{"id":14222,"date":"2015-06-04T17:20:06","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T21:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/creator\/?p=14222"},"modified":"2020-03-30T18:38:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T22:38:53","slug":"changing-the-world-one-cool-notebook-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/ideas\/community-stories\/changing-the-world-one-cool-notebook-at-a-time","title":{"rendered":"Changing the world, one cool notebook at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe didn&#8217;t have any grand ideas of disrupting any system,\u201d says Adam London, co-founder of<a href=\"http:\/\/public-supply.com\"> Public Supply<\/a>. \u201cWorking for ourselves, seeing if we could do it\u2014that was the goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re sitting outside a coffee shop on rainy, gray day in the Brooklyn neighborhood DUMBO, right down the street from London\u2019s office. Public Supply makes high-quality notebooks, but it also does something unexpected: donating 25 percent of its profits to arts programs in public schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe got together and had a few different ideas,\u201d London says. \u201cWe were looking at charitable causes and products, one of the biggest causes we noticed was that education, especially arts education, wasn\u2019t being funded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>London\u2019s background is in non-profit work, so he knows a thing or two about helping those in need. He decided that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/\">DonorsChoose<\/a>, a Kickstarter-type program designed to help teachers, was the kind of organization that he wanted to partner with Public Supply.<\/p>\n<p>He said they decided to give such a substantial portion of the company\u2019s profits to charity so that other potential donors would notice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted people see what we were giving and have a reaction,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/ideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/06\/2KWq47fA6Cw0-eJZwzkxxWljvBy0Ec0la1xef4-l0ck.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14231\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/ideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/06\/2KWq47fA6Cw0-eJZwzkxxWljvBy0Ec0la1xef4-l0ck.jpg?resize=1024%2C683\" alt=\"Public Supply Notebooks WeWork Collaboration\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The best way to impress people, of course, is to put out a great product. London\u2019s eyes light up when we start to talk about Public Supply\u2019s notebooks. The first size the company produced was five-by-eight inches, so that it could fit in your pocket. He wanted the paper to be thick enough that so you could write with a felt-tip pen and not have it bleed through.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really sturdy, to the point where you can\u2019t lay it flat,\u201d he points out. \u201cWe\u2019ve designed two other notebooks that do lay flat, but the five by eight is something that you can throw in your bag and not worry about. It\u2019s really taut, you have to manipulate it to open it up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since Public Supply is a company that focuses on how it can improve our lives, a partnership with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wework.com\">WeWork<\/a> made all the sense in the world. WeWork\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeremiahbritton.com\/\">Jeremiah Britton<\/a> designed a limited-edition version of the notebook. As with all lf the company\u2019s notebooks, a quarter of the sales go to charity. What\u2019s more, you can even use the number on the back of each notebook to see what school you helped fund.<\/p>\n<p>Another way to get your hands on one of the notebooks is through a contest on <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/3Y8rsqzP_Q\/\">Instagram<\/a>. Take a photo of a workspace that inspires you and post it along with the hashtag #WeWorkMakesLines and you have a chance to win one of 20 through June 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe didn&#8217;t have any grand ideas of disrupting any system,\u201d says Adam London, co-founder of Public Supply. \u201cWorking for ourselves, seeing if we could do it\u2014that was the goal.\u201d We\u2019re sitting outside a coffee shop on rainy, gray day in the Brooklyn neighborhood DUMBO, right down the street from London\u2019s office. 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