Convened by the Aquagenuity Foundation
The Global Commission on Human Dignity
Every neighborhood counts.
The Global Commission on Human Dignity is a public-private catalyst for education, the environment, economic development, consumer rights and community. It turns neighborhood data into funded solutions for measurable local change.
- 5
- pillars, each with its own Founding Commissioner
- Mar 22
- the Commission opens in Atlanta on UN World Water Day
- Mar 15–Jun 5
- Guardian Season, when the Earth Census™ runs each year
- Dec 2027
- the first Impact Ledger reports what was counted and funded
The Commission
Convened by the Aquagenuity Foundation
Doll AvantFounder and ChairAmbassador Andrew YoungHonorary Co-Chair
Indexes that track jobs, schools and housing can't see water. It has to be measured.
The Global Commission on Human Dignity brings public and private partners together around the decisions that shape how every community lives, learns, works and grows. The Commission leads with water, because water touches every one of its five pillars.
The Commission is the body. The Earth Census™ is its flagship initiative. Guardian Season is when the Earth Census™ runs. The Aquagenuity Foundation is the Commission's home, and Aquagenuity® is its official data partner.
Each of the five pillars has a Founding Commissioner. Commissioners are seated for Education, the Environment, Economic Development and Consumer Rights, and the Community seat is being filled now.
Sponsors never edit or delay results. Every December, the Commission publishes an Impact Ledger: neighborhoods counted, people covered, problems found, fixes funded and fixes measured again.
“Water is not a political issue. It’s a human issue.”
Doll Avant, Founder and Chair
The five pillars
The decisions that shape how every community lives, learns, works, grows and protects its rights. Water touches every one of them.
- 01
Education
What a community learns shapes what it can do next. Students are the first to count: they test the water in their own schools and neighborhoods.
Founding Commissioner seated - 02
The Environment
The water, air, soil and land a neighborhood lives with. Every neighborhood deserves to know what’s in them.
Founding Commissioner seated - 03
Economic Development
Growth should reach the people who already live there. Neighborhood data shows where investment is needed and whether it worked.
Founding Commissioner seated - 04
Consumer Rights
The right to be informed and the right to a healthy environment. A family should be able to look up what’s in their water and act on it.
Founding Commissioner seated - 05
Community
The people who have worked the front lines for years know the needs. The Commission brings them to one table with the cities and companies that can fund the work.
Seat open
The Earth Census™
The Earth Census™ is a neighborhood-by-neighborhood record of what's in our water, and of the air, soil, and land use that shape it.
- Every neighborhood deserves to know what's in its water. If it's in the air or in the soil, it ends up in the water.
- Guardians measure water. Partners and research bring the rest: how the land was used, the weather, what was built and what's in the air and soil around it.
- The 2027 Earth Census™ begins in Atlanta on March 15, 2027, World Consumer Rights Day.
The Earth Census™ is a Global Commission on Human Dignity standard, convened by the Aquagenuity Foundation. Aquagenuity® is the official data partner.
Convene. Commit. Count.
Any community in the world can join in three steps.
- Convene
- The Commission sets the standard. Commissioners, scholars, scientists, community leaders, cities and UN agencies convene with it.
- Commit
- Companies, governments and philanthropy fund the measuring. Companies, foundations, philanthropists, NGOs, governments and multilaterals commit.
- Count
- Students test their water. Labs verify every result. Residents, citizen scientists, schools, HBCUs, labs, utilities and law count.
What the community finds shapes the next standard.
The roadmap for 2027
The Earth Census™ finds what's in the water. The 99 Projects Campaign funds what the count finds: 99 local water projects, each with a $10,000 Guardian Grant goal, funded by sponsors.
Cities host. Sponsors fund. Students and citizen scientists, the Guardians of H2O™, test the water in their own neighborhoods, and certified labs verify every result.
- February 14, 2027All 99 projects are named on the day of Super Bowl LXI in Los Angeles.
- March 15, 2027 · World Consumer Rights DayGuardian Season opens, and the 2027 Earth Census™ begins in Atlanta.
- March 22, 2027 · UN World Water DayThe Global Commission on Human Dignity opens in Atlanta.
- June 5, 2027 · UN World Environment DayGuardian Season closes.
- December 2027The first Impact Ledger is published, 50 years after the Clean Water Act of 1977.
Bring your city, your company or your school.
Cities can host Guardian Season. Companies and foundations can fund the measuring. Schools and community groups can test their water. Email us where you are and how you want to take part, and we’ll reply with your next step.
We connect environmental data to the humans who call Earth home.