Rahim Kanani: How would you apply these learned insights to leading and managing social sector organizations?
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This requires social sector managers to be very savvy about determining which resources are absolutely essential.
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It is impossible for people to move within the social sector to smaller accommodation.
Taking an outside course or volunteering in the social sector can frequently satisfy this need.
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As someone working in the social sector and also as a parent, I find these statistics sobering.
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Clearly, this is not just good news for the social sector but also for the business world.
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Darlene Daggett: Transitions from the private to the social sector are most often borne out of something deeply personal.
Finally, many self-made philanthropists seek to translate the lessons that built their business successes into the social sector .
There is no parallel infrastructure to help make effective investment decisions in education or any other aspect of the social sector.
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Each of these two statements has resonance for our social sector today.
But social sector organizations also have a huge advantage over other organizations.
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The social sector could learn a lot from this new participant-as-decider paradigm.
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Scaling in the social sector means understanding the best approach to making a more meaningful qualitative difference with respect to a social issue.
Photo sharing has become one of the hot areas in the social sector in recent months with a large number of start-ups competing for users.
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Rahim Kanani: Lastly, on a personal note, who are some of your own heroes in the social sector space, and how have they inspired you?
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This arrangement allows foundations to increase the amount of money available to the social sector, while simultaneously building stronger and more sustainable socially minded entities.
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So much of the debate gets bogged down in platitudes about sustainability and win-win scenarios when business insights and acumen are applied to the social sector.
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Our efforts are but two in an increasing list of initiatives exploring how the social sector might better use data and information from various angles and perspectives.
Last year the government set up Big Society Capital as a social investment bank with the aim of radically changing the way Britain's social sector is funded.
"We will relinquish government involvement in production and raise resources for development of our social sector, " Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee said in a speech on Wednesday.
Teresa Amabile: Probably the biggest challenge to social sector organizations is obtaining the capital needed to provide the resources for people to make progress in their work.
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We've been inspired in this regard by a group called the Rapid Results Institute, with which we've collaborated on new models of rapid prototyping for the social sector.
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As someone who works in the non-profit sector running an economic development organization in Northeast Ohio, I found this concept worth exploring for both business and social sector leaders.
When our social sector is successful at moving our attention and allocating more resources up the chain from data to information to knowledge and to wisdom, that will truly be an anecdote worth retelling.
From the perspective of someone who recognizes the very high payoff to innovation in the social sector, I can only be delighted with the outcomes of the program regardless of how we label it.
This willingness to risk failure in pursuit of a breakthrough can feel especially scary in the social sector, where fundraising anxiety discourages honest conversations about how to move beyond existing models in search of better ones.
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But, given the nature of these times, we must hope that our social sector funder-in-chief will not be deterred and will aggressively embrace innovation as the surest means to overcoming our critical social challenges moving forward.
They also heeded warnings that changing the system would hit Austria's social sector, which depends on conscientious objectors who serve as ambulance drivers, attendants at senior citizens' homes and in other community jobs that are hard to fill because of poor pay.
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