About Dao Feng He

DAO FENG HE is an author, entrepreneur, economist, philanthropist, and policy researcher, who was born in Yunnan, a rural province in southwest China, and currently resides in Bethesda, MD.

Mr. He has appeared on CBS, and Fox News and the podcast “Veteran's and Community Healthy” by Sunday Magazine (WMAL 105.9 FM) to discuss his COVID-19 rescue efforts, which he described as asking God's calling to help fellow Americans.

Through his Maryland-based family foundation, he launched the Life Preservation Initiative (LPI) in March 2020 to donate 1,000,000 sets of PPE to frontline healthcare workers and vulnerable communities in the fight against COVID-19. Under Mr. He's leadership, the LPI collaborated with Christian organizations such as the Salvation Army, Bowery Mission, and the Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn. The LPI and Mr. He has been covered in 23 press outlets including NBC, ABC, and New Evangelization Television.

In 1994, Mr. He founded the Human Resources Development Center of Western China to work with the World Bank to increase labor mobility from inland rural areas to developed coastal areas in China. This project successfully resettled 600,000 workers from impoverished counties and reskilled them to perform factory jobs or find other employment.

In 1999, while chairman of Huaxia West Company, he decided to additionally serve as acting president of the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation (CFPA), refusing a salary. Leading an NGO independently of the government came with significant political risks, but Mr. He was determined to see social reform come to China and took many measures to protect CFPA's work.

In 2019, Mr. He received the President's Volunteer Service Award from the White House for his outstanding service to fellow Americans and those most in need. The same year, Mr. He received three more awards, including the United Nations NGO/Department of Public Information's Outstanding Achievement Award for International Alleviation, the Global Outstanding Social Entrepreneur Award at the Global Corporate Social Responsibility Summit in New York, and the International Leadership Foundation's Leadership Award in Washington, DC.

Mr. He has been published extensively in China. The Human Calling is his first book published in the United States.

About The Dao Feng and Angela Foundation

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THE DAO FENG AND ANGELA FOUNDATION was founded by Dao Feng and Angela He to promote self-awareness and self-governance, share and preserve the values of people in the developing world, and demonstrate the power of non-violence. The organization funds comparative research and academic exchange programs to help developing culture modernize and integrate values with developed nations, bolster public response against emergencies and natural disasters in developing countries, fund humanitarian programs that reduce hunger and poverty, and support scientific discoveries that improve healthy living. Among the foundation’s numerous programs is the Life Preservation Initiative, a coalition of non-governmental organizations that is helping frontline healthcare professionals and vulnerable communities fight COVID-19 by providing them with critical personal protective equipment.

THE DAOFENG AND ANGELA FOUNDATION was founded by Daofeng and Angela He to promote self-awareness and self-governance, share and preserve the values of people in the developing world, and demonstrate the power of non-violence. The organization funds comparative research and academic exchange programs to help developing culture modernize and integrate values with developed nations, bolster public response against emergencies and natural disasters in developing countries, fund humanitarian programs that reduce hunger and poverty, and support scientific discoveries that improve healthy living. Among the foundation’s numerous programs is the Life Preservation Initiative, a coalition of non-governmental organizations that is helping frontline healthcare professionals and vulnerable communities fight COVID-19 by providing them with critical personal protective equipment.

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