Dec 18, 2023
This week Ivy Slater, host
of Her Success Story, chats with her guest, Eric Stowe.
The two return to this season’s nonprofit series, and talk about
the importance of safe water and the impact that has been made by
Splash since its beginning. Eric tells us, “At present day, there
should be no child anywhere that’s left to drink unsafe water
simply because of where they’re born and where they live.”
In this episode, we discuss:
Why he started Splash, and implemented the concepts that continue to grow
What has been accomplished since the start of this NGO in 2007
How they are able to offer 1m children access to safe water daily
What Splash does to help the more than 2 billion people globally who don’t have access to safe water
Why their niche starts with schools in urban areas
Why so much of Splash’s work focuses on behavioral changes from the conduit of water, sanitation, hygiene, and menstrual health
Eric’s unlikely retirement plan to put himself out of business and create perpetual growth
Splash’s hope for a diminishing role by working with local organizations to eliminate the problem
How he has managed building and maintaining relationships as a global institution
Advice for anyone considering a startup
Eric is the Founder and CEO of Splash. Since 2007, Eric’s NGO has been spearheading a new model for international development—one that challenges the way the charitable sector thinks about transparency, philanthropy, collaboration and impact. His ideas have been shared through publications in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Forbes, Chronicle of Philanthropy, CS Monitor, Wired, Devex, and more.
Splash is at the forefront of a growing movement to ensure that
children in urban poverty have the resources they need to thrive
and realize their full potential. Splash designs child-focused
water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH), and menstrual health solutions
with governments in some of the world’s biggest, low-resource
cities. Working in schools, hospitals, shelters and orphanages, Mr.
Stowe’s organization now serves more than 1,000,000 children daily
across 8 countries.
Website: https://www.splash.org/
LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/estowe/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ericstowe