The POP Project is excited to be partnering with ZaPow!, the southeast’s premier illustration art gallery, for this year’s Banned Books Week event. When: Friday, September 26, 5:30-8:00 pm Where: ZaPow! Studio and Art Gallery, 21 Battery Park, Suite 101, Asheville, NC 28801 What: A celebration...
In anticipation of our fifth anniversary of incorporation this fall, The POP Project has officially launched a new website. The redesigned site provides users with a simpler and more comprehensive web experience. “This redesign represents our ongoing commitment to steady and manageable growth,” says POP...
Every year, hundreds of works from authors ranging from Dr. Seuss to Ernest Hemingway are challenged or banned from schools and libraries around the nation. The POP Project believes that everybody deserves a good book, and that the freedom to read and access to books...
This month, the POP Project was able to give 266 books to CARING for Children, a local advocacy group that provides help for children and families in crisis. The organization currently has a small library at one of their locations, which POP’s donation will help...
Since this time last year, the POP Project has donated over 4,000 books to children’s educational programs, low-income schools, and services. But as we prepare for the 2014-2015 school year and our next youth giving cycle, we currently have less than half of that amount...
Last week, a group of 10 teens and supervisors helped POP make some big deliveries. The group came all the way from Cincinnati to participate in the Lutheridge program based in Arden. As part of the program, the teens engaged in a variety of service...
For several months over the spring, the POP Project was actively searching for new board members. Today, we are happy to announce that we have three new members who are dedicated to advancing POP’s mission in the community. New Board Members Elizabeth Garzarelli, Acting Spokesperson...
The Literacy Council of Buncombe County believes that literacy changes lives for the better. We at the POP Project couldn’t agree more. Recently, the Lit Council announced that James Patterson would be the keynote for this fall’s annual Authors for Literacy Dinner and Silent Auction....
