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March 22, 2012
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Let’s make World Water Day all about birthdays.

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Today is World Water Day, where people around the globe recognize the need for clean drinking water. We’re using today to talk about… birthdays.

Five and a half years ago, charity: water began with a birthday party. Founder Scott Harrison gave up his 31st birthday gifts and asked for donations to water projects instead. He used 100% of the money to fund clean water for communities in northern Uganda. Since then, we’ve made it our goal to bring clean, safe drinking water to people in developing countries.

We believe birthdays can change the world, but don’t just take it from us… take it from the people who have given up their birthdays for clean water before! Watch our fundraisers explain how their birthdays have changed the world:

JOIN US. Pledge to give up your next birthday and change lives:

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March 16, 2012
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You funded a drilling rig… and now, it’s going to work!

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In September 2011, we asked you to help fund charity: water’s first drilling rig to bring clean water to 40,000 new people every year in rural Ethiopia. More than 1,400 mycharity: water fundraisers and donors answered in a big way, raising more than $1.2 million for a brand new drilling rig fleet.

By now, you probably know we’re big on showing impact. From proving every completed water project with photos and GPS to sharing stories from people you’ve helped get clean water to drink — we want you to see how you’ve changed lives.

And today… we have exciting news! We were expecting to drill the first well with the new rig in May of this year. But Founder Scott Harrison was just in Ethiopia and… the first drilling rig arrived early!

Take a look at how your support is already helping bring life’s most basic need to people in Ethiopia:

We’re so grateful for your support of our work, our partners’ work, and our mission to end the water crisis. Thank you, September Campaign supporters! And stay tuned: as promised, we’re getting the GPS device set up in this rig soon so you can track its progress from village to village.

Learn more about September Campaign 2011 here >

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January 1, 2012
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Celebrating 2011.

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We had an incredible year, doubling our growth and raising enough to serve our two millionth person with clean, safe drinking water. Take a minute with us to reflect on and celebrate what you helped us accomplish in 2011.

Thank you for joining our story.

We sent this video out in an email update last week. Want to get our emails? We send one out about once a month, usually with a story from the field or news about our latest campaign. Sign up here >

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September 7, 2011
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charity: water is five years old!

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You may have noticed we haven’t been blogging much lately. And today, on our fifth birthday, you’ll understand why: we just spent the last week and a half shooting, producing and uploading 250 videos to send individually to some of our fundraisers and supporters. Whew! It was a crazy, exciting, funny and beautiful project.

Watch the story of our fifth birthday celebration:

It’s been rewarding for all of our staff — from web developers to accountants to designers — to learn the details about campaigners and then jump behind the camera to get real with each of them. charity: water turns five today. In the last half decade, we’ve been able to serve more than two million people with clean and safe drinking water.

But that never would’ve happened if we didn’t have the supporters who took our story and made it theirs.

You can see all of our thank-you’s on our new YouTube channel here:

And to give you a taste, here are some favorites from each staff member team:

Greg + Nat for Hope Mural Roadshow.

Emily + Robin for Tango to the People.

Vik + Erica for Cecilia’s campaign “Hamsters Deserve Clean Water.”

Lindsay + Jasdeep for Developers Against Poverty.

Jonna + Shayna for Pullman High.

Mo + Josh for Michelle,
the hotdog champion.

Lauren + Michael for Audrey, who gave up her third birthday.

Christy + Michael (and staff’s help!) for UA/OSU.

Merry + Brian for Erica, a rockstar campaigner.

Paull + Sarah for Sabin the dog.

Happy birthday to charity: water! Thank you so much for being a part of our story.

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August 24, 2011
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September Campaign 2011.

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It’s here! Our fifth anniversary September Campaign!

Five years in, you’ve helped us fund more than 4,000 projects around the world to serve over two million people with clean drinking water.

Now… we’re speeding up our impact. Watch our new September trailer to see what’s next for charity: water –


Learn how you can help >

A quick shot of our staff, right when we launched at 11a.m. this morning:

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We’ve locked ourselves in the conference room to spend a few hours asking everyone we know to watch and spread our September Campaign video. Join us! Share the video on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, via email… whatever way you can!

More about the video…
footage: Paul Pryor and charity: water
edit: Paul Pryor
music: Sleeping at Last
sound mix: The Rumor Mill
3D graphics: Phillipp + Konstantin Datz
motion graphics: Geoff Schultz
special thanks to RED GIANT software

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