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Harrison: Short volunteer trips rarely create lasting life changes for participants
“Five days is not enough to change. You change everything about your life for most people. A year of immersive proximity to an issue was.”
Puri: Charity: Water Used Real-Time IoT Flow Meters To Drive Fundraising
“He literally installed like little Google donated these like IOT devices, these flow meters so that you can see that the well you helped build, you can go in the app, and you can literally see how much water is flowing through that well right now, and so he di…”
Charity: Water locked 100 Bitcoin in cold storage until at least 2025
“A couple of years ago we got into the Bitcoin space and we started a trust
called the Bitcoin Water Trust, where we raised a hundred Bitcoin to start, and we said, we're gonna lock them all up in cold storage until at least twenty-twenty-five. So we're not go…”
Harrison: Nightclub promotional and storytelling skills translate directly to humanitarian work
“So I learned that maybe the same gift of promoting, getting people to stand outside a velvet rope to cue, to hope to get into a nightclub, telling the story that if you came in my club and you spent thousands of dollars and you left with a cute boy or a cute g…”
Bebo founders Michael and Xochitl Birch donated $20M to Charity: Water
“Michael and Xochitl have been very generous. They've given over twenty million dollars. They've come and come to 14 or 15 countries with me now, bringing their kids all over the world to see the impact that they've made.”
Shaan Puri: Donor transparency drove Charity: Water's outsized nonprofit success
“And I just think that that was such a unlock for him and why charity, one of the reasons charity water was able to do so well as a nonprofit compared to the kind of standard operating procedures of nonprofits.”
Charity: Water has 131 families and entrepreneurs paying all overhead expenses
“Today we have a 131 entrepreneurs and families that pay all the overhead.”
Charity: Water's monthly subscription community tripled the nonprofit's size
“We have an amazing subscription community called the spring which is that has really helped the organization triple over the last five years.”
Charity: Water's unit cost is $39.67 per person across 22 countries
“And I think last year was, it's 40 dollars to give one person clean water. On average, we work across 22 countries. I think last year's actual was 39 67.”
Harrison: Charity: Water has raised $750M and served 16.8M people
“We're in year 17, just started year 17. We've raised seven hundred and fifty million dollars and we've helped 16.8 million people get clean water.”
Scott Harrison: Charity Water's birthday campaign raised over $100M
“The birthday idea raised over a hundred million dollars by getting over a million people involved just in that simple idea.”
Michael Birch gave Charity: Water $1 million after their first meeting
“And then Michael wrote him an email right after the meeting, like the next day. And he just said, Hey Scott, loved our chat. Send me your wire instructions. I'll send you a million dollars. Use it however you wish. Keep rocking. And the million dollars kept th…”
Shaan Puri's viral charity campaign hit five million signups in two weeks
“We made a story, a website that was just telling a story of this boy, John Bosco with no water. And then we said, can we get this to go viral? And so we did the same thing. Import. Import emails, get people to send the story to their friends and raise money fo…”