Basic Dignities’ Brittany Sterling, P.E. is teaming with the Boy Scouts of America to teach the Soil and Water Conservation merit badge and tour a water treatment facility. Merit badges are a core part of boy scouting and help teach life skills and career paths. The scouts have a requirement to earn merit badges to achieve the rank of Eagle Scout. We are looking forward to hosting the Boy Scouts of America and teaching them about the importance of clean water!

Please join us for a charity yard sale on Saturday, May 4th to raise money for the Bussi Water Project! To donate items for the sale, please contact Brittany at brittany@basicdignities.org.

Want to make a BIG impact on the Bussi Fishing Village Water Project? Make a donation anytime on March 22 and your donation will be DOUBLED by a private donor!*

*Maximum matching amount is $3,000

Last year was so fantastic that we're throwing another concert to help us with our final fundraising push for our Uganda Water Project. Thank you to the awesome folks at Dolby Development, Inc and Compass Mortgage, Inc (and specifically Jason Fowler - Compass Mortgage Inc) for their sponsorship of this event! 

The 1st half of the program will be classical music, featuring Donald Luryeperforming Brahms on the clarinet and Gary Greene on the French Horn performing Gliere. Both will perform with Kevin Wong on the piano. We'll send you to intermission with your toes tapping to a little ragtime piano and a short update on our project by co-founder, Patricia Fragen. 

After intermission (food & beverages provided), we'll be moving even more modern as Chicago Harpist, Nichole Luchs performs Piazolla's "Libertango". We are honored to have Joanna Beasley (of American Idol fame) joining us to finish off the afternoon! 

Basic Dignities is so excited to announce we're partnering with the ladies and gentlemen of Alpha Phi Omega: Tau Mu Chapter in Tampa, FL to raise money for the Kisima Island Water Project this week! If you're in Tampa, please head over to Tijuana Flats this Wednesday, February 7th to help us raise money for clean water!

This event is sponsored by Dolby Development, Inc.

Remember all the old black & white movies, with stars like Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney when they were kids, and how often someone spouted a line like “let’s put on a show”? Well, it turns out those days are not gone forever. Basic Dignities did just that to pull together the upcoming Music for Water Concert taking place September 24th, 2 PM, at the Lombard Mennonite Church. There is no charge, but a free will donation of at least $20 per person is recommended.

Talented local musicians, many who play with the DuPage Symphony Orchestra and/or are music instructors in the Chicagoland area, are donating their time and talents to raise funds for Basic Dignities’ Kisima Village Water Project. Funds raised will help bring clean water to this fishing village in Uganda.

Please join us for the Uganda Run Fast 5k in Urbana! This will be a water themed fun run to raise money for the Kisima Island Water Project. Our crew will have super soakers along the course and special water featuers to spray runners as they go by! Runners: bring your own super soakers to spray the race crew! Register today at www.UgandaRunFast5k.com!

If you can't join us but would still like to help, no problem! You can make a donation through our website or Facebook, or purchase a t-shirt to support our cause!

Please join us for a fundraiser at the Chicago Dough Company in New Lenox, IL! There will be music from local artists, a raffle with prizes from local venues, and of course delicious pizza! A portion of the proceeds from food sales will be donated to Basic Dignities, and 100% of the raffle money will be donated. Please come out, order some great pizza and help us make this event a success! Raffle prize winners do not need to be present to win.