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At Loggerheads Social Entrepreneurship and Social Work

Conventional Social work is often an act of charity accompanied by a sense of giving with no thought of taking anything from the beneficiaries.This is traditional and assumes that the beneficiaries have no money to pay up and nothing to offer and people who have goodies in life should give them to the needy. The non profit sector hence has three distinct stakeholders the Funders,ngos and the beneficiaries.Such a setup has been a success owing to philanthropy and good people who often are wealthy and wish to share the wealth when they feel they, have had enough in life. But then is this the right and the best way to carry out development? Imagine now a Social entrepreneur (Social Entrepreneurs is someone who serves the social causes with a business model) comes up with same kind of work but asks the beneficiaries some money for his services.The rationale for asking this amount is that he/she feels that this is the only way to sustain operations.The services he provides is novel and depe

Views from the back of my mind

Things look in better shape here and it looks like we have bore the first brunt of entrepreneurship with success.Although in the regular scramble for revenues and social impact we seldom get time to think of innovation, which I am sure to make apnaIT culture full of. I took a day off today trying to think on way we work.It is refreshing to know and understand that in a recessionist economy, we are serving the bottom of pyramid profitably. But the word that we need to act on always is INNOVATION

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Sweet Home Annual Day

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One of my last gifts in DF

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Simplifying RTI-apnarti

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