Save the Children
In 2009, The PepsiCo Foundation provided a three-year, $5 million grant to help ensure the survival and well-being of children living in rural India and Bangladesh. These countries alone are home to over 40 percent of the world's malnourished children.

The PepsiCo Foundation's support is helping Save the Children build on its local and international expertise to design and implement community-based approaches to improve the health and nutrition of children under age 5. These children and their families are among their countries' poorest. Save the Children will work with community health educators to provide families with important messages about health, nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene. When families practice what they have learned, their children are more likely to be healthier and enjoy improved nutrition.

In Bangladesh, Save the Children will continue a pilot project using ready-to-use food that is specially formulated to help treat children's acute malnutrition. Additionally, they will introduce market-led income generation activities, so families can create and sustain improvements to food security and increase their livelihoods. Save the Children will also build the capacity of local communities and other nongovernmental organizations in India and Bangladesh so that the benefits delivered can be sustained over the long term.

The combined global resources of Save the Children and The PepsiCo Foundation will help make a profound difference in the lives of 600,000 children under age 5, mothers and pregnant and lactating women in India and Bangladesh. This project is consistent with PepsiCo Foundation's vision in creating a better tomorrow for the global community. It also means both progress for children and women and movement in advancing the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Since 1997, PepsiCo's employees have provided funds to Save the Children through their employee matching gift programs. The PepsiCo Foundation has also supported Save the Children's emergency response activities in Haiti following the recent earthquake (2010), in West Africa in response to a hunger emergency (2006) and in Pakistan following a major earthquake (2005).

Friends of the World Food Program
The PepsiCo Foundation and United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the world's largest humanitarian agency which fights hunger worldwide, announced in 2009 a strategic partnership aimed at enhancing the ability of WFP to deliver food and relief to the most vulnerable communities around the globe.

The PepsiCo Foundation has committed $2.2 million for a program that brings together global logistics experts from PepsiCo to help strengthen WFP's response to growing hunger needs. The needs were brought on by high food prices and the financial crisis, as well as improve its operating efficiency and response time in crisis situations.

Propelled in part by 2008's global food crisis and subsequent global economic crisis, there are 1.02 billion undernourished people in the world today. That means one in nearly six people do not get enough food to be healthy and lead an active life, WFP and PepsiCo logistics experts, including PepsiCo retirees who are part of the PepsiCo Foundation Service Corps, will share best practices, collaboration tools, performance dashboards and training frameworks to improve food delivery. All of the operating efficiencies gained by WFP will be re-applied to meet the needs of the disadvantaged communities WFP serves.

water.org

water.org is a highly respected 20-year-old U.S. non-profit with a mission to provide safe drinking water and sanitation to people in developing countries. water.org fills a key role in addressing the water crisis worldwide. As a matchmaker, water.org connects donor dollars directly to capable community organizations in developing countries that otherwise are not able to source funding on their own and that don't have the kind of expert implementation, knowledge and technical experience that water.org brings. Learn more at water.org.

WaterCredit: Catalyzing Access to Safe Water and Sanitation

Working together with water.org, PepsiCo Foundation commits to accelerating greater access to safe water and sanitation for those currently living without these basic necessities in India. This goal will be met through programs delivered via grants and WaterCredit, an innovative initiative that facilitates microcredit loans for water and sanitation.

Core elements of the program include delivery of safe water systems, access to improved sanitation, health and hygiene education, establishing a revolving loan fund of over $1MM for water and sanitation projects and facilitating the growth of a commercial market for microcredit loans for water and sanitation.

This project will directly impact a minimum of 120,000 lives; women and children comprise an estimated 68 percent of this total. Approximately 60,000 people will be served through traditional grants, while an additional 60,000 people will be served through WaterCredit. Due to the unique WaterCredit element of this initiative, PepsiCo Foundation anticipates that there will be a natural "multiplier effect" that will widen the impact of this commitment to a larger number of beneficiaries throughout the recipient communities.

The novel WaterCredit approach of blending microfinance with water and sanitation is not only new to the water sector, but also to PepsiCo Foundation's giving portfolio.

WaterCredit is much needed given the current water and sanitation situation in India. More than 120 million people lack access to safe water in India – a figure that is larger than the population of all but 10 countries worldwide. In addition, 800 million people in India do not have access to a hygienic toilet. The World Health Organization reports that, in low-income countries, unsafe water and sanitation are associated with three of the ten leading causes of death. At any given time, patients suffering from a water-related disease occupy half of the world's hospital beds.

Current methods of addressing this water and sanitation crisis are not scalable, as they rely on philanthropy alone.

This partnership will not only provide safe water for people living in India, but it will also create a sustainable and scalable model to accelerate access to safe water and sanitation for hundreds of millions of people throughout the developing world. This will be accomplished through our program, which offers both traditional grant and loan funds.

Safe Water Network

The Safe Water Network is a not-for-profit organization established to develop and deploy new, economically viable water purification technology to provide safe water to neglected populations – a critical global issue impacting more than 1 billion people. Safe Water Network is not affiliated with any governmental organization, and is governed by a Board of philanthropic and business leaders. Safe Water Network serves as a catalyst for the development, optimization and validation of demand-driven, sustainable, water solutions that have potential to meet the needs to the world's poor at scale.

Safe Water Network: Optimizing Safe Affordable Water Solutions
Through a three year partnership with Safe Water Network, PepsiCo Foundation has pledged to implement safe water initiatives for village water systems in Ghana, India, and Bangladesh as well as rainwater harvesting systems in India. These projects are projected to impact more than 200,000 people. Each project is being pursued through a "stage-gate" process in which pledged funding and resources are committed based on achieving project milestones each year.

Projects include:

• Launch village water systems in Ghana and expand to West Africa, providing access to safe water impacting ~70,000 people in three years.
• Provide community-level safe water solutions to populations in ~100 villages (~65,000 people) of Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh, India in three years.
• Support the development and launch of a micro-enterprise water kiosk model in rural Bangladesh, serving ~65,000 people in three years.
• Implement rainwater harvesting systems to meet the severe water needs of ~25,000 people in rural Rajasthan, India.

The Earth Institute at Columbia University

In 2008, The Earth Institute at Columbia University, one of the world's premier institutions dedicated to global sustainable development, and PepsiCo Foundation, entered into a $6 million three-year partnership.

The program includes a series of high-impact, community-based activities and practical solutions across water, agriculture and climate.

The initiative is focused on improving water access, increasing water productivity and identifying innovative methods to find "more crop per drop" in water-stressed areas of China, India, Brazil and Africa.

Diplomas Now
is an innovative school turnaround model, funded by PepsiCo Foundation, which unites three experienced nonprofit organizations with proven track records to work with the nation's most challenged middle and high schools to help students at-risk of dropping out of school get back on track to high school graduation and be ready for college and career.

The Foundation has played a pivotal role in Diplomas Now, as a funder of the highly successful Philadelphia pilot in 2008-09 as well as a key supporter of the 2009-2010 expansion of the model in Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles, New Orleans and San Antonio. Combined, this represents more than $5 million seed investment for this program to date. The next wave of expansion is planned to active this high performance model Washington, DC, New York, Detroit, Miami and Seattle.

Diplomas Now was created as a result of the Foundation's solid success with Escalera and is designed to be integrated with such program over the next few years as the markets expand. Since the 1940s, Pepsi has been dedicated to funding educational programs and currently PepsiCo Foundation has more than $12.5 million committed to education for the underserved.

Check out early results from the Diplomas Now collaboration here.

Collaborators
Diplomas Now is a partnership of three of the most well known and successful national expert organizations in education today: City Year, Communities in Schools and Johns Hopkins' Talent Development. Leveraging evidence gathered and vetted by Johns Hopkins University and the Philadelphia Education Fund, this collaboration has created a targeted program that reduces the large number of dropouts.

The partner organizations are leveraging their unique assets to bring collective resources and expertise to underserved schools:

• City Year brings diverse teams of young leaders into schools as “near peers” who focus on improving students' attendance, behavior and coursework, and support overall student success.
• Communities In Schools provides a school-based coordinator who connects students with community resources, such as healthcare, mentors, tutors and after-school programs to address students' unmet needs and help them focus on learning.
• Talent Development provides comprehensive school improvement through evidence-based curriculum and instruction, school organization and extensive professional development.

For more information on the research conducted by Johns Hopkins Center for Social Organization of Schools and the Philadelphia Education Fund visit http://www.philaedfund.org/research/index.htm.