Other Community Charity Organizations in Shanghai:

These organizations all belong to the Shanghai Charity Network, which Community Center Shanghai founded, with the goal of supporting and strengthening these organizations who do so much to help our local community. Please scroll down for a short summary of each organization, and open up their websites to get more information on their activities.

A Pleines Mains
Mission: We collect items which you do not need anymore but which can be highly valuable for those in need. We allocate your donated goods according to the exact needs of each establishment we support (orphanages, retirement homes, schools, institutes for the handicapped) and those in excellent condition can be sold at our monthly sales in Hongqiao.
Contact: apleinesmains@yahoo.com

Baobei Foundation
www.baobeifoundation.org
Mission: Baobei Foundation exists to save lives by supporting Chinese medical professionals and institutions in their healing of Chinese orphans born with neurological & gastrointestinal (N&GI) disorders requiring critical surgery and aftercare.
Contact: Carol Hoag, carol@baobeifoundation.org

Catalyst Foundation
www.catalystfoundation.org.uk
Mission: Helping Women Help Themselves. To empower disadvantaged women in China to engage in self-emancipation and to facilitate them through self-reflection to improve their income and living standard.
Contact: Junie Tong, jtherese.tong@catalystfoundation.org.uk

CereCare Wellness Center for Children
www.cerecare.net
Mission: To rehabilitate children with cerebral palsy so that they can reach their potential for physical independence, intellectual achievement, emotional security and lead fulfilling and independent lives.
Contact: Iris Lieu, cerecare@gmail.com

The Josephine Charles Foundation
www.josephinecharlesfoundation.org
Mission: Facilitating the education of underprivileged children, especially girls, of the Liangshan Yizu Autonomous Region, Sichuan Province, China.
Contact: Maggie Wan, maggie.wan@josephinecharlesfoundation.org

Couleurs De Chine
www.couleursdechine.org
Mission: Helping children from Yao, Miao and Dong Minorities living in the Guangxi province.
Contact: Anne Segura, cdcshanghai@gmail.com

CWEF (Concordia Welfare and Education Foundation)
Www.cwef.org.hk
Mission: Dedicated to improving the lives of impoverished rural communities in Asia through education and service. We partner with local communities, organizations and governments to identify sources of poverty and implement programs in the areas of education and community health. We believe that education creates opportunities for people to change their lives and create a new future.
Contact: Joshua Lange, Mobile: 152 2112 6548, Email: shanghaiservice@cwef.org.hk

Grameen Foundation
www.grameenfoundation.org
Mission: Grameen provides tiny loans, financial services and technology, to help the poor - mostly women - start self-sustaining businesses to escape poverty. Operating in three regions of China.
Contact: Susan Place Everhart, china@grameenfoundation.org

Greenovate Foundation
www.greennovate.org
Mission: The Greennovate Environmental Challenge for Kids Outreach (GECKO) was created with the mission of helping high school kids in smaller cities to improve their quality of life tomorrow by understanding their environmental responsibility today. The program concept, based on hands-on projects, goes beyond traditional educational models and challenges young people to carry on the message of environmental responsibility not only to other generations at home, but also to future employers.
Contact: Mihela Hladin, Mihela.hladin@gmail.com

Habitat for Humanity (HFH)
www.habitatchina.org
Introduction:: Habitat for Humanity (HFH) is a non-profit Christian housing organisation with a mission to eliminate poverty housing worldwide by building simple, decent houses with the help of the homeowner families themselves and volunteers.
Habitat for Humanity builds for people of all backgrounds, races and religions to provide needy families with a simple and decent place to live in.
To date, HFH has built more than 300,000 houses, providing for more than 1,000,000 people in more than 3,000 communities with safe and decent shelters. Every year, HFH mobilizes nearly 750,000 volunteers around the world.
Contact: 021 - 6136 9195

Half the Sky
www.halfthesky.org
Mission: Providing love and education to China's orphans.
Contact: Denise Firoozi, htsshanghai@halfthesky.org

Hands on Shanghai
www.handsonshanghai.com
Mission 1. Coordinates volunteer opportunities for active professionals, 2. Supports project partners with direct donations, fundraising planning and execution, community project design/ implementation. 3. CorpWorks! community relations programs for private sector partners.
Contact: Richard Brubaker, rbrubaker@handsonshanghai.com

Heart to Heart (A Community Outreach Group)
www.heart2heartshanghai.net
Mission: Volunteers help children admitted for heart surgery at the Shanghai Thoracic Hospital.
Contact: Christine Cullen, christinecullen@h2hsh.net

Home Sweet Home
www.homesweethome.org.cn
Mission: Equipping the needy and the homeless, especially those who are physically challenged.
Contact: info@homesweethome.org.cn

HuaQiao Foundation
www.huaqiaofoundation.org
Mission: Building A Bridge of Love & Caring Through Service. To change the world, one village at a time!
Contact: Frank Yih, frank@yih.com

Jia Jia's Association (The Young Girls of China)
www.assojiajia.org.cn
Mission: To support kids from Anhui provinces (currently Liu'An and Chaohu) to go to school and study in better conditions and to provide some support for Chaohu Orphanage
Pascale Bon, pascale.bon@frasiasport.com

LifeLine Shanghai
www.lifelineshanghai.com
Mission: We provide free confidential information and emotional support to the international community.
Contact: Tiffany Wandy, info@lifelineshanghai.com

Operation Smile
www.operationsmile.org
Mission: Throughout the world, Operation Smile volunteers repair childhood facial deformities while building public and private partnerships that advocate for sustainable healthcare systems for children and families.
Contact: Clara Love, claralove@gmail.com

Project Integration
http://china.ahk.de/en/chamber/shanghai/community/
Mission: We collect donations to pay school fees for migrant children from needy families. We work together with 6 migrant schools in Shanghai and currently sponsor 220 migrant children. Every child deserves an education! Project Integration is a program of the Shanghai Charity Foundation.
Contact: Corinne Richeux Hua, director@steppingstoneschina.net

Wokai
Wokai is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to alleviating poverty in China through microfinance. Wokai’s approach uses the internet to allow contributors around the world to provide loan capital to borrowers in rural China, empowering them to lift themselves from poverty. Since 2008, we have raised over US$500,000, received over 7500 contributions from people in 61 countries, and funded 961 loans.
Website link: www.wokai.org
Contact: shanghai@wokai.org

 

Project HOPE
www.hopechina.com
Mission: We are focusing on elevating the Shanghai Children's Medical Center to a nationally and internationally recognized leader in advanced pediatric level.
Contact: Lily Hsu, Lilyhsu@hopechina.com

Riding for the Disabled Shanghai
Mission: This group provides the opportunity for disabled children to ride horses on Wednesday mornings.
Contact: Maggie Hung, maggieshanghai08@gmail.com

Roots & Shoots Program; The Jane Goodall Institute - Shanghai
www.jgi-shanghai.org
Mission: To foster respect and compassion for all living things, to promote understanding of all cultures and beliefs and to inspire each individual to take action to make the world a better place for people, animals and the environment.
Contact: Tori Zwisler, Roots&shoots@zuelligpharma.com.cn

Second Chance Animal Aid
www.scaashanghai.org
Mission: SCAA rescues, heals, fosters and adopts out stray cats and dogs in Shanghai. We depend on foster care parents to provide temporary housing until adoptive parents are secured.
Contact: Milton Menefee, director@scaashanghai.org

SEVA
www.indianassociation.com.cn
Mission: A charity organization of Indian Association to raise funds for local orphanages, schools, and handicapped and old people homes. It works closely with local people to identify the need at grassroots level and ensure that help is provided by way of service and funds.
Contact: Mahendra Hingorani, hmahendra@mail.online.sh.cn or hmahendra@hkskyworldwide.com

Shanghai Sunrise
www.shanghaisunrise.com
Mission: Shanghai Sunrise provides financial support to underprivileged students in Shanghai for their educational, professional and life experiences and to motivate them to reach their full potential.
Contact: Debbie Yang, sunrise.executivedirector@gmail.com
or sunrise.contact@gmail.com

Starfish Foster Home
http://chinesestarfish.blogspot.com
Mission: Saving the lives of medically fragile orphans in the Shaanxi Province by providing good nutrition in a privately run foster home in Xian and arranging for life saving surgeries (sometimes in Shanghai) and completing their adoption dossiers for international adoption.
Contact: Amanda de Lange, chinese.starfishthrower@gmail.com

Stepping Stones
http://steppingstoneschina.net
Stepping Stones introduces volunteers to teach English to students studying in the schools for migrants in Shanghai. The programme offers a rewarding way to get to know another side of Shanghai's society and to contribute in a meaningful way to the education of under-privileged children.
Contact: Sam Ro volunteer@steppingstoneschina.net or 13262567710.

The Giving Tree
www.givingtreechina.org
Mission: Bring joy and hope to the underprivileged children, especially during the Chinese New year
Contact: Michelle Wright, givingtree@communitycenter.cn

The Mercy Fund
www.mercyfund.net
Mission: Volunteers are committed to making a difference in the lives of the children during their stay at the leukemia ward at Xin Hua Hospital. We do this by way of our smiles, gifts of toys and books, toiletries, certain medical supplies, etc.
Contact: Thai-Lian Chin, chai.tan@hotmail.com

United Foundation for Chinese Orphans (formerly known as The American Education and Health Foundation)
www.unitedfoundation.org or www.ameduc.org
Mission: To improve the health of orphans in China by providing medical care and nutritional support to children living in orphanages and foster homes.
Contact: Stephanne Burkemper, sburkemper@gmail.com and Beth Moxon, memoxon@sbcglobal.net

Wheelchair Foundation
www.wheelchairfoundation.org
Mission: Create awareness of the needs and abilities of people with physical disabilities, to promote the joy of giving, create global friendship, and to deliver a wheelchair to every child, teen and adult in the world who needs one, but cannot afford one.
Contact: Angie Shen, ashen@wheelchairfoundation.org

Shanghai Healing Home
www.shanghaihealinghome.com
Mission: The Shanghai Healing Home's mission is to assist the local Chinese Children's Welfare Institute by providing pre- and post-surgical care to abandoned babies suffering from surgically correctable deformities. Shanghai Healing Home provides a family-focused, home-like environment that meets not only the babies' physical needs but also their emotional and social needs as well.
Contact: Christina Weidner, christinaweidner@me.com, 13764321089

United Foundation for Childrens's Health
www.unitedfoundation.org

Mission: UFCH strives to improve the lives of underserved children in China through healthcare initiatives and services by using its technical expertise and experience in the country, forging targeted partnerships, and setting up training and innovative pilot programs.

UFCH is in the unique position to provide China’s impoverished children a chance at life by helping provide opportunities for medical care that they would not otherwise have. UFCH seeks to provide these children, mostly orphans, with the chance to overcome their medical illnesses and have the chance to be adopted into a loving family.
Contact: Ying Ko, ko.liuying@ufh.com.cn