Samasource is a nonprofit organization that brings dignified, computer-based work opportunities to people living in poverty around the world. The organization’s mission is based on the belief that poverty can be alleviated by tapping into the brainpower of the poor and empowering them as producers of goods and services in the global economy.

Samasource derives its name from the Sanskrit word sama, which means equal, and was founded in 2008. The company’s board and management team includes experts in the fields of distributed work, economic development, and outsourcing.

The organization secures contracts from enterprise customers to provide data entry, digitization, content moderation, and other outsourcing services. The work is divided into smaller tasks called “microwork” which are completed by Samasource’s distributed workforce. This workforce comes from Service Partners in 6 different countries including Haiti, India, Kenya, Pakistan, South Africa, and Uganda.

UNUM is a Collective for Creators, where your fashion ideas are voted on, made by us, and sold as yours. Your signature goes on each piece, you receive a percentage of profits, and your voice gets heard in the industry. The best part is that you can use that voice for good. UNUM makes their pieces from leftover and rescued fabrics – giving everyone a more creative and fulfilling way to go about ‘fashionable responsibility’.

BrightFarms operates hydroponic rooftop greenhouses at grocery retailers, eliminating time, distance and cost from the food supply chain. They design, finance, build and manage the operations of the BrightFarm to deliver produce at equal or higher service levels than the retailer currently requires of its other suppliers. There is no cost to the retailer to build the BrightFarm, only an obligation to purchase the output.

By selling food immediately upon harvesting, with no storage or shipping, the retailer provides its customers with produce that is visibly fresher and more attractive, and that will last meaningfully longer and be more nutritious. A BrightFarm greenhouse grows food with a fraction of the land and water, using integrated pest management; our methods produce no agricultural runoff and have a dramatically reduced carbon footprint.

The platform Knok is simple and easy to use, it has a recommendations system and it is safe and social, with ways to find other members that share your lifestyle and could be great exchange partners. On your profile you can upload photos and a map of your apartment or house and you can tell people where you would like to travel and where you’ve already been to.

Yet transport costs are prohibitive: 40% of prices. Mothers may walk 30 km to a Health Post, to find essential medicines out-of-stock. ColaLife forms partnerships to trial new distribution partnerships and delivery models for medicines, and has designed an ‘AidPod’ to fit unused space in drinks crates – adaptable/adoptable in a range of countries, for local needs.

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It holds an open directory for ecovillages, eco-sustainable communities, farms and projects that is maintained by the people that live there. It promotes an independent lifestyle not linked to the use of money and being closer to nature and people.

After the registration process and paying an annual fee, you are free to exchange homes as often as you want. A ‘Luxe’ home can be small and stylish as much as large and luxury. It’s common for members to swap a cosy city one-bedroom apartment for a bigger home in the country or by the sea, as people want different things at different times when they travel.

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On the website individuals and organizations can post offers, while organizations can ask for help, individuals can say what they would like to do, where they would like to do it and the organizations can answer directly.

Please notice that the website is only available in Spanish, Catalan, Galician and Basque.

Organization can sign up, explain their mission and ask for volunteers or donations, and individuals can search for volunteer work, communicate with the organization and between one another and can upload documents and photos, write blogs and more.

Please notice that the website is only available in Portuguese.