Scott Harrison is the founder of Charity: Water, a nonprofit organization that's focused on providing clean water to people and places that don't have it.
Scott was also recognized in Fortune Magazine's 40 under 40 list, Forbes magazine's Impact 30 List, and he was named number 10 in Fast Company's hundred most creative people in business. He is also a World Economic Forum young global leader. In addition to all of this, he recounted his journey in vivid detail in his NYT bestselling book Thirst: A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World.
Scott has lived an incredible hero's journey filled with life lessons for us all. He spent his twenties as one of the top club promoters in New York City, indulging his darkest vices, and he hit a point where he realized that he had hit spiritual, moral and emotional bankruptcy.
He decided to change his life and went on to spend two years on a hospital ship off the coast of Liberia, and he saw the effects of dirty water.
He's gone on to use the entrepreneurial talents that helped him become a top club promoter in New York, to build a remarkable, innovative non-profit, using a business model based in transparent giving and a 100% donation promise.
Thanks to the help of 1 million donors in the last 16 years, Charity: Water has raised over 740 million and funded over 120,000 water projects in 29 countries. When these projects are completed, they will provide 16.8 million people with clean, safe drinking water.
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Show links:
https://www.charitywater.org/
The Spring: A Charity Water Video
Thirst: The Book
Scott Harrison Wikipedia
SHOW NOTES:
Charity: Water Today [5:42]
Gas poisoning as a child [11:51]
Becoming a club promotor [18:53]
Filler versus image promotor [21:47]
Entrepreneurial instinct [24:34]
Growing discontent and waking up [28:09]
Tithing time in Liberia [32:03]
What is and isn’t “rich” [34:45]
Holding onto hope and building the Nike of charities [44:53]
The importance of clean water [52:31]
Transparency model [1:01:18]
Building a well [1:05:17]
1 million lives [1:07:50]
Finding inspiration for change [1:14:22]
One message to make the world a better place [1:18:06]
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