A Gathering for Creating Good
WEDNESDAY MAY 13TH
4:00 – 6:00 PM | 112 W 18 St, Kansas City, MO
A Gathering for Creating Good
WEDNESDAY MAY 13TH
4:00 – 6:00 PM | 112 W 18 St, Kansas City, MO
Join Outreach International and SCD Probiotics for Common Ground, a reception celebrating innovation, sustainability, and global collaboration—all rooted in Kansas City. This event will spotlight how environmental science, community-led development, and local partnerships are transforming how we think about soil, waste, and sustainability from the ground up.
Enjoy appetizers, connection, and conversation. You’ll hear how an unexpected partnership led to an innovative, probiotic-based experiment to reduce waste in pit latrines in the Philippines.
Join Outreach International and SCD Probiotics for Common Ground, a reception celebrating innovation, sustainability, and global collaboration—all rooted in Kansas City. This event will spotlight how environmental science, community-led development, and local partnerships are transforming how we think about sanitation, hygiene, and sustainability from the ground up.
Enjoy appetizers, connection, and conversation. You’ll hear how an unexpected partnership led to an innovative, probiotic-based experiment to reduce waste in pit latrines in the Philippines.
Meet your Event Hosts and Guest Speaker
Founded and headquartered in Kansas City, SCD Probiotics is a pioneer in developing probiotic-based technologies that restore balance to the environment. Their innovations in soil health, waste reduction, and fermentation science are helping communities and businesses globally build more sustainable ecosystems.
Together, OI and SCD are working at the intersection of science and community development—bridging global research with local action to create healthier communities and a healthier planet.
Founded and headquartered in Kansas City, SCD Probiotics is a pioneer in developing probiotic-based technologies that restore balance to the environment. Their innovations in soil health, waste reduction, and fermentation science are helping communities and businesses globally build more sustainable ecosystems.
Together, OI and SCD are working at the intersection of science and community development—bridging global research with local action to create healthier communities and a healthier planet.
Outreach International is a Kansas City–based nonprofit dedicated to building a world beyond poverty. OI supports locally led projects that improve access to sustainable livelihoods, clean water, food security, and more—helping people unlock lasting solutions from within their own communities.
Outreach International is a Kansas City–based nonprofit dedicated to building a world beyond poverty. OI supports locally led projects that improve access to sustainable livelihoods, clean water, food security, and more—helping people unlock lasting solutions from within their own communities.
Musa Manga, PhD – Event Speaker
Joan Heckler Gillings Endowed
Assistant Professor, UNC Chapel Hill
Environmental Sciences and Engineering
Dr. Manga engineers fecal sludge management practices for low-cost, scalable, and sustainable interventions to interrupt transmission of excreta-related diseases to protect public health and wellbeing, provide equity for environmental justice and climate change mitigation.
Dr. Manga engineers fecal sludge management practices for low-cost, scalable, and sustainable interventions to interrupt transmission of excreta-related diseases to protect public health and wellbeing, provide equity for environmental justice and climate change mitigation.
Musa Manga, PhD – Event Speaker
Joan Heckler Gillings Endowed
Assistant Professor, UNC Chapel Hill
Environmental Sciences and Engineering
Dr. Manga engineers fecal sludge management practices for low-cost, scalable, and sustainable interventions to interrupt transmission of excreta-related diseases to protect public health and wellbeing, provide equity for environmental justice and climate change mitigation.
Dr. Manga engineers fecal sludge management practices for low-cost, scalable, and sustainable interventions to interrupt transmission of excreta-related diseases to protect public health and wellbeing, provide equity for environmental justice and climate change mitigation.
Special Thank You to our Sponsors:
