Non Profits as Change Agents

"Have patience!  In time, even grass becomes milk."  -  Charan Singh

NON PROFITS AS CHANGE AGENTS

The July 2003 issue of Child Care Information Exchange contains a trend report, "Non Profit Child Care Facing Challenges Worldwide", in which Maria Isabel Bove, director of CAIF Plan in Montevideo, Uruguay argues that non profit organizations (or NGO's) in early childhood are uniquely positioned to promote change in society:

"Paraphrasing E. Dabas, it could be said that the new and overwhelming social problems we are now facing at the beginning of this new century demand from us that actions be performed from different and distinct social actors who are no longer separated into levels, disciplines, or sectors.  Classical institutional structures are not sufficiently operative to face these new problems.  We are now protagonists of change in which the civil society is generating alternative proposals.  Civil associations have undertaken an increasingly active and responsible role, increasing their capacity for decision-making in the benefit of the community."

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