Impatient Optimists
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Nina Gantcheva

Nina is the Special Projects Associate at the Foundation Center in New York where she coordinates guest blog posts for WASHfunders.org — a portal dedicated to helping funders working together to solve the world’s water and sanitation crisis. U.S. philanthropy and WASH will also be the focus of a panel session at World Water Week in Stockholm.

Posts By Nina Gantcheva

Why We Need Foundations at the Table for Sanitation Innovation

August 13, 2012 / Nina Gantcheva

Providing access to sanitation is a critical issue on the WASH spectrum, and one that is intertwined with countless other issue areas, including health, poverty, education, human rights, and the environment, to name a few. But why is philanthropic investment
in sanitation important?

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  • "Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward." —Melinda Gates

  • The Global Fund has helped to deliver more than 190 million bed nets to protect families from malaria.

  • "The world faces a clear choice. If we invest relatively small amounts, many more poor farmers will be able to feed their families." —Bill Gates, 2012 Annual Letter

  • "When it come to global health, Bill and I are optimists—but we're impatient optimists. Tremendous progress is being made. But there is still so much we're impatient to see done." —Melinda French Gates

  • In Senegal, 80% of households now have a bed net, helping the number of malaria cases there drop 50% in a single year.

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