Overview Principal Office: USA Key Words: water and sanitation, grassroots projects Website: Link The Blue Planet Network aims to raise global awareness about the lack of safe drinking water, and to help fund solutions for communities without ready access to it. Blue Planet developed and financially supports the Peer Water Exchange (PWX), an online community where donors, NGOs, and observers work together to fund grassroots projects in community water supply and sanitation in developing countries. Grant Programs for Agriculture, Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources Community Water, Sanitation, and Watershed Management. Blue Planet makes grants for projects that provide community drinking water, sanitation, and capacity building in grassroots watershed management. Grants are to the implementing partners of the Peer Water Exchange (PWX). Implementing partners are grassroots NGOs in developing countries where the water projects are carried out. Other implementers are development NGOs in the USA and Europe that have water-related programs and projects in the developing countries. Most grants to implementing partners range from US$5 thousand to US$30 thousand per year. Each partner may fund multiple water projects from its grant allocation. APPLICATION: Organizations apply to Blue Planet to become implementing partners. This requires a referral by an existing member of the network. For organizations that are nominated, Blue Planet will send an online application form. After an application is submitted, Blue Planet circulates the application for peer review in the network. The peers decide whether or not to accept the applicant as a partner. New implementing partners are given an orientation to the network’s people and resources, and they become eligible to submit grant applications. About applying to become an implementation partner (including names and profiles of existing members in Blue Planet). – Link Geographical Distribution of Grant Activities in Developing Countries Worldwide Comments Blue Planet posts profiles of its funded projects, by year. In 2010, Blue Planet funded 22 projects in nine countries. - - Link PWX considers itself a leader in using the internet for participatory decision making, peer review, crowd sourcing, transparency, volunteerism, and interactive maps. It also believes it has a viable approach for knowing how to fund many small projects at low management cost. -- Link Blue Planet provides contact information for its office in California, and for PWX in India. – Link Last Profile Review January 2012 © Copyright protected. All rights reserved. Return to Foundations, Corporations, and Civil Society |
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