How many 30-year-olds can say their passion for change has resulted in more than 300,000 people now have access to clean drinking water? Seth Maxwell, the CEO of The Thirst Project can. Seth, CEO of the world’s largest youth water organization, shared success stories and revealed even bigger things ahead as his nonprofit enters its tenth year when he visited American Structurepoint’s Indianapolis office on June 18. Here are the highlights.

• Thanks to work by the Thirst Project over nine years, progress has occurred – we’ve gone from 1.1 billion people worldwide with no access to clean water to 663,000 million people.
• Thirst Project visits over 400 campuses and sees more than 330,000 middle school, high school, and college students annually to educate and motivate them to raise money to build freshwater wells.
• For every dollar spent on visiting schools in 2017, students converted that to $2.8 dollars in fundraising activities.
• Seth also delivered a motivational message that all of us are on the earth for a reason, to make a difference, to connect with others, and to do our part to change the world.
• Seth is way ahead of the game in making worldwide change happen. The Thirst Project has already raised over $9 million to complete over 2,200 projects in 13 countries and deliver clean water to 350,000 people and counting.
• Seth also announced plans to launch a first-ever Youth Advisory Board in 2018 and to hold a United Nation’s type meeting called a Legacy Summit to bring more awareness to the global water crisis.
• We also learned that Abby Kochert, an interior designer who joined American Structurepoint in March, interned with Thirst Project. Look for a future newsletter article about her work the organization.