In winter, the grass and trees should be bleak, but the small garden of Kehui Jingyuan Community, Caohejing Street, Xuhui District, is a vibrant scene. It turned out that at the end of November, the Wisteria Garden in the community had just been renovated with the joint efforts of Caohejing South No. 1 Neighborhood Committee, Caohejing Community Foundation, Postal Savings Bank of China Shanghai Xuhui District Branch, Shanghai Qixin Community Public Welfare Service Center and resident volunteers. Not only has the garden been renewed, but the garden pavilion has been turned into an exclusive courtyard with community characteristics through wall painting.
The self-governance project of Kehui Jingyuan micro-renewal fully reflects the achievements of the "five social associations", and how to link the resources of community volunteers, social organizations, community co-construction units, and social welfare charities with residential areas is inseparable from the "benefit line" of Caohejing Community Foundation. As a public service project of the foundation, "Yixianlian" also won the silver medal in the 2023 "One Tree Song" Community Venture Capital Competition in Shanghai.
It is understood that the project was developed by the Caohejing Community Foundation at the end of 2021, through in-depth field research in multiple communities, to understand the diversified service needs of residents, aiming to solve the problems of community resources such as community volunteers, social organizations, and community co-construction units, such as sporadic resource distribution, lack of service platform, and lack of standardized construction of volunteer teams. The project innovatively builds a public welfare platform for community service needs and integration of resources, links all resources, and establishes a working mechanism for monthly docking and services.
In the process of carrying out the project, every month, the foundation will arrange a special person to be responsible for organizing different types of community services according to the needs declared on the "demand matching list". In addition to supporting the hardware update of the community, there are large-scale community services, door-to-door services for special groups, and "local age-ending" services with the participation of multiple units...... It includes health, life, psychological counseling, legal aid, conflict mediation, literary entertainment, red party classes and other types. The service targets have achieved almost full coverage from the elderly, the disabled, to the young, women, children, etc. The new model of resource docking has broadened the scope of project service docking, development and cooperation, making the project more and more influential, and allowing the spirit of public welfare and charity to take root and blossom in the community. According to statistics, the project has carried out nearly 70 public welfare activities so far, with more than 10,000 direct beneficiaries.
In order to build a professional, all-round, multi-capable, multi-level and high-quality volunteer team, the project has also established a community cultivation incentive mechanism, and hired these resource units and individuals participating in the project as volunteers of the Caohejing Community Foundation. Shao Peijun, chairman of the Caohejing Community Foundation, told reporters that more and more resources are now actively contacting us and hoping to join the project, "Our project goal is to attract more resources, serve more areas of community livelihood, community autonomy, cultivate backbone, and finally realize the self-management of each team." Only by continuously cultivating the community and serving the community can the project have vitality. ”
Reporter: Yao Limin
Image courtesy of Caohejing Street
Editor: Geng Jieyu
Reviewer: Wei Li