Over the last few years, the sector has grown tremendously, including in the areas of:
Youth participation: Young people who were already ‘riding the technology wave’ – found it much easier to adapt to the changes that COVID brought, especially during the lockdown. They leaned into their civic power , created financial opportunities for themselves using digital platforms like social media, and embraced opportunities in the tech industry.
Social enterprise: The social sector, used to be primarily comprised of non-profit and charitable organisations only – groups addressing social issues, by relying solely on financial support from funding organisations, and donations. Now, there’s a new wave of social impact organisations – the social enterprises. These are profit-making organisations/businesses driven by social missions and reinvesting their profits into creating positive social change.
Partnerships and collaboration: There is now more emphasis on collaboration and partnership – within and across sectors. Actors from the social, private, and public sectors are working together, now more than ever, to collaboratively address recurring social challenges. The Coalition Against COVID-19 of which I served as co-administrator, is a great example.
I have been privileged to witness the various dimensions, and transformations that the social sector has been through over the years. From the era of ‘pure passion’, where there was less emphasis on structure and systems, but we did the work because we were passionate about it, to the early stages of the ‘formalised social sector’, and now to the present days of social impact innovation.
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