Leila Janah quote: "The amount of work that a for-profit has to do to get real money is minimal compared to the amount of work it takes a non-profit to get even a very small grant."

I think people are hungry for new ideas and leadership in the world of poverty alleviation. Most dev...
LEILA JANAH

I'm the founder and CEO of Sama Group, a family of social enterprises - Samasource, Samahope and...
LEILA JANAH

So often, we leave the selfless side of ourselves for nights and weekends, for our charity work. It ...
LEILA JANAH

I used to think my job as a CEO meant managing metrics and meeting goals, but I've realised now ...
LEILA JANAH

Most philanthropists want to be effective altruists. But the problem isn't intention: it's m...
LEILA JANAH

I think in general, people who aren't themselves entrepreneurs are often more risk averse. And I...
LEILA JANAH

I really love travelling to places where I get to learn something new about a new group of people or...
LEILA JANAH

The challenges that the homeless face aren't dissimilar to those in developing countries.
LEILA JANAH

Through my studies, I became increasingly disillusioned with the international aid system. I think w...
LEILA JANAH

I used to think that the worst form of discrimination for women was being hit on or hearing somethin...
LEILA JANAH

Every woman that dies or loses her baby on a threadbare cot in the heart of Uganda, while her sister...
LEILA JANAH

Migration is the story of my life: my parents and grandparents journeyed across four continents to f...
LEILA JANAH

I founded Samasource because I was frustrated by traditional approaches to poverty alleviation. Even...
LEILA JANAH

Like so many first generation children of Indian immigrants, I learned to believe in a dream that is...
LEILA JANAH

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other p...
LEILA JANAH

Samasource creates jobs in regions where more traditional forms of employment in low-income economie...
LEILA JANAH

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. In the nonprofit world, the right picture is worth ten...
LEILA JANAH

We spend billions on international aid annually, but we don't find ways to connect people to dig...
LEILA JANAH

Samasource's largest clients are technology companies such as Microsoft, Google, Getty Images, a...
LEILA JANAH

Labor looks different in the 21st century. And so should our job training programs.
LEILA JANAH

I grew up in Los Angeles, where long drives on packed freeways make everyone a fan of radio and, par...
LEILA JANAH

The core concept of Samasource is essentially that technology helps us unlock human talent wherever ...
LEILA JANAH

Handouts are not going to end global poverty, but work - real work - just might.
LEILA JANAH

I think part of the problem with charity is that it tends to make us view people as helpless victims...
LEILA JANAH

My personal style comes from jugaad, a Hindi word meaning doing more with less.
LEILA JANAH

I was 24 years old and stuck in a strange place with two boisterous little boys, and my husband was ...
LEILA ABOULELA

Sometimes, when you are worn down, day after day, relentlessly, with no reprieve for years piled on ...
LEILA SALES

Speak your truth with grace and integrity, even though it might upset some people. You never know wh...
LEILA SUMMERS

Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.
LEILA JOSEFOWICZ

Well, you can't have heartbreak without love," Dan pointed out. "If your heart was really broken, th...
LEILA SALES

I believe that a person's taste in music tells you a lot about them. In some cases, it tells you eve...
LEILA SALES

But I also felt like an eggshell that had gotten a tiny crack. You can’t repair something like tha...
LEILA SALES

Sometimes you just have those days where everything goes wrong. But sometimes, and totally unexpecte...
LEILA SALES

I'm concerned that Islam has not just been politicised but that it's becoming an identity. T...
LEILA ABOULELA

We all want things that aren't good for us.
LEILA SALES

Whether it has been transformed from commercial fad to artistic recognition is very much in the air.
LEILA COBO

Don't you ever want to have just one thing that no one else knows about, so no one can ruin it for y...
LEILA SALES

The Mercy of Allah is an Ocean, Our sins are a lump of clay clenched between the beak of a pigeon. T...
LEILA ABOULELA

The thing about being an artist," Dad said, folding his newspaper and setting it down on the table, ...
LEILA SALES

That's the problem with life. You never get enough time to stare at your ceiling and try to figure o...
LEILA SALES

Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable.
LEILA SALES

She got her son named Robinson. But when little Ray ((Ray Jr.)) went out there, he was pushed to the...
LEILA SMITH

Sometimes people think they know you. They know a few facts about you, and they piece you together i...
LEILA SALES

The first of these is the high levels of incarceration, even though we are aware of your high rate o...
LEILA ZERROUGUI

The Disney Company wanted to do a proper 75th-birthday celebration of Mickey. What better way than t...
LEILA DUNBAR

My faith was started off by my grandmother and mother, and so I always saw it as a very private, per...
LEILA ABOULELA

This should have been a red flag, I realize in retrospect. Working really hard on anything is, by de...
LEILA SALES

It wasn't an effect of alcohol. It was more like we got drunk on the night.
LEILA SALES

Of course, as always, there is an arbitrary, invisible fence in place. You can't see it, but it will...
LEILA SALES

In Bio last year, I learned that blood is actually a dark maroon when it's inside your body. It's th...
LEILA SALES

I liked projects where I could take things apart and figure out exactly how they worked. The problem...
LEILA SALES

I had never killed myself before, so I had no idea what would I want to listen to when it was too la...
LEILA SALES

Anyone who said I believe in you obviously didn't know me very well.
LEILA SALES

I was smiling like a crazy person because I has just made a hundred people dance, I had just made a ...
LEILA SALES

Tonight the Internet seemed filled with versions of me, like a fun house filled with mirrors. Some o...
LEILA SALES

Which to you have?' Mel asked, blocking the entry with his body. 'Talent or issues?' I paused for a ...
LEILA SALES

You can't tell me my feelings are overwrought or absurd. You don't know. They are my feelings.
LEILA SALES

People have to create some sort of art so they have something to think about other than their shitty...
LEILA SALES

But you know better than anyone how the Internet sees everything and nothing, all at the same time.
LEILA SALES

I do want to believe that there's some place in the world that's more mature than high school," Vick...
LEILA SALES

Don't be special." That's what I would say to my younger self if I could pinpoint the moment when I ...
LEILA SALES

I don't believe that anyone who is a legitimately interesting person can be popular as a teenager," ...
LEILA SALES

I didn’t know. I feel sometimes like…there are all these rules. Just to be a person. You know? Y...
LEILA SALES

Sometimes you have to give up something you are to get to who you want to be.
LEILA SALES

I had this feeling suddenly. I get this feeling a lot, but I don’t know if there’s one word for ...
LEILA SALES

People are who they are and, try as you might, you cannot make them be what you want them to be.
LEILA SALES

You think it's so easy to change yourself. You think it's so easy, but it's not. True, things don't ...
LEILA SALES

I write fiction that reflects Islamic logic: fictional worlds where cause and effect are governed by...
LEILA ABOULELA

Who would care if I became pregnant, who would be scandalized? Aunty Eva, Anwar's flatmates. Omar wo...
LEILA ABOULELA

She's thinking that what she's been doing all these years isn't what she wants to do anymore. Someti...
LEILA COBO

Sometimes you get everything you ever wanted, only it doesn't look like what you wanted anymore.
LEILA SALES

Small miracles happen every day, some people just don’t notice them.
LEILA SUMMERS

Without a best friend to tell stories to, it almost didn't matter if they even happened.
LEILA HOWLAND

In the spirit of compromise.
LEILA ZERROUGUI

We have never agreed to have a supervised meeting or visit a place where we cannot have full access ...
LEILA ZERROUGUI

This was our first visit to an African country and South African conditions of detention could certa...
LEILA ZERROUGUI

Many foreigners are deprived of their liberty, some with legal residence papers, some claiming asylu...
LEILA ZERROUGUI

The One of Ours poster campaign is a great way for high schools to see how well their graduate are d...
LEILA TVEDT

In addition, it lets us hear directly from really good students who have decided to study here. They...
LEILA TVEDT

It was 104 degrees that night. It was 130 degrees ringside, that's what they said. I was there. It f...
LEILA SMITH

He meant Doyle. I know my son. But . . . I can't be sure. Ray used to take care of me. I used to kno...
LEILA SMITH

Now, for four or five years, I don't get nothing, I don't hear nothing. And I don't ask why. Ray had...
LEILA SMITH

He wanted to buy me a Cadillac. But I only saw hard men and rough women in those cars. So he bought ...
LEILA SMITH

Ray had promised me back in 1940 that I would never have to work again. And I never had to. My son a...
LEILA SMITH

The world swam before my eyes.
LEILA SMITH

He arrived in good shape, conscious, I talked to him, he expressed his appreciation and his thanks f...
LEILA SHAHID

He woke up in a good mood, in good shape after a real rest. He feels generally better; his general c...
LEILA SHAHID

It was already dehydrated, hadn't been feeding and being out of the water would have, in effect, shr...
LEILA SADLER

There was always the risk this would happen.
LEILA SADLER

It was a brave, valiant, but ultimately tragic effort to get the whale to safety.
LEILA SADLER

We are delighted to have the opportunity to offer property from the estate of Katharine Hepburn. Her...
LEILA DUNBAR

We have to be really, really careful about what goes up on the site.
LEILA DUNBAR

I think it's a great move. I think they will take it more seriously than CBS did. There has never re...
LEILA COBO

The music they are making is wonderful. There is so much talent there.
LEILA COBO

We chose materials that feel good under your feet and against your hands.
LEILA BIJAN

The use of natural light throughout the building was very important.
LEILA BIJAN

Design is a very subjective thing, and at times we had fireworks.
LEILA BIJAN

It's a comment on our society, on the fragmentation of American family life. We have to bear that th...
LEILA AHMED

After years of secularism we're introducing Islam in a new way into the constitution, ... The only o...
LEILA AHMED

is a signal of things to come rather than a bad thing itself. That's what is so troubling.
LEILA AHMED

What really happened doesn't matter. What matters is how we agree to remember it.
LEILA SALES

I think that's one of the biggest problems in the world - we don't look at one another; we d...
LEILA BEKHTI

People, of all ages, are far more open than you might think to being moved in new ways.
LEILA JOSEFOWICZ

Some people were nice to you simply because they liked you.
LEILA SALES

É a sensação de rodar, rodar, rodar sem saber exatamente para onde estava indo ou como se já est...
LEILA GOMES LOPES

The more science learns what life is, the more reluctant scientists are to define it.
LEILA M. COYNE

The amount of work that a for-profit has to do to get real money is minimal compared to the amount of work it takes a non-profit to get even a very small grant.

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The amount of work that a for-profit has to do to get real money is minimal compared to the amount of work it takes a non-profit to get even a very small grant.

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