We were sitting at the site coordination office of SPARC, at Dharavi. SPARC is a Mumbai based non-profit working towards rehabilitation of Mumbai’s slum dwellers through local community organizations. The office is in the ground floor of a recently constructed housing complex, which previously used be a slum, now converted with help from the state government [...]
I came across this thought-provoking article, Non Profit and For-Profit: Blurring the Line, written by Howard Husock, who is the director of the Manhattan Institute’s Social Entrepreneurship Initiative, an award and research program, and a research fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, at Harvard University.
The artile does make us question the basic premise [...]
We are finalizing the deal with the machine supplier - J Paper Cups for the pilot unit at Samudram village. Slowly the boundaries between ProGreen's social mission and business goals are dissappearing.
The supplier, who promises to supply us machines of highest quality, was never willing to be flexible on the price. As like any other business, we kept pushing. [...]
