It started with a tweet wondering how people in Detroit were coping with water shut-offs. Two months later, Detroit Water Project co-founders Tiffani Bell and Kristy Tillman have matched Detroit residents with $150K in donations. Bell explains how they moved so quickly.

2. 50% Of Detroit Water & Sewerage Department
residential customers have a past due balance.

3. 8% Of our resident pipeline came to us without
running water.

7. DIRECT
PHILANTHROPY
(Not traditional crowdfunding)

8. 8,500+
People, globally, pledged money
toward a resident's water bill.

10. VOLUNTEERS
@misssusccess
@belaurie
@johnica
@fureigh
@jeremiak
@kimberlymunoz
@glitterglossy
@shana_wilcox
@KimberlyRLyle
Sakita Holley
Bianca St. Louis
Johnica Reed
Rhys Fureigh
Jeremia Kimmelman
Kimberly Munoz
Aprill Coleman
Shana Wilcox
Kimberly Lyle

11. $100,000+
Paid in the first 34 days.

14. 1,300+
Residents in the help pipeline.

15. $600,000+
From 8,500+ donors.

18. Words cannot express the amount of joy
YOU, and this PROJECT has brought to
my children and myself this morning.
Detroit Water came and restored my water
service […]. GOD BLESS YOU!!
-Marnie Winn

19. TESTING CURRENT MODEL DETROIT METRO
It is becoming increasingly stressful to ration water among
four people […] on top of running out to use the bathroom at
the local Kroger or restaurant. It's embarrassing.
-City of Harper Woods resident

20. FOR NOW VISIT...
detroitwaterproject.org
@DETWaterProject