Why are many people willing to donate money to schools?

Donation can not only increase people's sense of responsibility, but also make people more aware of how precious their living environment is, and help them establish a correct outlook on life and consumption in their activities. Broaden your horizons! An educational significance, as a social civilization, everyone should have the consciousness of helping others, which is also a manifestation of personal love or kindness! I find it difficult to get China to agree to a small donation.

Many concepts between China and the United States are different. For example, the concept of many Americans is "as long as you work hard". In your example, it means "as long as you donate money and make a contribution, it's not how much money you donate, but what you can help a little." The concept of China people may be (attention is "possible", which means that it is only based on my personal daily observation) "Doing things requires a lot of resources and energy". In this example, it means "donations are made by rich people." I can only donate a little money, but what can I do with this money? "

Although many people in China have realized and mentioned the concepts and sayings of "just work hard" and "don't care about the amount of money" in recent years, I think there are still not many people who are really willing to practice these words, mainly because their ideas have not really changed. If you disagree fundamentally, just saying "politically correct" or "positive" on the spot will not change anything.

As for small donations, I think its significance lies in the fact that many a mickle makes a mickle, water drops wear the heart, unite people's hearts and inherit beauty. For a school or a department, a large donation can be satisfied without asking for anything in return. After all, not every alumnus can be like Ma Yun and Ma. So small donations are more practical for a school and a department.

Because for many ordinary alumni, small donations are more affordable. Take myself as an example. Before I went abroad to study PhD, my annual after-tax income in China was around 200,000. After studying abroad as a postdoctoral fellow, my annual after-tax income from working in the laboratory (part-time) is about $654.38 +0.8 million. According to the exchange rate of 654.38+0: 6.8, the annual income after tax is 6,543.8+0.224 million RMB. After deducting the cost of food and clothing in the United States for one year, there will be a balance of about 20 thousand yuan every year. Whether it is 200,000 before going abroad or 20,000 now, it is affordable to donate 5,000 yuan a year. Of course, not everyone donates 5000 yuan or 1000 yuan every year; Everyone only donates 1 1,000 yuan a year, and 500 yuan even donates 1 1,000 yuan. It is entirely possible for 50 yuan. As long as there are enough alumni donations, the final number can still be very large. You can refer to an example of Wuhan University: alumni actively participate in small donations-646 people donated a small amount of RMB ***3 1880.54.

Small donations are also donations. Organizing such an activity, or even organizing such a small donation activity once a year or every six months, can rally people's hearts, motivate students and improve the visibility of the school. Graduates can be resources and wealth that cannot be underestimated. Being able to donate money to the alma mater shows that alumni recognize the training of the alma mater, which is conducive to the spread of the school's reputation in society and among enterprises. In addition, small donations again and again, if they become a traditional activity of a school or a department, will be passed down from generation to generation year after year, and become an advantage for schools and departments to attract future students and gather more people's hearts at the spiritual and cultural level. This is also a vivid interpretation of one of the educational significance.

Of course, some people may think that 50, 100 yuan is a donation? Is that all the money the school needs? This is what I said above, the cognitive difference in basic concepts. In addition, even if many alumni become millions, tens of millions and billionaires, not everyone is willing to donate. In the current social environment in China, many people who have made a lot of money are likely to think, "I earned all this wealth myself. What does it have to do with my alma mater?" This reflects another problem: we have said for many years that people should have a "grateful heart", but having a "grateful heart" needs to be put into action, not verbally.