the aftermath of the quake. Now that the 6.9 quake (with aftershocks) has hit Qinghai, I wanted to do the same thing again: make sure that those who want to route funds there can do so.
I [...]
Worldvision finally put up a webpage for Qinghai earthquake donations
here. Because they are one of my favorite charities, I am giving them a separate post to support them. (it will also appear as an update in my original post)
Alert: China’s Qinghai province was rocked by a 7.1 magnitude earthquake on [...]
With the Qinghai earthquake (a/k/a Yushu earthquake and Jiegu earthquake) relief moving along–slowly in the eyes of some, quickly in the eyes of the government–there is still great need there. I saw
this post from Rich Brubaker’s blog at
Collective Responsibility and am just going to borrow much of it. (Rich, I hope [...]
Just wanted to share some more details that Dien Yuen at
Give2Asia sent my way regarding their
relief fund for the Qinghai / Yushu earthquake:
Give2Asia is seeking support from donors to help the survivors with the longer-term recovery.
The Chinese government has approved 15 government-organized NGOs to raise funds for recovery and reconstruction.
Eight of [...]
Need to take a break from watching the Yushu earthquake death toll and the relief effort, and I thought I should post a quick recap and thoughts about Dr. Wang Zhenyao’s visit to the San Francisco Bay Area to discuss the development of NGOs with American non-profit leaders. Dr. Wang is Director-General of the [...]
Here live at the
Georgetown Managing and Representing Exempt Organizations Conference 2010. I was thinking about live blogging, but given the lack of free internet and poor connectivity, I will try to post over the next few days different things that I hear and learn about.
The morning session opened up with Sarah Hall Ingram, [...]
Still at the Georgetown conference. Had a very good session called “General Counsel Roundtable”, and one of the speakers was
Mary Elcano, GC for Red Cross and former acting/interim CEO. While the topic of the discussions was mostly about the role of a general counsel and what worries the typical GC, Mary did a short [...]
Yet another post from the Georgetown Managing and Representing Exempt Organizations conference.
Lawrence Mendenhall from the Hewlett Foundation and
Drew Porter from the Gates Foundation gave a good session about lobbying rules for non-profits, and also talked about how you can properly push the limits of the regulations as well.
First off, they two speakers noted [...]
Just heard that Weil Gotshal poached… err… picked up John Fadely from Clifford Chance’s Hong Kong office in order to beef up its China funds practice. Definitely a good time to continue to beef up in terms of private equity staff while things are still a tad slower since it’s bound to [...]