Our Mission
Pure Earth partners with governments, communities and industry leaders to identify and implement solutions that stop toxic exposures, protect health, and restore environments.
Our Vision
We envision a world where all, especially children, can live healthy lives and reach their full potential, free from exposure to toxic pollution.
Our Focus
Pure Earth’s current focus is preventing lead poisoning in low- and middle-income countries, where half of all children have elevated levels of lead in their blood.
Our Core Values
Values and culture are reflections of the decisions and actions an organization takes. Our global team will strive to take decisions and actions that uphold the following:
- Right to respect, dignity, and health. We believe all people have the right to be treated with respect, and to live with dignity and the highest attainable standard of health.
- Collaboration and empowerment. We cannot achieve our mission alone and we do not have a monopoly on good ideas. Our success depends on collaboration and communication with international, national, and local stakeholders, and on our ability to strengthen and learn from these groups.
- Integrity and transparency. We aim to operate with the highest levels of honesty, ethical standards, and openness. We believe that transparency about successes, setbacks, strengths, limitations, and uncertainties improves our work and advances our mission.
- Maximum impact. We are committed to maximizing, measuring, and reporting on our impacts and cost-effectiveness to evaluate progress and continually learn and improve.
- Technical excellence. We aim to ensure that technical excellence and the best available science are central to all decisions and activities.
- Bias for action. We think big and value innovation, bold steps, and calculated risks.
Our Team
Our world-class global team works to solve lead pollution around the globe. Pure Earth’s staff of over 100 professionals work from our headquarters in New York City and globally across Asia, Latin America, and Africa, with offices in Bangladesh, Colombia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Peru, and the Philippines.
2024/25 Annual Report: Scaling Solutions, Increasing Impact
Pure Earth’s annual report provides a closer look at how we are creating a healthier, safer world for children and families. Learn how your support translates into real-world impact—saving lives, informing global policy, and cleaning up toxic pollution.
