Making Pens and Changing Lives (with scholarships) since 2012
Good morning world! It’s been a really great month for fundraising. You all have helped raise about $1,482 and some change through the pen auctions and your purchases of notebooks and postcards, and generous donations. There’s more coming in as…
Hi Everybody! Don’t forget I have a 10% off sale going right now for Fountain Pen Day until midnight tonight. After that all prices are as listed on the site. I’ve also listed the Fountain Pen Day pen from…
Hello all of you pen users and pen lovers and collectors and everything else! It’s been another successful month raising money for the scholarship fund this October with 58 entries. Wowza thanks! So like every other month for the last…
From a kernel of an idea in 2012, Fountain Pen Day is now a full-blown event. This year’s celebration takes place on Friday, November 3 (Fountain Pen Day always takes place on the first Friday in November). Cary Yeager, marketing…
Hi Everybody, First– thank you all so much. This scholarship is only successful because of all of your contributions. Your continued support and donations are going to high school students to help them succeed in college. Every month we give…
Hey everybody, So lately things have been coming together for this endowment better than I had imagined. From FPDpen.com: “Ryan and I started talking about this idea at the 2015 Colorado Pen Show. Fast forward almost 2 years, and we…
I’m not a very good blogger so I’ll just type up some of my notes from the trip, and add a few more thoughts as I think of them. 🙂 But first… Scholarship announcements. We’ve raised $810 through the pen…
Hi Pen People! We’ll be heading out of town tomorrow morning for the San Francisco Pen Show, August 25-27. I’ll be slow to answer emails for the most part, but I’ll try to get a few minutes here and there…
Hey everybody! Thank you so much to everybody who contributed to the scholarship fund in July (and to everybody ever over the last few years). Through sales of postcards and notebooks, and auctions of pens, we were able to raise…
-July 2017- Hi Everybody, Something people have asked me about for a while, and that I’ve been wanting to get going for a while, is finally becoming reality. We’re starting an endowment that will sustain Newton Pens Scholarships indefinitely, or…