Posted on

#OUREntrepidNetwork – Introducing Gary White, Matt Damon and Water.org

www.water.org
www.water.org

Opportunity starts with safe water

CEO Gary White, Actor Matt Damon and their Kansas City, Missouri based Water.org team empowers families with access to safe water and sanitation through affordable financing.

In their own words (https://water.org/about-us/)

We believe water is the way. To break the cycle of poverty. To protect and save lives. To make a bright future possible for all.

Access to safe water can protect and save lives, just because it’s there. Access to safe water has the power to turn time spent into time saved, when it’s close and not hours away. Access to safe water can turn problems into potential: unlocking education, economic prosperity, and improved health.

Every human being deserves to define their own future, and water makes that possible. We’ve transformed more than seven million lives with access to safe water and sanitation, and together we can reach even more people.

For more than 25 years, we’ve made it our mission to bring water and sanitation to the world. Founded by Gary White and Matt Damon, we pioneer market-driven financial solutions to the global water crisis.

In the news

Matt Damon and Gary White on the World’s Water Crisis | NPR, April 2017, Emily Bogle

Talking Toilets with Matt Damon | National Geographic, August 2017, Susan Goldberg

To learn more about what they’re up to visit www.Water.org

Please help support Gary, Matt and the Water.org team by giving this a LIKE, SHARE it with your extended social networks and JOIN their communities on Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube and Instagram.

Thank you Gary and Matt for the benefit of your influence and leadership in support of this cause.

Here WE Grow!

Doug Parker | Linkedin-kickassdoug

Posted on

OUR Entrepid Network – Introducing Tim Ryan and His Very Personal Mission to Save Opiate Addicts

www.amirf.org

The U.S. is experiencing a heroin pandemic. Half of all heroin addicts die!

Drawing on personal experience, Tim Ryan was inspired to launch A Man in Recovery, whose mission is to save the lives of opiate addicts first, then provide new alternatives to keep addicts from relapsing.

Sentenced to seven years in prison, Tim Ryan got clean and sober behind bars. However, “life on the outside” wasn’t working in his favor. Tim was released from prison after just 14 months, yet his time there was enough to convince him to adopt a strong 12-step recovery program. But six months later, his 20-year-old son Nick died tragically from a heroin overdose. Attempting to get beyond the devastation and heartbreak, Tim used Nick’s death as the inspiration to spread a message of hope and recovery to others.

AMIR serves addicts and those whose lives they touch in new and effective ways.

See Dope Man on A&E (www.aetv.com/specials/dope-man), aired on July 31, 2017.

“Dope Man follows Tim Ryan, an ex-con and former addict … who lost his son to heroin and nearly died from it himself.” “Tim’s unforgiving in-your-face approach, as well as his commitment to placing people into meaningful long-term treatment, has singled him out nationally … as one of the most effective experts in his field”

See Tim’s passionate TEDxNaperville 2016 presentation titled the Heroin Denial Epidemic here – http://www.tedxnaperville.com/talks/tim-ryan/

To find out more about A Man in Recovery and how you can help support the cause to save the lives of those of your friends and family and community members addicted to heroin and others at risk of becoming exposed to its use, visit www.amirf.org

Please support Tim and the A Man in Recovery team by giving this a LIKE, SHARE it with your extended social networks and consider joining their communities on Linkedin, Facebook and Twitter.

Thank you Tim for the benefit of your character and tenacity as a leader in this cause. Thank you Arthur Zards and the TEDxNaperville team for helping to introduce Tim to the wider community. #youkickassmyfriend s

Here WE Grow!

Doug Parker | Linkedin – kickassdoug

@amaninrecovery, #DopeMan, #theheroinpandemic, #savelives, #ourentrepidnetwork, #herewegrow, #entrepiddna