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Leila represents Samasource at the African Social Enterprise Forum

September 22, 2009 in Africa, Nonprofits, Social Enterprise by jess

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.

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What is “reasonably priced” for a not for profit?

September 21, 2009 in Nonprofits, Social Enterprise by jess

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?

Doing Business for Good: Moving Beyond the for-profit and non-profit models

August 17, 2009 in Other by Paul Zaich

I first heard about social businesses and social entrepreneurship in a seminar at the Stanford GSB three years ago. At the time, it seemed like an interesting concept but was not something I gave much further thought.
Then last summer I spend five weeks in South Africa and had the privilege of speaking with many of [...]

Fishing Expedition: One Intern’s Journey from Wall Street to Refugee Camps

July 15, 2009 in Africa, Social Enterprise, Stories, Technology by Kate Brennan

As the proverb goes, “Give a man a fish and you have fed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime”. By leveraging technology to create jobs for the next billion, Samasource is teaching individuals how to fish. Fishing … I can’t think of a better way to spend my summer.

How Samasource Could Empower Paul Parach

June 30, 2009 in Africa, Social Enterprise by Paul Zaich

Meet Paul Parach. He’s 24, and currently in his second year of high school, thanks to CARE International’s operations in Dadaab. His story will make you stop whatever you’re doing and think about the latent talent of people in refugee camps.
Paul left his small village in South Sudan at the age of 9, chased out [...]

Palash’s Story

June 9, 2009 in Stories by Paul Zaich

“It was difficult for me to get job at any IT company or anywhere else because I had low education and zero experience.”

Samasource hosts a Facebook Developer Garage in East Africa

Samasource Gives You Customizable Facebook Testing

June 2, 2009 in Africa, Facebook by Paul Zaich

Facebook app developers: tell us what actions you need tested on your applications.

Mildy’s Story

May 21, 2009 in Stories by Paul Zaich

“Without this job, I would be struggling. But I have discovered my inner power. I am ready for anything now!”

Rethinking Outsourcing

May 15, 2009 in Nonprofits, Other by admin

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 [...]

Offshoring Brings Jobs to Africa

April 3, 2009 in Africa, Outsourcing by Daniel

While U.S. firms are laying-off employees, IT outsourcing is doing well on foreign streets. The debate over offshoring has been brewing since a 2002 study by the research group Forrester predicted that 3.3 million white-collar American jobs (including 500,000 IT positions) would move overseas to countries such as India by 2015.
More than 75 percent of [...]