DOC HENDLEY
Turning Wine To Water & Passion Into Action
PRESENTATION TITLES
"Hell Or High Water: How One Man Turned Wine Into Water And Transformed Customers Into Crusaders"
Doc Hendley was once a small-town bartender with a dream of changing the world through clean water. Through a series of simple wine-tasting events to raise funds for clean-water projects that he launched in North Carolina, he has created an international fundraising organization that provides clean water and sanitation to people in need around the world. In this speech, Hendley shares insights on how others can put simple ideas into action and use it to solve problems on the local, national, and international level.
"Digging For Hope: Turning Wine To Water And Other Modern Day Miracles"
In this inspirational keynote, Wine To Water founder Doc Hendley teaches audiences a simple but profound principle for improving the world: do what they can with what they have. As the founder of an international fundraising organization that had humble origins, Hendley illustrates the immense power of relationships to transcend perceived barriers, proving the power of one to transform the impossible into the inevitable.
"Turning Passion Into Action: The Wine To Water Filter Build® Experience"
Filter Builds engage participants as volunteers in a meaningful, impactful team-building experience that leads to the empowerment of communities around the globe through the power of clean water.
The WTW Filter Build® Experience offers a meaningful, hands-on approach to impacting communities around the world with clean water. Whether your Filter Build® event is for a team of 25, a wedding party of 100, a reunion of 350 classmates, or 14,000 co-workers and vendors meeting up at your global conference – this team-building, purpose-driven event is a great way to build relationships, purpose, and passion as you connect and give back.
In just 5 minutes, you have the power to change someone’s life for generations.
BIO
Global Humanitarian, Clean Water Crusader, Top 10 CNN Hero
Doc Hendley is the Founder and President of Wine
To Water, a non-profit organization that serves in
communities to provide clean water for people in need
around the world. Doc first envisioned the concept of
Wine To Water while bartending and playing music in
nightclubs in Raleigh, North Carolina. With the money
raised, Hendley traveled to Darfur, Sudan, in 2004
and began installing water systems for victims of
government-supported genocide.
Doc was selected as one of the Top Ten CNN Heroes
in 2009, chosen by a panel of judges including General
Colin Powell, Whoopi Goldberg, Ted Turner, and Sir
Elton John.
In 2012, he published “Wine to Water: A Bartender’s
Quest to Bring Clean Water to the World” (Avery:
Penguin, Jan 2012). It is a captivating story of an
ordinary bartender who is changing the world through
clean water, and the book is a foundation of college
courses at several universities across the country.
Thousands have been inspired by Doc’s story, and
Wine To Water has grown from one man’s mission into
a global movement for clean water. Wine To Water
has reached over 2 million people and worked in 50+
countries.
Wine To Water has saved thousands of lives by
providing humanity’s most basic need, clean water.
Doc speaks primarily through the Wine To Water Filter
Build Program, which provides an enriching, hands-on,
socially responsible experience for companies and
organizations to assemble filters and engage in the
world’s water crisis.
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