On Saturday, March 10, 2018, the City of Asheville will mark Asheville’s third annual Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald Day, with festivities around town. Celebrate Zelda! events run all week, from Friday, March 9 through the following Friday, March 16. The POP Project is excited to be...
THE BLOCK off biltmore’s July 19 Charity Night will benefit the POP Project. The POP Project is teaming up with THE BLOCK off biltmore for a Jazz-N-Justice Tuesday giving event on Tuesday, July 19, 2016. On this date, POP will receive 10% of the business’s...
Sherman Alexie is no stranger to confronting controversy. As the author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Alexie has both received a National Book Award for the work and been the target of censorship in several school districts in states across the...
Celebratory months usually see a lot of fanfare at the beginning, while enthusiasm tapers off by the end. But when it comes to allocating one month of the year to celebrate half the planet’s humans, we believe all 31 days are important. For that reason,...
Give!Local Wraps up as a Success The POP Project is looking forward to helping more people enjoy a book-filled 2016, thanks to the generosity of our Give!Local donors. The Give!Local online fundraising program was an initiative led by the Mountain Xpress that allowed locals to...
Mountain Xpress launches Asheville’s new Give!Local program this week, an online fundraising initiative helping local nonprofits through micro-donations, including the POP Project. But nonprofits aren’t the only one reaping rewards. As a donor, you’ll be getting some great swag, too. How Give!Local Works Give!Local allows...
The POP Project gives away thousands of books within our community every year. Those books may be free to the recipients, but there is a cost to storing, sorting, and delivering free books. In addition to collecting private donations from supporters like you, the POP...
There are a handful of great bookstores within Asheville’s compact downtown district. Each has its own personality and specialty, and booklovers could lose a whole afternoon wandering from one to the next. But this October, two bookstores* well north of downtown are celebrating major milestones....
