Holohan's idea stemmed from his daughter, Colleen, and a house she would be living in for a summer project in Cambridge, Mass., after she graduated from college. This house would be used by a group of young people, but there was no working plumbing, no hot water. And, being newly graduated students, no one had any money to fix the place up.
“Colleen called me a couple of weeks before they were all set to move in and asked if I could help,” he recalls. “I put out an appeal to the people who read 'The Wall' at HeatingHelp.com, and before the day was out, I had three donated water heaters (we only needed one), a bunch of supplies, and the volunteer work of three Massachusetts-licensed plumbers.”