This summer, the POP Project caught the eye of Laura Belle Gonzalez, Elite American Petite Miss North Carolina 2023! As part of her advocacy work, Laura Belle hosted an online fundraiser for POP, which ran from June 15–August 1. She met her goal of raising...
There’s a new free library in town. And it’s somewhere your kids will beg to go! New Free Library at The Hop Earlier this month, POP helped The Hop Ice Cream Cafe start a free library inside their flagship Merrimon Avenue location. The Hop reached...
You may have heard the stories? I tell you they are true! A superhero lives nearby. But where? I wish I knew! That’s the description for this series of personalized superhero books. But POP knows exactly where these superheroes live—Here, in Western North Carolina! We...
At a volunteer-led nonprofit like the POP Project, it can often be difficult to act quickly on certain offers. Volunteers don’t work the same 9–5 hours as would full-time staff, but we try to do our best for the adults and children of Western...
In our last blog installment, we described the new book giving program being organized by Jeanne Cumby, our intrepid volunteer children’s book giving manager. She has been in contact with a number of area schools determined to have a high need. Our goal is to...
POP’s youth book delivery manager has been working hard behind the scenes this year to make sure that children across Buncombe County have books to read and take home. But for her to continue to make progress, we have a favor to ask. Is this...
Early this year, the POP Project announced that we received our first-ever community grant: $1,000 from Asheville’s own Glass Foundation to purchase elementary and middle-grade children’s books. At first, we planned on using the grant to purchase children’s books that we never seem to have...
The POP Project is extremely proud to announce that we recently received our first community grant from Asheville’s own Glass Foundation. The $1,000 grant will be used separately from our general operating budget to purchase elementary and middle-grade children’s books. The books purchased will fill...
