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The Blue Planet Run Foundation
Where There’s A Well, There’s A Way
In
2002, industrialist and philanthropist Jin Zidell created the Blue
Planet Run Foundation. Its ambitious, yet realistic mission: to
provide safe drinking water to 200 million people for the rest of
their lives by 2027—cooperatively, efficiently and openly.
Today, two interdependent teams, each consisting of seasoned
non-profit, business, event and marketing specialists and backed by an
internationally recognized Board of Directors, manage the Foundation’s
Blue Planet Run and grant making operations.
With a track record of more than 130 safe water projects already
funded in developing nations, the Foundation has invested to develop
the Peer Water Exchange (PWX), a revolutionary, grassroots, online
community where donors, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and
observers work together to democratically manage and monitor rural
water projects worldwide. Each NGO, such as CARE and Water for People,
is responsible for reviewing, rating and overseeing their peers’
applications and projects. With user-friendly technology replacing
bureaucracy, learning and expertise are shared and collective success
supported. Locals take ownership in building, maintaining and running
their facilities and adapting the principles of safe drinking water,
hygiene and sanitation.
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 funded 11 non-governmental
organizations worldwide which have in turn implemented 135 sustainable
water projects in 13 countries impacting 100 thousand lives. The
Foundation’s signature awareness and fundraising event is the Blue
Planet Run, the first-ever around-the-world relay run.
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Blue Planet Run:
Transforming
Plight into Possibility
The Blue
Planet Run will cover 15,200 miles, across 16 countries and 4
continents, 24 hours a day for 95 days to deliver an extremely urgent
and important message: we can and must begin today to alleviate the
catastrophic burden placed on over a billion people who, every day,
must drink unsafe local water, or travel long distances on foot to
search for safe water for themselves and their families.
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