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A Life-Changing Weekend
This year’s Dickens of a Christmas celebration was full of holiday decorations, costumes, food, and just enough cold weather for a little snowfall to top off the Christmas cheer. It’s the time of year for thankfulness, joy, and…
The Heart of Giving: Community:Builder Stories (Part I)
Our monthly donors are called Community:Builders because they are not only providing clean water, sanitation, hygiene, and HIV/AIDS care and prevention services in Africa; they are helping build stronger communities. Blood:Water’s model focuses on empowering grassroots organizations…
40 is Everything
Are you trapped in the holiday gift-giving frenzy? Do all the gadgets, toys, and material things lack meaning and feel impersonal? Perhaps it’s time we shift our perspective. $40 provides clean water, sanitation, and hygiene to one person…
YOUganda Update
In May, we partnered with Wally from The Wally Show to provide families around Uganda with clean water, sanitation, and hygiene FOR LIFE! You showed up in a big way. For those who donated $1,000 or more,…
Five Things We’re Thankful For
Thanksgiving reminds us that we have so much to be thankful for at Blood:Water. Ending the water and HIV/AIDS crises in Africa is no small task, but the people we work with have proven that it is…
The Heart of Giving
The holidays are intended to be spent with family and friends, a time for gift-giving, and for celebration of life, joy, and peace. It is easy for each of these things to become lost in the hustle…
Not All Heroes Wear Capes
Who do you think of when you hear the word hero? Maybe you imagine Superman or Wonder Woman. Perhaps you think of someone a little less famous, like your fourth grade math teacher who believed in you…
Discover New Giving Options
We know there are many ways to give, and a monetary contribution is just one form of generosity. Here are a few additional giving options to consider: Amazon SmileYou shop. Amazon gives. Shop for everyone on…
A Matter of Strength and Health (Part II)
To read Part I of this blog, click here. A civil society organization will struggle to reach its full potential without the investment of others who can provide mentoring, advisement, technical training, and support for all the various…
A Matter of Health and Strength (PART I)
Self-made success is the unicorn of the business world—there is no such thing. I add my “Amen!” to a 17th century poem by John Donne, which begins, “No man is an island, entire of itself.” When…
