Golf Fore Africa, Inc.
Clean Water Changes Everything
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Globally, 844 million people struggle to survive each day without access to safe drinking water. Nearly half of the developing world —about 2.4 billion people — have inadequate access to proper sanitation or no access at all. Women and children are worst affected — children because they are more vulnerable to diseases of dirty water and women and girls because they often bear the burden of carrying water for their families for an estimated 200 million hours each day. Amazing progress has been made in making clean drinking water accessible to 2.6 billion people in developing countries since 1990. Yet there are still many opportunities to multiply the benefits of clean water through improved sanitation and hygiene education. For the last 15 years, Golf Fore Africa has been working with World Vision in impoverished areas to provide safe water, improved sanitation, and hygiene education so that illnesses decrease, health improves, and the burden on women and children is lessened.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Water For Zambia
Golf Fore Africa is currently working on bringing clean, fresh drinking water to over 200,000 people in rural Africa and is committed to helping end the global water crisis by 2030. We fund handpump wells and mechanized systems for health clinics and schools.
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Our results
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Population(s) Served
Adults, Children and youth
Related Program
Water For Zambia
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Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Golf Fore Africa uses volunteers to help run our charity events. They help prepare mailers and event materials. Work at fundraising events.
Number of convenings hosted by the organization
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Related Program
Water For Zambia
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
In 2022 Golf Fore Africa hosted three golf events, one luncheon, and one large dinner to fundraise for Water projects in Zambia.
Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Golf Fore Africa is working to bring clean water, sanitation, and hygiene training to 200,000 in Zambia Africa over a 3 year period. We are working with other NGO's to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal of every person on the planet having access to clean safe, sustainable water by 2030. We are drilling boreholes in rural villages, community and government schools and in health clinics. We are also funding larger mechanized water systems in health clinic and schools.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
We are engaging the golf community through fundraisers, luncheons, peer to peer fundraising and social media. We raise funds and awareness through events to fund water projects with World Vision. We work together with World Vision Water to access need in communities and to promote community engagement model.
World Vision's Approach to Community Engagement for Sustainable Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Projects. ... The establishment of a robust water committee that fully owns and understands how to repair the WASH technology is the crucial way in which World Vision development workers engage within the community. We choose to partner with World Vision because after 20 years close to 80% of the wells are still working.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Golf Fore Africa is committed to help end the global water crisis by 2030. We are working in Zambia and Zimbabwe to bring safe clean water sanitation and hygiene training to villages, schools and in healthclinics.
As of 2022, Golf Fore Africa has:
463 Wells Funded in Villages
63 Mechanized Water Systems in Health clinics and schools.
6 Baby Wash Systems at Health clinics which include maternity wards for deliveries and birthing shelters for mothers.
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Operations
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Golf Fore Africa, Inc.
Board of directorsas of 03/30/2023
Chris Hardy
Golf Fore Africa
Term: 2018 - 2021
Carol Petren
Robert Fink
Carol Ann Petren
Wendy Posillico
Cheryl D'Anna
Aaron Stead
Patty Horn
Sharon Heitz
Kendall Dye
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
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Equity strategies
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- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
- We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We disaggregate data by demographics, including race, in every policy and program measured.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.