In May 2009, MIT New Media Action Lab launched NGO 2.0 China Project in collaboration with the Institute of Knowledge Management at the University of Science and Technology of China and four other partner institutions that include Friends of Nature, NGO Communication Net, Sun Yat-Sen University, and Ogilvy & Mather in China. Tsinghua University in Beijing joined the Project in 2011 as the 7th partner. Transnational communication company MillwardBrown also became a corporate partner. The project has received multi-year funding from Ford Foundation in Beijing. Narada Foundation, Tencent Foundation, Yixin Corporation, and Guangdong based Harmony Foundation have also been sponsors of various projects. In August, 2014, NGO2.0 was formally registered in Shenzhen as a Chinese NPO.
