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Despite constrained resources to tackle them, the world today is rife with complex, unyielding, and often brutal problems that cross all kinds of boundaries - geographical, sectoral, and functional - from the local to the global levels. These problems range in fields from finance to health to environment to human rights to corruption. Meanwhile, an ever broader range of stakeholders in government, private sector and civil society are creatively working to address these problems. iScale works around the world from the local to the global levels to dramatically scale the impact of these efforts.
Vision, Mission and Strategy

Our mission is to develop, promote, apply and share innovations that scale impact to address the the most intractable problems that create disharmony/to promote harmonious change in the world.

Our strategy consists of implementing high impact action-learning projects, facilitating communities of practice, and building fields (issue and competency), through which we develop, promote, apply and share innovations for scaling impact.

The iScale suite of innovations for scaling impact include:

• strategic mapping for scaling impact


• building and leveraging networks


• multi-stakeholder engagement and cross-sectoral problem-solving


• impact planning, assessment and learning systems


• social media and ict platforms


• next generation strategy, structure and governance approaches


• markets of the future and emerging regulatory approaches


• action-learning processes


• communities of practice

Poor water conditions plague the developing world. Climate change, industrialization, pollution, and poor sanitation has resulted in wide spread water scarcity and contamination. Diarrheal diseases alone -- caused by the consumption of unsafe water "“ kill nearly 5,000 people each day, 90 percent of whom are children under age 5. The health and livelihoods of nearly one billion others are significantly compromised due to the lack of access to safe water. Unfortunately, those most in need are also often those least able to pay for solutions or mobilize and demand action from their governments.

Although the challenge is substantial and rife with obstacles, SWN is committed to leading a focused and coordinated response to develop and validate new solutions for our world’s poor. Our priority is to take a long-term, integrated approach to demonstrate the potential for new water solutions by collaborating with private and public stakeholders; local organizations; public health experts; and local and international providers of technology, services, and funding.

Despite a sizeable commercial market for water, large numbers of people are inadequately served and, as a consequence, remain stagnated in a systemic cycle of poverty and ill health. Safe Water Network developing a diverse set of partnerships through which to create affordable and sustainable solutions that can be widely replicated over time to serve thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of communities in need.

Our Vision: A world in which the most innovative minds, companies, and organizations come together across all boundaries to help solve the world's most pressing humanitarian concern: The lack of access to safe drinking water for nearly a billion people in the developing world.

Even before these tough economic times, many older people needed help paying for prescription drugs, health care, utilities, food, and other basic needs. Ironically, millions of older Americans - especially those with limited incomes - are eligible for but not receiving benefits from existing federal, state and local programs. Ranging from heating and energy assistance to prescription savings programs to income supplements, there are many public programs available to seniors in need if they only knew about them and how to apply for them.