With a video, charity: water thanks the Big Omaha community

Today, charity: water is celebrating their fifth birthday and we’re thrilled to share a video with you that the team at charity: water produced as a thank you to the Big Omaha and Silicon Prairie News community! Here’s the email they sent me with the entire community in mind as it’s a testament to what…

Today, charity: water is celebrating their fifth birthday and we’re thrilled to share a video with you that the team at charity: water produced as a thank you to the Big Omaha and Silicon Prairie News community!

Here’s the email they sent me with the entire community in mind as it’s a testament to what we accomplished together which made an amazing impact:

Hi Jeff,

My name is Lauren Miller and I’m the Executive Producer here at charity: water.   

I’m writing you because my colleague Paull and I made a personal video for you and the Big Omaha Community! Today is charity: water’s fifth birthday, and we’re saying thanks to all our incredible fundraisers for helping us get here. You can watch the video we made for you here: http://www.youtube.com/charitywaterthanks#p/search/0/hJXvsLTuYIg

Because of your support, we’ve been able to provide access to clean and safe drinking water for more than 2 million people in 19 countries. So today, instead of saying happy birthday to ourselves, we’re saying thank you to YOU!

For the past few weeks, our 24-person team has been working nights and weekends to make over 200 of these videos, and having a lot of fun doing it! I’d hate for this video to go unseen, so if you could please confirm that you got this, I’d really appreciate it.

We’re all so inspired by the Big Omaha Campaign and the fact that you almost tripled your goal! Hundreds of people will have access to clean and safe drinking water thanks to you. Thank you for continuing to spread the word about charity: water and our mission.

We look forward to reporting back to you and your donors with the results of your fundraising campaign when the water projects you helped fund are complete. Learn how we tie your dollars to projects here > http://www.charitywater.org/projects/d2p.

To see all 200 thank you videos, visit our YouTube channel here: http://youtube.com/charitywaterthanks. We hope you’ll share your video with all your donors, friends and family!

If you haven’t already, check out our September Campaign here: http://charitywater.org/september

We wouldn’t be where we are without your support – from the whole team at charity: water, THANK YOU!

lauren miller/executive producer

charity: water

I personally want to say thank you to our amazing community! I remember publishing the post challenging our community to raise $5,000 by Big Omaha 2010, and in the hours following Scott Harrison‘s talk at Big Omaha, we had raised over three times that amount. Humbled and hopeful for the lives that will be changed are some of the emotions I’ve processed since Harrison shared his story with our community over a year ago, but there’s still more work to accomplish.

May the work of the charity: water team inspire each of us to push forward with our respective efforts and projects to change our part of the world.

For those who missed it, here’s Harrison’s presentation at Big Omaha 2010:

This story is part of the AIM Archive

This story is part of the AIM Institute Archive on Silicon Prairie News. AIM gifted SPN to the Nebraska Journalism Trust in January 2023. Learn more about SPN’s origin »

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