Scott Harrison Entrepreneur

ENTREPRENEURIAL

SUCCESS:

SCOTT HARRISON

• Courage

• Perseverance

• Listener

• Innovative

• Creative

CHARACTERISTICS OF AN

ENTREPRENEUR

• Childhood

• Single Child

• Caretaker

• Christian

• Young Adult

• Club Promoter

• Mercy Ships

• Discovered Need for

Clean Water

BACKGROUND

COURAGE

• Left well paying job

• Broke down on the

first day with Mercy

Ships

• Started charity:water

$30,000 in debt

• Approached

companies like Saks

Fifth Avenue

• Had to pay to go

with Mercy Ships

• Non-Profit sector is

shrinking

• People don’t always

trust charities

• Pivoted to focus on

the water crisis

PERSEVERANCE

• People need clean

drinking water

• 80% of diseases

spread by dirty water

• $20 per person to fix

• People wanted to

know where their

money went

LISTEN

• 100% of public

donations go to

wells

• Private donations

cover other costs

• Give Up a Birthday

initiative

INNOVATIVE

• Dirty water

exhibition

• The Macallan

• Opening the Stock

Exchange

• Photos shoots of

wealthy carrying

jerry cans

• Rig Twitter accounts

CREATIVE

• In 2013

• 999,867 people

served

• $35,944,104 raised

• Total Since 2007

• 3.3 million people

served

• Over $100 million

raised

NUMBERS DON’T LIE

• Courage

• Perseverance

• Listener

• Innovative

• Creative

ENTREPRENEUR:SCOTT HARRISON

Works Cited

charity:water. (2013). Annual Report 2013 . Retrieved from charitywater.org:

http://www.charitywater.org/about/cw_13_annual_report.pdf

charity:water. (n.d.). About Us. Retrieved from charitywater.org:

http://www.charitywater.org/about/

Harrison, S. (2006). Scott's Story. (K. Rose, Interviewer) Retrieved from

http://www.charitywater.org/about/scotts_story.php

Schwabel, D. (2013, July 22). Scott Harrison: How He Started charity: water

And What He Learned In The Process. Retrieved from Forbes.com:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/danschawbel/2013/07/22/scott-

harrison-how-he-started-charity-water-and-what-he-learned-in-the-

process/

Thirsting For a Life of Service. (2013, November 26). Stanford University's

Entrepreneurship Corner. Stanford University. Retrieved from

http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=3219

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