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New $25 million initiative to help people with disabilities, boost public education efforts
(From left) Tote Board chairman Moses Lee, Minister for Social and Family Development Masagos Zulkifli, SG Enable Inclusion Champion Alister Ong and National Council of Social Service president Anita Fam.ST PHOTO: TIMOTHY DAVID
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Details 17 December 2020
First founded in 2000, the National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre (NVPC) started out a national benchmarking study on volunteerism in Singapore. It then subsequently became the national body promoting and developing volunteerism and philanthropy across all sectors in 2003, working in partnership with non-profit organisations, companies and public sector bodies to facilitate and strengthen community giving efforts.
NVPC’s efforts to promote philanthropy has never stopped since, not even during the COVID-19 period when social restrictions were implemented. Aiming to continue helping communities at need, NVPC turned to the virtual space to engage and educate Singaporeans through comedy.
Its campaign “The City of Good Show: Saving Our Charities” won a bronze award in the category of Excellence in Content Marketing. NVPC’s good work was also recognised as a finalist in the category of Excellence in Event Marketi