Asia-Australia Archives

May 19, 2021

South Korea: Fundraising Challenges & a Few Solutions

By Chulhee Kang. The regulation of fundraising has been a long-standing and evolving issue for Korean nonprofit organizations (NPOs). From 1949 to 1995, the government prohibited most fundraising campaigns to... More

May 19, 2021

Australia: Countering the ‘Lady Bountiful’ Narrative

By Myles McGregor-Lowndes. The use of regulation to silence charities in Australia’s political arena is an increasingly important issue. The charity brand – with its broad public trust and ability... More

May 17, 2021

Australia: Anchoring & Balancing Government-Nonprofit Relations

By Wendy Scaife. In Australia, the relationship between government and the nonprofit sector remains patchy and one-sided in my opinion. I see this umbrella situation as being as much a... More

May 16, 2021

China: Revising the Law for the Charitable Sector

By Guosheng Deng. In my view, the most important policy or regulatory issue affecting China’s nonprofit sector is the need to revise the Charity Law – the basic law for... More

May 15, 2021

Japan: Fractured Regulations & Regulators

By Masayuki Deguchi. For many countries, the regulatory agency for nonprofit organizations is a single body, such as a government ministry, tax authority or commission. Japan's regulatory framework is the... More

May 14, 2021

Japan: How to Resuscitate & Enable Nonprofits

By Yuko Suda. The fragmented legal framework of nonprofit organizations (NPOs) in Japan hinders their performance. Most NPOs were established under the system implemented soon after the Second World War.... More

May 13, 2021

Taiwan: Facing Turbulence from the Pandemic & the Foundations Act

By Helen K. Liu. Nonprofits in Taiwan face turbulence from two major sources: the global challenge from the pandemic and the local uncertainty from the newly passed Foundations Act. Nonprofits... More

May 12, 2021

Japan: In Need of More “User-Friendly” Institutional Arrangements

By Aya Okada. Despite Japan’s long history of charity, its institutional arrangements around the nonprofit and philanthropic sector only accelerated in the late 1990s. The NPO Law of 1998 significantly... More