Pencils of Promise founder Adam Braun’s first book, which comes out today, details his journey of making inspiration reality. Now, he wants to encourage others to “make your life a story worth telling ...

I just finished reading Adam Braun’s book The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change. In it, the author shares how he found his own life purpose, abandoning the ...

The request from the small boy on the banks of the India’s River Ganges was simple. He just wanted a pencil. For Adam Braun, then a 21-year-old college student, it triggered a chain of events that ...

Despite the subtitle, just a few pages into this exuberant testimony to the power of idealism, readers will realize that Braun is not an ordinary person. Raised in affluent Greenwich, Conn., by ...

Neil Blumenthal classifies himself as a “medium reader.” The Warby Parker cofounder no longer participates in the company book clubs he helped create, but he still finds some time for books. Right now ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kathy Caprino, M.A. covers careers, leadership and personal growth. Adam shared with me this month how one mentorship relationship ...

The founder of a nonprofit that builds schools in Third World countries will talk about his work in a free public lecture in Corvallis next week. Adam Braun, the CEO of Pencils for Promise, will speak ...