We made it to April, and the beginning of Q1 2022! As always, we at FLUSH have a lot of things to share, so please enjoy our summary of new events, client case studies, and other project developments. Also, we encourage you to share with us your #ToiletTourism pics, to be featured in our next newsletter! |
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Online Class: History of Toilets April 21st @ 5:30PM EDT FLUSH's popular class is back! Join us to learn about a brief history of toilets on April 21st @ 5:30PM EDT with NYAC. ($10 registration fee, and you can watch the class for a week after!) | | |
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Loo Book Club #6 April 28th @ 7:00PM EDT Just a friendly reminder that we will be holding our sixth Loo Book Club with The Poop Project and Rich Earth Institute for the book Know Your Shit by our very own Shawn Shafner! It will be a celebration of an easy read about what we do in the bathroom and why. | | |
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WILD Leadership Forum Event May 18th @ 1:30PM EDT FLUSH is leading a Community Conversation at the WILD Network's virtual 2022 Women in Global Development Leadership Forum. There, our Founder will be speaking on building inclusive leadership for workplaces in development. | | |
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CASE STUDY: FSM Alliance FLUSH wrote up a 1-page case study about how last year we supported the Fecal Sludge Management Alliance with a Rapporteur Program during their FSM6 Conference. During this project, we also developed 2 reports highlighting key lessons and insights from conference sessions. Check it out! | | |
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CASE STUDY: PQMD FLUSH wrote up another 1-page case study about how last year we supported the Partnership for Quality Medical Donations (PQMD) to create a simple, easy-to-use monitoring tool for people engaged with hygiene kit programs. With this, we developed a digital tool that allowed them to measure performance with visual GIS-enabled dashboards. Check it out! | | |
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Blog: Chemo & Toilets Our own Samiya Coney wrote a blog post exploring how chemotherapy treatment and waste could be an important element to explore further how it affects sanitation systems and, ultimately, our environment. Check out this thought-provoking blog post trying to figure out what we know about chemo in toilets - and what we don't know. | | |
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Project: Athena Infonomics FLUSH has recently supported Athena Infonomics on mapping WASH regulations in francophone Africa. It is part of a larger project that they are tackling in Africa. | | |
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Recap: UConn OLLI class FLUSH had a great time teaching 10 retirees about global sanitation through the University of Connecticut's OLLI program in a class titled, "Lessons From the History of Toilets". Participants learned about ancient toilets, using poo for farms, and public spaces. It was a 5-week course, and our first time doing it in person! |
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Organics Summit Recap This month, we went to the NYSAR's Organics Summit! There, we learned more about composting different kinds of organic waste and how it can tie into toilets by integrating it with biosolids. We also got to see a municipal composting facility that composted lawn waste, trees, leaves, and food scraps! Our favorite part of the tour was the steaming coming off the compost and that one compost heap had a street name - Scrap Pile! |
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DID YOU KNOW that FLUSH offers two kinds of services? Host one of our fun events or classes for your team, online or in person. We offer "off-the-shelf" classes and tailored classes for different audiences. Have us help your organization. We offer management advisory services in internal systems change, including (1) data diagnostics, architecture, & analytics; (2) marketing & storytelling; (3) capacity building & training; and, (4) strategic & project management. |
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FLUSH would love to see your whacky toilet tourism experiences from near and far! Have interesting toilets you'd like to have showcased in this newsletter? Email us! |
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