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Adam Braun
Adam Braun
Founder & CEO, Pencils of Promise
Adam Braun is the Founder and CEO of Pencils of Promise, an award-winning nonprofit organization that has built more than 100 schools across Africa, Asia and Latin America and delivered over 4 million educational hours in its first four years. PoP was founded with just $25 using Braun's unique "For-Purpose" approach to blending nonprofit idealism with for-profit business principles. In 2012, he was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 List.
Braun began his career in finance, until he met a young boy begging on the streets and asked him what he wanted most in the world. The answer-"A pencil." Braun then traveled through 50+ countries to focus on educational systems and eventually left a dream job at Bain & Company to launch Pencils of Promise.
He now speaks often on citizen and corporate philanthropy, 21st century education, entrepreneurship, social media and the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit spaces. He graduated magna cum laude from Brown University, previously worked at leading consulting firm Bain & Company, was selected as one of the first ten World Economic Forum Global Shapers and has been a featured speaker at the United Nations, Clinton Global Initiative, Google Zeitgeist, Microsoft and the YPO Global Leadership Summit.

Pencils of Promise
Pencils of Promise
Innovation Agent
Fast Company Feature
Google Zeigeist Video
Zeitgeist Americas
Pencils of Promise
Huffington Post Feature
Pencils of Promise
ABC News Video
Social Good Enterprise
Mashable Article
Samsung and PoP
Samsung and PoP
Young Entrepreneurs
Under 30 CEOs
Video: Speaking Reel
Video: Speaking Reel