Pencils of Promise!

We went to a book party for Adam Braun’s The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change, the story of how he started with $25 and has built 200 schools around the world.

We love Adam Braun and Pencils of Promise; he built a PoP school in Guatemala with other supporters in the real estate industry who heard him speak at one of our events. We snapped him surrounded by the night’s hosts, Urban Light’s Alezandra Russell, Millennial Trains’ Patrick Dowd, FinePoint PR’s Meredith Fineman, and by EastBanc’s Philippe Lanier and Arabella Advisors’ Eric Kessler. Get your copy of "The Promise of a Pencil." All proceeds support Pencils of Promise.

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