The Three Sectors

My undergraduate studies focused on governments' ability to enact change.  Though that capacity is great,  it is often misguided by political leaders' ambitions providing an incentive to maintain the status quo, and on a global scale is inhibited by nations' territorial sovereignty.  Even the political body with the most extensive multilateral support, the UN, has had its hands tied by China's unmoving commitment to noninterference.

Deciding that large-scale political change moved far too slowly for me, I committed to a year in the non-profit sector, hoping a small-scale operation, if limited in geographical impact, could at least enact change more quickly than government bureaucracy.  Working with Manna Project, I have seen, by absence rather than example, that if an NGO is adequately focused in its mission, and governed well, it can indeed see a measurable impact (preferably, impact would be measured).

Yet, I cannot help but think that there must be a manner to address global poverty that has the scope of the public sector and the intimate impact of a focused non-profit.  It is with a desire to find such a vehicle of comprehensive change that I turn my hopes to mobilizing that final sector, by far the largest and most dynamic.  If consumers and investors are encouraged to view private capital as mutually inclusive with social responsibility, the world may see some unbelievable results.