Promise of a Pencil How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change

Name: Promise of a Pencil How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change
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ISBN: 9781476730622

ISBN-10: 1476730628

ISBN-13: 9781476730622

Edition: 2014

Authors: Adam Braun

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From one of Forbes's "30 Under 30" and Wired Magazine's "50 People Who Are Changing the World," the inspiring memoir of a young man who traded a lucrative career in finance to found Pencils of Promise--the groundbreaking organization that has built more than 125 schools across the developing world.Raised in Greenwich, Connecticut, where privilege was the norm, Adam Braun always dreamed of a career on Wall Street. While studying economics and entrepreneurship at Brown University, his future path seemed inevitable, until he started traveling to some of the most impoverished regions of the world asking a child in each country what they wanted most. In India, a young boy begging on the street…

Book details

List price: $28.99
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Scribner
Publication date: 3/18/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English