Adam Braun Quotes
We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.
Braun, Adam. The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change. Scribner, 2014.
The organization was initially called the National Negro Committee. The following year the name was changed to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Note that at the time, even for Blacks, the concept of desegregation was so far from reality that their efforts were simply to have segregated schools with the same resources as the white children had. The “separate but equal” doctrine was the method of the segregationists.
Adam Braun is an American entrepreneur, bestselling author, and philanthropist. He is the CEO and co-founder of MissionU, a debt-free higher education program, and founder of Pencils of Promise, a non-profit organization that builds schools and increases access to education for children in the developing world.