Adam Braun

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Founder of Pencils of Promise and a New York Times bestselling author. Pencils of Promise is an award-winning organization that has built on more than 200 schools around the world. He began working summers at hedge funds when he was just sixteen years old, sprinting down the path to a successful Wall Street career. But 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 simply answered,a pencil. 

This small request became the inspiration for Pencils of Promise, the organization Braun would leave Bain & Company several years later to start with just $25 on his twenty-fifth birthday. Using his unique for-purpose approach, he meshed for-profit business acumen with non-profit idealism and in doing so led PoP to be named, 2013 Education Organization of the Year at a showcase held at the United Nations. His book The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change debuted at #2 on the New York Times Bestseller list and explains the guiding steps for any person to discover alife of success and significance.

Social Media:

Website - pencilsofpromise.org

Twitter - @Pencils of Promis  @AdamBraun

Facebook - Pencils of Promise

Instagram - @pencilsofpromise  @itsadambraun

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