Our Partners
Parsons The New School for Design
What They Do: Communication Design + Technology (CD+T) is a group of programs at Parsons the New School for Design. This collective design force of over 700 students and faculty is engaged in work ranging from typographic exploration to geek graffiti, book design to game design, information visualization to animation. The programs in Communication Design (CD) and Design and Technology (DT) form a dual curricula that emphasizes experimentation, collaboration and social activism in the design of media experiences and new narratives for all kinds of people, in all kinds of places, around the world. Both BFA and MFA degrees are offered.
We like them: We are having the best time working with all the faculty, staff and students that work here. Not only are they helping to co-sponsor and host the DROP Summit event, but they have some of the most interesting and creative student projects out there- and some focusing on water issues. Parsons makes a committment to educate students and give them real world skills in all sorts of fields, and they are a committed partner and guider in the DROP Campaign, Summit and Fundraiser. Thank you!
Blue Planet Run
What They Do: Blue Planet Run Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to raising global awareness about the lack of safe drinking water, and funding working solutions today for the billion people living without ready access to this life sustaining resource. Since 2004, the U.S.-based foundation has partnered with 46 non-governmental organizations worldwide and funded 214 sustainable water projects in 18 countries impacting more than a quarter of a million people. The Foundation's signature awareness and fundraising event was the Blue Planet Run 2007, the first-ever around-the-world relay run.
We like them: Blue Planet Run is a great partner doing TONS of amazing work. They get out there with their message of using SPORT for water projects. Not only that, but they are a perfect combo between the YN DROP Campaign and the YN PLAY CITY Campaign. Using sport for good has never been so easy with Team Blue and the crew at Blue Planet Run.
READ OUR BLOG about these guys :)
Alternative Channel
What They Do: Alternative Channel TV Inc, is a group of communication specialists focusing on sustainable development and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Their mission is to foster a dialogue and enhance collaboration between civil society organizations, individuals and corporations. To achieve this, Alternative Channel uses an ensemble of products and services to meet the objectives of our clients. These include: www.alternativechannel.tv their owned and operated Web TV channel focused on sustainable development and a network of media partners receiving our syndicated content (10M+ monthly content impressions), online PR and Marketing tools using video blogs, micro site development and content distribution, and also our specialized services in internal CSR communication and training packages. Why
We like them: Alternative Channel is producing the DROP Program video as well as capturing the summit event. They are a great organization with lots of creative ideas, inventive new technology, and thoughtful staff who have helped us craft our message and spread the word about DROP!
Food & Water Watch
What They Do: Food & Water Watch is a nonprofit consumer organization that works to ensure clean water and safe food. We challenge the corporate control and abuse of our food and water resources by empowering people to take action and by transforming the public consciousness about what we eat and drink. Food & Water Watch works with grassroots organizations around the world to create an economically and environmentally viable future. Through research, public and policymaker education, media, and lobbying, we advocate policies that guarantee safe, wholesome food produced in a humane and sustainable manner and public, rather than private, control of water resources including oceans, rivers, and groundwater. Why
We like them: Food and Water Watch rocks at community organizing, not to mention with their campus outreach. They continually provide the public with interesting research, information, and take action items. We also really like working with Rachael and their whole team. Thanks Food and Water Watch!
UNICEF
What They Do: UNICEF
We like them: UNICEF United States Fund has some amazing projects for reaching children all across the world to provide them with access to clean and fresh water. If you don't already know about this powerhouse of an organization, you should. They are innovative and exciting to work with, and we look forward to highlighting their work at the DROP Summit and on the site!
H2O Conserve
What They Do: Water scarcity is a growing problem throughout the US and abroad, and it is crucial that individuals and communities make efforts to conserve and protect this precious resource. H2O conserve is a web-based project that offers tools and knowledge that enable individuals to make water conservation part of their everyday lives. H2O Conserve is a project of ICCR, GRACE, Food & Water Watch, and the Johns Hopkins University Center for a Livable Future.
We like them: H2O Conserve has this killer water calculator that you just have to check out. Not to mention lots of curriculum and resources that are great for teachers, students, and young people alike. Check them out! They are helping the movement by informing people of their personal use.
Josh Dick Photography
What he does: After intimately working as a photographer within the commerical adverstising industry for the past five years, Josh's directive and ambition concerning his own work dramatically shifted. What once was primarily an investigation of the formal qualities of photography, he has now grown into a much more direct, concise and photojournalistic effort to expose truth and promote awareness of the environment around us through photography. He wants to create images that encourage viewers to think about themselves and their actions in relation to the rest of their communities and world. Josh has chosen to explore avenues within the field of conservation photography, creating imagery that highlights the link between our planet's health and overall well being of human-kind.
We like him: Josh is a one man photography machine with his heart in the right place. He is working with us to expand his project's reach throughout the New York area. He is a well researched, intelligent person using his artistic abilities in the best way possible. Check out his work, and don't be afraid ask him questions and check out his project about the NYC Watershed. If you're lucky, you can meet him at the DROP Summit and Fundraiser!
Campus Progress
What They Do: Campus Progress, part of the Center for American Progress, works to help young people -- advocates, activists, journalists, artists -- make their voices heard on issues that matter. Through an online magazine and student publications, public events, multimedia projects, and grassroots issue campaigns, Campus Progress acts to empower new progressive leaders nationwide as they develop fresh ideas, communicate in new ways, push policy outcomes in a progressive direction, and build a strong progressive movement.
Why We Like Them: Campus Progress hosts and helps students engage in all types of civic actions. They have a great blog and do tons of great social networking. They have helped us book speakers, engage college studetns, and host all types of discussions on their platform. They are amazing advocates for human and social rights and we think you should check them out. :)
Virgin Unite
What They Do: Virgin Unite is the non-profit foundation of the Virgin Group. They work with incredible partners all over the world to develop new approaches to social and envrionmental issues. They believe the only way we are going to drive the scale of change that needs to happen in the world, is if we revolutionize the way that the business and social sectors work together. They want to use all the entrepreneurial energy across the Virgin Group to help drive this revolution.
Why We Like Them: They Love Water TOO! Virgin Unite partnered with the acclaimed singer songrwriter, Jewel, on Project Clean Water, an initiative she founded in 1997 to provide clean water on a global scale. Project Clean Water targets villages around the world with clean water problems, and finds sustainable solutions to provide them with safe drinking water. To date, the project has helped over 30 communities overcome their individual drinking water problems in 13 different countries on 5 different continents. Show you give a drop by donating as little as $2 - www.giveadrop.com
