leadership paper
ASSIGNMENT
Making of a Social Entrepreneur
Arbind Singh: A Social Entrepreneur
Founder & Director, Nidan, Patna
By:
Jai Kumar Verma
PGDIM – 19
Sec - A
Roll No: 65
Social entrepreneurs are the individuals with business insight and who want to for a social cause. They can provide the new approaches needed to fasten the process of reducing poverty and hunger. By combining and developing the innovative ideas from individuals and investments from public, private, and civil society organizations, the entrepreneurs can guide complex global food systems and rural institutions toward their goals
Arbind Singh, he was born in Muzaffarpur and spent his early years in Katihar, a district in India’s northeast state of Bihar, which is a hub of migrants who came to the area in search of work. As a child, he was confused by the routine eviction of neighbourhood vendors. After studying sociology and law in New Delhi, he returned to Bihar in the early 1990s to work with vendors and has been active in the development sector for 17 years. His work in the NGO Adithi was a turning point, where he was deeply inspired by its founder Viji Srinivasan. He started work with vendors under the aegis of Adithi, before registering Nidan as a separate entity in 1996.
Arbind’s goal, with great urgency, is to ensure greater numbers and scale of businesses run by the poor. He started Nidan to support poor men, women and their children involved in the informal economy.
Key Factors in Achieving your Dream
1. Begin with an end in mind.
2. Do what you do best.
3. Have people ask you questions about your idea.
4. Practice pitching your idea.
5. Study the history of the problem you are attacking.
6. Develop a theory of change.
7. Keep thinking about how you can measure or evaluate success.
8. Celebrate every victory, no matter how small.
9. Initiate new relationships.
10. Apprentice yourself with masters. (Work without pay if necessary.)
11. Volunteer
Making of a Social Entrepreneur
Arbind Singh: A Social Entrepreneur
Founder & Director, Nidan, Patna
By:
Jai Kumar Verma
PGDIM – 19
Sec - A
Roll No: 65
Social entrepreneurs are the individuals with business insight and who want to for a social cause. They can provide the new approaches needed to fasten the process of reducing poverty and hunger. By combining and developing the innovative ideas from individuals and investments from public, private, and civil society organizations, the entrepreneurs can guide complex global food systems and rural institutions toward their goals
Arbind Singh, he was born in Muzaffarpur and spent his early years in Katihar, a district in India’s northeast state of Bihar, which is a hub of migrants who came to the area in search of work. As a child, he was confused by the routine eviction of neighbourhood vendors. After studying sociology and law in New Delhi, he returned to Bihar in the early 1990s to work with vendors and has been active in the development sector for 17 years. His work in the NGO Adithi was a turning point, where he was deeply inspired by its founder Viji Srinivasan. He started work with vendors under the aegis of Adithi, before registering Nidan as a separate entity in 1996.
Arbind’s goal, with great urgency, is to ensure greater numbers and scale of businesses run by the poor. He started Nidan to support poor men, women and their children involved in the informal economy.
Key Factors in Achieving your Dream
1. Begin with an end in mind.
2. Do what you do best.
3. Have people ask you questions about your idea.
4. Practice pitching your idea.
5. Study the history of the problem you are attacking.
6. Develop a theory of change.
7. Keep thinking about how you can measure or evaluate success.
8. Celebrate every victory, no matter how small.
9. Initiate new relationships.
10. Apprentice yourself with masters. (Work without pay if necessary.)
11. Volunteer