Wine to Water with Doc Hendley: From Bartender to Clean Water at the Front Lines

Safe, clean drinking water should be a given. It is not. On this episode of The Charity Charge Show, host Stephen Garten sits down with Doc Hendley, founder and CEO of Wine to Water , to talk about the real story behind the organization, how it grew from a tip jar at a bar to serving millions of people, and what it takes to lead and scale a mission-driven nonprofit for more than two decades. Doc does not dress it up. He talks about mistakes, hard lessons, and why most nonprofits stay stuck under $2M in annual revenue. He also lays out what changed when Wine to Water stopped acting like a typical nonprofit and started building diversified revenue streams like a business.

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Wine to Water with Doc Hendley: From Bartender to Clean Water at the Front Lines is an episode from The Charity Charge Show by Charity Charge.

This episode is 41:33 long.

This episode was published on Feb 25, 2026.

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