Abstract
After-war countries have variety dimension of social problems, including insufficient education, medical service, infrastructures. In addition to relying on assistance from other worldwide organization, such as World Bank, most of after-war countries rely on international nonprofit organizations conducting the service from the perspective of the bottom of society, helping improve the living standard of people living in the country. General speaking, it can be divided two classification of international nonprofit organization’s service. One is focusing on single services, such as improving people’s health and education, or conducting infrastructures and the other one is integrated services, such as community building including dimensions of economics, education, medical and health. The aim of community building is to help the local community accumulating their own capability and have self-development and self-growing without relying on external assistance. However, It’s not easy for international nonprofit organization to conduct community building but has less effects of the community building services. INPOs are familiar with adopting western thinking to do community building but most of them are unfamiliar with local people’s custom, value and sentiment which induce community residents unwilling to cooperate. Those difficulties are an international nonprofit organization must to face. In this study, I use case method to discuss an international nonprofit organization- Formosa Budding Hope Organization. This study follows views of Nonprofit Organization, Social Capital and Community Building. I use Community Building view as the main theoretical framework, deeply analyzing Formosa Budding Hope Organization from 2010 to 2014. I wonder how does Formosa Budding Hope Organization do community building through Rural Health Promotion Program, Cambodian Child Sponsorship Program, English Teaching Program, Art Creation Program and Agricultural Program focusing on one community, building trust-base relationships with residents and improve their living standards. Finally, the study shows that an INPO engaging community building, in practice, must be able to take into account the economic, health and education. The study also observes the approaches of community building that Formosa Budding Hope Organization do can be divided into 5 approaches: 1. connecting external resources; 2. focusing on single community and building trust-base relationship with community; 3. hiring in local and establishing an effective communication bridge; 4. using community-based resource advantages, to enhance local economic level; 5. focusing resources on specific groups. We hope that we could provide a reference case study to future start-up international nonprofit star organizations. Keywords: case study, nonprofit organization, Formosa Budding Hope Organization, community building