Help provide safe and reliable water to communities of Malawi resulting in immediately improved health and economic circumstances for the most vulnerable rural poor

In the developing world over 884 million people live without a safe supply of water, and more than 3 million people die every year from a lack of clean water supplies.  And shockingly, 2.5 billion people do not have access to basic sanitation. Pump Aid exists to bring appropriate, affordable and sustainable water and sanitation solutions to rural Africa.

Pump Aid was founded in 1999 and si...

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Savings Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development – round 2 Request for applications is now open

USAID, the Government of Norway, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada, and The World Bank have joined to launch Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development.  They are calling on the brightest minds across the globe to identify and scale up transformative prevention and treatment approaches for pregnant women and newborns in rural, low-resource settings...

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Dylan Viner from JWT New York is chosen for TIE

Dylan is a Planning Director at JWT New York, creating culturally relevant brand strategies that help solve clients’ business and marketing challenges. Most recently he has worked on the digitally focused Stride Gum account as well as on projects for Bloomberg and Smirnoff. He also worked on the successful launch of Microsoft Bing, for which the team received both a Gold Effie and Bronze Jay...

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Claire Jackson is chosen by WPP to assist Plan International with their communications at the next UN summit

Claire Jackson is a Board Planning Director at JWT London, where she has spent the last 4 years leading global brand strategy and communications development for everything from mobile phones to multivitamins (Vodafone, Nokia, Unilever and Bayer Consumer Care)!
Prior to JWT, Claire spent 3 years at Ogilvy in Shanghai, working on the launch of BP’s first ever consumer campaign in China, Kodak's B...

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Be an online marketing volunteer and give a bigger voice to NGOs

Check out this revolutionary idea. Media Cause is a platform that empowers online marketing volunteers to give a bigger voice to non-profits and NGOs that are working hard to create positive change in the world. We often get requests from individuals who want to give some of their time to support a cause, but can't travel to a far off land, and don't have the ability to be sponsored by their curre...

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