BUS 374 Reflections

      This week we drew connections from social innovation to the gospel. In my opinion social innovation is potentially a very useful tool that can help us bless our own lives and the lives of others. Heavenly Father expects us to help and serve one another, and what better way is their to serve others than by using social innovation? Potentially we can serve others on a much larger scale too.     Something that stood out to me this week was our analysis of Kiva, they kind of seem like they suck. Problems with dishonesty, problems with paying back lenders, problems with diverting from the original intent. To me it felt like I was reading a slow and inevitable change from a non-profit focused on helping people, to a corporation focused on... well to be honest I don't even think they themselves really know what they're focused on. Too many plates spinning if you ask me.      As for my own social innovation goals... if I am being completely honest I...

      Being a member of the Church of Latter-day Saints from birth means that self-reliance has been taught to me my entire life. The idea of self-reliance is that you, as an individual, develop the skills that you need to in order to provide for yourself. I remember having Wednesday night Young Women's activities be lessons on how to sew on buttons, can peaches, change a car tire, in order to learn self-reliance. Microcredit is the practice of  providing small loans, often to individuals in impoverished or underserved communities, who lack access to traditional banking services. Sometimes small business will use microcredit in order to become self reliant.      I found the video about how self-reliance can lift people out of poverty interesting. Overall though I don't think that the only cure to eliminating poverty can eradicate poverty entirely. For example people with extreme cognitive disabilities will never be able to have self reli...