Not so much into the running? You can still be a part of this great event! Your company can be an event sponsor or sponsor a race team.

More questions? Contact Becky@watertothrive.org See you on September 19!

Water 2 Thrive 5K and Kids K
Saturday, September 18th
9:00 AM
REGISTER TODAY
Hill Country Galleria
2700 Hill Country Blvd
Bee Cave, TX

2010 marks the second year of the W2T 5K and Kids K  at Austin’s Hill Country Galleria shopping center. Bring a friend or the entire family for a morning of fitness and fun, complete with music, prizes, food and more!

Sponsorship Opportunities / Corporate Sponsorships

Starting at just $150, these packages allow you/your group/ or your company name to be associated with W2T 5K and Kids K prior to and during the event. Depending upon your level of sponsorship, your name or logo may appear on t-shirts, event posters, entry forms, and pre-event advertising. On event day your message will reach more than 400 people via on-site signage and booth space.

• Receive high community visibility pre-event and on event day
• Reach an audience of hundreds on event day
• Extend and reinforce current marketing programs through PR opportunities
• Showcase and test-market products to a highly targeted audience
• Build employee morale and demonstrate company commitment to the community

In-Kind Sponsorships

• The event sponsorship committee accepts in-kind goods and services. We also encourage you to tag your advertising with your sponsorship of the event.
• Targeted Marketing (for Platinum level sponsors and above)
• Sponsor the on-stage entertainment, registration, packet pick up or Kids K.

Other Opportunities:

RACE TEAMS – Build company morale and form a team. Team members receive all the benefits of individual race participants plus early packet pick-up. Teams may be comprised of families, friends and co-workers. We encourage teams to proudly wear t-shirts displaying their company name or logo on race day.

CORPORATE MATCHING PROGRAM – Some employers may choose to pay for all or a portion of their employee’s entry fee or provide matching funds for the entry fees and/or pledge dollars they raise. This is a great way to show your corporation’s commitment to philanthropy and W2T

HEALTH AND WELNESS PROGRAMS – Showcase your company’s support of health and wellness by purchasing race entries for your employees. Studies have shown that healthier staffs are happier and more productive W2T 5K and Kids K offers opportunities for everyone to help the break the cycle of poverty through the gift of clean water. From cash to in-kind sponsorships to underwriting a specific element of the event, w2T 5K and Kids K offers a variety of levels to match your company’s marketing goals and budget.

 Covenant Lutheran Church

 3785 Barker Cypress Road, Houston, TX 77084

Date: Saturday, July 17, 2010

Time: 7:00 -9:30 PM

Website: http://ShareTheWellConcert.com

Email: sharethewellconcert@gmail.com

Tickets: $10.00 and $12 at  the door

The vision for the Share the Well Benefit Concert came from Clayton Faulkner, a worship leader and singer/songwriter in Houston, TX. He and his wife Margo adopted their son Deacon from Ethiopia in 2007 and in 2010 welcomed their second Ethiopian son Masamo to the family. Clayton teamed up with Randall Goodgame, a singer/songwriter in Nashville, TN who also has an adopted son, Benjamin, from Ethiopia. Together with Ross King, a singer/songwriter and adoptive father from College Station, TX, they are giving back to the country that has given them so much. The “Share the Well” concert will benefit Water 2 Thrive, W2T is an Austin, TX based non-profit organization that seeks to improve the lives of those less fortunate and those living without their simplest, most basic human need – the need for clean water. W2T implements water projects in impoverished communities in rural Africa.  Tickets   are $10 pre-sale and $12 at the door, to purchase tickets go on line  to www.sharethewellconcert.com  or e-mail us at sharethewellconcert@gmail.com and give the gift of safe, clean water to people in rural Ethiopia, where 1 out of every 10 children will die before their 5^th birthday. 

Join W2T for a FREE CONCERT this Saturday night, May 1st at 8pm at Dominican Joe’s for some great music to support a great cause. The Sarah Dinan Band, and Ashley//Brandon will be performing. Come out and enjoy some live music in Austin!

8PM, 515 South Congress, Austin, Texas.

March 22, 2010:
Make a Difference This World Water Day
 
For a person to live healthy, they must drink
2 liters of water a day, but 2 BILLION people on
Earth don’t have access to a safe water supply.
Imagine, one in three people across the world
does not have access to clean water. But many
of us don’t consider this issue simply because it
does not directly impact us.
 
Calculate how much water your family uses here.
Then continue reading to see how you and your
family can make a difference this month.

With improved health, people can concentrate on
other important issues, such as education and
childcare. A simple well supplying clean water
yields many benefits.
 
Part of Water to Thrive’s mission is making children here in the
United States aware of how fortunate we are compared to many areas of
the world, where something as basic as clean water can be a daily
struggle for survival. Our program helps students realize that there is a
world water crisis. Getting students involved in the program helps them also understand
the value of philanthropy. Students’ pocket change can make a big difference.
 
A school can take the initiative to sponsor a water well, and for
$5000 they will have the honor of naming the well. Of course civic organizations,
church groups and individuals can also participate by sponsoring a well, or conducting
an awareness program about the world water crisis. There are also a few simple suggestions below.
 
What Can I Do?
World Water Day is March 22, 2010. This day is an international
observance to draw attention to the plight of those without access to
clean water. The goals of World Water Day are two fold: First, to make
people aware of these facts:
 
- 6000 children die each day due to water-bourn disease.
- 80% of all sickness and disease is caused by unsafe water and lack
of basic sanitation. This kills more people every year than all forms
of violence combined, including war.
 
 
 And secondly, to urge people to do their part by:
 
- Drinking only water and setting aside the money that would have been
spent on soft drinks, or coffee and donating that money to Water to
Thrive.
 
- Foregoing a movie and donating that money. The cost of a movie
ticket can provide clean water for one person for up to 20 years (the
average well lifetime).
Conserving water wherever possible.

Then collect the money and send in to W2T at the end of the month.
And take pictures! We would LOVE to see and show what creative
ways you’ve come up with to show your love.

Happy New Year! 2010 brings so much excitement to me as I envision the force of change that is in motion for the wonderful water ministry of Water to Thrive.

Thank you so much for all of your support throughout 2009. Together we were able to accomplish great things for those living without their most basic need – the need for clean water. 50,000 people are now rejoicing with the gift of new life – - the result of hard work from many, sacrifices from many (time, financial, and other), and a ton of generosity and faith-filled diligence to be of service to those in need. How rewarding it is to know that we have literally given new life to people that needed our help in AFRICA!  

I get to wake up each morning and call it a “job” to transform lives. What an honor. What a gift it is that I get to call the world “my office.” I get to be a voice for the people of Africa, and tell their story to anyone, anywhere, who will listen. Thank you for listening. Thank you for becoming part of this voice.

The more we eduate people about the water crisis, the greater our voice becomes. The greater our voice becomes, the more change we create in the world. And the more change we create in the world…well, I believe the greater purpose we have in our lives, the more love we have in our hearts, and the more joy we bring to this world.

Thank you for being part of this blessing that Water to Thrive is. I am grateful for your support of the mission for clean water. It is part of my duty to share with you the gratitude that we recieve from the communities that have been transformed by water that YOU have made possible. So, as I often say…ON BEHALF OF THE THOUSANDS of rural Africans whose lives are forever changed….THANK YOU.

With gratitude overflowing,

Becky Turner

Program Director

The walk for water starts early in the morning for most rural Africans. Women and girls begin each day with this arduous task, a task which can take up to five hours to complete. The burden is both physical and emotional. The containers of water they carry weigh between 40 and 60 pounds. Emotionally, the burden is even heavier. Mothers must give their children the only thing they have available to drink – contaminated water that may make them extremely sick. Each day is the same – is a struggle to survive.

Water to Thrive seeks to offer a solution to this pressing need for clean, safe water. We recognize that access to clean water is essential and is a basic human right. In our efforts to bring clean water to impoverished people, our first task is to create awareness of the problem.

For more information to get your organization, congregation, company, club or community involved, please contact Shelia Woodard 281-507-1429 or shelia@watertothrive.org

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