Our Team
Meet Our New (Veteran) Intern, Morgan!
We are immensely grateful for all of our interns and were so glad that Raegan was able to stay on through spring 2023! Plus we brought on a new intern for Fall 2022-Spring 2023, Morgan Chupp! While she…
Learning and Growth Through People, Passion, and Goodness: Intern Reflections
Here is a reflection from our Fall 2021-Spring 2022 Interns, Jake and Ryan on their all too fast time with us at Blood:Water. We’re so grateful for all of our interns!
Meet Our Summer 2022 Vision & Call Interns!
We recently said a bittersweet ‘goodbye’ to our 2021 fall – 2022 spring interns, Jacob and Ryan, and ‘hello’ to two fresh new faces! We are excited to tell you that Lauren and Raegan will be joining us for the summer, and we can’t wait for you to get to know them. Read on to learn more about the newest members of our team!
Celebrating Fundamentals Together Pt. II: Taking a Look at Our Values
In October we had a wonderful staff retreat, where we got to reconnect as a team for the first time in a while. Here’s what we did to define our values as an organization and how we can each live them out in everything we do.
Meet Michael: Our 2022 Africa Partnerships Intern
This year, we will have Michael Agevi working from our Kenya office with our Africa Partnerships department. Read on to learn about him and why he chose to join us for this internship!
What Launching World Impact in $40 Million Looks Like
If you’ve had the chance to read our newsletter last October, you saw our announcement that we had reached the stupendous milestone of raising $40 million since the beginning of our organization. Seventeen years ago, a Grammy Award-winning band had the audacious goal to help end two of the world’s greatest health crises. Joined by an incredibly passionate recent college graduate, they set out to do this by raising support all across the country, one person and one dollar at a time.
Thank You For Standing With Us in 2021
In reflecting on the end of the year, I remarked to our team this week that what excites me the most about year-end giving is not hitting a budget goal or tracking the number of gifts that…
Celebrating Successes and Fundamentals Together for the First Time in a While
A few weeks ago, we were able to get the whole team together at our headquarters here in Nashville for a staff retreat. Since the onset of COVID-19 in early 2020, we have been mostly remote, like…
Meet Our New Vision & Call Interns!
Last month we welcomed two new faces to the Blood:Water team, and we can’t wait for you to get to know them! Over the next nine months, Jacob Woodford and Ryan Kibble will be assisting in the communications and marketing departments as a part of the Vision & Call program, and we are so excited to have them. Read on to get to know the newest members of our team!
Faith, Work, and Restoration – An Intern Reflection
By the end of my first week, while I was reading through emails, it finally hit me that I was communicating with real people with even more real needs. These people who were reaching out to me with requests for support to care for the orphans in their communities, or for the moms who cannot provide clean water for their children to ensure their health, made the extreme and almost overwhelming needs of sub-Saharan Africa become more and more apparent.