Despite much progress in the field of international development, humanity continues to face tremendous global challenges. Water problems such as access to safe drinking water and reliable sanitation affect about half of the world’s population.  Nearly 1.1 billion people do not have access to clean drinking water. Two point six billion people do not have access to proper sanitation. An even more disturbing fact is that unsafe water, inadequate sanitation and lack of hygiene claim the lives of 1.6 million children under the age of five every year.   The world’s energy story isn’t much better. About 1.4 billion people lack access to direct electricity. Two point seven billion people still rely on traditional cooking methods utilizing biomass energy. We all know that cooking shouldn’t kill. But it is estimated that the household air pollution resulting from biomass use will result in more than 1.5 million deaths per year by 2030.   These statistics reveal a dire reality, but there’s still good news to share.

1. PARTNERING WITH
Engineers Without Borders USA

2. OUR WORLD TODAY
The Challenges

3. OUR WORLD TODAY
Global Challenges
1billion
lack clean water
1.4 billion
lack access to electricity
2.6 billion
lack adequate sanitation
2.7 billion
rely on biomass energy for cooking

4. OUR WORLD TODAY
Engineering Challenges
The United States ranks:
52nd
in the quality of STEM education
27th
in college students
receiving engineering degrees

5. OUR WORLD TODAY
EWB-USA’s Solutions
Build stronger communities
We build stronger communities by empowering
them with the capacity to meet their basic
human needs.
EWB-USA’s members collaborate with local
partners to design and build sustainable
engineering projects.
Build stronger global leaders
From classroom to field, we offer our
members transformative experiences that
enrich global perspectives and produce better
students and better employees.
This engagement teaches soft skills, such as:
• Leadership
• Project Management
• Cross-cultural Communication
• Systems Thinking

6. HOW WE ENGINEER
CHANGE
EWB-USA’s Programs

7. HOW WE ENGINEER
CHANGE
Our Reach
47
Countries with
EWB-USA
programs
389
Community
Development
Programs
5-Year
Minimum commitment
to each community

8. HOW WE ENGINEER
CHANGE
Project types
EWB-USA members implement 450 projects around the world in seven disciplines.
Civil Works
Agriculture
Energy
Information
Systems
Water
Sanitation
Structures

9. HOW WE ENGINEER CHANGE
Educating Leaders of Tomorrow
Recruit
Students
Train Global
Engineers
Lifelong Learning
Engage Your
Workforce

10. HOW WE ENGINEER
CHANGE
Snapshot of a Program
EWB-USA programs originate with a community self-identifying their needs and requesting
support from EWB-USA. Our members work with the community to assess, design, implement and
monitor appropriate solutions.
The EWB-USA Lehigh Valley Professional Chapter’s (EWB-USA LVP) partnership with the Centennial
Secondary School in Mattru Jong, Sierra Leone, exemplifies the breadth of our community
development model. After the Sierra Leone Civil War destroyed the school, the EWB-USA LVP
Chapter united with the community to design a multidisciplinary program to improve all facets of
the school’s infrastructure – from its sanitation facilities to its electricity to its water supply.
Today, the school is reopened and currently educates approximately 1,500 students.

11. WHO WE ARE
The People Who Engineer Change

12. WHO WE ARE
The role of EWB-USA HQ
The 19 full-time staff members at EWB-USA’s headquarters in Denver, Colo., facilitate a robust
quality assurance and quality control process that enables our chapters to work on hundreds of
projects across the globe each year.
The roles they play include:
• Provide education and guidance on each state of a project’s development
• Review all project designs for technical feasibility
• Train chapter project teams for fluency in EWB-USA policies, project process and travel
requirements
• Ensure proper financial governance is maintained over all funds associated with the
organization, including our 303 chapters
100%
MISSION-DRIVEN

13. WHO WE ARE
The boots on the ground
13,836 Members
303 Chapters
100%
MISSION-DRIVEN
72% Students
28% Professionals
29% Female
71% Male

14. WHO WE ARE
Our partners
Premier
$500,000+
Principal
$200,000+
Diamond
$100,000+

15. WHO WE ARE
Our partners
Platinum
$75,000+
Gold
$50,000+
Silver
$25,000+
Official
$10,000+

16. PARTNER WITH EWB-USA
HOW YOU CAN ENINGEER CHANGE

17. PARTNER WITH EWB-USA
Fund EWB-USA’s Sustainability
EWB-USA partners strategically fund growth, financial sustainability and social impact—ensuring that
the organization continues to flourish as a high-performing nonprofit organization.
Why does this matter?
Unrestricted investments in EWB-USA’s General Fund provide flexibility, stability and capacity to the
core of the organization. These investments cover everything from the quality assurance and quality
control of our programs to staff salaries and rent.
EWB-USA Total Expenses: $8,166,020
4% 5%
General Fundraising
and
$410,737
Administrative
$344,527
6%
Education
Program
$512,750
85%
Community Development Program
$6,898,006

18. The program is a biannual funding opportunity extended to our members in both the spring and
fall. The program is increasingly more competitive and higher-funded each year, with a 74%
increase in grant applicants and aProjects
Fund 357% increase in the dollar amount of awards given from 2010
to 2012.
PARTNER WITH EWB-USA
EWB-USA’s Project Grants Program presents funders with the unique opportunity to provide
direct support to EWB-USA projects in communities around the world. Participation in this
program connects corporations and individuals to the pulse of EWB-USA in an engaging grant
process comprised of review, relationship-building and reporting.
A Snapshot of the
2012 Project Grants Program:
$511,025
Awarded to EWB-USA Projects
110
Grants Given
811,470
Lives Impacted

19. PARTNER WITH EWB-USA
Benefits of your Partnership
PHILANTHROPY.
Affecting positive social change requires the investment in leaders willing to take action,
provide vision and inspire others. We bring out the best in our volunteers so that they can
bring out the best in others.
ACCESS.
We galvanize more than 13,800 volunteers into
collective global action. They are recruitmentworthy, to say the least. Connect with
EWB-USA’s emerging leaders who are
engineering a better world.
OPPORTUNITIES.
We offer meaningful engagement opportunities
for you and your employees through skills-based
volunteering, Project Grants Program decisionmaking, a seat on our Corporate Leadership
Council and brand visibility.

20. PARTNER WITH US
Make a Difference Today
The EWB-USA team looks forward to talking to you about opportunities for your company to
engineer change.
Cathy Leslie
Executive Director
720-204-3204
cathy.leslie@ewb-usa.org
Mary Perkins
Public and Donor Relations Director
720-204-3222
mary.perkins@ewb-usa.org

21. EMPOWERING
Engineers Without Borders
COMMUNITIES THROUGH
Nicaragua Project
INFRASTRUCTURE
Wastewater Treatment Facility
for Coffee Beneficio

22. OUTLINE

23. PROJEJCT DESCRIPTION
Matagalpa,
north of the capital
Managua
San Jose
Tierra
Nueva
Nueva
Esperanza

24. PARTNERS
Agros International
• Loans to farmers for acquiring land
• Agricultural assistance and social programs
• Runs Communities in the Matagalpa Region

25. COMMUNITY

26. PROJECT PURPOSE
Coffee
Beneficio
Wastewater
Treatment

27. PROJECT DESCRPTION
Coffee Beneficio
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Washing
Depulping
Removing mucilage layer
Washing fermented beans

28. PROJECT DESCRPTION
Coffee Wastewater Treatment
• Processing heavily polluted wastewater
• Treating effluent from fermentation
• Mitigate ecological degradation

29. PROJECT PURPOSE
– Add value to coffee product
– Training community in coffee processing
– Community empowerment

30. PROJECT GOALS
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–
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Reduce wastewater pollution
Optimize water use
Optimize processing techniques
Treat organic content in wastewater
Possible wastewater reuse

31. ASSESSMENT TRIP
Four professionals from EWBPuget Sound Chapter
 Two students from University
of Central America
 Translator


32. ASSESSMENT TRIP
Water quality testing
 Surveying
 Soil Sample tests
 Community interviews
 Visit of local beneficios


33. ASSESSMENT TRIP

34. CHALLENGES
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Limited Water Supply
Power / Electricity
Road Access / Construction logistics
Lack of Data
Effluent Reuse
Coordination
Funds

35. PRODUCTS
– Construction specification
• Beneficio
• Wastewater Treatment Facility
– Operational manual ( Spanish )
– Maintenance tasks and schedule
– Design Process Documentation

36. THANK YOU