This document discusses traditional approaches to charity and business that have failed to meaningfully address global poverty and inequality. It introduces impact sourcing as a new model that combines business and social impact. Impact sourcing employs workers living in poverty to complete digital work, providing a sustainable income while delivering cost-effective services to companies. The document outlines Samasource's impact sourcing model, which has employed over 6,000 workers and generated on average $1,500 per person in income. It argues impact sourcing has significant potential to employ millions of workers and could account for a large portion of the outsourcing industry.

1. LEILA JANAH
FOUNDER + CEO
email: leila@samasource.org

2. BUSINESS
&
SOCIAL IMPACT

3. THE WORLD, TODAY
1B people living under $2/day
300,000 avoidable maternal deaths
783M people without clean water
2.5B without sanitation/toilets

4. TRADITIONAL CHARITY

5. TRADITIONAL CHARITY
“I think it is very beautiful for
the poor to accept their lot, to
share it with the passion of
Christ.
I think the world is being much
helped by the suffering of the
poor people.”
Mother Teresa

6. TRADITIONAL CHARITY

7. TRADITIONAL CHARITY

8. TRADITIONAL CHARITY
U.S. Economic Assistance, Current $
1946 - 2012
$10,000,000,000
$20,000,000,000
$30,000,000,000
$40,000,000,000
FY1946 FY1956 FY1966 FY1976 FY1985 FY1995 FY2005
source: https://eads.usaid.gov/gbk/data/index.cfm

9. of development-related aid transferred
from rich countries to Africa alone in the
past 60 years
$1T
TRADITIONAL CHARITY

10. of the African population - still
live on less than a dollar a day
50%
TRADITIONAL CHARITY

11. TRADITIONAL CHARITY
“The trouble with the aid-
dependency model is, of course,
that Africa is fundamentally kept
in its perpetual childlike state”
Dambisa Moyo

12. TRADITIONAL BUSINESS

13. TRADITIONAL BUSINESS
“It is not very unreasonable
that the rich should contribute
to the public expense, not only
in proportion to their revenue,
but something more than in
that proportion.”
Adam Smith

14. TRADITIONAL BUSINESS PROFIT
PROFIT
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PROFIT
PROFIT
PROFIT
PROFIT
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The Wolf of Wall Street
© 2013 Paramount Pictures

15. TRADITIONAL BUSINESS
PROFESSIONAL SOCIAL
personal development
pay bills
skills
career
family
children
PTA meetings
church
volunteering

16. TRADITIONAL BUSINESS
PROFESSIONAL SOCIAL
personal development
pay bills
skills
career
family
children
PTA meetings
church
volunteering
priority
nights &
weekends

17. BUSINESS
+
SOCIAL IMPACT

18. 1794
First strike organized
by a union
Printers in NYC
1946
Fair trade supply chains
first developed
by the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC)
1960
Corporate Social
Responsibility
starts being widely used
BUSINESS & SOCIAL

19. TRADITIONAL BUSINESS
DEEPER

20. GREENWORKS

21. BUSINESS & SOCIAL
of consumers believe the singular
purpose of business is to
make money for shareholders
6%
source: 2013 CONE COMMUNICATIONS/
ECHO GLOBAL CSR STUDY

22. BUSINESS & SOCIAL
of young workers want to work for a
company that care about how it impacts
and contributes to society
80%
source: 2013 CONE COMMUNICATIONS/
ECHO GLOBAL CSR STUDY

23. BUSINESS & SOCIAL
of consumers likely to switch brand with
one associated with a good cause
source: 2013 CONE COMMUNICATIONS/
ECHO GLOBAL CSR STUDY

24. B CORPORATIONS
3.5B in revenue

25. B CORPORATIONS

26. TRANSPARENCY FOR
‣ Employees
‣ Supply chain
‣ Beneficiaries
‣ Environment
TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

27. TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

28. TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS
Andrew Biraj/Reuters

29. BUSINESS
&
SOCIAL IMPACT

30. Donors should require
social & environmental return
TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

31. Non-profits should develop
earned revenue strategies
TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

32. credits : Canergie Science Center
members
3.3M
annual sales
700M
TRADITIONAL NONPROFITS

33. Source: Goodwill Industries - 2011
people employed,
training & support
services
4.2M
collective revenue
$4B
TRADITIONAL NONPROFITS

34. IMPACT SOURCING

35. IMPACT SOURCING

36. IMPACT SOURCING
6,397
workers

37. “The advantages are clear in working with an
organization like Samasource. If you can get
the same quality and cost effectiveness that
other services provide but have the added
benefit of doing good in the world and
supporting an organization that does that, it’s a
no-brainer”
Steve Heck
CTO, Getty Images
IMPACT SOURCING

38. IMPACT SOURCING
300+
students

39. IMPACT SOURCING
89%
of Samasource workers leave
program to attend higher education
or earn higher wage

40. IMPACT SOURCING
$1,500
average income
generated per person

41. BUSINESS & SOCIAL
$1 $1.55

42. IMPACT SOURCING
Rockefeller Foundation invested
$100M in Digital Jobs Africa

43. IMPACT SOURCING
Still a long way to go
‣ 100,000 workers
‣ potential to employ 3M people
and account for 25% of
outsourcing industry within 10
years

44. FASHION & LUXURY
Luxury Goods Market
240B global luxury goods market
65% gross margins

46. THE IDEA
Laxmi is a new luxury
brand that delivers
beauty in action through
the creation of products
that transform our skin,
our planet, and people
for the better.
2
JaneChen,SocialEntrepreneur
BEAUTY IN ACTIONTM

47. BUSINESS MODEL
• RARE, 100% NATURAL AND
ORGANIC INGREDIENT BLENDS
• DESIGN EXCELLENCE AND
LUXURY BRAND EXPERIENCE
• UNCOMPROMISINGLY
TRANSPARENT VALUE CHAIN
• SOCIAL IMPACT + REPUTABLE
NGO PARTNERS
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48. SUPPORT IMPACT SOURCING
ETHICAL SHOPPING
Maiyet, TOMS, PACT,
Raven + Lily, Laxmi,
Punjammies…
SUPPORT THE FUTURE
GIVE WORK

49. LEILA JANAH
FOUNDER + CEO
email: leila@samasource.org