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Objectives

To provide opportunities to learn the partnership forming process through successful cases in the U.S. and Japan

To enhance the understanding on the overall contribution activities by corporate sector

To examine the possibility of developing productive partnership between NGOs and corporations in Korea? To provide opportunity to gain knowledge and skills through mutual interaction

To present the result of the study on the Giving Korea Index survey and analyze the international tendency of philanthropy.

To work out measures to increase public awareness of philanthropy in Korea.

To promote a global network for exchange of information and cooperation between charities, NGOs and other non-profit public-service organizations.
 

Subject

The subject of this year's symposium, "partnership between non-profit organizations and private businesses", is taken from the fact that a growing number of Korean businesses have become interested in making donations and participating in social contribution activities since the 1990s.  They began to perceive that establishment of a positive relationship with non-profit organizations would be a productive "investment in social values". Non-profit organizations, too, began to realize that they need close cooperation with businesses to solve social problems that are getting ever more complex and difficult to handle.  They believe that such cooperation between the two sectors is essential to generate good results in their efforts to get professional knowledge and skills as well as managerial efficiency.  The symposium will focus on the process in which international non-profit organizations successfully achieve their aim of looking after public interests via partnership with private businesses. The comparison between the cases in Korea, US and Japan is expected to provide significant lessons applicable to the NGOs as well as to the businesses of Korea.

Host The Beautiful Foundation & Yuhan-Kimberly

Participants

- Working-level NPO officials from US and Japan
- Staff from the Independent Sector
- Working-level staffs of Korean civic groups
- Officers from foreign companies and major conglomerates in Korea
 

Date November 20th, 2002

Venue LG Convention Hall, Ewha Woman's University