UPDATED 9/21: **Just hit my revised goal of $1500! Thanks so much for everyone who's helped out so far. Wondering if we can get it up to $2000 before the end of the month??** UPDATED 9/13: **Thanks to everyone's generosity, I got so close to my original fundraising goal of $1000 that I bumped it up to $1500. Thank you so much for your support!!** I'm turning 40 this year. Wow! Big birthday. I feel incredibly lucky to have made it this far with relative ease...high school and college years not included! To celebrate, I've decided to donate my birthday to water. Instead of gifts, I'm asking for $$ from everyone I know. It's not going to me, though. All of it is going to build freshwater projects for people in developing countries. My birthday wish is to pay forward some of the blessings I've enjoyed over the past 40 years and hope you'll all help me raise enough money to bring clean, safe drinking water to people who desperately need it. I set my goal at $1000...which will bring water to 50 people. That's 40 people for my 40 years, plus 10 more for good luck! The best part: 100% of all donations go directly toward water projects. And about 18 months after this campaign ends, charity: water will show us where and how every dollar we raised ended up helping in the field. We'll see GPS coordinates, photos and more details about the communities we've impacted. I hope you'll join me! XOXO, Cindi