Author of New York Times Bestseller, THIRST. Founder, CEO of @charitywater - https://nitter.gq/t.co/SALnOTQ6pz $1B+ raised to help over 21M people get clean water
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Tomorrow is the big day. After a 12-year-journey, THIRST will be in bookstores everywhere… So excited to share these never-before-told stories in the hope that they inspire! thirstbook.com
Well done friend. Excited to see what’s next for you and your awesome team members.
Foursquare was acquired last month. The outcome was disappointing. It's taken me a while to write this, but I think I'm finally done grieving it. Here are some thoughts on our final years, an effort to honor the team who helped build & maintain FSQ's legacy, and my attempt to finally get some closure. teendrama.substack.com/p/som…
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In the very early days of @charitywater, I got to know @eldsjal and @shak in NYC. Daniel was building @spotify and Shak was helping bring it to the U.S.
I told them I wanted to bring clean water to everyone in the world in my lifetime, and they agreed to help. To REALLY help.
Over the years, that help took on many forms.
Donating their birthdays. Raising money. Gifting water projects to others. Giving money. Giving time and advice. Making valuable connections. Coming with me to Ethiopia six times between them (@shak you do have Daniel beat on that one).
And always finding ways to thank our hard-working team, surprising our staff with free Spotify Premium subscriptions, backpacks, jackets and more.
10 years ago, I remember feeling discouraged by how little we’d accomplished. We’d helped around 10 million people get clean water, but hundreds of millions were still waiting.
Daniel said something simple that stuck with me. “We’re still in the second inning. The best is yet to come.”
Then, a year and a half ago, I learned about the vision for @neko and wrote Daniel and Shak asking if I could help.
The connection for me was immediate: Health.
It was the same thing that led me toward clean water after my experience aboard a hospital ship more than 20 years ago: the possibility of better health for more people.
A couple weeks later, I met the incredibly talented (and funny) @HNilsonne in Stockholm and joined the team as an advisor.
It’s been an honor to play a very small part in imagining a new kind of healthcare, thinking about how to make it accessible to as many people as possible, and helping to tell this incredible story to the world.
So proud to be here in NYC today for the opening. And I can’t wait for millions of people to experience what @neko is building.
Launched a new campaign today in honor of World Sleep Day! check out charitywater.org/sleep
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Thanks for having me!
At the 2024 OOH Media Conference, we were honored to have @scottharrison, Founder & CEO of @charitywater, join us on the main stage and share the organization’s journey toward providing global access to clean water. "I started the organization 17 years ago. I had no experience in philanthropy or building a charity or running a charity. But I did have a very clear vision. I wanted to bring clean water to everybody on the planet.”
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Thursday night, we hosted our annual Well dinner in New York City for the 131 families who make @charitywater unique 100% model possible.
Our creative team projection-mapped an old bank in Tribeca to immerse our guests in a Malawian village, trying to connect them in the most visceral way we could to their impact. These 131 generous families pay for all @charitywater staff salaries and overhead costs, so millions of donors around the world can give, knowing that 100% of their donations go directly to build water projects across 29 nations.
In addition to their sacrificial giving, these families in The Well stepped up and donated another $2.3M to directly bring clean water to 50,000 more people.
@vikharrison and I got to bring our oldest kids for the first time and are so deeply grateful for those who have gone on this 17-year journey with us to now provide clean water to over 17.5M people!
@GrissomVaughn you signed a baseball glove for my eight-year-old tonight, thank you for staying after the game!
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@andyserkis Andy, have been introducing my 8-year-old to the world of Tolkien, and we’re both grateful and inspired by your amazing work on Audible. Thank you.
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Visiting @charitywater projects with my 6 and 8 year old in Uganda this week. It’s their first time seeing the problem I’ve been trying to solve for 17 years, and hard for us all to imagine that in 2023, more than 770M people still drink dirty water like this around the world …
Thanks for having me!
#MastersOfScaleSummit Session 2: Move Fast, Pivot Faster featuring @reidhoffman, @tiktok_us CEO @ShouZiChew, @charitywater's @scottharrison, @15PercentPledge's @AuroraJames, @tylerperry, @netflix CEO Ted Serandos, & The Lobby's @davidhornik
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