The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change
- ISBN-10
- 1476730628
- ISBN-13
- 9781476730622
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 254
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-03-18
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Authors
- Carlye Adler, Adam Braun
Description
The author describes how he left a lucrative business consulting job to found the nonprofit Pencils of Promise, an organization responsible for building schools for the poor in developing countries around the world and which recently completed its two hundredth school.
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