Here is the question. If the United Nations was fully funded, why is there a need for Arc or Social Enterprises. Social enterprises are businesses whose primary purpose is the common good. They use the methods and disciplines of business and the power of the marketplace to advance their social, environmental and human justice agendas. The Arc Initiative is a medium through which Sauder aims to bridge the gap between economic well being, business management and leadership capacity.
Here is why I think that even if the United Nations would be fully funded, they do require social enterprises. Firstly, the United Nations aims to maintain peace, enforce human rights and social well being for its member nations and not all the countries. Secondly, the United Nation is an intergovernmental organization and it cannot look towards every country and help improve and support every country at the same time. Social enterprises can, thus, aid the United Nations by working towards the welfare of the citizens in their countries. This can help ensure an improvement in the economy. The United Nations is a huge organization and since it has so many member nations, they look to provide general benefits to the members with regards to providing human rights, health and education. Social enterprises, in this case, can bring improvement into more specific areas such as infrastructure.
