Rapid Response: Tapping into generosity (via Bitcoin), w/Charity: Water's Scott Harrison
Masters of Scale
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🗓️ 1 July 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
The art of promotion can advance any enterprise, as Scott Harrison demonstrated even during the pandemic. As founder and CEO of Charity Water, Scott faced fundraising trouble a year ago but now the nonprofit is on track to bring in a record $100 million in 2021. Over the last 15 years, Scott has dramatically grown Charity Water’s footprint by taking far-sighted and often unconventional strategic steps. Just recently, he launched a Bitcoin Water Trust, to tap into a new community of potential donors. Scott’s success flows from an unwavering belief that there’s no better investment in people and communities than clean water.
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| 0:00.0 | As we sit here and record this, 785 million people live without clean water every single day. |
| 0:08.2 | And I realize this is something most people listen to probably take for granted. |
| 0:13.1 | We woke up this morning, we brushed our teeth, we made our coffee, 10% of the world doesn't |
| 0:18.5 | have any clean water. |
| 0:20.3 | And if you don't have water, it impacts health, but it impacts education, it impacts the |
| 0:25.6 | local economy, I could go on and on. And the great thing about working in water, and maybe |
| 0:31.1 | sometimes the frustrating thing is it's actually solvable. |
| 0:35.7 | Charity water had been in this season of explosive growth, and then the pandemic hit. |
| 0:41.2 | And people started calling, saying, I don't think I can make that commitment, don't count |
| 0:45.8 | on me. |
| 0:47.6 | My first speech back was to 10,000 people at the Bitcoin conference. |
| 0:53.2 | While we built the largest water charity in America by two or three X, we're not doing |
| 0:58.6 | enough. |
| 0:59.6 | I'm focused on growing the community, inviting more people to care about this issue, to care |
| 1:06.0 | about clean water for others. |
| 1:12.3 | That's Scott Harrison, founder and CEO of Charity Water. |
| 1:16.7 | After hitting a wall of fundraising trouble early in the pandemic, Scott and his team |
| 1:21.3 | bounced back and are on pace for record levels of impact in 2021. |
| 1:26.8 | I'm Bob Safian, former editor of Fest Company, founder of the flux group, and host of |
| 1:32.1 | Masters of Scale Rapid Response. |
| 1:34.5 | I wanted to talk to Scott because he's grown charity water's footprint in good times |
| 1:39.2 | and tough times by taking far-sighted and often unconventional strategic steps. |
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