مؤسسة واحدة

أسس سفير الصليب الأحمر الصيني ، جيت لي، مؤسسة "ذا وان فاونديشن " في 19 أبريل/نيسان 2007، تحت اسم " مشروع مؤسسة جيت لي وان فاونديشن " ( بالصينية :中国红十字会李连杰壹基金计划) التابعة لجمعية الصليب الأحمر الصينية. توقف لي عن العمل السينمائي طوال عام 2008 ليتفرغ كلياً لتطوير المؤسسة. وفي مقال نُشر في مجلة نيوزويك ، أشار لي إلى تجربته الشخصية مع زلزال وتسونامي المحيط الهندي عام 2004 كمصدر إلهام لتأسيس المؤسسة. في ذلك الوقت، كان لي وزوجته وابنتاه الصغيرتان يقضيان إجازة في جزر المالديف عندما ضرب التسونامي. جرفت الأمواج ابنته الصغرى، البالغة من العمر عاماً واحداً، ومربيتها لفترة وجيزة قبل أن يتم إنقاذهما من قبل المارة. ^{[ 3 ]}

In October 2008, the One Foundation registered in Shanghai as a private equity fund under the name Shanghai Jet Li One Foundation Charity Fund (Chinese:上海李连杰壹基金公益基金会). Through pilot regulations on public fundraising enacted in the Shenzhen special economic zone, the One Foundation was able to register as an independent public fundraising foundation on December 3, 2010, thus ending its affiliation with the government-run Chinese Red Cross and becoming the first Chinese NGO not affiliated with the government or a government-sponsored organization. Commentators regarded this development as a "breakthrough" in the development of Chinese NGOs.^[4] Institutional funding for the Shenzhen-based organization came from the Shanghai Jet Li One Foundation Charity Fund, Lao Niu Foundation (Chinese:老牛基金会), Tencent Charitable Foundation (Chinese:腾讯公益慈善基金会), Vantone Foundation (Chinese:万通公益基金会) and Vanke Foundation (Chinese:万科公益基金会). Each founding organization donated 10 million RMB for a total of 50 million RMB start-up capital.

Before its establishment in Shenzhen as an independent foundation, the One Foundation was an affiliate of the Chinese Red Cross, with its funds managed by the latter. Li cited the lack of independence as a motivating factor for the One Foundation to end its cooperation with the Chinese Red Cross in 2010.^[4]

Following the Chinese Red Cross' Guo Meimei scandal in 2011,^[5] the One Foundation tried to distance itself from its former connection with the organization. After the 2013 Lushan earthquake, web users in China discovered that the English section of the One Foundation website still claimed there was a direct link to the Red Cross, and that donations to One Foundation would be "deposited directly into an account held by the Red Cross Society of China, earmarked for use by the One Foundation." One Foundation promptly took down the English site and issued a statement that the information was outdated, representing the situation before December 3, 2010, and that only information on the site in Chinese should be considered correct.^[6] Director of Operations Rob Hemsley successfully took charge of limiting fallout from the Guo Meimei connection.^[7]