After last year’s successful inaugural Give!Local season, the program is coming back bigger than ever in 2016. And after our success in it, POP is excited to have been chosen again as a recipient nonprofit.
In 2015, Give!Local raised more than $37,000 for 30 local nonprofits. This year, the program aims to raise $100,000 for 45 area causes. We know we can do it—with your help!
Mark the first week of November in your calendar as the time to pick up the Mountain Xpress with the glossy Give!Local program booklet insert. And begin planning your gifts to the POP Project and our sister organizations listed below.
WHAT IS GIVE!LOCAL?
The Give!Local online fundraising program is a Mountain Xpress initiative that allows donors to make a big impact through micro-donations. By giving a few dollars to any or all of the 45 participating nonprofits, you’re able to complete all your annual holiday giving at one time and on one secure site.
But nonprofits aren’t the only ones reaping rewards. Based on your total donations, you will receive incentives from local businesses in return. The larger your collective donation, the more incentives you receive.
With the same love behind it for local development as the Buy Local/Shop Local movements, Give!Local aims to develop a new generation of donors while strengthening nonprofits that benefit the local community. Each nonprofit receives 100% of donations made to them, minus online credit card fees.
HOW DOES GIVE!LOCAL WORK?
Give $1 to a new nonprofit you’ve never heard of. Give $20 to your favorite cause in town. Split another $150 among another half dozen nonprofits. Where and how much money you give is entirely up to you.
Once you have completed your donations for the season, you simply check out once through the secure online platform. Based on your total giving level, you too, are able to cash in—at a variety of local businesses. At the first of the year, you’ll receive a coupon book, any incentives specific to the nonprofits you supported, and (fingers crossed!) one of the Big Give Day grand prizes.
Giving back while getting in return? Sounds like a win-win to us!
GIVE!LOCAL 2016 PARTICIPATING NONPROFITS
Anam Cara Theatre
The Animal Rescue of North Carolina
Asheville Community Yoga
Asheville Humane Society
Asheville Jewish Community Center (JCC)
Asheville Music School
Bob Moog Foundation
Bounty & Soul
Children First/Communities In Schools of Buncombe County
Colburn Earth Science Museum
Council on Aging of Buncombe County
Echo Mountain Recording Studio
Ecoforesters
Eliada
FEAST
Friends of the Smokies
Friends of the Western North Carolina Nature Center
Girls Rock Asheville
Helios Warriors
Homeward Bound WNC
LEAF
The Lord’s Acre
Loving Food Resources
The Magnetic Theatre
Memory Care
Mountain Bizworks
Muddy Sneakers
My Daddy Taught Me That
Organic Growers School
Orison Books
Our VOICE
The POP Project
Project Challenge
Provision Asheville
Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy
Southern Highland Craft Guild
Wild for Life
Wild South
WNC Green Building Council