This holiday season, the Mountain Xpress launches Give!Local, a new online fundraising program aimed to help local nonprofits through micro-donations. 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...
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POP Needs Your Support: 5 Ways to GivePOP Needs Your Support: 5 Ways to Give
The POP Project doesn’t have a lot of overhead, but what we do have is integral to our mission. Nearly 80 percent of POP’s annual budget goes to the cost of storing the books in our care until they find new homes. Have you noticed...
The Growth Spurt Continues: POP Project’s 2014 in Review and Look ahead to 2015The Growth Spurt Continues: POP Project’s 2014 in Review and Look ahead to 2015
The POP Project broke our book delivery records in 2014 by sorting, packing, and delivering almost 7,000 books valued at nearly $35,000! These books were delivered to local area schools, children’s programs, shelters, housing and healthcare centers, and detention centers, as well as to NC’s...
POP’s Campaign Update: $2,653 away from our fundraising goalPOP’s Campaign Update: $2,653 away from our fundraising goal
There are less than 48 hours left of 2014, and the POP Project has raised only 24% of our end-of-year fundraising goal. That leaves more than $2,600 needed before the end of the day tomorrow! As you consider your favorite organizations for your end-of-year giving,...
We’ve Been Good this Year — Please Add POP to Your Gift List!We’ve Been Good this Year — Please Add POP to Your Gift List!
With less than 10 days until Christmas, it’s time to check your list twice. You’ve got that train set your nephew asked for. And you finally found something you think the in-laws will like. What else is left to do before Christmas morning? Do you...
Join the #GivingTuesday Movement Tomorrow by Giving to POPJoin the #GivingTuesday Movement Tomorrow by Giving to POP
Following our national day of thanks, then a full weekend of shopping deals in retail stores and online, is a day that has been recently dubbed Giving Tuesday. In 2012, the day was founded as a movement toward coming together “for one common purpose: to...