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Our Purpose

We build partnerships to transform lives and help communities thrive.

Through our cross-cutting partnerships and multi-sector networks, we strive to uplift communities through climate resilience, basin health, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) access, utility and health systems strengthening, entrepreneurship, women’s empowerment and regenerative agriculture programming.

Our Approach

By forging collective action alliances between business, government and civil society, we amplify impact by designing, incubating and delivering sustainable development solutions at scale.

FORGE

ADVISE

INCUBATE

DELIVER

Partnerships between civil society, governments and companies.

On proven partnership models and strategies.

Emerging programs, technologies and organizations.

Impact through dynamic multi-country programs.

FORGE

Partnerships between civil society, governments and companies.

ADVISE

On proven partnership models and strategies.

INCUBATE

Emerging programs, technologies and organizations.

DELIVER

Impact through dynamic multi-country programs.

Who We Are

We are a team of international development specialists accomplished in strategic partnerships and project management.

As the issues we tackle demand the focus of many, we deploy subject matter experts with diverse perspectives and innovative solutions on the ground and across over 100 countries.

Our collective team includes top partnership, water, health and gender professionals, scientists, business leaders, engineers, research and data technologists and strategic communication practitioners.

Who We Are

We are a team of international development specialists accomplished in strategic partnerships and project management.

As the issues we tackle demand the focus of many, we deploy subject matter experts with diverse perspectives and innovative solutions on the ground and across over 100 countries.

Our collective team includes top partnership, water, health and gender professionals, scientists, business leaders, engineers, research and data technologists and strategic communication practitioners.

Our Team

Monica Ellis

Chief Executive Officer

Tom Harvey

Chairman and Founder

Scott Denlinger

Chief Financial Officer

Alexandra Scott

President

Femi Adedoyin

Director of Contracts

Chris Rich

Executive Director,
U.S. Water Partnership

Malick Keita

Senior Director: Corporate Water Partnerships

Jenny Bennett

Director of Operations

Madeline Flamik

Portfolio Manager,
Women’s Empowerment

Esther Abodunrin

Associate Director, Global Health Programs

Helen McCarthy

Project and Communications Coordinator at GETF

Bob Corell

Senior Advisor

Mauricio Chavarria

Corporate Engagement Lead, Latin America

Márcio Dionísio

Regional Coordinator,
South America

Cindy-Ann Hersom

Senior Advisor, Strategy and Communications

Rushika Shekhar

Program Manager, Health Systems Strengthening

Timothy Buckley

International advisor

Sebastian Rodriguez

Local Coordinator,
Mexico

Ana Alí Simón

Replenish Program
Coordinator,
Mexico

Katerine Salazar

Regional Database Administrator,
Aliados por el Agua

Patricio Talavera

Project Coordinator,
Mexico

Affiliate Organizations

GETF serves as Executive Secretariat for two high impact coalitions that mobilize funding, provide tools and data and deliver game-changing programs to reach the underserved.

Global Water Challenge
Since 2005, GWC’s 100+ multi-sector partners have improved WASH service delivery for over 3 million people across Africa, the Americas and Asia.  

U.S. Water Partnership
Since 2012, USWP and it’s 130 multi-sector partners, have mobilized ~$1BN in financial and in-kind resources, provided over 30 countries with water expertise and promoted sustainable water management for ASEAN cities – home to over 15 million people.