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Asia Foundation
www.asiafoundation.org |
A 60 year-old organization based in San Francisco with 18 offices throughout Asia and office in Washington, DC. Provided about $100 million USD in funds and materials to Asian organizations in 2010. |
Asia Foundation for Philanthropy
www.affp.org.uk |
A South Asian diaspora group of predominantly Indians that works in India; charity is based in UK |
Asia-Pacific Centre for Social Investment and Philanthropy, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
www.swinburne.edu.au/business/philanthropy |
Est. 2001; provides courses, events, and research with a primary current focus on Australia in collaboration with Centre for Social Impact. |
Asia Pacific Philanthropy Consortium
www.asiapacificphilanthropy.org |
Consortium of foundations and grantmakers registered in Hong Kong SAR with the Secretariat located in the Philippines; provides news aggregation, summaries of major efforts in Asia and Pacific Islands, annual conferences |
Asia Venture Philanthropy Network
www.avpn.asia |
A Singapore-based charity formally launching early in 2012 focused on venture philanthropy in Asia and modeled after and collaborating with the European Venture Philanthropy Association (EVPA) |
Asian American Giving
www.asianamericangiving.com |
Asian expats in USA who are involved in Asian and Diaspora philanthropy |
Asian Development Bank
www.adb.org |
A fund of $17.5 billion (USD) in approved financing for projects across Asia; some information on philanthropy; excellent 2004 series on Giving and Fundraising in Asia with general study and individual studies on several Asian nations all available as free pdfs |
Asian Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy
www.aapip.org |
Founded in 1990 with 10 expats chapters in USA; headquartered in San Francisco |
Asian Philanthropy Forum
www.asianphilanthropyforum.org |
Tracks the pulse of philanthropy across Asia through a blog |
Association of Foundations
http://af.afonline.org |
Covers the Philippines |
Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies, Queensland University of Technology Business School
www.bus.qut.edu.au/research/cpns |
Provides research, education, and degrees in philanthropy and nonprofit studies, principally focused on Australia |
Azim Premji Foundation
www.azimpremjifoundation.org |
The founder of Wipro, Ltd., Azim Premji, announced a $2 billion commitment in December 2010 to this foundation to provide quality universal education across India and beyond; with this donation will be the largest private foundation in India) |
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Beautiful Foundation
www.beautifulfund.org
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South Korean foundation established by Wonsoon Park to encourage all Koreans and people worldwide to give 1% of their resources to charity |
Center for Non-Profit Leadership
www.cnpl.org.sg |
A Singapore organization that provides workshops to improve nonprofit leadership |
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CSR Asia
www.csr-asia.com
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A large membership organization that organizes conferences, information exchanges, and joint projects for corporations in Asia to pool their knowledge, skills, and resources to affect change |
East Asia Foundation
www.keaf.org |
A trans-sector network focused on peace, security and prosperity for East Asia |
Give2Asia
www.give2asia.org |
Helps overseas donors with the many challenges of giving in Asia; raised $150 million (USD) since 2001; headquartered in San Francisco with an office in Beijing |
Give Singapore
www.give.sg |
A nonprofit launched in 2010 for cause-based giving by individuals in Singapore that raised $1 million SGD its first year |
International Society for Third-Sector Research – Asia/Pacific Network
www.istr.org
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An international organization focused on research in the third-sector with an Asia/Pacific alliance within it and listings of affinity groups, academic centers, independent centers, and national associations |
Japan Centre for International Exchange
www.jcie.or.jp/civilnet/philanthropy.html |
Founded in 1970 to promote philanthropy in Japan and Asia |
Japan Foundation Center
www.jfc.or.jp/eibun/e_index.html
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Main organization for foundation information in Japan |
Karmayog, Centre for the Advancement of Philanthropy
www.karmayog.com/ngos/cap.htm |
A Mumbai-based centre focused on India |
League of Corporate Foundations
www.lcf.org.ph |
Established in 1990 in Philippines as subsection of the Association of Foundations; became its own nonprofit in 1996 with a focus on CSR |
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National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre www.nvpc.org.sg
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A Singapore organization that seeks to strengthen civil society in Singapore and beyond through volunteerism, nonprofit leadership, charitable giving, and philanthropy |
OneVietnam Network
www.onevietnam.org |
A Ford Foundation funded nonprofit based in San Francisco focused on Vietnamese expats |
Philanthropy Asia
www.philanthropyasia.net |
Malaysia website for Centre for the Advancement of Philanthropy, est. 2000 |
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Philanthropy Australia
www.philanthropy.org.au
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Federation of Australian philanthropies |
Philanthropy New Zealand
www.giving.org.nz |
Federation of New Zealand philanthropies |
Philippine Business for Social Progress
www.pbsp.org.ph |
Founded in 1970 with a twin focus on poverty reduction and CSR |
Sampradaan India Centre for Philanthropy
www.sampradaan.org |
Established in 1996 to promote and strengthen philanthropy in India |
South Asia Foundation
www.southasiafoundation.org |
A regional organization established in 2000 to focus on education and cultural interaction among Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka affiliated with UNESCO |
South Asian Philanthropy Project
www.southasianphilanthropy.org |
Focused on South Asian expats and their giving |
Sow Asia Foundation
www.sowasia.org |
Venture philanthropy group based in Hong Kong SAR founded in 2008 by Darius Yuen |
Taiwan Philanthropy Information Center
www.npo.org.tw |
Established by the Himalaya Foundation on Taiwan (www.himalaya.org.tw/EN/index.asp) to provide information on Taiwanese foundations and nonprofit organizations |
WINGS Network
www.wingsweb.org |
144 member organizations, including several in Asia, e.g., AVPN, APPC, APCSIP |
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Akshaya Patra
www.akshayapatra.org |
Established in 2000 in India to provide daily nutritious, hot meals for schoolchildren using centralized, industrial-size food preparation and delivery; currently working in 18 locations in 8 states feeding more than 1.3 million children per day |
Ashoka
www.ashoka.org |
A global organization focused on social entrepreneurs with operations across Asia |
Books for Hope
www.booksforhopeworld.org |
A recently established nonprofit working in SE Asia to provide libraries for rural villages with an initial focus on Indonesia |
Centre for Social Impact
www.csi.edu.au |
A joint collaboration research centre housed at the Australia Business School, University of New South Wales with the other partners being the business schools of Swinburne University of Technology, University of Melbourne, and University of Western Australia |
Impact Investment Exchange Asia
www.asiaiix.com |
A Singapore-based organization which is creating social investment funds focused on social enterprises across Asia |
Institute for Social Entrepreneurship in Asia
www.isea-group.net |
Jointed funded in 2008 by Philam Foundation and Foundation for a Sustainable Society, Inc. within the Philippines to provide resources for social entrepreneurs across Asia |
JeepNeed
www.jeepneed.org |
A nonprofit established in 2010 to provide mobile science and technology labs for rural school children in the Philippines |
Lien Centre for Social Innovation
www.lcsi.smu.edu.sg |
A research and education centre established by a partnership of the Lien Foundation and Singapore Management University. The Centre provides extensive online resources, conferences, executive education, and academic courses for social innovators. |
Tzu Chi Foundation
http://tw.tzuchi.org/en |
Established in 1966 in eastern Taiwan by Venerable Dharma Master Cheng Yen, TCF has 10 million volunteers and supporters in 50 nations |