The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust is supporting the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) to organise a series of training programmes for NGOs that will help them provide better services to the community and enhance people’s quality of life.
Today (7 May), Club Chairman T Brian Stevenson joined HKU Council Chairman Dr Leong Che-hung and Vice-Chancellor Professor Lap-Chee Tsui to announce the launch of “Excellence and Capacity building for Entrepreneurship & Leadership for the Third Sector” (HKU-HKJC ExCEL3) at the HKU campus.
Mr Stevenson commended HKU for its tremendous efforts in developing the project and offering training programmes for NGOs, many of whom work as the Club’s partners in its role as a force for good. “The ExCEL3 Project seeks to help the leaders and social workers of NGOs face the challenges of the community’s rising expectations of their functions and governance, as well as to help them ensure their sustainability.”
Dr Leong thanked the Club for its long-term support to HKU and described it as the beginning of another meaningful collaboration of the two parties. “With the support from the Jockey Club and the Faculty’s sound track record of excellence in engagement with local and international NGOs, I believe that ExCEL3 will scale another new height,” he said.
Part of the Club-funded HKU Centennial Campus project, ExCEL3 will offer a series of in-depth training programmes, public lectures and workshops for the next five years to help social practitioners enhance their capacity to tackle organisational and global challenges. The programmes are being organised by HKU’s Faculty of Social Sciences with the support of the Business and Law Faculties.
Since 1957, the Trust has donated some HK$1.3 billion towards both software and hardware projects of HKU, including the Jockey Club Student Village 1 and 2, as well as Trust-initiated projects like “CADENZA: A Jockey Club Initiative for Seniors”, “FAMILY: A Jockey Club Initiative for a Harmonious Society” and “READ & WRITE: A Jockey Club Learning Support Network”.
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Club Chairman T Brian Stevenson says the ExCEL3 project seeks to enable NGO leaders and social workers face new challenges and the communitya£á?s rising expectations of their functions and governance, as well as to help them ensure their sustainability.
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Club Chairman T Brian Stevenson (centre), HKU Council Chairman Dr Leong Che-hung (left) and Vice-Chancellor Professor Lap-Chee Tsui (right) at the Launch Ceremony of the ExCEL3 Project.
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Club Chairman T Brian Stevenson (right) receives from HKU Vice-Chancellor Professor Lap-Chee Tsui (left) a Chinese scroll by renowned scholar Professor Jao Tsung-I, as a token of thanks for the Cluba£á?s long-term support to HKU.
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Club Chairman T Brian Stevenson (9th right) joins HKU Council Chairman Dr Leong Che-hung (9th left), the Cluba£á?s Executive Director, Charities, Douglas So (7th right), HKU Vice-Chancellor Professor Lap-Chee Tsui (8th right), Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences Professor John Burns (6th right), ExCEL3 Project Director Professor Cecilia Chan (4th right), and other HKU and NGO partners at the launch of ExCEL3 Project.
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(From right) Club Chairman T Brian Stevenson, HKU Council Chairman Dr Leong Che-hung, the Cluba£á?s Executive Director, Charities, Douglas So, HKUa£á?s Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences Professor John Burns and Chief Executive of The HK Council of Social Service Christine Fang.
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The Cluba£á?s Executive Director, Charities, Douglas So (centre), HKU Vice-Chancellor Professor Lap-Chee Tsui (left) and Pro-Vice-Chancellor Professor S P Chow (right).
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