Funding Sources - WASH & IAP ...

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Funding Sources - WASH & IAP Akvo Foundation - Akvo is a non-profit foundation with staff in the Netherlands, Britain, Sweden and California. It helps to facilitate private donations to WASH projects. Alcoa Foundation - WASH funding is primarily geared toward conserving clean and safe water resources as part of a broader environmental program that addresses climate change and environmental sustainability. Funding goes to education and awareness programs about water conservation as well as to organizations that develop technology and infrastructure – watersheds and hydropower systems. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – Focuses on improving safe and sustainable sanitation services by stimulating household demand for sanitation, promoting affordable market-based sanitation solutions, and encouraging the creation of effective sanitation policies at global and national levels. Coca-Cola Foundation, Inc. - Funding for WASH aims to offset water used for Coca-Cola’s production process through two primary activities: improve water access and restore watersheds. Water access funding includes the development of technological solutions to increase safe water access such as in-home water pumps, rainwater harvesting, community water treatment systems, and distribution networks. Conrad N. Hilton Foundation - Funding for safe water-access programs for the world’s most poor, enabling environments, and information dissemination. Partners to support and fund a comprehensive WASH+ continuum (water access, sanitation, hygiene + livelihoods) in order "to support and enable sustainable and scalable access to safe water, improving the health, education, and livelihoods of the ultra poor.