How different is the functioning and management style in such organisations?
Social services functions that governments usually provide are often very complicated. For instance, in the US, you have one agency dealing with the homeless, another with the jobless and so on. That’s too complicated for anyone looking to change his life. Social entrepreneurship organisations like ours follow the strategy to be a one-stop shop to deal with all such problems — this makes the affected more ready to change his life. He can stay focused on the work he does and we handle the different problems in an aggregated way. In the long run this helps us transform more lives than, perhaps, different agencies would. The benefits are two-fold — one, it’s a better way to provide service to a larger number of people, and two, the impact is more sustainable. Obviously, better results help us attract more funding. In fact, we have about 200 different funding sources. It helps us in that if one goes away, we are not affected. So social entrepreneurship organisations like ours must learn
