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Red-hot: Samasource growth thaws a frigid San Francisco Summer

By Pamela Bandyopadhyay Pavkov, Marketing/Fundraising Senior Associate Mark Twain once said that the coldest winter he had ever experienced was his summer in San Francisco. Although I’m reminded of that fact daily when I don my winter coat to commute to Samasource headquarters, I’m uplifted the moment I walk into work every day. Simply put, [...]

Samasource Associate Christine Shepherd Shares Her Experience in Haiti

As a business and international relations graduate student, I knew that choosing to spend my summer in Haiti working for Samasource would open my eyes to the challenges of operating in a third world environment. Intense heat, power outages and lack of running water are commonplace here, and of course do their part to try [...]

Summer at Samasource

We are well into our Summer Associate program at Samasource.  We have four full-time Associates spread across Haiti, India, and Kenya and five more Associates in our San Francisco office – Samasource’s largest Associate class ever.  Our roles vary as much as our experience.  We tackle marketing, fundraising, quality, client management, and engineering, and plenty [...]

Interviewing the Workers of 1,000 Jobs/Haiti

Right before the January 12th earthquake in Haiti, Samasource  brought on its newest Service Partner, 1,000 Jobs/Haiti. In the wake of the earthquake, the Haitian team immediately got to work on an important new project, translating emergency SMS messages as part of the Mission 4636 project. Samasource is helping to rebuild lives by creating much needed [...]

Samasource in Haiti: It’s funny how things turn out sometimes

Anar Simpson, Samasource Program Director, reflects on our evaluation of potential Haitian partner 1,000 Jobs.

A Parisian in Nairobi – Part 2

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 [...]

Leila represents Samasource at the African Social Enterprise Forum

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 “reasonably priced” for a not for profit?

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?

Rethinking Outsourcing

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 [...]

My Experience with Samasource

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 [...]