The Good Pencil Company Launches Kickstarter to Help Start Their Unique Community Conscious Business
Industry: Business
The Good Pencil Company donates a pencil to a school in need for every pencil they sell to a customer. A new crowdfunding campaign has been launched to help them reach even further.
Salt Lake City, UT (PRUnderground) March 6th, 2019
There are many businesses that give back to their community or a good cause with a portion of their sales, but it is rare to find a company so focused altruistically. The Good Pencil Company is founded to help not only teachers in need but also the environment. Originally conceived as a way to help supply teachers and classrooms The Good Pencil Company sells pencils with a purpose – for every pencil sold they donate a pencil to a school that desperately needs them. In exciting news, the company recently announced the launch of The Good Pencil Company Kickstarter Campaign to help bring their pencils to market on a larger scale and raise awareness of their mission to as many people as possible. In the process, this allows those who back this project to not only help a uniquely conceived small positively minded company to move forward but also to help underprivileged students and underfunded schools in the process.
“Pencils seem like no big deal, but they are tools that kids use to draw their favorite cartoon, sketch something that was in their head, write their own story,” commented John-Erik, founder of The Good Pencil Company. “Pencils give kids the ability to dream and be creative. It’s amazing the kinds of things that come from something as simple as a pencil.”
According to the company, one of the disturbing statistics that inspire their work was reading a 2018 Department of Education survey of public school teachers that found 94% of them are buying school supplies out of their own pocket, without being paid back by the school they work. Many of the teachers surveyed were paying over $500 per year to supply their students and classrooms with basic needs.
The Good Pencil Company, with the help of their Kickstarter campaign, hope to deliver some relief in this important area. The company is also focused on the environment as a way to leave the world better than it was found. That is why for every thousand pencils sold they will also plant one tree, they also work hard to offset their carbon footprint and buy renewable energy credits to try to make up for their electrical use.
On their own, the company has already distributed 4000 pencils, to schools throughout Utah. A successful crowdfunding campaign will help them take this effort nationally.
The enthusiasm surrounding the company is high.
A teacher who recently received free pencils, remarked in a five-star review, “These pencils are an amazing gift in our classrooms because we go through so many yet we never seem to have enough. Getting a gift like this really helps out.”
Support the Kickstarter campaign here.
For more information on The Good Pencil Company visit www.thegoodpencilcompany.com.
About The Good Pencil Company
We started the Good Pencil Company in 2017 because there are too many schools in the US which do not have enough supplies for their students to be successful. There are too many stories of not enough to go around or broken and mismanaged projects to fix it. We wanted to do something to give back and know that by doing this we are helping to shine a spotlight on the problems that children in our schools face.
