2012 Yearbook 1 Contents

THIS IS NUTH. PoP’s first student 2012 YEARBOOK 1 CONTENTS. 10 OUR IMPACT Faculty + Superlatives How We Build Board of Directors Hello, Ghana The Staff Local Staff Beyond the Build 32 OUR FINANCIALS Monitoring & Evaluation With Gratitude WHERE YOU START 18 OUR COMMUNITY 40 THE NEXT CHAPTER The Impossible Ones Schools4All SHOULD NOT DEFINE WHERE YOU FINISH. Our Second Gala Leadership Councils Digital Engagement PoP in the Press 26 WHO WE ARE Our New Homeroom Company Culture Partnerships 2 3 2012 TIMELINE. JANUARY 2013 We complete our Guatemala breaks 100th school ground on a school school every day for one week AUGUST 2012 Teacher training and JUNE 2012 NOVEMBER 2012 PoP opens its student scholarships 17 year-old launch in Laos Schools4All Kennedy starts Ghana office launches and FEBRUARY 2012 her cross-country OCTOBER 2012 raises $300,000+ PoP moves into a bike ride for PoP Our second gala JANUARY 2012 JULY 2012 SEPTMEMBER 2012 raises $1.5 million grown-up office PoP breaks ground PoP completes its space Sophia Bush in one night 50th school donates her 30th in Ghana birthday to PoP JAN JUN JUL AUG OCT NOV JAN 4 5 ACCOMPLISHMENTS. PENCILS OF PROMISE BELIEVES PHOTO NICK BY ONKEN EVERY CHILD SHOULD HAVE ACCESS TO QUALITY EDUCATION. WE CREATE STUDENTS SERVED 111 VOLUNTEER HOURS 7, 233 + 150,000 SCHOOLS, PROGRAMS AND GLOBAL COM SCHOOLS MUNITIES AROUND THE COMMON GOAL LIVES IMPACTED INSTRUCTIONAL HOURS 99,259 4,833,000 OF EDUCATION FOR ALL. AS OF JANUARY 2013, WE HAVE BROKEN GROUND ON OVER 100 SCHOOLS. MISSION STATEMENT. 6 7 OUR STORY. IT STARTED WITH A PENCIL In 2008, Adam Braun was a young Brown grad and consultant at Bain & Company by trade, backpacker by passion. He developed a travel habit. Adam asked one child in each country what they would want if they could have anything in the world. One boy in India said that his biggest wish was THEN 100. to have a pencil. They wanted to build schools of their own. So did their families. The greatest minds all started with a pencil and paper. It’s how we learn So did the companies they worked for. Adam quit his job at Bain and started Pencils of Promise, uniting his business to express ourselves and our dreams. A pencil is the first tool to pursue a better future. background with his passion for social change. Today, PoP works in Laos, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Ghana and has broken ground on over 140 pre and primary schools THEN 1 SCHOOL... in remote and underserved regions of these countries. Each school was made possible by a person, a family or a company Adam put $25 into a bank account and threw himself a 25th birthday as idealistic and inspired as Adam as a young backpacker. party with the goal of building one school. Together, Adam’s friends raised $25,000 which built Pha Theung, a two classroom pre-school in Laos. He used Facebook to share photos of the build process and, finally, of the pre- school students on their very first day in their new classrooms. His friends saw their dollars changing lives. 8 9 OUR IMPACT HOW WE BUILD. At Pencils of Promise, we focus on building strong structures and sustainable education programs. By forming long-lasting, collaborative relationships with communities, we increase access to quality education and positively impact students and parents in high-need communities throughout Laos, Ghana, Guatemala and Nicaragua. IDENTIFY BUILD SUPPORT We work with the local Education Ministry to We collaborate with village leaders and With the goal of each project becoming identify villages for potential school builds. community members. Each community community owned, we provide supplies and provides at least 20% of the project costs in programming to ensure academic success materials or labor. and sustainability. MENTOR MONITOR We invest in local talent and provide ongoing We compile data and exhaustively monitor professional development. the progress of each school. OUR IMPACT. 10 11 OUR IMPACT OUR IMPACT HELLO, GHANA. LOCAL STAFF. WHY IS LOCAL LEADERSHIP SO IMPORTANT? We were founded on the belief that ownerships leads to sustainability. We knew there were people in our partner countries who were dedicated and capable of spearheading movements of change in their own countries in a way that we as an organization could never quite do. We believe local leadership is the only answer to sustainable change. MEET FREEMAN. HE IS OUR GHANA COUNTRY DIRECTOR. BEFORE, Avata Primary School AFTER, Avata Primary School In 2012, our vision of local leadership started in Ghana with the hiring of MY PASSION OVER THE EXPANSION INTO GHANA Freeman Gobah, a Ghanaian with YEARS IS TO ENGAGE AND Our biggest news from 2012 is our expansion into Ghana. With a presence in Africa, we incredible experience, knowledge and MOBILIZE INDIVIDUALS can use all of the lessons learned from Nicaragua, Laos and Guatemala to best provide dedication to education in his country. access to quality education to young Ghanaian students. In just a few short months he has been AND COMMUNITIES TO able to partner with the government POSITIVELY IMPACT THEIR When considering expansion into new countries, we carefully consider the stability of the and DIVOG to build 5 schools - people LIVES. national government so we can effectively partner with Ministries of Education. In addition like Freeman are the solution. to government stability, we take into account community investment in education, a clear need for access to quality education and the potential for local leadership. Ghana checked all of these boxes. 12 13 OUR IMPACT OUR IMPACT BEYOND THE BUILD. MONITORING & EVALUATION. Monitoring and evaluation is key to our process because it allows our teams to measure the successes and identify the opportunities for improvement in our work. When you know what works and what doesn’t, you know how to address the issue most effectively. SCHOLARSHIPS S.H.I.N.E. TEACHER TRAINING PoP scholarships support student Supplemental lessons on Sanitation, Our teacher training program aims to progression from primary to secondary Health, Identity, Nutrition and work directly with teachers to support school, as there tends to be a huge Environmentstudent , a l s o k n o w n a s themS . H . Iin . N . Ebeing , a ractive e and engaging in the drop off in enrollment between these designedtwo to result in improved educationalclassroom. We believe that a teacher is schools. PoP scholarships are given toachievement by teaching students to key leadto learning and want to make sure our EMMANUEL NOVY ANASTASIA XON studentsMENTOR who show very high attendancehealthier and more fulfilling lifestyles. teachers have a confident handle on the and investment in education. curriculum to pass on to their students. He has identified the metrics by which we hold ourselves accountable. She collects the data we need to track our impact. A randomized study found that students Metrics are what we measure. The metrics most important to PoP Anastacia is an example of our local leadership in Guatemala. The scholarship program was launched inserved in these programs showed Oura 32%teacher training program was are primary school literacy, numeracy and progression rates. It’s She helps to develop long-lasting partnerships with communities Laos in September 2012 and will be piloteddecrease in absences and a 31% successfullydecrease piloted in Laos and will important to not only measure a variety of things - but the right things because she believes in educating Guatemala’s future generations. in Guatemala and Ghana in 2013. in failures. expand to Guatemala and Ghana in 2013. because it allows us to see the big picture. 14 15 OUR COMMUNITY CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS. WE LOVE OUR PARTNERS. Birchbox and Pencils of Promise Consumers are looking for transparency from both companies teamed up for “beauty school” in and nonprofits. We have the opportunity to collaborate on a August. This month long promotion desired impact, share that goal with our stakeholders, and close engaged Birchbox’s subscribers in a the loop by sharing rich media of the change we’ve created collective effort to build a school in Guatemala. Barnes & Noble joined our Schools4All campaign. They matched donations to the campaign over the holiday season to encourage student participation and awarded schools with NOOKs for their libraries. Warby Parker expanded their social mission to include education by launching a limited edition line of PoP inspired sunglasses. PHOTO NICK BY ONKEN 16 17 PHOTO NICK BY ONKEN OUR COMMUNITY THE IMPOSSIBLE ONES. The campaign ran from August to October 2012 and rallied Millennials to redefine what’s possible. Supporters took on Impossible Challenges and raised funds for PoP around them. It was all in an effort to help PoP reach its impossible goal of breaking ground on the 100th school by the end of the year. Meet some of the people who proved we all have the potential to be an Impossible One below: SOPHIA’S 30 FOR 30 KENNEDY’S CROSS- A DJ ROCKS FOR EDUCATION COUNTRY BIKE RIDE Sophia Bush donated her 30th birthday Kennedy Donnelly biked across the Justin Blau built a school by harnessing and raised over $60,000, enough to build country and built 2 classrooms. the power of dance music and matching OUR COMMUNITY. two schools in Guatemala. all proceeds from his track “Back to New.” 18 19 OUR COMMUNITY OUR COMMUNITY SCHOOLS4ALL. A SIMPLE PROCESS OUR SECOND GALA. A PEER-TO-PEER FUNDRAISING SUCCESS ONE NIGHT’S IMPACT The Schools4All fundraising challenge rallied friends, families, classmates and Pencils of Promise threw its second annual gala in NYC on October 25th and communities together to raise money to help build schools for the 61 million raised over $1.5 million in one night.

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