It seems like the outlook for Professor Yu Jianrong's grassroots campaign to locate missing children by photographing beggars is getting brighter and brighter. Jet Li's One Foundation has now joined the fight with Yu and "宝贝回家 (bao bei hui jia) Baby, come home" website founder Zhang Baoyuan to find missing kids, setting up a special fund for search operations. more ›

We're liking this trend of Non-Profit organizations finally getting an easier time in China. Pudong opened a service center specifically for NPOs yesterday, the first of such on the Chinese mainland. The center, a former handkerchief factory which occupies over 3,200 sqm, provides space for training volunteers, social workers and a host of other activities. Better yet, the Shanghai Civil Affairs Bureau has said it plans to open more throughout the city. more ›

In Shanghaiist's Philanthropist feature, we highlight individuals and groups doing interesting things to make the world a little bit of a better place. This week we talk to one of the organizers of the third annual Rock for Roots & Shoots concert. more ›

Shanghaiist recently caught up with Philippe Tzou, the Shanghai Couch Surfing volunteer. Couch Surfing is a great non-profit organization that helps people travel around the world staying in the homes of like minded people and sharing their knowledge and experiences. Shanghai has developed a unique CS community. As Shanghai-resident Philippe Tzou’s current guest Sascha Wenzlick put it: In Germany loads of people have CS accounts so you don’t get requests to surf so often. But in Shanghai you get weekly requests and CSers even confer to share the guests around. more ›