Case Study: charity: water achieves reliable global data protection and simplified IT with Backblaze

Charity: Water - Customer Case Study

Charity: Water, a New York–based nonprofit bringing clean water to communities in 24 countries, needed reliable, easy-to-manage backup for the laptops used by roughly 80 staff and 10–20 seasonal interns who travel worldwide. To make backup a standard part of onboarding and protect dispersed devices, Charity: Water adopted Backblaze for Business.

Backblaze delivered automatic, unlimited cloud backups and Business Groups for centralized billing and admin, letting Charity: Water’s two-person IT team monitor backups, remotely wipe lost laptops, and perform full system or file-version restores—often before replacement hardware arrives. The result: instant recoveries, simplified management across global users, measurable cost efficiency (as little as $60/year per computer), and, as Matt Ward reports, “there’s never been a case where we lost the computer’s data.”

Charity: Water

Matt Ward

System Administrator