“This night is really about a growing movement of young people coming together as volunteers to demonstrate that through passion and commitment you can make big things happen” said founder Adam Braun.
“We just won $25,000 on Facebook because each of you clicked a button. There isn’t a single other nonprofit that is more representative of this Facebook generation than Pencils of Promise. Tonight let’s have a good time, because tomorrow we get to start proving it by creating a campaign to win $1M in Round 2 and build 50-100 more …

(From Adam, currently in Nicaragua working on our next partnership)
PoP was founded in October of 2008, with the simple ambition of finding a way to build just a single school. That was it. I was about to turn 25 years old, so I put $25 into a new PoP bank account and we were off. The goal was to throw two small fundraisers with my closest friends in NYC, and turn that multitude of small donations into a school for a community of tremendous need. So one year later, where …