ICSO Charity Salon “Dream Friends Walk, Love Without Boundaries” was successfully concluded!

On August 13, 2023, ICSO Charity Salon was held in Sichuan. The theme of this charity salon is “Dream Friends, Love Without Boundaries”, which aims to advocate public welfare behavior and provide possibilities for the development of public welfare, and invite professionals from public welfare organizations, the corporate sector and the academic field to witness this event of public welfare change and philanthropic innovation together.

01 Salon Sharing

At the beginning of the event, professionals from public welfare organizations, enterprises and academics shared their practical cases and thoughts in the field of public welfare and charity, which brought a lot of new ideas for the development of public welfare in the future.

ICSO international public welfare support organization chairman Yao Jitong speech and sharing

Since its establishment in 2017, ICSO has become a powerful public welfare organization, mainly composed of Chinese students around the world. The organization has not only succeeded in establishing a global public service platform for Chinese students, but has also been officially accredited by the United Nations Economic and Social Council in 2022, honored to be one of its 1,700 members.

Under its years of unremitting efforts, ICSO has successfully opened three branches worldwide: ICSO-CN, ICSO-UK and ICSO-US, covering 12 countries and 54 regions, and operating more than 150 charity programs. These projects have been actively participated by more than 5,000 overseas student volunteers and raised more than US$2 million, making ICSO the largest charity organization for Chinese students in the world.

It is worth noting that ICSO’s vision of public welfare is not only limited to China, as it has already made achievements in the fields of poverty alleviation and education, environmental protection and social assistance. With Sichuan becoming a new member of ICSO, the two organizations will work together on more diversified charity projects.

Mr. Luo Chuling, Founder of Ebenezer Education and Culture and Director of Ebenezer Youth Philanthropy Academy, shared his thoughts on the theme of “Seeing the Future in the Name of Light”.

In today’s world, poverty, hunger, disease and war still exist in many places, and these problems are like a darkness that blocks people’s way forward. Light is the power to dispel the darkness and illuminate the future. On the way of growth, everyone needs light, and public welfare activities are the brightest light among them.

Public welfare is to improve the status quo of society and take action behavior, in public welfare activities, always life in the influence of another life, endless. This is because through public service actions, we can help those in need and improve their lives and future. In order to expand the influence of public welfare, taking the demand for public welfare as the starting point, Luo Chuling has created a four-direction public welfare ecosystem around the resources of ICSO International Public Welfare Supporting Organizations and other organizations, the resources of Yibiti Youth Public Welfare Academy, the resources of enterprises/brands, and the resources of rural governments/schools.

Finally, she called on everyone to act together and use their actions and influence to bring change to society. As long as we all act together, we can make this light shine brighter and illuminate the future of more people.

Mr. Xie Zhenhao, Co-Founder of ICSO, Chief Executive Officer of Monk’s Education Group Greater China, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of ICSO UK, shared his views on the theme of “Make a torch into a sun”.

Carbon neutrality is the key to solving the serious climate change and environmental problems that the world is facing. Carbon neutrality is the key to solving these problems. Through carbon neutrality, we can respond to global climate change, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and realize sustainable development and environmental protection. Large amounts of carbon emissions have brought about global warming, extreme weather and ecological imbalance, and according to relevant statistics, total carbon emissions will further increase by 0.9% to 36.8 Gt. Global efforts to innovate and build a carbon-neutral pathway are urgently needed.

Carbon neutrality protects ecosystems, promotes sustainable development, fosters global cooperation and equity, and contributes to shaping a sustainable future. It requires the global community to work together and take positive action to address the challenges posed by climate change. Enterprises can choose projects with short time to fruition, a research cycle plus cost optimization cycle of no more than four years in principle, and practical application prospects, and contribute to carbon neutrality with utmost sincerity.

In the future, he will continue to work hard, no less than the slightest, adhere to innovation, lead ICSO to overcome the implementation and compliance difficulties, realize the new model of scientific research + public welfare, and strive to complete the validation of the new model of scientific research + public welfare with high quality, so as to promote more regions and industries to achieve carbon neutrality. At the same time, ICSO encourages people to actively participate in public welfare innovation and contribute to the realization of carbon neutrality.

Mr. Huang Xiaotong, ESG Investment Project Advisor, Certified Management Accountant, BOC Hong Kong Investment Advisor, Senior Education Investor, Founder of China-Hong Kong Service Center, and Partner of Autumn Leaves Writing Club, shared his views on the theme of “The Tide is Rising, New Situation of Co-Benefit”.

With the development of globalization, enterprises are facing more and more challenges and opportunities. In this process, companies need to pay more attention to social responsibility and environmental protection, and ESG investment is becoming an increasingly popular choice.

According to Huang Xiaotong, ESG investment is an investment strategy that takes environmental, social and governance factors into consideration in investment decisions. By focusing on a company’s ESG performance, ESG investing can help investors better assess a company’s long-term value and potential, as well as help companies realize sustainable development.

In the future, companies will face more global challenges, including climate change, resource scarcity and social inequality. In this process, companies need to pay more attention to sustainable development and social responsibility, and create more value for society through innovation and practice.

At the end of her sharing, Huang Xiaotong said she will continue to work on promoting sustainable development and social responsibility of enterprises, and expressed her hope to work with more enterprises to contribute to the creation of a better world. At the same time, she also called on more investors and enterprises to join ESG investment and the Co-Benefit Enterprise Alliance, to create a new situation of co-benefit investment, and to contribute to the realization of global sustainable development together.

02 Public Interest Roundtable

At the roundtable discussion, public welfare practitioners from various industries discussed the future development of public welfare with the guests with their own personal experience in the field of public welfare for many years, hoping to promote the sustainable development of public welfare.

_{Ma Chunmin, Chairman of AMAH Industrial Group (2nd from left)}

In the process of promoting business to the good, we deeply understand the difficulties of entrepreneurs, so we have jointly created an exclusive service brand for entrepreneurs with Ping An Private Bank, “Enterprise Hope Club”, which is dedicated to providing entrepreneurial groups with One-stop financial solutions for entrepreneurs. Against the backdrop of last year’s epidemic, many entrepreneurs successfully avoided the huge risks brought about by the epidemic and realized the long-term development of their enterprises through the “Hope Club”.

At the same time, Ping An Private Bank’s “Hope Club” also cooperates with charitable organizations. In order to protect the future growth of children, Ping An Private Bank set up domestic family trusts and offshore family trusts. Subsequently, Ping An Private Bank’s entrepreneurial circle gained more educational contacts and resources to donate a batch of paintbrushes to the Hope Primary School in Liangshan, Sichuan Province, to help Ping An Group’s “Three Villages Project” public welfare cause.

Ma Chunmin emphasized that charity is not just about material assistance, but should bring them unlimited hope or sustainable development. I hope that in the development of public welfare, we can meet more like-minded friends, think together how to give back to society, to provide more people in need of help around them, they may need help, to promote the sustainable development of public welfare.

_{Mr. Dai Yong, Deputy General Manager of Xinhua Publishing House Group’s Xinhua Wenxuan Reading Service Division (1st from left)}

From the perspective of globalized market trends, the development of public welfare is very important. The participation of public welfare activities public welfare has long been not only limited to a number of large-scale enterprises, but everyone is involved in public welfare enterprises.

Dai Yong believes that the youth growing up in the Internet era has gradually become the main force of the Internet public welfare charity, and hopes that public welfare undertakings in the future development can be more inclined to youth. Through the light public welfare, mobile Internet and other ways to lead more people to participate in the public welfare. He pointed out that the light public welfare as a public welfare concept, its simplification and ease of character, just in line with the current people’s social heart characteristics. This open and lightweight public welfare model can lower the threshold of people’s commitment to public welfare, so that public welfare into people’s daily lives. At the same time, under the impetus of Internet technology, the lifestyle of “charity + Internet” allows public welfare and charity to penetrate into a wider range of groups, and more and more ordinary people are willing to contribute to the public welfare cause and jointly promote the long-term development of public welfare.

In the future, we hope that more platforms, charitable organizations and members of the public who care about the development of China’s public welfare and charity will join hands to contribute to the modernization of China’s Internet public welfare and charity.

_{Chen Peng, General Manager of Chengdu Jiu Tian Brand Design Consultant Co.}

Today’s world is an era full of challenges, and the trend is for business to do good. In this process, enterprises need to pay more attention to transforming business logic, promoting product innovation, advocating environmentally friendly design, reducing the waste of resources and the negative impact on the polluted environment, safeguarding the interests of consumers, and building a conservation-oriented society. Enterprises in doing brand design to avoid over-packaging this situation, make the external packaging can be reused, renewable, with innovative ways to feed the community, to generate greater value for it.

As a brand design company, we always adhere to the concept of business to the good to consumers. Because a truly successful business not only generates economic benefits, but also guides consumers to consume wisely, thus creating maximized social value. As an entrepreneur, it is important to give the enterprise more public welfare and social value, so that business has the power to change the world, make it more resilient and sustainable, and play a driving role in the development of public welfare.

03 Charity Fundraising

On the scene of the event, ICSO initiated the charity salon fund-raising activity “Dream Friends, Love Without Boundaries”, calling all the guests present to make donations for the public welfare, calling on all walks of life to participate in the public welfare activities, and to contribute to the development of the society with their own actions and influence.

04 Award Ceremony

Finally, ICSO selected the international public welfare ambassadors who have unique contributions to public welfare, sustained good deeds and special constructive concepts, to pay tribute to public welfare and public welfare practitioners, and hope to promote more excellent friends from all walks of life to participate in the tide of business for the good, and together we can make public welfare marketable, make business for the good, make influence large-scale, make social responsibility visualization, and make co-beneficial enterprises comply with the law. Compliance of Co-beneficial Enterprises.

_{Chen Peng, General Manager of Chengdu Jiutian Brand Design Consultant Co.}

The three International Public Welfare Ambassadors expressed their continued commitment to promoting corporate sustainability and social responsibility, and expressed their hope to work with more corporations to contribute to the creation of a better vision for public welfare. At the same time, they called on more people to join in the cause of public welfare, and together contribute to the realization of the long-term development of public welfare.

Conclusion

All in all, this charity salon event paved a wide road for the future of public welfare. The spirit of public welfare is the same regardless of geographical or national boundaries, ICSO looks forward to further expanding the scope of cooperation in the future, strengthening exchanges with all parties, promoting the globalization of public welfare, so that the power of public welfare will continue to spread and go farther.