• About us
• Advertising Info
• Subscriptions
• Contact us
• Feedback
• RSS feeds

LoginRegister

nonprofit Articles

• Local nonprofits make pitches for Buncombe County funding

  

  NEWS

  Jake Frankel | 02/12/2013

  Billed as a "budget workshop," the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners will give 31 local nonprofits an opportunity to apply for government funding.

  0 comments

  937 views

• Prepare to take the Polar Bear Plunge: Fundraiser set for Saturday, Feb. 16

  

  NEWS

  Jake Frankel | 02/10/2013

  The fifth annual Polar Bear Plunge is set for Saturday, Feb. 16, at the Asheville Racquet Club.

  0 comments

  1.7K views

• Campaign for Southern Equality takes 'WE DO' on the road

  BLOGWIRE

  Jake Frankel | 01/04/2013

  Over the next couple of weeks, the Asheville-based Campaign for Southern Equality is traveling across seven Southern states – Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia – and Washington, D.C. for the next stage of its WE DO Campaign.

  0 comments

  1.1K views

• Moog Foundation education initiative ignites rare collaboration between school systems

  BLOGWIRE

  Jake Frankel | 12/02/2012

  The Bob Moog Foundation’s hallmark educational project is expanding to serve two school districts in Western North Carolina. Twenty-five teachers from Asheville City Schools and Buncombe County Schools will be teaching the 10-week curriculum to over 500 second grade students beginning in January. This marks the first time that the two school districts have collaborated on a teaching program.

  0 comments

  2.4K views

• Details on New Belgium's Sept. 7 'Clips of Faith' fundraiser for Asheville on Bikes

  BLOGWIRE

  Jake Frankel | 08/17/2012

  New Belgium Brewing, maker of Fat Tire Amber Ale and future Asheville resident, is bringing its beer-toting, film-traveling, nonprofit-benefiting Clips of Faith show (www.clipsoffaith.com) back to Asheville on Friday, September 7.

  0 comments

  1.4K views

• Mountain BizWorks secures $300,000 federal grant

  BLOGWIRE

  Jake Frankel | 08/09/2012

  Mountain BizWorks has been awarded $300,000 from the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund.

  0 comments

  1.1K views

• New name, same mission

  

  NEWS

  Caitlin Byrd | 06/22/2012

  After years of mistaken association with MANNA FoodBank and Mission Health, Mission Manna has changed its name to Consider Haiti. However, the nonprofit's desire to help the Haitian children remains the same. (photo courtesy of Consider Haiti)

  0 comments

  1.9K views

• Bob Moog's birthday honored with Google doodle

  

  NEWS

  Jake Frankel | 05/23/2012

  Google's "Moog doodle" – an interactive, synthesizer-based, playable logo – is on the search engine giant's homepage today, honoring the late Asheville inventor Bob Moog on what would've been his 78th birthday.

  1 comments

  2.6K views

• Asheville Design Center moves out of College Street location

  

  NEWS

  Caitlin Byrd | 05/22/2012

  All of the blinds are down at 8 College St., but the red awning with the words Asheville Design Center remains even though the center itself has moved. After six years at its downtown location, the ADC has found a new home in a wing at the William Randolph School. (Photo by Caitlin Byrd)

  0 comments

  1.3K views

• Asheville "I Have a Dream" program prepares disadvantaged youth for their future

  

  Leah Shapiro | 11/17/2011

  Guest contributor Leah Shapiro reports on the Asheville "I Have a Dream" program, which helps prepare disadvantaged youth for college. (photo by Elizabeth Ruf)

  0 comments

  1.8K views