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Toilets & Water Filters: Two Startups Redefining Nonprofit Tech

Toilets & Water Filters: Two Startups Redefining Nonprofit Tech

FromThe Classy Podcast


Toilets & Water Filters: Two Startups Redefining Nonprofit Tech

FromThe Classy Podcast

ratings:
Length:
51 minutes
Released:
Mar 17, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In Classy's first ever podcast panel discussion, and in honor of World Water Day, we speak with two cutting-edge leaders in the WaSH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene) sector, Jason Kass and Natalie Relich. 
Natalie is the Executive Director at O’Horizons, a nonprofit developing solutions that are characterized as Low-Tech, High-Thinking. Most notably, they've created a wood mold bio-sand filter that makes it cheaper, faster, and easier to get safe drinking water. Jason is the president and founder of Toilets for People, a social enterprise that designs and manufactures waterless bathroom products and trains NGO partners in the developing world how to build, install & maintain them. Their signature sanitation solution is an affordable, self-contained waterless toilet that uses technology to safely treat human waste.
In this episode, Natalie and Jason share:
How to stay forward-thinking at your own social startup
Tips for collaborating with like-minded organizations
Tactics for incorporating low-tech, high-thinking solutions into your nonprofit programs
Why lean startups like theirs are poised to drive significant change for the international development community
How low-tech, high-thinking solutions are a more sustainable approach to today's world problems
An insightful approach to the definition of "social innovation"
Released:
Mar 17, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (47)

The Classy Podcast tells the stories of today's leading founders and executives in the social sector. Each week, we unlock their founding stories and share them with you to inspire the next generation that is mobilized to drive change. Visit classy.org/podcast or classy.org.