Partners

Partnership has been a critical component to BARKA’s growth and expanded impact.   From its inception BARKA has been creating public/private partnerships and tri-partite partnerships between governments, NGO’s and corporations.

BARKA works at the local, regional, national and international level, ranging from the smallholder subsistence farmer to government ministries.  It is ever increasing its global network of solidarity NGO’s and organizations.

(USA)

Schools/Youth: Railroad St. Youth Project, Monument Mountain Regional High School, Monument Valley Regional Middle School, Youth Alive, Greenagers, Future Now, Sullivan Elementary School, Gabriel Abbott Memorial School, Crosby Elementary School, John Bapst High School, Odyssey Academy, Great Barrington Waldorf High School

Media Partners:

    • TED.com (BARKA hosted a Pangea Day screening and event in May 2008)
    • ZZYX Entertainment (BARKA Burkina Consortium partner
    • Live Earth (BARKA was an NGO Beneficiary Partner of Live Earth’s Run for Water, a global event on April 18, 2010, sponsored by Dow Chemical)
    • PeaceDay TV

NGO: H2O For Life, Project WET Foundation, Pathways To Peace, World Water Organization, Pure Home Water, Global Water Network/Earth Day Network, Center for Peace through Culture, Berkshire Immigrant Center

Legal: Advocates for International Development (UK)

Financial: CapitalOne, SwipeGood, Akvo, Network for Good, Global Giving

Public: City of Pittsfield Cultural Arts Department

Indigenous: Healing Winds, Humanity in Concert

Cultural: The Colonial Theatre, Devotional Music Foundation

Women: Women with Wings

Faith-based: Unitarian Universalist Society of Bangor

(Burkina Faso)

Corporate: Edifice/McCann Erickson, Geofor, Jirma, Air Burkina, SMAK International, SOFAS

Public: Ouagadougou Mayor’s Office, CENASA, FESPACO, ONEA

Media: OuagaFM, Horizon FM, TVZ, FESPACO, Supreme Master Television

Production: Afrik’heur

Youth: Africa Youth Network, Citizens Club Initiatives

Technology: BAMIG

NGO: Impact Sud, WaterAid, WASH Coalition, End Water Poverty

Faith-based: Burkina Faso is largely made up of 3 religious groups- Muslim, Christian and Indigenous/traditional.  BARKA has befriended all three constituencies.

Online Affiliations:

Culture of Peace Initiative, Idealist.org, Wiser Earth, Orion Grassroots Network, AfricaNews, Frogloop, ConnectUS Fund, Center for Conflict Prevention, Global Giving