November 27, 2023

Social sector animals

If your CEO was an animal, what animal would they be?

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If you’ve been part of a team icebreaker, chances are someone has asked you, “If you were an animal, what animal would you be and why?”

Well, we took that common game and decided to assign animals to people we come across in the social sector—David Attenborough style.

1. CEO of a social enterprise

a bird with bright red and yellow plumage--nonprofit humour

2. Head of a CSR foundation

a chimpanzee with trees in the background--nonprofit humour

3. Comms personnel

a beluga whale with its head out of the water--nonprofit humour

4. Bureaucrats

a sloth hanging on to a tree branch--nonprofit humour

5. Everyone on the conference circuit

three meerkats standing upright--nonprofit humour

6. Community resource person

a tardigrade feeding on moss--nonprofit humour

7. Researcher

a squirrel burrowing into the ground--nonprofit humour

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Cincy Jose

Cincy Jose heads editorial operations at IDR. She is involved in people, partnerships, and process management, and the projects she has led include setting up IDR Hindi, the multilanguage feature on IDR English, and IDR Answers–the first AI-powered search and analysis engine built to answer questions about social impact in India. Prior to entering the development sector, Cincy spent seven years in the publishing industry holding key editorial positions at Juggernaut Books and DK Books India. She has a master’s and bachelor’s in English literature from Miranda House and Jesus and Mary College, Delhi University.

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Saloni Meghani

Saloni Meghani is an editorial consultant at IDR. She has been a journalist, editor, and writer for more than 25 years. She has worked with organisations such as The Telegraph, The Times of India, Mumbai Mirror, Netscribes, the Tata Group, ICICI, and NYU. Saloni has a master’s in literature from the University of Mumbai and an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University.

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