“We believe that strengthening the existing
symbiosis between Government and civil society
in the service of unmet needs and vulnerable
populations may enable a wider and more
constructive for the social energies that can
be mobilized by civil society without at the
same time setting off repressive Government
reactions.”
L. David Brown
and Xing Hu,
Building Local Support for Chinese Civil
Society with International Resources
February 2011
Domain Manager, Nonprofits in China
Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
Office Address
Belfer-117
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 143
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-495-7721
Fax: 617-495-0996
Email: xing_hu@harvard.edu
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Profile
Xing Hu manages
the Nonprofits in China Domain at the Hauser
Center for Nonprofit Organizations. In this
position, she convenes practitioners from
China’s nonprofit sector and Harvard scholars
in an effort to catalyze the transfer of
research to practical problems facing
nonprofits in China. Specifically, she convenes
project teams, raises funds, facilitates
partnerships, and manages the operations and
evaluation of projects. A current project
examines how international resources can build
local support for Chinese civil society
organizations (CSOs) to work with vulnerable
groups and explore how experiences from other
contexts can be adapted to strengthen CSOs in
China.
Prior to joining the Hauser Center in March
2009, Ms. Hu worked for three years with
Ashoka: Innovators for the Public where she
helped engage donors and supporters globally
from its Global Engagement Team; co-established
the operation system for the US program of
Ashoka’s Youth Venture; and, served on its
China Entry Preparation Task Force. She
co-founded the nonprofit organization Dream
Corps (www.dreamcorps.org) in
2004, which recruits, trains and sends
Chinese-speaking volunteers to rural areas
in China to build libraries for children.
She received a B.A. in English from Beijing
Foreign Studies University, an M.L. in
International Politics from Peking
University, and an M.P.P. from Duke
University. Her publications include
“Building Local Support for Chinese Civil
Society with International Resources
(co-authored with L. David Brown, February
2011), and “What is Social Entrepreneurship”
(in Chinese) (Comparative Social and
Economical Systems (社会与经济比较研究),
February 2006).
Learn More
Read about Xing Hu’s work:
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/hauser/engage/nonprofitsinchina/
