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Negocios Sociais – Uma Nova Economia
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Social businesses? A New Economy
Automatically translated into English thanks to WorldLingo
For Anamaria Schindler - Economic Value

the idea of that a social project can become one (good) sustainable business new, controversial and is still little debated. The social businesses are born with a clear, allied social mission to the production of economic value.

It is the inverse logic of a trend brought for the world-wide movement of corporative social responsibility, where the companies search to produce and to be competitive in the market being incorporated corporative practical traditional social practical values and to its already.
Instead of developing a good product, to become competitive with it e, then to unite social values, the social business promises already to present to the consumer a product that, since its conception, incorporates the social dimension and promises economic development.

It is clearly that many must think that this is not possible. Moreover, it has the ones that think that it cannot be competitive. That is what we will have to test and to prove.

In the practical one, this already happens here exactly in Brazil and other parts of the world. A national example that is giving certain is the Association of Small Agriculturists of the City of Brave (Apaeb), that it mounted a unit of sisal improvement, that later if became a plant that today uses more than 800 people.
The Apaeb produces and commercializes carpets, carpets and other products of sisal. To each year, it exports about US$ 3 million. Somebody could think this of a small Association, a ONG of the interior of the Bahia, when it was established at the beginning of years 80?

It is not an easy way. One of the main necessities of the social businesses is an excellent performance in the planning, in the production, commercialization and general development of the business. E this can be obtained and be learned.

A chance of a good planning of a social business can start through the Enterprising Prize Social Ashoka - McKinsey, a competition of business-oriented plans for organizations of the civil society (without lucrative ends) that they develop social businesses.

Such organizations, as well as the Apaeb, possess the business as cerne of its activity. They have as objective the economic development of the communities with that they work. This means that such organizations generate resources to cover its operational costs, income for its beneficiaries, its inclusion in the productive chain and improvements for all the community. They are organizations that stimulate the local production, the conscientious consumption, the ambient preservation, the shared generation of wealth, the respect to the diversity, the equality of chances and the social inclusion.

The problem of the sustentabilidade of the non-profit organizations is old. During many decades the ONGs had passed for all type of difficulty in the chain of dependence of captation of resources and external sources to that they were submitted.
Many still live this drama daily, but others start to tread a proper way of prescription generation. Most innovative they are being born to be sustainable? that is, already they are born with a social business.

While many initiate such businesses with the intention to generate income, some already also possess other objectives. One of most important is to be able to open chances of work for the people of the communities that take care of.

As already Muhammad Yunus said, creator of the Grameen Bank: If you need a job, you create a job.

To learn to plan and to execute a business already is a challenge. But, a still bigger obstacle will be to fortify the social values of the business, to communicate them and to make with that the consumer, back in the tip, has conscience of them.
To support the mission social of a business will be the main challenge. If looser, will be able to indicate ways for a socially responsible economy.

Link: http://blog-ae.blogspot.com/2007/01/negcios-sociais-uma-nova-economia.html

September 2, 2008 | 8:49 PM Comments  0 comments

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