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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.”
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…”
Harrison: 70% of Americans believe charities waste donor money
“USA Today poll, found 42% of Americans just flat out said, distrustful of charities. 70% of Americans in a more recent poll said they believe charities waste their money.”
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.”
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 raised $100k for charity via a Chelsea photo exhibition
“I got a gallery donated in Chelsea. I got a bunch of, you know printers to donate, you know, high res giant photographs. And I put together a 108 of my before and afters in a gallery. And I invited everybody from the clubs to come in and we raised about a 100,…”
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.”
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 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.”
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.”
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.”
Harrison: NYC Nightclubs Sold $25 Vodka Red Bulls Costing 25 Cents
“And I became really good at throwing parties at the high end, selling thousand dollar bottles of Cristal, selling 25 dollar vodka Red Bulls that cost us 25 cents, and creating spaces for movie stars and actors and musicians and, you know, fashion moguls and de…”
Harrison: First 10 humanitarian organizations rejected his volunteer applications
“Well, maybe no surprise, I was denied by the first 10 organizations. You know, it turns out that the Red Cross is not looking for a nightclub promoter. Doctors Without Borders are, they're looking for credible doctors, not, you know, DJs or promoters.”