Tsering Norbu Became 2012 “Gingko Fellow”

The list of 2012 Ginkgo Fellows was announced by the Narada Foundation in Beijing on Oct. 12th, 2012. Tsering Norbu, Executive Director of the Pendeba Society, and other 16 outstanding NPO leaders became the 2012 Gingko Fellows. In the next three years, each of them will get 100,000 RMB of funds per year as the personal growth funds which could be used to improve their personal life and expenditures for learning and business trip. They will also get support such as regular overseas tour, peer collaboration, experts mentor resources.

The Ginkgo Fellow Program is started in 2010 by Narada Foundation. It is a long-term program aiming to help young people overcome obstacles in self-development and become leaders to promote certain charity fields in the future. Narada Foundation planned to invest some 100 million RMB in next 10 years on this program. The main beneficiaries are leaders or founders of grassroots organizations, scholars, media professionals, individual activists. Future leaders of NGOs are also included. This program also advocates that the whole society to support talents in public sector and to build up supporting system for them.