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Social Entrepreneurship and NGO Roles

Social entrepreneurship aims to create social change by addressing social problems. Social entrepreneurs tackle major social issues through innovative solutions and new ideas for wide-scale change. They are ambitious, mission-driven, and persistent in developing strategies to spread solutions that change systems and persuade society. While social ventures focus on social goals over profits, earning a profit is not incompatible with social entrepreneurship. NGOs also play an important role by supporting innovation, technical assistance, research, advocacy, and facilitating communication to empower communities and support development goals.

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Topics covered

  • environmental goals,
  • stakeholder engagement,
  • community sensitivity,
  • community needs,
  • leadership in NGOs,
  • NGOs,
  • global warming,
  • social change,
  • innovation,
  • result-oriented approaches
250 views3 pages

Social Entrepreneurship and NGO Roles

Social entrepreneurship aims to create social change by addressing social problems. Social entrepreneurs tackle major social issues through innovative solutions and new ideas for wide-scale change. They are ambitious, mission-driven, and persistent in developing strategies to spread solutions that change systems and persuade society. While social ventures focus on social goals over profits, earning a profit is not incompatible with social entrepreneurship. NGOs also play an important role by supporting innovation, technical assistance, research, advocacy, and facilitating communication to empower communities and support development goals.

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rupal
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Topics covered

  • environmental goals,
  • stakeholder engagement,
  • community sensitivity,
  • community needs,
  • leadership in NGOs,
  • NGOs,
  • global warming,
  • social change,
  • innovation,
  • result-oriented approaches

SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR

Social entrepreneurhip is the work of a social entrepreneur. A social entrepreneur


recoognises a social problem and uses entrepreneurial principles to organize,create and
manage a venture to achieve social change ( a social venture) Whereas a business
entrepreneur typically measures performance in profit and p to further social isreturn, a social
entrepreneur focuses on creating a social capital.

Thus, the main aim of social entrepreneurship is to further social and environmental goals.

However, whilst social entrepreneurs are most commonly associated with the volutary and
not- for –profit sectors, their need not necessarily be in compatible with making a profit.

Social entrepreneurs are individual with innovative solution to society’s most pressing social
problems. They are ambitious and persistent,tackling major social issues and offering new
ideas for wide scale change.

Leaving the societal needs to the government or business sector,social entrepreneurs find
what is not working and solve the problem by changing the system, ,spreading the solutions
,persuading entire society to take new leaps.

Social entrepreneurs are the need of the day, with numerous problems in the society and
environment ranging from poverty, illiteracy and sanitation to Global Warming – all waiting
for solutions.

QUALITIES

 ABITIOUS
 MISSION DRIVEN
 STRATEGIC
 RESOURCEFUL
 RESULT- ORIENTED

IMPORTANCE
 Identifies social problem
 Solves the social problem
 They act as change agents for society,
 seizes opportunities that other miss.
 They believe in improving the system
 Inventing new approaches
 Creating solutions to change the society better
 When a part of the society is stuck, they provide new ways to get it unstuck.
NGO’S

 A non profit making, voluntary , service oriented/development oriented, either for the
benefit of members .
 It is an organization of private individuals who believe certain basic principles and
who structure their activities to bring about development to the communities that they
are servicing
 They are social development organization assisting in empowerment of people.
 An oragnisation that is flexible and democratic in its oragnisation and attempt to
serve the people without profit for itself.

STRENGTHS OG NGO

The lean overhead and operating costs to for innovatch the poor and needy.

Flexibility and responsiveness in operation to invent appropriate solution

Nearness to the client groups made them to be sensitive to community need.

Capacity for innovation and experimentation with new groups and untried development
approach.

Dependence on customer satisfaction.

Act as test bed and sound board for government policies and programmes.

Stimulating and Mobilising interest in the community.

THE WEAKNESSES OF NGO’S

 Role conflict as to the traditional areas of operation and micro entrepreneurship


development.
 Doubtful leaderhip and succession.
 Anti-business philosophy, lack of programme integration due to lack of proper
understanding of entrepreneurship approach.
 Inadequate opportunities to work as trainer/motivator.
 Absence of impact assessment because of self righteousness, on the part of the
leaders.
 Not all NGO’s are equipped and ready to take up this activity .

IMPORTANCE /FUCTIONS/ ROLES OF NGO’S


1) Development of infrastructure.
2) Supporting innovation, demonstration and pilot projects.
3) Technical assistance and traning
4) Research, maintaining and evaluation
5) Advocacy for and with the poor
6) Facilitating communication.
7) NGO’s have the ability to experiment freely with innovative approaches
8) NGO’s are flexible in adapting to local situation and responding to the local
needs and therefore able to develop integrated projects and sectoral projects.
9) NGO’s enjoy good rappot with people and can render micro assistance to very
poor as they can identify those who are in most in need and tailor assistance to
their needs.
10) NGO’s have the ability to communicate at all levels, from te neighbourhood to
the top levels of the government.
11) NGO’s are able to recruit both experts and highly motivatvated staff with
fewer restrictions from the government.

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