ABSTRACT
The context for the development of the Mrs Lee Choon Guan Endowed Research Fund (LCG ERF) as a philanthropic partner in welfare services probably lies in the early days of colonial Singapore, where the wealthy sought to contribute towards helping the less well-off. The context for the development of the LCG ERF as a philanthropic partner in welfare services probably lies in the early days of colonial Singapore, where the wealthy sought to contribute towards helping the less well-off. In preparation for the launch of the LCG ERF, the secretariat for managing the fund embarked on a series of fact-finding activities to ensure that the fund would resource significant aspects of practice research with maximal impact in the local context. Once the objectives and the work plans for implementing the fund were in place the LCG ERF invested an expendable sum of money independent of the endowed fund to begin the preparation for the launch.
