” If the United Nations was fully funded why would we need the Arc or social enterprise”?
The UN is different from Arc Initiative and Social Enterprise in the sense that it helps people on a grander-scale judging their improvements based on groups and not individuals, as well as the benefits achieved through money expended. The UN fulfills the basic needs of humans because that is what the organization was designed for. Much like Maslow’s Hierarchy, they focus on the bottom of the triangle with physiological and security needs, and with maximum funding they would able to achieve this on an even grander scale, which is fantastic. Nevertheless, Arc Initiatve and Social Enterprises dig deeper in between the levels of Maslow’s Hierarchy, say Self-Identity and Actualization. They specialize in focusing on individuals and how to connect social and economic issues together and solve them.
We need social enterprise and Arc Initiative because they inspire people to use commercial strategies to improve people’s lives instead of maximizing profits. People see how the world can be greater benefited from socioeconomics whilst simultaneously achieving this through their passion. Furthermore, Social enterprise applies shared value where the UN will come in to fix a short-term problem, they are not always there to provide lasting values. Social enterprise does. A strong example of this is the clothing line Osei-Duro. The partners whom run the company line started out with a sustainable and ethical business of employing people in Africa to make garments. However after they discovered that the employees found it challenging to keep up with garment standards. So the heads of the company changed their tactics and focused on employee training so they could develop the skills needed to increase profits. However not only did the training increase profit but the act of the leaders taking time to value their employees potential is what shared value is all about.
Arc initiative and Social enterprises are here to stay because they provide an intimacy of social relationships and an understanding of the importance of economic expansion in the world that will last.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-business/sb-growth/going-global/production-problems-nearly-unravel-high-end-fashion-label/article14286870/
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http://www.un.org/en/strengtheningtheun/results.shtml