Our mission
Together
We thrive
Together We Thrive focuses on access to clean water across the United States through our Clean Water Lab, and provides fresh fruits and vegetables to food insecure populations in Southern California through our Thrive Food Bank.
Clean Drinking Water is critical for human health and not everyone in the U.S. has access to clean drinking water when a disaster hits, or when their water supply has become polluted from industrial sources and/or disintegrating infrastructure.
Thrive’s Clean Water Lab provides clean water access through bottled water donations of Thrive Canteens (hyperlink the words Thrive Canteens), water filtration systems, and water testing for free to people in the U.S. affected by natural and manmade disasters. We are also driving awareness to lead water contamination at K-12 schools and helping the affected school districts with their mitigation strategies.
In the food space, Thrive Food Bank provides weekly free open air farmers’ markets in Southern California, with fresh fruits and vegetables available to food insecure populations.
Together
We thrive
Together We Thrive focuses on access to clean water across the United States through our Clean Water Lab, and provides fresh fruits and vegetables to food insecure populations in Southern California through our Thrive Food Bank.
Clean Drinking Water is critical for human health and not everyone in the U.S. has access to clean drinking water when a disaster hits, or when their water supply has become polluted from industrial sources and/or disintegrating infrastructure.
Thrive’s Clean Water Lab provides clean water access through bottled water donations of Thrive Canteens (hyperlink the words Thrive Canteens), water filtration systems, and water testing for free to people in the U.S. affected by natural and manmade disasters. We are also driving awareness to lead water contamination at K-12 schools and helping the affected school districts with their mitigation strategies.
In the food space, Thrive Food Bank provides weekly free open air farmers’ markets in Southern California, with fresh fruits and vegetables available to food insecure populations.
We look for innovative solutions that improve human physical and mental health while minimizing our carbon footprint, creating a brighter future.
Providing access to clean water
Thrive Clean Water Lab is dedicated to helping bring clean water to natural and manmade disaster zones through its emergency response team, as well as driving awareness about lead pipes in K-12 schools.
Healthy people ⇔ healthy planet
Thrive Food Bank is focused on providing healthy, vegetarian options to food insecure populations.
Meet our founder & Executive Director
Lindsay chambers
Founder & Executive Director, Together We Thrive + Thrive Food Bank + Thrive Canteen
Before founding Together We Thrive and Thrive Canteen, Lindsay Chambers spent 16 years in the private sector gaining a diverse set of skills and experiences through her work as the founder of a national beverage brand, interior designer, property developer, and avocado and citrus farmer. Over that same period, she developed a passion for tackling the problem of food insecurity in the United States, volunteering at food banks across the nation and hand-delivering over 2000 meals to the unhoused.
In 2023, after seeing how the pandemic had left an increasing number of Americans unable to afford even their most basic needs, Lindsay decided to close down all of her for-profit businesses and launched Together We Thrive, which provides clean water and healthy food to those in need. To fund these efforts, Lindsay leveraged her background in the beverage industry to launch Thrive Canteen, an aluminum-bottled water company that donates 100% of its profits to Together We Thrive.
Lindsay’s previous experience includes founding an organic sparkling water brand with ingredients sourced from small farms like the one she operated in Ojai, CA. Launched in 2020 just prior to the pandemic, Chambers used a portion of her company’s proceeds to feed frontline workers in Los Angeles and donated 20,000 cans to medical workers in hospitals hit hardest by the coronavirus. Earlier in her career, she worked as a real estate developer and interior designer in California, where she sold over $100 million in homes and was named as one of “today’s most talented designers” by USA Today. She was a finalist for HGTV’s Designer of the Year for 2023, and her work has been featured in numerous publications including Architectural Digest, House Beautiful, Luxe Magazine, Elle Decor, Better Homes & Gardens, The San Francisco Chronicle and The New York Times.
Lindsay graduated with an M.A. from Stanford University and a B.A. from Wake Forest University. She received Wake Forest’s Excellence in Entrepreneurship Award in 2017 and recently served on their board of trustees.
Lindsay’s work for Together We Thrive is pro bono; She does not receive a salary from the organization.