Wednesday, January 16, 2013

It is time for Civil Society to join mainstream thinking

Kerryn Krige has written a fantastic article on 6 Steps to Surviving 2013. It is based on her participation in the "Looking back, Looking forward" forum at GIBS. Social development  has reached the agenda of business schools. There is a recognition of the important contribution of civil society in building South Africa. Although this is something that we practitioners have always known, it has been difficult to get the government and business sectors to acknowledge the important contribution that we make. Kerryn notes that it is in the non profit sector where the potential for real change lies and that government and business need to start engaging with the sector if they want to move forward. There is the realisation that society is more than rules, profit or jobs. It is also the engaging of people to create long term solutions to pressing issues. It is necessary for us in the not for profit sector to create a co-ordinated approach where our expertise is used to build the better society for which we all strive. We have a window of opportunity and need to take it.


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