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.