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Humble Business Development

Over the summer, I volunteered with an NGO specializing in HIV/AIDS treatment and support.  This organization realizes with the advent of Anti-Retro Viral drugs that there woman will regain strength and wish to work again.  Our small team of MBAs and business professionals worked with them to develop an income generation component within their mission.  Within two months we had redefined a core part of their mission and even had orders coming in for a new product we developed.

 

Through this I grew professionally:

·         I gained an understanding of how to achieve a cultural change through the use of mission statements, value statements, and approach statements.

·         I learned how a healthy organization can undertake change rapidly to adapt to the new needs of their clients.  This NGO’s spirit of warmth and kindness serves a bedrock for allowing innovative approaches like ours to work well.

·         I saw the incredible power of a well defined mission that people believe in.  We had partners coming to us in droves and going out of their way to find ways to help our women.

I also grew spiritually:

·         The kindness and humility of these woman living on less than a dollar a day and surviving with HIV somehow passed through them to me.  I find myself chuckling at some things I use to do, like the need to use a Britta filter on perfectly clean tap water.  And, I feel profound gratitude for the opportunity to eat every day, and on top of this to enjoy a variety of foods.

·         This also reinforced my belief in following what feels appropriate for ourselves.  While many of my colleagues went to Wall Street and made big salaries, I spent all the money in my bank account($7,500) for this opportunity without fully understanding the Returns to me.  If I had done an ROI calculation, then I probably would have missed this wonderful opportunity.  Given my personal financial constraints, the support of grants from the Alliance of Students Against Poverty (ASAP) and UNC’s Kenan Institute (KI)  literally made the difference on whether I could do this trip. 

·         I found within myself that I enjoy sharing kindness with people.  This reshaped the way I look at business and who I choose to engage in my opportunities.  Now, as I look out at starting my company I am looking for kind people who instinctively offer those with less opportunity a chance.

Exploring the value

The value from this experience is hard to quantify immediately.  Yet, I feel the whole opportunity profoundly shifted my world perspective.  I found myself wondering after the experience “could I possibly have asked for a more ideal summer internship?”  The planning and people involved were that excellent.

John Post

Many thank you to Nondini for keeping our blog so healthy.   Getting decent internet access is proving an adventure.  I have been sending e-mail to kind folks without even getting to read all the mail they have sent to me.  I do this to let them know I am thinking of them. 

 

Thankfully, my external wireless gadget seems to work on the NGO network, so perhaps access will improve a touch when I am in the appropriate office.

 

We appreciate everyone’s patience with updates and our inability to respond to blog posts (the filters block these).

 

With warmth:

 

-John