WEBVTT -- English 00:00:01.949 --> 00:00:04.546 My name is Jeremy Cowart, and with your help, 00:00:04.559 --> 00:00:08.817 we are about to build a hotel unlike anything the world has ever seen. 00:00:09.320 --> 00:00:12.823 I have traveled as a photographer to over 25 countries, 00:00:12.823 --> 00:00:14.823 staying in countless hotels. 00:00:15.038 --> 00:00:17.489 They all at least get the job done. 00:00:20.500 --> 00:00:22.500 But what if they could do more? 00:00:23.169 --> 00:00:28.739 Could your stay in a hotel help create a better life for someone else? 00:00:28.742 --> 00:00:32.469 As crazy as that might sound, I believe that it can. 00:00:33.128 --> 00:00:37.289 So with your help, we are going to build something extraordinary. 00:00:39.889 --> 00:00:42.271 Introducing The Purpose Hotel. 00:00:45.814 --> 00:00:49.320 An innovative hotel chain that is the first of its kind, 00:00:49.320 --> 00:00:51.951 because everything has a purpose. 00:00:52.445 --> 00:00:56.411 Where your life inside the building improves the world around it. 00:00:56.481 --> 00:00:59.780 The first one will call Nashville, Tennessee home, 00:00:59.856 --> 00:01:04.379 and it will bring together some of the most meaningful ideas on earth. 00:01:04.703 --> 00:01:08.340 Everything you interact with will be stunningly designed, 00:01:08.340 --> 00:01:10.772 and will actively benefit great causes. 00:01:11.671 --> 00:01:13.947 I'm asking you to help me build it, 00:01:14.757 --> 00:01:17.150 because humanity desperately needs it. 00:01:17.807 --> 00:01:20.361 So here is how it will work. 00:01:20.453 --> 00:01:23.769 Each room will sponsor a child's education. 00:01:23.771 --> 00:01:26.709 Every door will have a name and a story. 00:01:27.152 --> 00:01:31.090 Every aspect of your stay will help others reclaim their dignity, 00:01:31.177 --> 00:01:35.031 and earn a living from the minibar to the hand-sewn comforter, 00:01:35.031 --> 00:01:38.688 the soaps, even down to the furniture in the store in the lobby. 00:01:40.197 --> 00:01:44.501 We are making this hotel to be life giving to the people who need it most. 00:01:44.501 --> 00:01:49.909 We think the most powerful symbol for that is a functioning charity: water well in the lobby. 00:01:49.909 --> 00:01:51.909 So drink up. 00:01:51.992 --> 00:01:54.111 And of course there will be free wifi, 00:01:54.143 --> 00:01:59.620 but if you need faster wifi, that money will fight against human trafficking. 00:01:59.629 --> 00:02:03.730 There will be an open co-working space allowing you to collaborate 00:02:03.730 --> 00:02:05.730 and dream up even greater ideas. 00:02:06.590 --> 00:02:11.414 The hallways will be lined with the most iconic humanitarian art and photography 00:02:11.417 --> 00:02:14.340 highlighting projects happening all over the world. 00:02:14.770 --> 00:02:18.234 The conference rooms will host world changing events and gatherings, 00:02:18.235 --> 00:02:20.639 including the annual Help-Portrait event. 00:02:21.355 --> 00:02:25.419 At any other hotel you simply get a receipt showing where your money went. 00:02:25.420 --> 00:02:30.471 At The Purpose Hotel your receipt will also show your impact on the world. 00:02:30.472 --> 00:02:33.610 So whether you stay once or twenty times with us, 00:02:33.611 --> 00:02:37.879 your user account will keep a running tally on your total influence. 00:02:38.519 --> 00:02:42.389 The success of this campaign will redefine hospitality. 00:02:42.390 --> 00:02:47.633 It will mark a shift in hotels becoming a place for change. For community. 00:02:49.337 --> 00:02:52.691 I'm choosing to Kickstart this because it's the people's platform. 00:02:52.692 --> 00:02:55.780 This is where technology meets compassion. 00:02:56.562 --> 00:03:00.699 By donating, you will say that you helped build the first Purpose Hotel. 00:03:01.465 --> 00:03:05.550 If you give $75, you become an official Co-Founder. 00:03:05.550 --> 00:03:08.919 That means you can send us your favorite portrait of yourself 00:03:08.920 --> 00:03:12.090 and we will place it on the walls of the hotel. 00:03:12.091 --> 00:03:17.161 Not just in the first Nashville hotel, but every hotel we ever build. 00:03:18.191 --> 00:03:20.491 Even long after we're all gone, 00:03:20.491 --> 00:03:24.320 There will still be Purpose Hotels standing tall around the world. 00:03:24.322 --> 00:03:28.431 It's a statement that what unites us is far more important 00:03:28.431 --> 00:03:30.691 than the boundaries we are born into. 00:03:31.585 --> 00:03:33.950 Donate and become a Co-Founder today. 00:03:33.951 --> 00:03:35.951 Join me and my family. 00:03:35.953 --> 00:03:37.953 We can't wait to see you there.