Jewel talks about Voss Foundation and Give A Drop on TV
On Friday, October 2nd, the singer and songwriter Jewel, Voss Foundation’s Give A Drop partner, was interviewed by Greta Van Susteren on Fox News’ On the Record. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com In the interview, Jewel talks about her partnership with the Voss Foundation and Virgin Unite on Give A Drop and reminds all the viewers to [...]
Meet Jewel and introduce one of her Fall 2009 shows!
Voss Foundation’s Give a Drop partner, singer-songwriter Jewel, and her Project Clean Water charity, have teamed up with CharityFolks to auction off the opportunity to meet Jewel and introduce her on stage at each of her concerts this Fall across the Southeastern US. Proceeds from the auction will benefit the Give A Drop partnership between Project Clean [...]
Text A Drop
The Voss Foundation joins Virgin Unite and Project Clean Water, its Give A Drop partners, in launching Text A Drop. The Give A Drop campaign raises money through www.giveadrop.com and Text A Drop text message donations. To make a $5.00 donation by mobile phone anywhere in the US, just text the message DROP to phone number 85944. Text A Drop provides [...]
Drought report from Kenya
Many people have been asking about how our friends in Kenya are faring with the severe water shortage. As The New York Times reported on September 7, a “devastating drought is sweeping across Kenya.” Unfortunately, as you can see in the map above, also from the Times, the Samburu fall squarely in the water-starved area. The [...]
Give A Drop with Virgin and Project Clean Water
The Voss Foundation is thrilled to announce that we have teamed up with Virgin Unite, the not-for-profit charitable foundation of Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, and Project Clean Water, founded by Jewel, on the Give A Drop partnership. We are extremely excited about this alliance, which will enable the Voss Foundation to build and rehabilitate more wells and bring [...]
Voss Foundation water project halts cholera outbreak in Latakwen
A note we got today from Stella Deane, our friend at Milgis Trust in Kenya reads: We just wanted to write to tell you about the near fatal outbreak of cholera that was brought to an end by the thankful addition of the Latakwen water pump. The disease was spread just the other week by [...]
Interview with Stuart Franklin
On the Voss Foundation/Magnum Photos trip to Mali in May, VF European Representative Cecilie Malm Brundtland had a chance to sit down with former Magnum President Stuart Franklin for a brief interview. His responses are below; A limited edition of Stuart’s photographs will be sold later this year to benefit the Voss Foundation. Stay tuned [...]
Whom do you search for?
Did you know the Voss Foundation is registered withGoodSearch.com? Goodsearch is an online search engine, powered by Yahoo!, that donates $0.01 to your charity of choice every time you use their site. Voss Foundation hopes its supporters conduct their Internet searches with GoodSearch to help maximize the amount of money for our water projects. As [...]
