2018 ANNUAL REPORT
The Power
of Partnerships
Contents
EWB-USA OVERVIEW: POWERFUL PARTNERSHIPS: FINANCIALS & BOARD:
03 Mission & Vision 07 Get Water Flowing 14 Our Financial Story
04 Collaboration 08 Provide Economic Opportunity 16 Our Capacity Builders
05 Where We Work 09 Help Build Resilient Communities 19 Our Board of Directors
06 Our Projects 10 Keep Homeless Teens Connected
11 Overcome Challenging Obstacles
12 Prepare Tomorrow’s Leaders
13 Help End Poverty
Mission Vision
EWB-USA builds a better world through EWB-USA’s vision is a world in
engineering projects that empower which every community has the
communities to meet their basic human capacity to sustainably meet their
needs and equip leaders to solve the basic human needs.
world’s most pressing challenges.
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Great Things
Happen
When We
Work Together
That’s why we’ve made collaboration
central to our mission.
We’re thrilled to have thousands of partners
in the form of universities, non-governmental
organizations, students, professionals, donors
and leaders.
Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.
–Kenyan Proverb
COLLABORATION—IT’S IN OUR DNA
In April 2000, Dr. Bernard The community also lacked The team worked with the
It’s true. As we connect with o
thers, our Amadei, professor of civil the technical skills to build a community to install a clean
power to do good in the world is exponentially engineering at the University reliable, lasting water supply water system powered by a
increased. And we know that we’re at our best of Colorado Boulder, visited system. Professor Amadei went waterfall. The University of
when we’re moving forward with our neighbors, a community in San Pablo, back to Boulder, consulted Colorado students involved in
Belize, to assess their water colleagues on potential the San Pablo project formed
peers and colleagues here and around the
supply. He learned that the solutions, and then returned the first student chapter of
world. Our collaborative ethos is the thread that 950 Mayan Indians living in the with a prototype and fourteen EWB-USA, and their simple and
weaves our work together. jungle lacked clean water and of his students to put the plan low-cost solution formed the
sanitation infrastructure. into action. first EWB-USA project.
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Where
We Work
In 2018, the 126 projects we completed
impacted 3.2 million people.
From solar powered water pumps
to latrines and fish farms, our wide-
ranging projects have far-reaching
Belize Guatemala Paraguay
implications—more kids in school, Bolivia Country Office Peru
less time procuring water, lights on, Burkina Faso Haiti Philippines
Cambodia Honduras Rwanda
roofs on, and safe bridges and roads India
Cameroon Senegal
for travel. Colombia Jamaica Sierra Leone
Costa Rica Kenya South Africa
Dominica Madagascar St. Lucia
Dominican Republic Malawi Tanzania
Ecuador Mexico Thailand
44 28 2
El Salvador Morocco Togo
Ethiopia Myanmar Uganda
Fiji Nepal Country Office
Gambia Nicaragua United States
Country Office Zambia
Ghana
Panama Zimbabwe
Countries States Territories
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707
409 Water Projects
36 Agriculture Projects
Projects
97 Structures Projects
Underway
21 Civil Works Projects
51 Energy Projects
82 Sanitation Projects
9 Information Systems Projects
2 Disaster Relief Projects
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POWERFUL PARTNERSHIPS:
Get Water Flowing
EWB-USA has been of the country and water This year, the hand pump
partnering with the rural scarcity is an ever-present was replaced with a
farming village of Mkutani challenge. Prior to the submersible electric pump
since 2012. Together, work in Mkutani, residents’ powered by solar energy.
we are building critical primary water source was Community members
infrastructure for its 3,000 a nearby polluted river that can now fill a jerry can
residents and increasing they shared with grazing in seconds. In the next
their health and livelihoods. animals. Dysentery was phase of the project we’ll
commonplace and cholera be collaborating on a
presented a deadly risk. distribution system that
This rural farming village After intensive planning, a pipes water to tap stands in
in central Tanzania is not borehole was drilled and the central village.
connected to water services, a deep well hand pump
electricity or paved roads. provided plentiful, potable,
The region is the driest part bacteria-free water.
409 are improving the
health and prosperity
Water of the world’s most
Projects vulnerable people.
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POWERFUL PARTNERSHIPS:
Provide Economic
Opportunity
We work with our partner rainfall making branching
communities in designing, out beyond traditional
implementing, and agricultural crops a practical,
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maintaining their own environmentally kind, and
infrastructure. This necessary investment in
grassroots, collaborative securing their futures.
approach to infrastructure Supported by the technical
development ensures expertise of the EWB-USA Agricultural
sustainability through
community responsibility,
Fordham University chapter
and our Ugandan partner, the Projects
participation, and Serere Local Fish Farming
ownership of each project. Initiative, families throughout
the region are now farming are helping
fish and securing their communities grow
Collaborating for
futures. 2018 saw the
Success: Fish a better future.
creation of the first of four
Farming in Uganda
ponds and a breeding center
The people of Omorio, like planned for the region.
80 percent of Uganda’s
“IT IS NOT ONLY EWB-USA’S RESPONSIBILITY TO LISTEN TO
population, live in rural “These ponds are going to
A COMMUNITY BUT TO DESIGN A PROJECT WHICH MEETS THEIR areas and are dependent have a life-changing impact
NEEDS AND THEIR ABILITY TO MAINTAIN IT IN THE FUTURE.” on rain-fed agriculture. on families,” Vanessa
—Cathy Leslie, EWB-USA Executive Director
This dependency, coupled Gutierrez, EWB-USA
with a changing climate, volunteer and Fordham’s
brings with it an array of co-president.
unpredictable events such
as drought and erratic
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POWERFUL PARTNERSHIPS:
Help Build Resilient
Communities
As we experience Dominica and also assisted Soccorro, Guatemala, El
increasingly severe climate in rebuilding efforts after Fuego destroyed a 377-
events and natural disasters, a volcanic eruption in foot pedestrian bridge
our ability to assist Guatemala. providing a vital connection
communities in building to education, markets,
back in a sustainable and Reconnecting the healthcare and a path to
resilient manner will be Community of El safety, should the volcano
essential. Soccorro erupt again.
On June 5, 2018 Volcano
Among the many natural El Fuego, one of Latin EWB-USA, in collaboration
disasters of 2018, we America’s most active with Rotary and the
responded to the Tubbs volcanoes, erupted without community of El Soccorro,
wildfire in California, warning, belching smoke, was able to rebuild this
continued our work raining down ash, and bridge. Today, the bridge
building back better in the sending rivers of boiling lava provides safe passage for
aftermath of hurricanes onto the communities below. the more than 10,000 people
in the Virgin Islands and For the town of El who use it.
“WHEN THE PREVIOUS BRIDGE WAS WE WORKED 25 DAYS IN THE CONSTRUCTION
DESTROYED BY THE VOLCANIC ERUPTION… OF THE BRIDGE; I SEE IT AND I FEEL GRATEFUL.
I THOUGHT WE WERE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE THANKS TO THE ROTARIANS AND TO
TO BUILD IT BACK AGAIN. WE DIDN’T HAVE THE ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS FOR THE HELP,
RESOURCES AND KNOWLEDGE TO REBUILD IT, WE REALLY NEEDED IT.”
IT WAS A HOPELESS FEELING. -Doña Aury Cordón, Community Leader 9
POWERFUL PARTNERSHIPS:
Keep Homeless
Teens Connected
For people experiencing they were working on and
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homelessness, cell phones an identified need of their
aren’t a luxury, they’re a partner, Youth Services of
necessity. The problem Tulsa, who found themselves
is that there are very few short of charging outlets.
public places where people The beauty of the team’s Energy
experiencing homelessness
can charge their phones.
solution was opting for solar
and placing the charging
Projects
station outside, making it
available to teens beyond
For students in the EWB-USA normal business hours. The are bringing light,
University of Tulsa Chapter, charging station was even safety and
helping their peers who are designed to take inclement
experiencing homelessness weather into account and personal
“WE HAD A FANTASTIC EXPERIENCE WITH EWB-USA AND GOT was an easy decision. It was includes an acrylic rain- empowerment.
TO WORK WITH INTERESTING, INCREDIBLY INTELLIGENT AND a great fit for the technology resistant cover.
CREATIVE INDIVIDUALS ESSENTIALLY SERVING THEIR PEERS.”
—Brian K. Young,
Community Relations Coordinator, Youth Services of Tulsa
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POWERFUL PARTNERSHIPS:
Overcome the
Most Challenging
Obstacles
Our field-driven approach is rooted in country offices staffed
with local experts.
Currently, our field-driven to let these obstacles
approach is producing interfere with their plans
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great benefits in Uganda, to provide clean water to
Guatemala, and Nicaragua. this mountainous rural
Our on-the-ground community. Working from
presence allows us to
collaborate and innovate
California with critical on-
the-ground assistance from Country
more strategically, provide our Nicaragua office, the Offices
guidance, and ensure that team was able to develop
our resources are in the a remote implementation
right place at the right time. plan and maintain
are increasing our
communication with the
Just ask the community of community and our local impact and reach
La Rinconada, Nicaragua. partner, the Association of in Nicaragua,
Political upheaval, riots, Volunteers for Community
and roadblocks proved Development, keeping
Guatemala, and
no rival to EWB-USA’s the project in motion and Uganda.
California Polytechnic State bringing clean water to 87
University, San Luis Obispo houses and more than 300
Chapter team which refused people.
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POWERFUL PARTNERSHIPS:
Prepare Tomorrow’s
Leaders
This year we’ve laid the Collaborating Around Collaborating
foundation for three the Globe at Home
important new programs.
EWB-USA and the National Our Community Engineering
We remain committed to Academy of Engineering Corps (CECorps) program,
building the next generation will be working to deliver in conjunction with
of globally-responsible an EWB-USA Track of the our chapters and other
engineers. Grand Challenges Scholars engineering organizations,
Program (GCSP), allowing will be launching the “What’s
By providing hands-on, EWB-USA project work to In My Backyard?” (WIMBY)
real-world experience, be credited toward fulfilling initiative. The campaign
we’re equipping students GCSP competencies. enables engineers and
with the leadership technical professionals to
expertise to address critical We are also pleased to connect with organizations
infrastructure problems. be joining EWB-South and communities locally,
Our global learning lab Africa and EWB-UK in with the ultimate goal of
is fostering a generation their university-focused providing engineering
of students with a Engineering for People services in underserved
“EVERY COMMUNITY DESERVES RELIABLE INFRASTRUCTURE— Design Challenge. This communities across the US.
deep concern for how
IT’S KEY TO THE QUALITY OF PEOPLE’S LIVES. THAT’S THE prestigious competition WIMBY is made possible
engineering affects
BEAUTY OF THE “WHAT’S IN MY BACKYARD” INITIATIVE; WE underserved communities. encourages engineering by a grant from the United
UNITE PEOPLE WITH A COMMON DESIRE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE, undergraduates to sharpen Engineering Foundation.
IMPROVE INFRASTRUCTURE AND HOPEFULLY SET IN MOTION A their problem-solving skills The collaborative campaign
RIPPLE EFFECT. by tackling real-world welcomes the participation
development issues. of other engineering
—Clare Haas Claveau, organizations.
CECorps Program Director, EWB-USA
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Our work will advance nine
POWERFUL PARTNERSHIPS: of the UN’s Sustainable
Help End Poverty,
Development Goals.
Promote Peace and
Protect the Planet
We pledge to use our extensive resources to make a positive global impact
and join others in contributing to and measuring our collective results.
Measuring Up which are an urgent call to advancing nine areas of
action for all countries. the SDGs. In the process,
The 2030 Agenda for This shared agenda we also improved our
Sustainable Development, mobilizes action across methodology for measuring
adopted by all United Nations sectors and across the world, and reporting project
Member States in 2015, allowing the international outcomes, evaluating
provides a shared blueprint development community to lessons learned, and sharing
for peace and prosperity track our collective progress. our impact.
for people and the planet,
now and into the future. At This year we mapped our
its heart are 17 Sustainable work to reflect our efforts
Development Goals (SDGs), and contributions to
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Statement of Financial Position—2018
Assets
Current Assets
Cash and Cash Equivalents $3,983,440
Our
Investments 2,023,036
Contributions and Grants Receivable 3,585,183
Membership Dues Receivable 77,535
Financial
Prepaid Expense 158,575
Project Advances 225,257
Funds held on behalf of EWB-I 252,107
Property & Equipment (Net) 185,091
Story
TOTAL ASSETS $10,490,224
Liabilities
Current Liabilities
Accounts Payable & Accrued Expenses $320,168
EWB-USA’s partners invest in our Agency Liability 252,107
impact. Through their generous Deferred Revenue 77,545
contributions, we’re able to make a real TOTAL LIABILITIES $649,820
difference in people’s daily lives. From
our community partners to our corporate
partners, we stand united in the shared
belief that engineers have the power to
Net Assets
change the world. Unrestricted $1,131,039
Restricted 8,709,365
TOTAL NET ASSETS $9,840,404
TOTAL LIABILITIES & NET ASSETS $10,490,224
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Our Financial Story
Statement of Activities—2018
Temporarily
Support & Revenue Unrestricted Restricted Total
Contributions & Grants $5,178,099 $5,064,672 $10,242,771
Membership Dues 327,735 - 327,735
Chapter Fees 67,972 - 67,972
Conference Revenue 151,010 - 151,010
In-Kind Project Mentor Contributions 4,320,000 - 4,320,000
Investment Return 45,329 - 45,329
Other Income 24,647 - 24,647
Net Assets Released from Retrictions 1,781,364 ( 1,781,364 ) -
TOTAL SUPPORT & REVENUE $11,896,156 $3,283,308 $15,179,464
Expense
Program Services 9,071,547 - $ 9,071,547
Education 364,936 - $ 364,936
General & Administrative 558,478 - $ 558,478
Fundraising 1,022,445 - $ 1,022,445
TOTAL EXPENSES $11,017,406 - $11,017,406
Change in Net Assets $ 878,750 $3,283,308 $4,162,058 Program Services: 82.3%
Fundraising: 9.3%
Net Assets (Beginning of Period) 252,289 5,426,057 5,678,346
General & Administrative: 5.1%
NET ASSETS (END OF PERIOD) $ 1,131,039 $ 8,709,365 $ 9,840,404 Education: 3.3%
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$500K+
$200K+
Our
Capacity
$100K
Builders $50K
Corporate Partners
$25K
$10K
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$200K+
Anonymous Joe Adams & Pat Habel
$25K-$49,999
John and Linda MacDonald Foundation Stevens Family Memorial Gift
Our $10K-$24,999
Anonymous Red Mountain Fund
Capacity
Chambers Family Foundation The 214 Philanthropic Foundation Inc.
Chris Jeske The Don Yoder Foundation
Musa and Tom Mayer Charitable Fund
Builders
$5K-$9,999
Anonymous Bruce Nieman The Douglas C Beaton Family
Autodesk, Inc. Francis Preli Foundation
Robert & Virginia Bayless Protection Engineering The Thomas P. Waters
Consultants Foundation
Dave Cook, LG, CPG
The Tomeo Family Charitable
On behalf of our volunteers and all the Andrew Dsida Robert Sardis
Fund
Gregory Sauter
communities around the world that DTE Energy Norman Winn
GPK Foundation Jennifer Sereno
partner with EWB-USA, we thank and Don & Chris Stevens
Linda Lannen
recognize the individuals who gave Mimi’s Miracles The Bill/Donna Dehn Charitable
Fund
$1,000 or more to strengthen our
capacity to engineer change.
The Cornerstone Society
The Cornerstone Society recognizes those individuals who have chosen to leave a lasting charitable
legacy by including EWB-USA in their will, trust or estate plan.
Vilas & Ingrid Mujumdar Bob Reynolds
Michael & Catherine Paddock Norman L. Winn
Tyler Palmer 17
$2K-$4,999
Anonymous (3) Kurtz Family Foundation Patrick Engineering Inc
Alice Rowan Swanson Foundation Patricia Kutzmann Chris Reseigh
Basalt Foundation Inc. Steve and Cathy Leslie Rudy & Alice Ramsey Foundation
Kathy Caldwell and Ron Cook Daniel Mageau John Spyhalski
Jody Debs Michael Magill St. Mary’s High School
Jeffrey & Elizabeth Diercks Matrix Technologies SynTerra
Our
Christopher & Jennifer Dunn Roy & Betty Mayfield The Fuller Family Charitable Fund
David England Morgan Charitable Wade Trim
Geosyntec Consultants John Morris Tim Wehrkamp
Carolyn & Bernard Hamilton Holly Neber Mark Williams
John Harding Family Foundation Ralph Noistering Woodard & Curran Foundation
Capacity
Peter & Nancy Kasbohm Jacqueline & John O’Brien Leland & Marian Zeidler
$1K-$1,999
Builders
Anonymous (4) Dakota Gibbs Paul Prusky and Steven Prusky
2004 Carita Foundation, Inc. Thomas and Susannah Graedel Trust
Richard & Elizabeth Allen Scott & Barbara Grainger Petretti & Associates, LLC
Mark Anderson & Sysliene Turpin Hans & Doris Grunwald Roberta Quiat
Robert Andrews Amanda Harris Michael Ross
Barbara Behrendt Jeffrey Hunter Rummel, Klepper & Kahl, LLP
Jeff and Lisa Bennett Jon Hurt Sangree Family Foundation
Lawrence and Janet Bentley Robert Hutson Rich & Elizabeth Schiferl
Mr. & Mrs. T.G. Berk Leah Jamieson Charul & Vimal Shah
Christopher Black JPMorgan Chase Foundation Deborah Shust
Isaac Brown Amy Kaczmarowski William and Susan Stannard
Laurie Burk Hugh & Urling Kingery John H E Stelling, PE, QEP
Burns & McDonnell Kathy Kirschner and Bob Novak John Stimson
Phil & Judy Cagney Charitable Fund Judith Stone
Cole Engineering Solutions PSC LeeAnne Lang Milo Taylor
John Colodny Paul Leonard The Brook Family Foundation
Spencer Commons & Martha Gates Dan & Laura Liotti The Cheryle Sullivan MD Charitable
Duncan & Joan Lobban Fund
Russell Cox
Willem Mast Joshua Watson
Matthew Crockett
Patricia McClearn Welch Mechanical Designs, LLC
Daniel Duong
David Mongan Dustin Wells
Bernadette P. and Thomas N. Farris
Vera Nigrin WSP Foundation Inc.
Leroy Fingerson
Jacqueline Obrien Howard Zwiefel & Mary Kay Gobris
Steven & Robin Flannery
Kenneth Gebhart & Rhonda Reed- Ogino Charitable Contribution Fund
Gebhart Omnicom Capital Inc. 18
Bernard Amadei, Ph.D., P.E. Catherine A. Leslie, P.E.
FOUNDER, ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS USA, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR,
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS USA
Joseph D. Adams, P.E. Christopher Lombardo, Ph.D.
Our
Board President HARVARD JOHN A. PAULSON SCHOOL OF
STANTEC ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES
Linda McGoldrick
Board of
Kathy J. Caldwell, P.E.
Past Board President Treasurer
CALDWELL COOK & ASSOCIATES FINANCIAL HEALTH ASSOCIATES
INTERNATIONAL
Directors
Jody Debs
Board President Elect
Bruce Nieman, P.E.
DTE ENERGY
HDR, INC.
Thomas Farris, Ph.D. Jacqueline O’Brien
ARCONIC FOUNDATION
RUTGERS SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
Diana Hasegan Brian Reilly, P.E.
BECHTEL CORPORATION
OSBORN CONSULTING, INC.
Jon Hurt, P.E. Donald R. Stevens, P.E.
BLACK & VEATCH CORPORATION
ARUP
Leah Jamieson Robert D. Stevens Ph.D., P.E.,
PURDUE UNIVERSITY
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Natasha Koermer
MITRE
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