Annual Report 2017-18

The Hong Kong Baptist University Foundation is going to celebrate its 10th anniversary in 2019. In addition to giving my congratulatory message to the Foundation, I would like to take this opportunity to look back at the development and growth of the Foundation and remind ourselves of the intentions of our founding members. The Foundation was established by a number of visionary community leaders, entrepreneurs and alumni. They envisaged that setting up this platform will extend the University’s support base and strengthen its financial capabilities, thereby facilitating all aspects of its advancement and assisting it in upholding its cherished principles of Whole Person Education. Over the past decade, the HKBU Foundation has recorded steady growth. Its membership has risen from 131 in 2009 to 673 as of December 2018, an impressive growth of 414%. Moreover, the Foundation has raised more than HK$1.36 billion over these years, opening up opportunities for HKBU to create and innovate as it wishes. The Foundation is often regarded as being like a big family, a comparison with which I entirely agree. Filled with a great passion and soaring ambitions for education, all Foundation members have been extremely generous with their time, tireless in their efforts, and unstinting with their wise counsel and their proactive participation in all the Foundation’s endeavours. Many members have invited their families, friends, business partners and clients to join them, therefore bringing fresh infusions of new blood into the Foundation’s work. Every Foundation member shares the same vision with HKBU and walks in unison with the University. Every programme to which they devote their staunch support represents an additional precious partnership between donors and the University. With the financial backing of the HKBU Foundation, the University has been able to launch an impressive array of original and forward-looking programmes over the past ten years. They include the Institute of Creativity, the Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology, the Law Sau Fai Institute for Advancing Translational Medicine in Bone & Joint Diseases, the Cheung On Tak International Award for Outstanding Contribution to Chinese Medicine as well as a number of endowed professorships. Needless to say, pioneering campus activities such as the Pulitzer Prize Winners Workshop, the International Writers’ Workshop, The Dream of the Red Chamber Award and the Global University Film Awards have become exceptional events that stand out among local and overseas universities. 2019 年，香港浸會大學基金昂然邁向成 立十周年，在誌慶之餘，我亦藉此機會 回顧歷史，毋忘基金成立的初衷。基金 由一群高瞻遠矚的社會領袖、企業家及 校友成立，他們預視到高等教育對香港 的社會發展起着舉足輕重的作用，於是 團結各方力量，組成基金這個平台，以 擴闊大學網絡及募集資源為目標，促進 大學各領域的發展，以全人教育的理念 作育英才。 十年以來，基金的大家庭不斷擴大，會 員人數倍增，由 2009 年的 131 人，增至 2018 年 12 月底的 673 人，增幅 414% ， 而歷年累積籌得的捐款金額已逾港幣  $13.6 億元，促使浸大不斷拓展、創新。 我們經常把基金形容為大家庭，絕非 虛言，因為每位基金成員均對教育充滿 熱誠和抱負，為基金出謀獻策、事必躬 親，還廣邀家人、朋友、合作夥伴甚至 公司客戶襄助大學發展，為基金持續注 入新血。各基金成員確實是大學的同路 人，與浸大抱持共同理念，而他們所支 持的項目，標誌着大學與捐款人締結的 夥伴關係。 基金成立十年以來，籌募經費支持大學 推出多項極具前瞻性的項目，例如成立 創意研究院、饒宗頤國學院、羅守輝骨 與關節疾病轉化醫學研究所；設立張安 德中醫藥國際貢獻獎和多個冠名講座教 授席；而浸大首創的普立茲新聞獎得主 工作坊、國際作家工作坊、紅樓夢獎及 全球大學電影獎早已成為高等院校的  盛事。 3 Chairman’s Report 主席報告