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The promise of a pencil how an ordinary person can create extraordinary change

The riveting story of how a young man turned $25 into more than 200 schools around the world and the guiding steps anyone can take to lead a successful and significant life.

Main Authors:	Braun, Adam (Author), Adler, Carlye (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Scribner, 2014.
Edition:	First Scribner hardcover edition.
Subjects:	Braun, Adam. Pencils of Promise (Organization) Schools > Developing countries. Education > Developing countries. Nonprofit organizations. Social action. Social service. Community leadership.

Summary:	The riveting story of how a young man turned $25 into more than 200 schools around the world and the guiding steps anyone can take to lead a successful and significant life.
Physical Description:	xii, 254 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
ISBN:	9781476730622 (hbk.) 1476730628
Author Notes:	Adam Braun began working summers at hedge funds when he was sixteen years. He graduated from Brown University and worked for Bain & Company. While traveling abroad, he met a young boy begging on the streets of India. When Braun asked him what he wanted most in the world, he answered, "a pencil." This experience became the inspiration for Pencils of Promise, the organization Braun would start with just $25 on his twenty-fifth birthday. He is the CEO of Pencils of Promise, which has broken ground on more than 200 schools around the world. His first book, The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change, was published in 2014. (Bowker Author Biography)

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