Thursday, April 24, 2008
Cream cheese, golf, wrinkle!
If people at a non-profit are constantly seen eating cream cheese, playing golf and looking wrinkled with all the pampering, it's not something odd these days, cos there is a distinct corporatisation and co-option of non-profits happening
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Friday, March 28, 2008
Can a Government-aided body or agency be a people's profit?
Surely not 'cos people's profit which is meant to be communitarian is the very anti-thesis of the State
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Monday, March 3, 2008
Should people's profits complement each other's work?
That's what I thought they should. But what one finds is that they are steppin on each other's toes and there are whole areas that are very challenging and that lie completely unattended. Maybe there's no money in them, maybe it's not the kind of work that will fetch popularity.
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Thursday, February 14, 2008
Competitiveness should conceptually be uncharacteristic of a non-profit
But it appears that the non-profit is sometimes becoming just another corporate enterprise, or they haven't really thought through why they are a non-profit. Or else how does one explain the competitiveness rather than the conviction driving its functioning? One would normally have said the more the...
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Sunday, January 6, 2008
People's profit can only happen when diverse interests meet
and where specially the interests of various marginalised sections are factored in. This is the elementary truth that I think we need to contend with or else we are always seeking to exclude thereby making wholistic justice and profit impossible. What say?
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Friday, December 14, 2007
Some people's profits sometimes have some high profile persons who...
who work little and gas much and profit at the cost of the hard working people in the same non-profits. Something seriously wrong here. The concept of people's profit is about giving credit where credit is due. From each according to his ability to each according to his needs. But what we find is...
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007
The measure of a non-profit's success is when
people, specially the more marginalised sections for whom they are set up for, profit by their work. It may not necessarily be about organising x number of programmes. Quantity may count, but quality must count as well. Also, there has to be empathy, not charity towards the section that one is...
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Saturday, November 10, 2007
Some people are part of non-profits for publicity and
only do things in them that will get them into the limelight. Others slog behind the curtains towards the objectives for which the non-profit was set up. I don't like the limelighters, nor the modesty people. I like people who will work sincerely and committedly towards the cause and if the cause...
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Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Special Economic Zones the world over are recipes for disaster for the
local people. What's special about special economic zones? For whom are they special? If someone should profit from the special economic zones, it has to be the marginalised sections of society. But they are even further marginalised by such zones, as these zones are allotted to big time big mioney...
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Saturday, September 8, 2007
Different organisational styles under one roof?
Sometimes there are such differences in organisational styles that it seems impossible for certain persons to function together under the roof of one organisation. In such situations, is it better that they still try in the interests of the cause that they are fighting for or would it serve the...
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