On the evening of August 28th, three days after Harvey’s landfall on Texas, I was sitting at my computer watching the devastation unfold. My mind was spinning about what the Well Aware team could possibly do to help, and my heart hurt knowing friends and team members were in danger. Then, an email from Toyota showed up in my inbox.
Our friends at Toyota were reaching out to all of their Mothers of Invention to find out what we could do for the victims of the Hurricane in Texas. I immediately called Lindsey, and we spent an hour or more on the phone brainstorming possibilities. We launched a fundraiser for canned water delivery that night, and began taking donations the next morning. (From that campaign, we supplied more that 10,000 cans of water to the Houston area.)
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