Timeline
CSF Significant Achievements
- Summer 2007 - agreement with Kunming Education Bureau to launch pilot project in Dabai Primary School in rural Yunnan Province. Project jointly funded by CSF founders and Education Bureau at a cost of ¥175,000 (US $25,500).
- Fall 2007-Winter 2008 - recruited by Shaanxi Fuping Cement Co., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Italcementi Group, the world’s fifth largest producer of cement, to develop a CSR rural school improvement project in Fuping County. Company commits ¥1 million (US $146,250).
- June 2008 - registration in Hong Kong as China Schools Foundation Ltd., a company limited by guarantee, and grant of §88 tax exemption by Inland Revenue Department.
- June 2008 - Shaanxi government commits ¥350,000 (US $51,200) to infrastructure improvements in Fuping County schools project.
- September 2008 - opening ceremonies at Dabai Primary School.
- December 2008 - opening ceremonies at four primary schools in Fuping County.
- January 2009 - launch of CSF website.
- July 2009 – China Charity Federation grants its national award for Outstanding Contribution to Chinese Philanthropy to Pierre Eloy, GM of Shaanxi Fuping Cement Co., on account of Fuli Educational Development Project.
- October 2009 – renovation and resourcing of fifth school in Fuping County
- November 2009 – CSF receives corporate grant to launch Model Lesson Program.
- May 2010 – production of series of music model lessons in collaboration with Professor Patricia Riley, University of Vermont.
- September 2010 – CSF launches development of Library & Literacy Lessons program with grant from Chen Yet-Sen Family Foundation.
- April 2011 – construction of school library at Xingzhi Primary School and commencement videotaping of Library & Literacy demonstrations.
- December 2011 – launch of Greenhouse and Water Conservation Project in Shaanxi Province in collaboration with Northwest Agricultural and Forestry University with grant from two multinational corporate donors.
