"Almost a billion people live without clean drinking water. We call this the water crisis. It's a crisis because it only starts with water -- but water affects everything in life. We can end the water crisis in our lifetime. But first we have to let everyone know it's happening."

WASHINGTON -- Scott Harrison knows his charity has funded nearly 7,000 clean water projects in some of the poorest areas of the world in the past six ...

Beth Kanter, whose blog is a clearinghouse for information on how organizations can use new technology for good, is rethinking how a nonprofit acts in the digital world.

Scott Harrison talks about his crisis of faith and a journey that took him from a debaucherous world of club promotion to becoming a powerful force for clean water in Africa.

Nonprofits have longed for years to have access to the best technology. Often, even the best of ideas have challenges when technology is involved, whether it's a technical or a funding issue. That's where the newly-announced Google.org Global Impact Awards come in.

Why are some people seemingly hard-wired for compassion, while others hardly notice suffering? Is generosity the by-product of a virtuous upbringing, a quality we learn primarily through early observation?

In partnership with the Social Innovation Summit, we're running a weekly series called 5x5x5 -- 5 Leaders, 5 Sectors, 5 Questions. Five guests from a ...

Rachel Beckwith never lived to see her birthday wish to bring clean water to Africa come true. But her mother and thousands of those in need soon will...

Scott Harrison is well-known worldwide as the charismatic founder and CEO of charity: water. But the story of how charity: water came to be is quite unique. It's not often that such a colorful, inspiring, paradigm-shifting story happens.

I want people to understand how they are exactly the same as the person in the slum. In that uniquely human way, they are no better and no worse than them -- they are the same.

Updated Aug. 12, 3:56 p.m. Rachel Beckwith didn’t live to see her birthday wish, but more than 50,000 people in need of clean water will, now tha...

For Earth Day, we teamed up with Jonathan Jarvis and Kristen Bell to create a simple film on how water changes everything for people in need. Help us make this Earth Day all about water.

charity: water's founder, Scott Harrison, pointed to 45 glowing light bulbs jutting from three sponsor boards marked with the names of the countries he had just advocated for during his passionate speech. A total of $470,000 was successfully raised - an amount that would provide 19,300 people with clean water.

Today charity: water is drilling again -- this time in a nearby Bayaka village. They haven't given up and I don't believe we'll see any white flags as long as Scott keeps doing what's he doing, as one of the most exciting Change Agents of our time.

The residents of Nederland, Colo. came together to build the Carousel of Happiness. Working together, town residents created a living piece of American history.

In the spirit of solving enormous problems, charity: water wants to step it up this September and provide our first million people with clean and safe drinking water.