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Current age (NOTE: this section is for people 25 and younger): 
23
How many people are directly involved in your project? : 
500
How many people has your project helped?  : 
150
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Moorestown, NJ, 08057
See map: Google Maps
What's the problem you are trying to solve?: 
The organization, A Drink for Tomorrow, is committed to raising money and awareness to provide affordable and sustainable clean drinking water to the many people in our world who lack this essential human right.

Globally, 1.2 billion people lack access to clean drinking water.  As a result, thousands die each day from water borne illness.  This global water crisis has social and economic ramification as well.  Below are some staggering statistics about the gravity and urgency of the problem, but also some positive information about how successful clean water projects are.

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- globally, children miss 443 million school days a year because they are suffering from a water-borne illness
- the biggest killer of children under 5 in developing countries is diarrhea, killing over 4,000 children a day, 1.5 million a year
- if urgent action is not taken, by 2020, 76 million people will perish due to the global water crisis, more than AIDS and Malaria combined
- water projects are one of the most cost-effective mechanisms for disease prevention
- according to the WHO, every dollar invested in water and sanitation yields up to $34 in reduced medical costs and increased productivity 
Why is it important to you?: 
This project is important to me because I believe clean water is a human right, and the fact that 1.2 billion people are living without it is a human rights violation.  I also believe that clean water is a tool in the war against poverty.  Each person must have their basic needs met before progress can be made, and water is the most basic of all human needs.

The organization, A Drink for Tomorrow, is committed to raising money and awareness to provide affordable and sustainable clean drinking water to the many people in our world who lack this essential human right. We use cause marketing, similar to the breast cancer "pink" ribbon or (Product) Red, to launch industry specific fundraising and awareness campaigns.   Our first campaign is called "Turn Wine into Water": through partnerships with restaurants, wine stores and wineries, a percentage of profits on the sale of wine are donated to the cause. 

It is our hope that as A Drink for Tomorrow grows, it will catalyze support among the for-profit sector, resulting in more clean water projects across the globe. Funds raised by A Drink for Tomorrow are channeled directly into other non-profit or non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that are committed to implementing community based clean water projects.  We support organizations that have the infrastructure and knowledge in place to carry out clean water projects, but lack physical or human resources due to in-adequate funding.

ADFT funds clean water projects through an organization called Peer Water Exchange (PWX). PWX is a non-profit organization that connects groups of people around the world and facilitates discussion, development and implementation of clean water and sanitation projects.  The basis of PWX is collaboration and partnership: small, local NGOs around the world develop projects with their communities, and through PWX, the projects are discussed, finalized, approved and funded.  PWX was created by the Blue Planet Run Foundation with the hopes of increasing the effectiveness, efficiency and transparency of managing grassroots water and sanitation projects around the world.
What's your plan of action?: 
To date, we have focused primarily on laying the foundation of the organization.  We started with legal filings such as incorporation, Charitable Registration, and Form 1023 for tax-exempt status.  Realizing the importance of creating a professional exterior for the organization, we next focused on things like the website, business cards, letterhead and promotional materials.  In one year, we have grown from an organization started by two friends to an organization that has five staff members, two interns and several regular volunteers.  We plan to continue to focus on recruiting enthusiastic volunteers, as the organization is 100% volunteer run with no paid employees.  

After establishing a foundation for the organization, we focused our efforts on fundraising and getting the word out about the organization.  We've given speeches about the global water crisis and our organization at high schools, colleges, Rotary clubs, and churches among other places.  We've partnered with eight different business to hold events or run cause marketing promotions, mostly tailored towards our "Turn Wine into Water" campaign, to generate funds and awareness.

In November of 2009, one year from the day A Drink for Tomorrow incorporated as a non-profit corporation, we cut a check to fund our first water project, which will bring clean, arsenic free drinking water to a village in West Bengal, India.  In West Bengal, and other states in India, millions of people are exposed to arsenic in their drinking water. The tasteless, odorless metalloid occurs naturally, in a dissolved state, in groundwater aquifers in the region. Arsenic causes cancers of the lung, bladder, kidney, liver, and skin as well as cardiovascular, respiratory, reproductive, neurological, and dermal effects. In West Bengal, it is estimated that in 9 out of 18 districts, over six million people are drinking arsenic-contaminated water. For these people, death and illness could be only a sip away.  We are proud to have been able to provide clean, arsenic free drinking water to some of these individuals suffering from the consequences of drinking water contaminated with arsenic.

In the coming months, we hope to focus on pursuing more partners in the wine industry so that we can continue to raise funds and awareness and as a result, provide many more people with clean drinking water in the months and years to come.
How Can Others Help?: 
A crucial element to each campaign is that not only does it involve the generous support of the partnering businesses, but it also allows the general public to contribute to a solution to the global water crisis.  Through the purchase of items designated to donate a certain percentage of profits to our cause, consumers have the opportunity to make a financial contribution by simply selecting our partner's brand in their purchase.  In the face of a problem as overwhelmingly large as the global water crisis, it is important to provide individuals with an easy and direct way to contribute to a solution.  Our promotions and campaigns provide the general public with this avenue of contribution. 
If others want to get more involved, we rely fully on volunteers to move the organization forward.  We are willing to work with each individual's time and talents to find a way for them to help out.  A great way to get involved is to contact us about running a promotion with a restaurant or wine store in your area.
Total hours volunteered (to date): 
950
Start Date: 
10/15/2009
Money Raised: 
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The organization, A Drink for Tomorrow, is committed to raising money and awareness to provide affordable and sustainable clean drinking water to the many people in our world who lack this essential human right.

Globally, 1.2 billion people lack access to clean drinking water.  As a result, thousands die each day from water borne illness.  This global water crisis has social and economic ramification as well.  Below are some staggering statistics about the gravity and urgency of the problem, but also some positive information about how successful clean water projects are.

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It is our hope that as A Drink for Tomorrow grows, it will catalyze support among the for-profit sector, resulting in more clean water projects across the globe. Funds raised by A Drink for Tomorrow are channeled directly into other non-profit or non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that are committed to implementing community based clean water projects.  We support organizations that have the infrastructure and knowledge in place to carry out clean water projects, but lack physical or human resources due to in-adequate funding.

ADFT funds clean water projects through an organization called Peer Water Exchange (PWX). PWX is a non-profit organization that connects groups of people around the world and facilitates discussion, development and implementation of clean water and sanitation projects.  The basis of PWX is collaboration and partnership: small, local NGOs around the world develop projects with their communities, and through PWX, the projects are discussed, finalized, approved and funded.  PWX was created by the Blue Planet Run Foundation with the hopes of increasing the effectiveness, efficiency and transparency of managing grassroots water and sanitation projects around the world.
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- currently, patients suffering from a water-borne disease occupy half of the world’s hospital beds
- globally, children miss 443 million school days a year because they are suffering from a water-borne illness
- the biggest killer of children under 5 in developing countries is diarrhea, killing over 4,000 children a day, 1.5 million a year
- if urgent action is not taken, by 2020, 76 million people will perish due to the global water crisis, more than AIDS and Malaria combined
- water projects are one of the most cost-effective mechanisms for disease prevention
- according to the WHO, every dollar invested in water and sanitation yields up to $34 in reduced medical costs and increased productivity 
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The organization, A Drink for Tomorrow, is committed to raising money and awareness to provide affordable and sustainable clean drinking water to the many people in our world who lack this essential human right. We use cause marketing, similar to the breast cancer "pink" ribbon or (Product) Red, to launch industry specific fundraising and awareness campaigns.   Our first campaign is called "Turn Wine into Water": through partnerships with restaurants, wine stores and wineries, a percentage of profits on the sale of wine are donated to the cause. 

It is our hope that as A Drink for Tomorrow grows, it will catalyze support among the for-profit sector, resulting in more clean water projects across the globe. Funds raised by A Drink for Tomorrow are channeled directly into other non-profit or non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that are committed to implementing community based clean water projects.  We support organizations that have the infrastructure and knowledge in place to carry out clean water projects, but lack physical or human resources due to in-adequate funding.

ADFT funds clean water projects through an organization called Peer Water Exchange (PWX). PWX is a non-profit organization that connects groups of people around the world and facilitates discussion, development and implementation of clean water and sanitation projects.  The basis of PWX is collaboration and partnership: small, local NGOs around the world develop projects with their communities, and through PWX, the projects are discussed, finalized, approved and funded.  PWX was created by the Blue Planet Run Foundation with the hopes of increasing the effectiveness, efficiency and transparency of managing grassroots water and sanitation projects around the world.
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After establishing a foundation for the organization, we focused our efforts on fundraising and getting the word out about the organization.  We've given speeches about the global water crisis and our organization at high schools, colleges, Rotary clubs, and churches among other places.  We've partnered with eight different business to hold events or run cause marketing promotions, mostly tailored towards our "Turn Wine into Water" campaign, to generate funds and awareness.

In November of 2009, one year from the day A Drink for Tomorrow incorporated as a non-profit corporation, we cut a check to fund our first water project, which will bring clean, arsenic free drinking water to a village in West Bengal, India.  In West Bengal, and other states in India, millions of people are exposed to arsenic in their drinking water. The tasteless, odorless metalloid occurs naturally, in a dissolved state, in groundwater aquifers in the region. Arsenic causes cancers of the lung, bladder, kidney, liver, and skin as well as cardiovascular, respiratory, reproductive, neurological, and dermal effects. In West Bengal, it is estimated that in 9 out of 18 districts, over six million people are drinking arsenic-contaminated water. For these people, death and illness could be only a sip away.  We are proud to have been able to provide clean, arsenic free drinking water to some of these individuals suffering from the consequences of drinking water contaminated with arsenic.

In the coming months, we hope to focus on pursuing more partners in the wine industry so that we can continue to raise funds and awareness and as a result, provide many more people with clean drinking water in the months and years to come.
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A crucial element to each campaign is that not only does it involve the generous support of the partnering businesses, but it also allows the general public to contribute to a solution to the global water crisis.  Through the purchase of items designated to donate a certain percentage of profits to our cause, consumers have the opportunity to make a financial contribution by simply selecting our partner's brand in their purchase.  In the face of a problem as overwhelmingly large as the global water crisis, it is important to provide individuals with an easy and direct way to contribute to a solution.  Our promotions and campaigns provide the general public with this avenue of contribution. 
If others want to get more involved, we rely fully on volunteers to move the organization forward.  We are willing to work with each individual's time and talents to find a way for them to help out.  A great way to get involved is to contact us about running a promotion with a restaurant or wine store in your area.

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How many people has your project helped?  : 
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Moorestown, NJ, 08057
See map: Google Maps
What's the problem you are trying to solve?: 
The organization, A Drink for Tomorrow, is committed to raising money and awareness to provide affordable and sustainable clean drinking water to the many people in our world who lack this essential human right.

Globally, 1.2 billion people lack access to clean drinking water.  As a result, thousands die each day from water borne illness.  This global water crisis has social and economic ramification as well.  Below are some staggering statistics about the gravity and urgency of the problem, but also some positive information about how successful clean water projects are.

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- currently, patients suffering from a water-borne disease occupy half of the world’s hospital beds
- globally, children miss 443 million school days a year because they are suffering from a water-borne illness
- the biggest killer of children under 5 in developing countries is diarrhea, killing over 4,000 children a day, 1.5 million a year
- if urgent action is not taken, by 2020, 76 million people will perish due to the global water crisis, more than AIDS and Malaria combined
- water projects are one of the most cost-effective mechanisms for disease prevention
- according to the WHO, every dollar invested in water and sanitation yields up to $34 in reduced medical costs and increased productivity 
Why is it important to you?: 
This project is important to me because I believe clean water is a human right, and the fact that 1.2 billion people are living without it is a human rights violation.  I also believe that clean water is a tool in the war against poverty.  Each person must have their basic needs met before progress can be made, and water is the most basic of all human needs.

The organization, A Drink for Tomorrow, is committed to raising money and awareness to provide affordable and sustainable clean drinking water to the many people in our world who lack this essential human right. We use cause marketing, similar to the breast cancer "pink" ribbon or (Product) Red, to launch industry specific fundraising and awareness campaigns.   Our first campaign is called "Turn Wine into Water": through partnerships with restaurants, wine stores and wineries, a percentage of profits on the sale of wine are donated to the cause. 

It is our hope that as A Drink for Tomorrow grows, it will catalyze support among the for-profit sector, resulting in more clean water projects across the globe. Funds raised by A Drink for Tomorrow are channeled directly into other non-profit or non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that are committed to implementing community based clean water projects.  We support organizations that have the infrastructure and knowledge in place to carry out clean water projects, but lack physical or human resources due to in-adequate funding.

ADFT funds clean water projects through an organization called Peer Water Exchange (PWX). PWX is a non-profit organization that connects groups of people around the world and facilitates discussion, development and implementation of clean water and sanitation projects.  The basis of PWX is collaboration and partnership: small, local NGOs around the world develop projects with their communities, and through PWX, the projects are discussed, finalized, approved and funded.  PWX was created by the Blue Planet Run Foundation with the hopes of increasing the effectiveness, efficiency and transparency of managing grassroots water and sanitation projects around the world.
What's your plan of action?: 
To date, we have focused primarily on laying the foundation of the organization.  We started with legal filings such as incorporation, Charitable Registration, and Form 1023 for tax-exempt status.  Realizing the importance of creating a professional exterior for the organization, we next focused on things like the website, business cards, letterhead and promotional materials.  In one year, we have grown from an organization started by two friends to an organization that has five staff members, two interns and several regular volunteers.  We plan to continue to focus on recruiting enthusiastic volunteers, as the organization is 100% volunteer run with no paid employees.  

After establishing a foundation for the organization, we focused our efforts on fundraising and getting the word out about the organization.  We've given speeches about the global water crisis and our organization at high schools, colleges, Rotary clubs, and churches among other places.  We've partnered with eight different business to hold events or run cause marketing promotions, mostly tailored towards our "Turn Wine into Water" campaign, to generate funds and awareness.

In November of 2009, one year from the day A Drink for Tomorrow incorporated as a non-profit corporation, we cut a check to fund our first water project, which will bring clean, arsenic free drinking water to a village in West Bengal, India.  In West Bengal, and other states in India, millions of people are exposed to arsenic in their drinking water. The tasteless, odorless metalloid occurs naturally, in a dissolved state, in groundwater aquifers in the region. Arsenic causes cancers of the lung, bladder, kidney, liver, and skin as well as cardiovascular, respiratory, reproductive, neurological, and dermal effects. In West Bengal, it is estimated that in 9 out of 18 districts, over six million people are drinking arsenic-contaminated water. For these people, death and illness could be only a sip away.  We are proud to have been able to provide clean, arsenic free drinking water to some of these individuals suffering from the consequences of drinking water contaminated with arsenic.

In the coming months, we hope to focus on pursuing more partners in the wine industry so that we can continue to raise funds and awareness and as a result, provide many more people with clean drinking water in the months and years to come.
How Can Others Help?: 
A crucial element to each campaign is that not only does it involve the generous support of the partnering businesses, but it also allows the general public to contribute to a solution to the global water crisis.  Through the purchase of items designated to donate a certain percentage of profits to our cause, consumers have the opportunity to make a financial contribution by simply selecting our partner's brand in their purchase.  In the face of a problem as overwhelmingly large as the global water crisis, it is important to provide individuals with an easy and direct way to contribute to a solution.  Our promotions and campaigns provide the general public with this avenue of contribution. 
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Start Date: 
10/15/2009
Money Raised: 
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