Pencils of Promise (POP) was founded in October 2008 by Adam Braun, Scooter Brauns brother.
Pencils of Promise builds schools in the developing world and trains young leaders to take action at home and abroad. In three years we have broken ground on 40+ schools in Laos, Nicaragua and Guatemala, and have provided 150,000+ hours of training to a new generation of changemakers here at home. Through their efforts, a ripple effect has begun that’s allowed us to deliver over 1 million educational hours in the developing world. We pledge to act with radical transparency. We post all of our financial data online, sharing that 87% of expenses go directly towards programs rather than overhead. We post images, videos and GPS coordinates of every school we build rather than just claiming they exist somewhere in the world. We work with communities rather than at them, training locals to oversee every step of their own people’s educational attainment. We are the organization that you don’t just support but join, and we are training a new generation of social entrepreneurs to take action.
