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[30 Jul 2010 | No Comment | 16 views]
A Pencil Transforms

Leslie Engle, PoP Laos Country Director, writes about the power of a pencil.

The PoP Movement »

[21 Jul 2010 | No Comment | 188 views]
The PoP Syndrome

The PoP Intern team recently created “PoP in the Park Night” at Bryant Park in NYC. Dalton HS student and brilliant PoP Intern Flo Wen writes about her experience.

Featured, Social Good, The PoP Movement »

[14 Jul 2010 | 2 Comments | 320 views]
The Cupcake Connection

One of our amazing high school interns, Ashley Wilens, writes about one of her recent experiences working as part of the PoP team this summer.

Featured, The PoP Movement »

[2 Jul 2010 | One Comment | 1,537 views]
Vote on the top design for the new PoP Tshirt!

PoP is dedicated to empowering every person to make a difference, especially youth. To prove it once again, we’re having one of YOU design our new T-shirt.

The PoP Movement »

[29 Jun 2010 | No Comment | 816 views]
PoP Leadership Workshop: Fueling the Movement

Eva, one of the incredible Pencils of Promise interns for the summer, writes about the inspiring PoP Leadership Workshop last week.

The PoP Movement »

[9 Jun 2010 | 2 Comments | 1,113 views]
June 2010 Snapshot Update

About a week ago I sent out an email to our internal team of 100+ members across the country to share all of the recent progress that PoP has gone through. Based on that response, I figured it would be best to share it with all of you as well.

(Photo Credit: Bryce Eriksen)

The PoP Movement »

[6 Jun 2010 | One Comment | 835 views]
My first day as an intern with Pencils of Promise

Max Clermont, one of our amazing Pencils of Promise interns for the summer, shares his thoughts and feelings about his first day interning with PoP.

From the Field, The PoP Movement »

[15 May 2010 | One Comment | 693 views]
Tell us what you’d like. We won’t be giving it to you.

One of the first questions we ask is what they want most for their community. We won’t be giving it to them; we’ll be helping them create it for themselves.

Global Education, The PoP Movement »

[12 May 2010 | No Comment | 673 views]
Why PoP works at the Local Level

5 years ago I started backpacking across the globe, and the seeds for what would one day become Pencils of Promise were sown. They came in the form of questions, most specifically What do you want most?

From the Field, The PoP Movement »

[11 May 2010 | One Comment | 630 views]
Fifteen Reasons Why I Miss Laos, pt. 3

Filmmaker Philip Buiser of Two Penguins Productions spent two weeks in Laos documenting the opening of PoP schools and profiling some remarkable people in Lao culture. Click to read the final installment of a three-post series.