Supporters
Samasource is supported by a diverse community of individuals, foundations, and companies.
Individuals
As an individual, you can support us by joining us on our Facebook page, below, our Facebook Causes page, or by making a donation.
Institutional Supporters
Peery Foundation
About: The Mission of the Peery Foundation is to strengthen youth and families to build lives of dignity and self-reliance.
Our Partnership: Samasource received a $300,000 grant from the Peery Foundation for general organizational support over the next three years.
Rockefeller Foundation
About: The Rockefeller Foundation supports work that expands opportunity and strengthens resilience to social, economic, health and environmental challenges—affirming its pioneering philanthropic mission since 1913 to “promote the well-being” of humanity. All initiatives draw on the Foundation’s commitment to nurture innovation, pioneer new fields, expand access to and distribution of resources, empower beneficiaries to cultivate and spread progress in their countries, and, ultimately, generate sustainable impact on individuals, institutions, and communities.
Our Partnership: Samasource received a $70,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to support our efforts to provide employment opportunities to women and youth in the Dadaab refugee camp of Kenya.
John Templeton Foundation
About: The mission of the John Templeton Foundation is to serve as a philanthropic catalyst for discovery in areas engaging life’s biggest questions. These questions range from explorations into the laws of nature and the universe to questions on the nature of love, gratitude, forgiveness, and creativity. The John Templeton Foundation’s vision is derived from Sir John Templeton’s commitment to rigorous scientific research and related scholarship.
Our Partnership: Samasource received the $10,000 Templeton Freedom Prize for Excellence in Promoting Liberty.
Mitchell Kapor Foundation
About: The Mitchell Kapor Foundation is a private foundation with the mission to ensure fairness and equity, especially in low-income communities of color. The Foundation supports organizations and activism that illuminate and mitigate the conditions and dynamics of inequality. Founded by entrepreneur and philanthropist Mitchell Kapor in 1997, the Foundation's grants program focuses on funding organizations that are working to ensure justice and equity for vulnerable and underserved communities, primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Our Partnership: Samasource received a $5,000 grant from the Mitchell Kapor Foundation to support our general operations.
US State Department
About: The mission of the US State Department is to advance freedom for the benefit of the American people and the international community by helping to build and sustain a more democratic, secure, and prosperous world composed of well-governed states that respond to the needs of their people, reduce widespread poverty, and act responsibly within the international system.
Our Partnership: Samasource received a $120,000 grant from the US State Department to support our programs in Haiti. Our work in Haiti (first initiated in 2009), was accelerated after the earthquake in January 2010 when it became clear that providing work would become an important part of the country's reconstruction. Today, Samasource has trained forty workers at 1000 Jobs/Haiti, our partner on the ground, with the help of the US State Department.
The Body Shop Foundation
About: The Body Shop Foundation is The Body Shop International Plc’s charitable trust that supports innovative projects across the world working for social & environmental change.
Our Partnership: Samasource received a $2,000 grant from the Body Shop Foundation to help set up our Service Partner in Dharamsala, India.
Facebook Fund
About: fbFund is a $10M seed fund supporting developers and entrepreneurs on Facebook Platform. fbFund provides funding, mentoring, and marketing to their developers and entrepreneurs.
Our Partnership: Samasource participated in the Summer 2009 class of the fbFund. We received a team of experienced industry advisors, office space in downtown Palo Alto and a summer of weekly workshops, trainings and more.
Business in Development Challenge
About: The Business in Development (BiD) Challenge is the world's first international business plan competition for Poverty reduction and Profit. The Business in Development Challenge offers start-up funding for plans that combine income-generating business with poverty reduction in a feasible way. The Challenge was an initiative of NCDO and has been developed and organized by Fair Ventures.
Our Partnership: Samasource received $22,000 in initial seed funding to develop and implement our business plan.
Stanford Social Enterprise Challenge
About: The aim of the Social Enterprise Challenge is to support new ventures led by budding social entrepreneurs.
Our Partnership: Samasource received $12,000 from the Stanford Social Enterprise Challenge to support our initial development.
Rainer Arnhold Fellowship/Mulago Foundation
About: Rainer Arnhold Fellows are social entrepreneurs with particularly promising solutions to the big problems in health, poverty, and conservation in the Third World. The Program helps them design their work for maximum impact through an iterative design process focused on scalability.
Our Partnership: Our founder, Leila Janah, was selected to be a Rainer Arnhold Fellow and received $10,000 to help support our initial development. Samasource also received a $50,000 grant from the Mulago Foundation to support our general operations.
About: Google Grants is a unique in-kind donation program through Google’s charitable arm, Google.org, that awards free AdWords advertising to select charitable organizations. Google supports organizations sharing their philosophy of community service to help the world in areas such as science and technology, education, global public health, the environment, youth advocacy, and the arts.
Our Partnership: Samasource received a $120,000 Google Grant in the form of free advertising through Google AdWords. This helps us attract new customers and donors while spreading the word about our mission.
TEDIndia Fellowship
About: The TED Fellows program helps world-changing innovators from around the globe become part of the TED community and, with its help, amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities. Fellows are drawn from many disciplines that reflect the diversity of TED's members: technology, entertainment, design, the sciences, the humanities, the arts, NGOs, business and more.
Our Partnership: Our founder, Leila Janah, was selected to be a TEDIndia Fellow.
Corporate Supporters
Bain & Company
About: Bain & Company is a global business-consulting firm that helps management make decisions around strategy, operations, mergers & acquisitions, technology and organization.
Our Partnership: Bain has provided Samasource with pro-bono consulting services.
Grassroots.org
About: The mission of Grassroots.org is to serve as a catalyst for positive social change by leveraging modern technologies and best business practices. Grassroots.org provides nonprofit organizations with free valuable technologies and resources to increase their efficiency and productivity.
Our Partnership: Grassroots.org paired Samasource with a team of University of Maryland graduate students who analyzed and reformatted our core training materials.
Salesforce.com
About: Salesforce.com is the leading provider of CRM and cloud computing applications for large enterprises, small businesses, and nonprofit organizations. Salesforce.com is dedicated to leveraging people, products, and resources with the goal of strengthening communities around the world.
Our Partnership:
Salesforce provided Samasource with a generous donation through their "Share the Power" sponsorship program.
Ropes & Gray
About: Ropes & Gray is a leading global law firm representing interests across a broad spectrum of industries in corporate law and litigation matters. They also offer counsel on labor and employment issues, tax and benefits, creditors' rights, and private client services.
Our Partnership: Ropes & Gray has generously donated legal support since the inception of Samasource. They provided contracts, research, legal advice and other valuable insight.
Auctionomics
About: Auctionomics is an auction-design and software firm offering innovative, economically sound solutions to complicated problems.
Our Partnership: Auctionomics played a key role in organizing the 2009 Samasource Give Work Gala by finding a long list of donors and orchestrating our live auction that raised almost $100,000 to support the Samasource mission.
FlipCam
About: FlipCam makes sleek, pocket-sized camcorders that aim to make video making easy.
Our Partnership: FlipCam has provided several cameras at cost to Samasource so that we can document our work on-site around the world.
Dropbox
About: Dropbox is a file hosting service that uses cloud computing to enable users to store and share files and folders with others across the Internet using file synchronization.
Our Partnership: Dropbox donated 10 GB of shared file storage for the first year of Samasource’s operations.
activeCollab
About: activeCollab is a project management & collaboration tool that allows users to set up on their own server or local network.
Our Partnership: All of the software licenses and access needed to implement activeCollab for Samasource were kindly donated.
Versions App
About: Versions provides a pleasant way to work with Subversion on your Mac, helping to streamline workflow across a team.
Our Partnership: Version donated full licenses for our entire team to make deployments of our codebase to www.samasource.org much faster and convenient.
