Anar Simpson, Samasource Program Director, reflects on our evaluation of potential Haitian partner 1,000 Jobs.
Nairobi is the largest and most modern city in East Africa. It is growing very fast and is the center for many organizations and businesses in the region. Though the word Nairobi means “Place of cool water” for Masaii people, it is not the case this month (November ’09). In fact, the current drought striking [...]
The African Social Enterprise Forum has tons of the hardest working social entrepreneurship organizations such as Acumen Fund, the Rockefeller Foundation, Endeavor, Ashoka and Social Private Equity South Africa – and of course Samasource.
See Leila speak about the challenges of using microwork to help people in Africa make their own livelihoods online. Dignified digital jobs for the next billion.
What is a “reasonable price” for a NFP to pay for a software or service? Should they pay market rate as if they were a profit making venture? Should they get a discount? Should businesses, especially lower marginal cost businesses like software companies make a habit of donating licenses to not for profits?
I thought I’d share an Op-Ed I wrote that was published in The Star, a Malaysian newspaper, on Tuesday this week — it’s called Rethinking Outsourcing.
A positive social label could do much to change consumer perceptions of outsourcing to poor regions
IT’S a tough time for the outsourcing industry – 69% of Americans think outsourcing hurts [...]
I am a very optimistic person, optimistic to the point where most think I’m a little crazy. I have tried the “In a mad world, it’s only the mad that are considered sane” approach to assuage my need to fit in with the mostly glass-half-empty lot that most of my acquaintances are, but, it doesn’t [...]
Last week, Samasource’s brokerage service scored our biggest contract to date– a book validation pilot project with Bookshare.org, one of the many technology-driven projects initiated at Benetech, an award-winning nonprofit based in Palo Alto and led by veteran social entrepreneur Jim Fruchterman. Bookshare provides print disabled people in the US access to over 40,000 books [...]
In an effort to better understand the outsourcing needs of US non-profits, socially-responsible companies, and small businesses, we’ve launched a brief survey.
Responses will be used to recruit vendors that meet our quality and social impact criteria for our pilot project, starting this month.
World of Good, IFAT and eBay are partnering to sell “people positive products” on Project Good, a new online hub for fair trade producers. The project will feature a Community Site and Seller Hub to help smaller companies build their brands effectively.
It’s unclear what sort of impact this will have on the sale of fair [...]
A recent story in the New York Times highlighted the growing pressure on non-profits in the U.S. to operate more efficiently. Foundations and non-profits have been called”the last bastion of paper, pencil and greenshades”… but times are definitely changing, and outsourcing will become an increasingly important strategy for organizations looking to become leaner and [...]
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