• News
News Release
  • Shanghai Incubator of Social Innovation Opened 2010-07-22
  • image

    image

    On the 5th of July, 2010, Shanghai Incubator of Social Innovation (SISI), the first social innovation park, which is co-operated by the government, NGO and social enterprise, aims at supporting NGOs, solving social problems and pushing the society to advance. Li Liguo, Minister of Ministry of Civil Affairs attended the ceremony and announced the opening of the Incubator. Yin Yicui, Vice Secretary of the CPC Shanghai Committee and Jiang Li, Vice Minister of Ministry of Civil Affairs unveiled the name tablets of the Incubator.

    Located at No. 501, Liyuan Road of Luwan District, SISI was initiated by Shanghai Civil Affairs Bureau, financed by public welfare fund from welfare lottery, and operated by Pudong Non-Profit Incubator (NPI). The Incubator tries to deal with the practical social issue of employment of the disabled as an example in its operation by taking the NGO as its main body, modern service industry as its support and the interaction among the government, NGO and the social enterprise as its guarantee. The disabled with a certain competence can receive training and on-job practice in modern service sectors such as creative designing, computer programming, telephone consulting, meeting affairs, arts and crafts, dinning service, health care and massage, etc in the Incubator, and therefore a platform of network that integrates designing, planning, promoting, mass production and sales is formed.

    Besides, altogether 12 projects including the setting-up of Chunzhen Restaurant as the practice and on-job training base for the disabled have been initiated out of the total 30 charitable service projects to be launched as planned in the Incubator in three years.

    In the future, a series of charity-based targets will be achieved by the Incubator, such as providing guidance for the charitable organizations in their growth, facilitating those with physical disabilities to integrate into the society, offer job training for at least 100 disabled people each year, and recommending over 20% of the totally disabled people with training experience to be employed.