How to Build a School in 3 Hours - Taylor Conroy at TEDxJuanDeFuca
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0:00 - 0:04Now before I start telling you
how to build a school in 3 hours. -
0:04 - 0:06I want to tell you a bit of the back story
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0:06 - 0:09and some of the research
that went into it first. -
0:09 - 0:11So the back story started in 2003,
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0:11 - 0:15when I first started giving
10% of my income away to Charity. -
0:15 - 0:17Which at the time didn't amount to much,
because I was living -
0:17 - 0:21in a rented basement suite,
driving a truck with no reverse -
0:21 - 0:24and recycling the same 3 T-shirts
every 3 days, -
0:24 - 0:28and you don't even want to hear
about my boxer situation. (Laughter) -
0:28 - 0:31But luckily that changed,
and it changed mostly in 2005, -
0:31 - 0:34when I got into real estate.
I'm not sure if you remember, but -- -
0:34 - 0:37the real estate market wasn't always like this;
it used to be really good, -
0:37 - 0:40and that's when I got into business,
when it was doing that, -
0:40 - 0:44and I rode the coattails of that market really hard,
and then, in 2008, -
0:44 - 0:47I was so busy, I had my biggest year
ever in real estate, -
0:48 - 0:51that I didn't have time to choose
where to give that 10% of the money, -
0:51 - 0:55so it just kind of accumulated into an account,
and then in November, -
0:55 - 0:57I looked at it and realized
there's a lot of cash in there. -
0:57 - 0:59I thought, "Wow!
This could really make a difference, -
0:59 - 1:00but all I know is real estate."
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1:00 - 1:02I had no idea where to give it.
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1:02 - 1:06So I sought out the most knowledgeable person
on charity in the city, -
1:06 - 1:09a guy named Zack Whyte, who's sitting right there.
He's really tall. -
1:09 - 1:13And I said, "Zack look! I've got this money saved up,
I have no idea where to give it, -
1:13 - 1:16all I know is condos.
Where will it make the biggest impact?" -
1:17 - 1:20And he told me about 3 different charities going on,
or projects going on in Africa -
1:20 - 1:23one of which he was raising money for at the time,
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1:23 - 1:26called "Free The Children."
Within 45 minutes, -
1:26 - 1:29we created a beautiful bromance.
And I looked at him and said, -
1:29 - 1:32"Zack this all sounds fantastic!
Let’s go check it out." -
1:32 - 1:36And he said, "What do you mean check it out?
We’ve just met." -
1:36 - 1:39And I said, "Let’s go there!
Between the money that you've rised, -
1:39 - 1:41and the money that I'm going to give;
we've got a lot of cash. -
1:41 - 1:44This could make a big difference.
Let’s go to Africa and see for ourselves." -
1:44 - 1:47And he looked at me like I was nuts,
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1:47 - 1:50and he looked at me
like he was looking right into my soul -
1:50 - 1:54and he said, "Taylor we're going to change lives,
I mean a 100% -
1:54 - 1:58I just got to check with my wife first."
(Laughter) -
1:58 - 1:59And luckily she said yes.
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1:59 - 2:02And 4 months later,
Zack and I went and landed in Uganda. -
2:02 - 2:05We travelled for 2 days
outside the capital city of Uganda -
2:05 - 2:08to the border of The Congo,
at the top of the Ruwenzori Mountain Range, -
2:09 - 2:13where we saw this.
And it's beautiful, I was so separated -
2:13 - 2:15that I remember saying to him,
"Zack, this is so cool, -
2:15 - 2:18we’re so bad-ass, we're in Uganda!"
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2:18 - 2:21I was like, "I know there is stuff going on
in the Congo right now, -
2:21 - 2:25I don't know what, I've heard bad things about it,
like -- this is dangerous! -
2:25 - 2:27This is really cool!" (Laughter)
And I looked to him and said, -
2:27 - 2:30"Zack it's so beautiful!
There're so many kids everywhere. -
2:30 - 2:33Zack, why are there so many kids?"
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2:33 - 2:36And he turned to me and looked -- he's 6'7'' --
he looked down at me -
2:36 - 2:40and said, "Taylor,"
(Laughter) -
2:40 - 2:45"50% of this village has AIDS,
their parents are dead." -
2:51 - 2:54At that moment, the trip turned
from being an adventure, really fun, -
2:54 - 2:56to being the most
transformational experience of my life, -
2:56 - 3:00because this was the first time I saw the world,
instead of just my world. -
3:00 - 3:03Then we went to Kenya,
where we met kids -
3:03 - 3:06who would have to walk 11 kilometres,
each way every day, -
3:06 - 3:08to collect dirty water
that their families would use -
3:08 - 3:11to cook with, clean with,
bathe in and drink. -
3:12 - 3:15And then we saw the schools they were learning in,
and they're made of mud, -
3:15 - 3:18dung and sticks, and tiny little rickety desks.
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3:20 - 3:24And there's no overhead lights, no electricity,
small windows, dirt floors. -
3:24 - 3:27And just keeping kids coming to learn
in this environment, -
3:27 - 3:31let alone keeping teachers coming to teach,
was a massive challenge. -
3:34 - 3:37But then we saw the schools
that "Free The Children" was building. -
3:37 - 3:41And they're beautiful:
there's skylights and huge windows, -
3:41 - 3:43and the kids were smiling
and so happy to be there and learn, -
3:43 - 3:46and the teachers were happy to be there
and to come and teach. -
3:48 - 3:52And 2 weeks after I got back to Canada
from that life changing trip, -
3:52 - 3:55I got an e-mail from "Free The Children",
saying that the money that Zack had raised -
3:55 - 3:57was going to build a beautiful school
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3:57 - 3:59just like that, in Kenya
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3:59 - 4:02and the money that I've donated
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4:02 - 4:04was going to build the first library
in that region of Kenya -
4:04 - 4:07and help educate
thousands and thousands of kids. -
4:08 - 4:11And that feeling, that feeling of contribution,
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4:11 - 4:13that feeling of changing the world for the better,
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4:13 - 4:15was something I can't put into words.
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4:15 - 4:18And it's something
I became addicted to immediately. -
4:18 - 4:20It’s something I wanted to get
all my friends involved in, -
4:20 - 4:22all my family; I wanted everyone
to feel this feeling. -
4:23 - 4:26I became that --
you know when you read a book, -
4:26 - 4:29like a really good life-changing book,
or you watch a documentary -
4:29 - 4:31and something like clicks in your head,
and you go like, "Oh! -
4:31 - 4:34If everybody just read this book
or just watched this documentary -
4:34 - 4:37the world would be a better place.
And everyone would be so much happier." -
4:37 - 4:40That's who I became.
And you know, you go around, -
4:40 - 4:43
telling all your friends to read it,
and maybe one does. -
4:43 - 4:45That's who I became after I came back from Africa,
and I was like running around, -
4:45 - 4:49I was like, "You guys have to give,
it's unbelievable, it feels incredible. -
4:49 - 4:51You don't need the new truck,
you don't need the house -
4:51 - 4:54you don't need anything, give everything away,
it feels so amazing! -
4:54 - 4:58Hop on the giving train, it's a sweet ride!"
(Laughter) -
4:58 - 5:02I remember looking back and being --
and no one was getting on. (Laughter) -
5:03 - 5:07And it was at that moment that I realized
that that model of fundraising, -
5:07 - 5:09where we have a cause like:
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5:09 - 5:12"Oh! AIDS in Uganda,
and there's the bad schools in Kenya." -
5:12 - 5:15And we go around kind of shoving it down
as many people’s throats as possible, -
5:15 - 5:16hoping to cough out cash,
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5:16 - 5:22is not only exhausting,
but it was really pissing my friends off. (Laughter) -
5:22 - 5:26So at that moment I decided I wanted
to get my friends to give on their terms, -
5:26 - 5:28and I wanted other people to give on their terms.
I wanted them to feel the feeling -
5:28 - 5:32that I had when I found out
that I'd built a library. -
5:32 - 5:37I wanted them to feel it out of pleasure and joy,
not out of guilt or duty. -
5:37 - 5:38So I started to experiment,
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5:38 - 5:41to find out what it was that truly makes people
give on their terms. -
5:41 - 5:45And the first experiment I did was called
"A $1,000 into $5,000 contest". -
5:45 - 5:48And in that I put on my blog,
and on my Facebook -
5:48 - 5:52that I'd give a free trip to anywhere
in North or Central America -
5:52 - 5:56to the best idea to turn
$1,000 into $5,000 for charity. -
5:56 - 5:59And I got dozens of ideas from four different countries,
the most memorable -
5:59 - 6:03and tempting of which came
from a young woman in the United States, -
6:03 - 6:05who suggested that I get
50 of my male friends together -
6:05 - 6:10and we all go donate sperm.
(Laughter) -
6:10 - 6:13Collecting the $100 you get per donation.
She argued it was a brilliant idea -
6:13 - 6:16because it was an activity that most of the guys
were probably doing -
6:16 - 6:19for free that day anyways.
(Laughter) -
6:19 - 6:23And so it should probably be going
to benefiting a good cause. (Laughter) -
6:23 - 6:27She didn't win.
(Laughter) -
6:27 - 6:29The person who did
win was a young and inspiring runner, -
6:29 - 6:31named Megan Nickle, from Vancouver.
What Megan did, -
6:31 - 6:36she took out a $1,000 and she built a website called
"Themarathonofgiving.com". -
6:36 - 6:37And she got a bunch of her friends
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6:37 - 6:40to commit to running the Vancouver marathon with her,
and then featured them on the site, -
6:40 - 6:43and got other people to pledge on those runners,
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6:43 - 6:47in a micro giving sell fashion
that I'll talk about in about 5 minutes. -
6:48 - 6:50The next experiment I did was called
"A $100 give away". -
6:50 - 6:53And in that I gave 25 of my friends
$100 each, and said, -
6:53 - 6:57"All you have to do with this money
is add at least $20 of your own money, -
6:57 - 7:00you can add as much as you want,
at least $20 of your own money, -
7:00 - 7:03and give it away to charity.
Then send me a video of you that says -
7:03 - 7:07who you gave it to, why you gave it to them,
and how it made you feel. -
7:07 - 7:12Some people gave $20, some people gave $40,
a friend of mine from Kelowna, Joel, gave $400; -
7:12 - 7:14and Zack, the guy I went to Africa with,
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7:14 - 7:17Zack went on to Facebook
and wrote a post saying, -
7:17 - 7:19"My friend just gave me $100
to put towards this cool cause. -
7:19 - 7:22I'm putting in 20 dollars;
I'd love for my friends to get involved too". -
7:22 - 7:27And overnight Zack raised $800
from one Facebook post, -
7:27 - 7:31and that taught me an incredible amount
about what people really get involved from. -
7:31 - 7:33And the next experiment that I did,
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7:33 - 7:36is my favourite by far, and it's hilarious.
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7:36 - 7:38It's called
"The Early Entrepreneurs Experiment." -
7:38 - 7:40And in this I partnered with a young teacher
from an elementary school -
7:40 - 7:42here in Victoria, named Cristina.
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7:43 - 7:47And Cristina and I went around in her school,
we gave $100 each to 18 classes, -
7:47 - 7:50with the challenge of them
turning that $100 into $500 -
7:50 - 7:52for charity. And we said if they did it,
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7:52 - 7:5518 times five is $9000 -- which is just enough
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7:55 - 7:58to build a big beautiful school in Kenya,
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7:58 - 8:01for kids just like them,
on the other side of the world. -
8:02 - 8:05And I have just enough time
to tell you a quick story, -
8:05 - 8:08about one of the classes that I went into.
I was walking around, -
8:08 - 8:11giving these $100 bills away, it was hilarious.
And the kids -- -
8:11 - 8:14I walked into a class,
a grade 2 class, so picture -
8:14 - 8:177 years old all cross legged on the floor,
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8:17 - 8:21and they gave me this
stupid little chair to sit in (Laughter) -
8:21 - 8:24and I sat in it, and I said to the kids,
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8:24 - 8:26"OK you guys, what are your ideas?
How are you going to turn this $100 -
8:26 - 8:30into $500 for charity? It’s going to be amazing."
And the teacher said, -
8:30 - 8:33"Well we're already prepared for you."
And they had this flip chart, -
8:33 - 8:35she flips up this flip chart,
and it's got the regular -
8:35 - 8:40basic ideas: bake sale, lemonade stand,
candy counting contest, pizza night... -
8:40 - 8:46and right here, in the bottom, it says:
"Dylan's plays and stories". -
8:46 - 8:50And I went, "Who's Dylan?"
And this kid at the back, -
8:50 - 8:53let me show you this,
this kid in the back -
8:53 - 8:56sitting totally nonchalant,
separated from the rest of the group, goes: -
8:56 - 9:00"Uhhhh!"
(Laughter) -
9:01 - 9:03And I said, "Dylan what are your plays
and stories buddy?" -
9:03 - 9:06And he goes, "Uhhh!"
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9:06 - 9:09[He] gets up, all the kids look up at him like,
"Yes! Dylan’s gonna talk." -
9:09 - 9:13(Laughter)
And he starts pacing, he says, -
9:13 - 9:16"Well, I've written a couple of books."
This guy is seven! -
9:16 - 9:21"I've written a couple of books and plays,
they're pretty successful. (Laughter) -
9:21 - 9:23"And I've written a play
for all the kids to perform." -
9:23 - 9:25And the kids were going, "Yeah!"
(Laughter) -
9:25 - 9:29"And for all the kids to perform,
were gonna charge $50 a head, -
9:29 - 9:30we'll probably get it done in a night."
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9:30 - 9:34(Laughter)
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9:34 - 9:39Like this. And that,
and dozens of other stories like it, -
9:39 - 9:43taught me more about peoples' true motivations
behind giving, -
9:43 - 9:48because I've learned more from this group
of wide-open-minded creative children -
9:48 - 9:52than I ever could from
a socially-conditioned group of adults. -
9:53 - 9:57After doing these 3 experiments, I came up
with a formula of five motivators -
9:57 - 10:00behind given that I believe,
when combined correctly, -
10:00 - 10:03will not only motivate anyone to give,
but it will make them happy, -
10:03 - 10:06excited and thank you,
for getting them to give in the first place. -
10:06 - 10:10Those five motivators are:
Number one, group mentality. -
10:11 - 10:13We love to be part of a group,
whether it's teammates or co-workers, -
10:13 - 10:17or family or friends.
People are far more apt to give -
10:17 - 10:20when they know they're part of a group,
because of that kind of peer pressure mentality. -
10:20 - 10:23Number two, tangible outcome.
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10:23 - 10:27Whether it's buying a goat or digging a well,
or building a school, -
10:27 - 10:30people love to see
a visual representation for their giving: -
10:30 - 10:32this amount of money went to this,
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10:32 - 10:35and I've changed the world with this.
It feels really good, -
10:35 - 10:37so it's a huge motivator behind giving.
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10:37 - 10:38And number three, micro giving.
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10:38 - 10:41This is what I was talking about
in that marathon of giving contest, -
10:41 - 10:43because Megan,
when she asked people to pledge, -
10:43 - 10:45she didn't ask for people to pledge
3 or 4 hundred dollars at a time. -
10:45 - 10:47She asked people to do what she called
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10:47 - 10:49"Give a marathon", and what that means is,
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10:49 - 10:53she asked people to give 4 dollars and 20 cents a day
-- the price of an expensive latte -- -
10:53 - 10:57for 42 days, because there's 42 kilometres
in a marathon, 42 days! -
10:57 - 11:00And she said that was the secret
behind her success. -
11:00 - 11:04She said that people could relate
to 4 dollars and 20 cents a day, -
11:04 - 11:08far better than they could ever relate
to a big chunk of three or four hundred dollars. -
11:09 - 11:11And number four is personal connection.
This is best reflected -
11:11 - 11:15in Zack's Facebook post.
And if you read the comments -
11:15 - 11:17below his Facebook post,
everyone who donated commented and said, -
11:17 - 11:22I'm giving 5 bucks, 20 bucks, whatever;
nothing mentions the cause. -
11:22 - 11:26All it says is, "Thank you for getting us
involved in this, Zack", -
11:26 - 11:28"You’re the best Zack".
"We’d get involved in everything you do", -
11:28 - 11:29Zack, Zack, Zack --
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11:29 - 11:31Nothing about the cause.
(Laughter) -
11:31 - 11:34Which, on a serious note,
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11:35 - 11:39is what I think is, not wrong,
but has evolved -
11:39 - 11:41in the traditional model of fundraising,
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11:41 - 11:44in that we're "caused out" as humans.
You know what I mean. -
11:44 - 11:46There's an application
called Facebook causes, -
11:46 - 11:49the thing that makes it work
is saying that your cause is worse -
11:49 - 11:52than the next cause,
and worse than the next cause, -
11:52 - 11:55and showing, like, Photoshoped pictures of kids,
you know what I mean, -
11:55 - 11:58to really make you feel bad,
which I don't really like. -
11:58 - 12:00And I realized that us as a society
are numb to this, -
12:00 - 12:03because we've been
inundated by it for decades. -
12:03 - 12:06So I realized that the relationship
between the potential donor -
12:06 - 12:10and the fundraising itself
is far more important than the cause. -
12:11 - 12:13And number five is Recognition.
This is very evident -
12:13 - 12:16in the early entrepreneur experiment
'cause kids are very honest -
12:16 - 12:18with what motivates them.
They love recognition. -
12:18 - 12:21I think us as adults love recognition as well,
but we've been conditioned -
12:21 - 12:24to say that we don't.
And I love recognition in giving -
12:24 - 12:27for two big reasons. Number one,
it correlates a really good emotion -
12:27 - 12:30to the act of giving,
making people far more apt to give more -
12:30 - 12:32and continuously in the future.
-
12:32 - 12:36And number two, recognizing people for giving
inspires other people to give, -
12:36 - 12:40and recognizing them
inspires other people to give, etc. -
12:40 - 12:44So those five again are: number one, group mentality; number two, tangible outcome;
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12:44 - 12:48number three, micro giving; four, personal connection;
and five, recognition. -
12:49 - 12:53So after I had this group of five, this formula
of 5 motivators, I had to test it. -
12:53 - 12:56So we created the most thought out, yet
casual-sounding, text message ever written -
12:56 - 13:00and I wrote it to 15 of my friends and it said,
"You, me, and a bunch of our friends -
13:00 - 13:02are going to get together
to build a school in Kenya -
13:02 - 13:06for hundreds of deserving kids.
We are all giving $3.33 a day for 3 quick months -
13:06 - 13:09-- I know you spend more than that
on hair product every month. -
13:09 - 13:11There is a site being made
with your picture on it -- -
13:11 - 13:14your mom is going to be so proud!"
(Laughter) -
13:14 - 13:17And if you look at that a bit closer,
it has all five of those motivators in it. -
13:17 - 13:20"You and me", personal connection;
"a bunch of our friends", group mentality; -
13:20 - 13:23"are going to get together to build a school
in Kenya", tangible outcome; -
13:23 - 13:27“for hundreds of deserving kids.
We are all giving $3.33 a day", micro giving; -
13:27 - 13:29"for 3 quick months. I know you spend more than that
on hair products every month" -- -
13:29 - 13:31that's just a fact with my friends.
(Laughter) -
13:31 - 13:34"There is a site being made with your picture on it,
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13:34 - 13:37and your mom is going to be so proud!"
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13:37 - 13:38After sending this to 15 of my friends,
these are -
13:38 - 13:44the replies that I got:
"Yes!", "I'm in", "Done", "How do we pay?" -
13:44 - 13:46and my personal favourite from my friend Pete:
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13:46 - 13:53"I guess I'll look like a dick if I don't do it
so count me in". (Laughter) -
13:53 - 13:56Worked!
(Laughter) -
13:56 - 14:01After this -- this was 15 people,
$3.33 a day for 3 months -- -
14:01 - 14:05I realized I'd just raised
$5,000 from a text message. -
14:06 - 14:09A little bit more would be enough
to build one of those beautiful schools -
14:09 - 14:13in Kenya for hundreds of deserving kids,
from a 67 word text. -
14:13 - 14:17My head was exploding
with how easy this was, -
14:17 - 14:20and I knew that I was just
a huge step forward -
14:21 - 14:24toward my goal of getting my friends
involved on their terms, -
14:24 - 14:27and wanting to get involved.
So I partnered up with a friend of mine, -
14:27 - 14:30who’s a brilliant graphic designer
named Steven Zozula, -
14:30 - 14:32and we made a video, an animated video.
I don't have time to show it all to you, -
14:32 - 14:37but the video said how it was $3.33 a day,
how it was building a school, -
14:37 - 14:40how it was a whole bunch
of a group of us doing it, -
14:40 - 14:42and that we'd given them
certificates for doing it, -
14:42 - 14:44for that recognition factor.
-
14:44 - 14:47And not only do we say that they would be
featured on our website, -
14:47 - 14:48but we said that we'd give
them e-mail signatures -
14:48 - 14:52and web badges; so it kind of spread the news
and show people they were giving, -
14:52 - 14:56giving more recognition. And we codded
the e-mail signatures and web badges, -
14:56 - 15:01in a way that, for example, if John Mardlin,
who is organizing this TEDx event, -
15:01 - 15:04was in my campaign and I sent it to him,
and he got the e-mail signature, -
15:04 - 15:06if someone clicked on John's e-mail signature,
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15:06 - 15:09it would move his picture to the top of the site,
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15:09 - 15:12giving him all the recognition.
So [we] basically took the recognition -
15:12 - 15:16and put it on steroids.
The only thing that was missing from this -
15:16 - 15:18was the real personal connection.
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15:18 - 15:21So before sending
any of my friends the video I filmed, -
15:21 - 15:2533 10-second clips of me,
individually to each friend -
15:25 - 15:29that I was gonna send it to,
saying for example, "John you're amazing, -
15:29 - 15:31how did you get all these
good looking people here at TEDx, -
15:31 - 15:33we’re gonna change the world tonight,
-
15:33 - 15:37this is how it’s gonna work."
That would lead into the 4-minute video -
15:37 - 15:40and then we put those,
the combination of those videos -
15:40 - 15:44right at the top of a donation page.
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15:45 - 15:49So people would watch the video.
It’s all encrypted, it’s a secure site, -
15:49 - 15:52and they didn't have to click anything,
they'd be inspired from the video -
15:52 - 15:55they'd just scroll down a little bit,
enter their information, so within one minute -
15:55 - 15:58of watching the video they could click
"Let’s build a school", and they'd be done. -
15:58 - 16:01I sent it out to 33 friends and acquaintances.
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16:01 - 16:05And with what took me 3 hours to do,
to narrate over the animated video, -
16:05 - 16:12to film my short videos -- I'd raised $10,000
to build a school in Kenya. -
16:13 - 16:19(Applause)
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16:23 - 16:25So we knew at this point
there were going to be some people saying, -
16:25 - 16:28"Well, maybe Taylor’s got a bunch
of his friends that owe favours", -
16:28 - 16:30or something like that,
so I needed a guinea-pig. -
16:30 - 16:33And I wanted someone technically challenged,
so that anybody -
16:33 - 16:35would look at them and say,
"Well, if they could do it I can do it". -
16:35 - 16:37I wanted someone so technically challenged
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16:37 - 16:39that they didn't even know how to text.
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16:39 - 16:45So I called my mum.
(Laughter) -
16:45 - 16:48Sorry mum, she's right here.
(Laughter) -
16:48 - 16:53I didn't have any other pictures
on Facebook, sorry. (Laughter) -
16:53 - 16:56And my mum, in the time
that it would take to watch -
16:56 - 17:00the season finale of "Survivor",
raised enough money to build a school -
17:00 - 17:03in Nepal for hundreds and hundreds of girls.
-
17:03 - 17:08And then my dad did it,
probably because my mum told him to. -
17:08 - 17:10And now, my girlfriend is doing it.
She's raising enough money -
17:10 - 17:12to build a school in India.
-
17:13 - 17:15But the cool thing about this,
is that it doesn't have to be people close to me. -
17:15 - 17:18Anyone can do this.
We've made a website that anyone -
17:18 - 17:20can build a school in 3 hours
in five simple steps: -
17:20 - 17:24Step 1, you enter the friends
that you want to have take part. -
17:24 - 17:28Step 2, you pick the country in the world
that you want to build -
17:28 - 17:31your school in; it’s already set up,
dozens and dozens of countries. -
17:31 - 17:34Step 3, you narrate over the animated video
-
17:34 - 17:37we give a script and all that, it’s really easy.
-
17:37 - 17:40Step 4, you film those little personal videos
to establish -
17:40 - 17:43that really good connection
with each friend that you're sending it to. -
17:43 - 17:48And number 5, you sit back
and watch your friends' elation -
17:48 - 17:53and $10,000 come in to build a school,
anywhere in the world that you want. -
17:56 - 18:01Now all of this can be summed up
in a really brilliant quote by Margaret Mead. -
18:02 - 18:06It says, "Never doubt that a group
of thoughtful, committed citizens -
18:06 - 18:09can change the world;
-
18:09 - 18:12indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has".
Thank you. -
18:12 - 18:22(Applause)
-
18:22 - 18:25Presenter: Before you step off,
at the end of that presentation, -
18:25 - 18:26what's the name of the website
that you talked about, -
18:26 - 18:29but you didn't give a web address for?
-
18:29 - 18:32Taylor: It’s ten in three dot com,
which stands for $10,000 in 3 hours. -
18:32 - 18:37So it's "teninthree.com"
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18:37 - 18:40P: Thank you very much, Taylor.
T: Thank you.
- Title:
- How to Build a School in 3 Hours - Taylor Conroy at TEDxJuanDeFuca
- Description:
-
Taylor Conroy, a successful realtor who gave up his career to make a difference in the lives of less fortunate people around the world, shows how 33 people giving their pocket change for 3 months can raise money to build schools in Africa for hundreds of children, and how his system will do all the work using a friend-funding platform and social enterprise that lets anyone raise $10,000 to build a school with "Free The Children".
- Video Language:
- English
- Team:
- closed TED
- Project:
- TEDxTalks
- Duration:
- 18:42
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