acc21.org

What It Is

ACC21, short for Asian Community Center 21, is a certified NPO (non-profit public welfare organization) founded in 2005 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is an international cooperative public welfare NGO focused on the Asian region, with a vision to promote coexistence and development of diverse Asian communities. The organization centers on solving various social issues across Asia, including poverty, children's rights, and youth development.

Core Features & Operating Model

ACC21's core operations are divided into four main sections:

1. Capital flow: Serving as the administrative office for multiple public welfare trusts, it provides project funding to grassroots NGOs in 15 Asian countries and regions. Since its founding, it has supported more than 840 public welfare projects, with a total funding amount exceeding 900 million yen.
2. Personnel exchange: It regularly hosts the Asian Youth Leaders Conference and regional public welfare forums to facilitate exchanges among public welfare practitioners across national and generational boundaries.
3. Information dissemination: It educates the Japanese public on the current situation of impoverished groups in Asia to raise public awareness of public welfare causes.
4. Policy advocacy: It promotes reforms to regional public welfare policies.

Its current core projects include assistance for street children in the Philippines and support for youth development in Japan and South Korea, among others.
The organization operates on public donations and membership dues, and opens up multiple ways for public participation, including donations, volunteer work, and speaker invitations.

Pros, Cons & Target Users

Pros: It has a long operating history with a mature, transparent system. All project results are publicly disclosed, donation flow is fully traceable, and as a certified public welfare organization, the compliance of donations is guaranteed.
Cons: The website only supports Japanese and English, which is not user-friendly for Chinese speakers, and there are very few participation channels for users based in China.

This website is suitable for users who care about Asian public welfare development and want to participate in international public welfare donations, as well as for practitioners in the international public welfare field looking for cross-regional cooperation opportunities.

Accessibility from China

Users in mainland China can access the acc21.org website directly, no VPN/proxy is required.