The Corporate Philanthropist: The Global Water Crisis - Page 9
Resources for Water Partnerships
Acumen Fund
Acumen Fund is a nonprofit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. Acumen Fund centers its investment activity in water around a few critical areas, seeking to spur innovation in water access and water quality by improving drinking water, irrigation and sanitation.
Ashoka
Ashoka is the world’s oldest and largest network of leading social entrepreneurs, working to surface talent and knowledge about solutions to critical problems in the world. Since 1981, Ashoka has elected over 2,000 leading social entrepreneurs as Ashoka Fellows, providing them with living stipends, professional support, and access to a global network of peers in more than 60 countries.
CEO Water Mandate
The CEO Water Mandate is a unique publicprivate initiative designed to assist companies in the development, implementation, and disclosure of water sustainability policies and practices. The CEO Water Mandate offers endorsing companies the opportunity to join United Nations events and key inter-governmental and other public policy discussions and deliberations on water sustainability.
www.unglobalcompact.org/issues/Environment/CEO_Water_Mandate
Charity: Water
Charity: Water is a nonprofit organization bringing clean, safe drinking water to people in developing nations. Charity: Water gives 100% of the money raised to direct project costs, funding sustainable clean water solutions in areas of greatest need.
Columbia Water Center
The Columbia Water Center at The Earth Institute at Columbia University is leading intellectual inquiry into the assessment, prediction, and solution of the growing scarcity of fresh water. The Water Center conducts research on water shortages in some of the most challenging settings in the world.
Global Water Challenge
Global Water Challenge (GWC) is a coalition of 22 leading organizations creating a global movement of transformational change around water and sanitation. GWC focuses on collaborative learning, connecting leaders, and investing in sustainable, scalable and replicable projects. GWC’s goal is universal access to clean water and safe sanitation.
Safe Water Network
Safe Water Network is a nonprofit organization that was established to address the lack of access to safe drinking water. Safe Water Network brings together philanthropy, academia, and the private and public sectors to develop, optimize, validate, and implement viable water solutions that provide safe drinking water to the world’s poor.
UNICEF Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Strategies
The overall objective of UNICEF in the area of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) is to contribute to the realization of children’s rights to survival and development through promotion of the sector and support to national programs that increase equitable and sustainable access to, and use of, safe water and basic sanitation services, and promote improved hygiene.
Water Advocates
Water Advocates is the first US-based nonprofit organization dedicated solely to increasing American support for worldwide access to safe, affordable, and sustainable supplies of drinking water and adequate sanitation. Water Advocates, which is fully funded, serves as a pro bono philanthropy advisor and corporate social responsibility consultant for private foundations and corporations engaged in solving the global safe drinking water and sanitation crisis.
WaterPartners International
WaterPartners International is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization committed to providing safe drinking water and sanitation to people in developing countries. WaterPartners not only offers traditional, grant-funded programs, but is also harnessing the power of micro-finance to address the world water crisis.
