Across industries, the ability to grow your business without overinvesting resources is of utmost importance. Nonprofits face a unique challenge in being forced to run a lean ship without the safety net of VC money. The Sama team has turned constraints in resources into lessons on being mindful in how they run and build their business. Wendy Gonzalez, SVP & Managing Director of Samasource, explains how to apply nonprofit tactics to ensure the long-term success of your company, regardless of your funding source or the type of business you run.
The Art of Sustainable Growth: What the Not-For-Profit Business Model Can Teach You, Wendy Gonzalez, Samasource
1. The Art of Sustainable
Growth:
What a Not-for-Profit Business Model
Can Teach You
Wendy Gonzalez
Managing Director, Samasource
2. At Samasource we believe work is
the best solution to the complex
problem of poverty.
We move people out of poverty by
providing training and internet-based
work that pays a living wage.
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5. Samasource provides an entry
point to formal work, serving as the
first step towards a long-term
career.
EMPLOYMENT
Workers earn a living wage.
LONG-TERM
CAREER
After 3.5 years, workers
average $8.15/day.
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TRAINING & SUPPORT
Workers learn digital literacy, soft skills, job readiness, and financial
literacy.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Workers move to other jobs in the formal
sector
POVERTY
On average, people earn $2.20/day prior to joining
Sama.
PRE-
SAMA
CAREER PATHWAYS