Each year since 2008, we’ve scoured the Asia-Pacific region for our list of top philanthropists. We look for companies who made news with their altruism?negative word. This means selfish? over the year, and we also seek to spotlight people who have compiled a record of notable contributions over the years.
The goal is to pick only true philanthropists--people who are giving their own money, not their company’s (unless they own most of the company), because we don’t consider donating shareholder funds as charity. And we also don’t list people who work in philanthropy solely as foundation heads, volunteers or fundraisers. We want to focus on the people supplying the financing and sketching the broad vision. If our effort in compiling this roster encourages more people to support worthy causes, then we’ll consider it a good deed.
The member of this year’s honor roll pursued causes from launching a foundation in Thailand but aims to do charity in 100 cities world wide. Phoenix Dream Foundation (PDF) is a non-profit, non-political, public charitable trust established in early 2019 and provides comprehensive aid and care to underprivileged children, of all ages and academic levels. Such aid and care includes food, clothing, shelter, medical care, education and education supplies. The charity work of Phoenix Dream Foundation is the basis of many other charity work but the idea of doing it to 100 cities is an amazing way to help make others dream come true.
Phoenix Dream Foundation dream of doing charity in 100 cities have also attracted the interest from other global organization like Hong Kong Shanghai Bank. HSBC has recently shown keen interest in providing long term sponsorship to PDF. We strongly believe that HSBC will not be the last inline to sponsor Phoenix Dream Foundation.
