Give work: saving the world one job at a time

✍ Scribed by Janah, Leila

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group;Portfolio
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Leila Janah, a dynamic social entrepreneur, shares the story of how she founded one of the hottest non-profit startups.

Leila Janah has the solution for the world's bottom billions. She founded Samasource with the belief that giving dignified work to the world's poorest people is the most effective tool for fighting poverty. Fast Company named Samasource one of the 50 Most Innovative Companies in 2016 because they go into communities lacking living-wage jobs—from the refugee camps of Sierra Leone to rural Arkansas—and train people to do digital work, such as verifying
data that makes Google's search algorithms smarter.

Inspired by and then partnering with cutting-edge Silicon Valley companies, Janah bridges the divide between the nonprofit world and the tech and private sectors to help the world's poorest lift themselves out of poverty. The steady salary from these jobs from companies like Google, Getty, and Microsoft enables...

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