On May 13 to 14, 2007, 26 representatives from18 organizations participated in the Third Amity Foundation Round Table Meeting in Nanjing, China. The representatives came from Asia, Europe and North America at this meeting.  The new and old partners as well as committee members discussed Amity’s future plans and projects for the next three years.

The Amity Foundation and the international representatives shared their work in recent years and the strategic development of their four main roles:  resources tenderer, service provider, ability constructor and policy initiator. The meeting focused on Amity’s applying for the registration as a national organization.  In recent years the Amity Foundation has made great efforts in raising funds domestically.  It’s their hope that the Amity Foundation can make progress beyond the provincial level and succeed in raising funds on the national level.  All representatives gave their full support on the development of Amity’s own ability to raise funds and to become self-support.   

As for partnership and mutual responsibility, Professor Stephen Yenren Ting, Vice Chairman of the Amity Foundation, pointed out that China’s related partners should share information and resources with mutual trust and sincerity.  Qiu Zhong-Hui, General Secretary of the Amity Foundation, emphasized that transparency and communication are the main components essential to this partnership. Mr. Heikki Hilvo, representing Finland’s cooperation organization, stressed the principle of mutual trust and mutual respect. He also indicated that the round table meeting itself reflected a form of world cooperation. At the adjournment of the conference, the next round table meeting was scheduled for Spring 2009 in China.