--- title: Sama's Leila Janah on Transforming the Caregiving Industry description: She's planning a program with Care.com to train low-income people to be caregivers—a service that’s offered by few state or federal entities canonical: https://time.com/collections/vatican-global-forum/4588643/time-global-forum-leila-janah/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-02T11:37:52.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-02T23:19:14.218Z article:section: Business og:title: Sama's Leila Janah on Transforming the Caregiving Industry og:description: She's planning a program with Care.com to train low-income people to be caregivers—a service that’s offered by few state or federal entities og:url: https://time.com/collections/vatican-global-forum/4588643/time-global-forum-leila-janah/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf8696ebfb5eaa18d/6988ae54e20a8751f4a9335f/vaticanglobalforumlede.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Sama's Leila Janah on Transforming the Caregiving Industry og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Sama's Leila Janah on Transforming the Caregiving Industry twitter:description: She's planning a program with Care.com to train low-income people to be caregivers—a service that’s offered by few state or federal entities twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf8696ebfb5eaa18d/6988ae54e20a8751f4a9335f/vaticanglobalforumlede.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Dec 02, 2016 # How Entrepreneur Leila Janah Is Working to Transform the Caregiving Industry > Sponsored content. 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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by Claire Zillman / Fortune  2016 Franco Origlia Leila Janah is founder of what she describes as one of Silicon Valley’s few “intentionally” non-profit companies. The organization she founded, Sama, is a tech platform that connects impoverished people with large corporations like [Google](http://fortune.com/fortune500/alphabet-36/), LinkedIn, and [Microsoft](http://fortune.com/fortune500/microsoft-25/) to complete digital projects. She started the company eight years ago, and Janah told the [_Fortune + Time_ Global Forum in Rome on Friday](http://fortune.com/2016/11/15/fortune-time-global-forum-2016-livestream/) that its latest effort in the United States is aimed at “formalizing” informal work. In the past, Sama has helped connect low-income Americans with so-called gig economy jobs like driving for Uber or shopping for Instacart. Now, it’s preparing to launch a partnership with Care.com, a job site for caregivers, to create a “care institute.” The program will train low-income people to be caregivers—a service that’s offered by few, if any, state or federal entities. Janah, who[ was named one of _Fortune_‘s Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs in 2013](http://fortune.com/2013/10/10/meet-the-2013-fortune-most-powerful-women-entrepreneurs/), said part of the idea behind the care institute is to give caregivers “reputational equity.” Many workers in the caregiving industry—along with gig economy workers and day laborers—lack a formal track record of their on-the-job performance. White collar workers have benefited from reputational equity for generations through performance reviews and, more recently, networking sites like LinkedIn. But if you’re a day laborer who does good work on Monday, your performance is “zeroed out” on Tuesday, she said. _Fortune_ assistant managing editor Adam Lashinsky asked Janah if the kinds of jobs Sama is helping facilitate—driving for Uber or image tagging for large technology companies—are of high enough quality. In answering, Janah referenced some individual cases of workers using such jobs to pull themselves out of poverty. “Digital work,” she said, “is a stepping stone into new economy jobs: it exposes \[low-income people\] to the internet and the knowledge economy.” This [article](http://fortune.com/2016/12/02/care-com-leila-janah-sama/) originally appeared on [Fortune.com](http://www.fortune.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/vatican-global-forum/4588643/time-global-forum-leila-janah/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/vatican-global-forum/4588643/time-global-forum-leila-janah/"},"headline":"How Entrepreneur Leila Janah Is Working to Transform the Caregiving Industry","datePublished":"2016-12-02T11:37:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:19:14.218Z","description":"She's planning a program with Care.com to train low-income people to be caregivers—a service that’s offered by few state or federal entities","url":"https://time.com/collections/vatican-global-forum/4588643/time-global-forum-leila-janah/","keywords":["Global Forum"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf8696ebfb5eaa18d/6988ae54e20a8751f4a9335f/vaticanglobalforumlede.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Claire Zillman / Fortune"}],"creator":"Claire Zillman / Fortune","articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf8696ebfb5eaa18d/6988ae54e20a8751f4a9335f/vaticanglobalforumlede.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/global-forum/","name":"Global Forum"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/vatican-global-forum/4588643/time-global-forum-leila-janah/","name":"How Entrepreneur Leila Janah Is Working to Transform the Caregiving Industry"}}]}] ```