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Give work

reversing poverty one job at a time

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An edition of Give work (2017)

Give work

reversing poverty one job at a time

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"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 people to move to better neighborhoods, attain more education, and send their children to school. It changes the lives of the poor permanently, offering them dignity and independence in a way that aid simply cannot. Give Work is based on Janah's firsthand experience in all corners of the world, from a school for the blind school in Ghana to the World Bank. A Harvard-educated former management consultant, Janah applies the scrappy, entrepreneurial spirit and innovative mindset of a Silicon Valley startup. She shares her entrepreneurial journey as well as the poignant stories of the thousands of people who have benefited from Samasource's work. Like Blake Mycoskie's Start Something That Matters, Give Work offers a blueprint for social entrepreneurs"--

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Portfolio/Penguin
Language
English
Pages
260

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Table of Contents

From the ground up
Aid: what works, what doesn't, and why
The capital of hustle
Home, and the future of work
Beauty for humanity: a new business
The movement is now.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-252) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
338.7/61362584
Library of Congress
HD8039.D372 D48 2017, HD8039.D372D48 2017

The Physical Object

Pagination
vii, 260 pages
Number of pages
260

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26935185M
Internet Archive
giveworkreversin0000jana
ISBN 10
0735211892
ISBN 13
9780735211896
LCCN
2017013323
OCLC/WorldCat
994205961

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