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OpenDoors Concert T-Shirts

OpenDoors Concert T-Shirts

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Benefit Concert - May 6th, 8pm @ The Grey Eagle

Benefit Concert – May 6th, 8pm @ The Grey Eagle

All ticket proceeds in advance or at the door go directly to OpenDoors of Asheville.

Spring Soccer Begins!

Spring Soccer Begins!

Spring is officially here. Bears are waking from hibernation; cyclists are racing the Blue Ridge Parkway; and thousands of kids are donning shin guards and cleats, ready to hit the turf.  This season, OpenDoors Asheville has five kids joining teams thanks to ABYSA scholarships and the Asheville families who provide them transportation, snacks and equipment.[...]  Read more.

Asheville Music School Donates Piano Lessons

Asheville Music School has donated weekly piano lessons to two OpenDoors children. Beginning next week, the new students will place their fingers on the keys and play the first notes of a new language. We hope these weekly lessons will inspire them to go beyond the fundamentals to someday play pieces by Bach or Beethoven[...]  Read more.

“OpenMinds, OpenDoors” Benefit Auction a great success!

“OpenMinds, OpenDoors” Benefit Auction a great success!

Thanks to the generosity of our donors at the “Open Minds Art Auction and Benefit,” we raised more than $25,000 to support at-risk children and their families. At the event, you met Latisha Edgerton and heard about her boys. We’ve been working with other families too. We recently helped a mother and her children move[...]  Read more.

Keynote Speakers - Titcus Pettigrew and Dan Scannell

Keynote Speakers – Titcus Pettigrew and Dan Scannell

Titcus grew up in public housing in Winston-Salem. When he was 11 years old he met met Dan Scannell through an IBM program called Big Blue’s Adopt-A-School. The relationship was fragile at first. Titcus had a hard time listening to any man who wasn’t his father, who left when Titcus was two. But Dan[...]  Read more.

"OpenMinds, OpenDoors" Art Show & Auction

“OpenMinds, OpenDoors” Art Show & Auction

Come to OpenDoors of Asheville’s inaugural benefit and art auction. It’s on Saturday, Feb. 20th, from 7-10pm at the YMI Cultural Center. We have over 20 pieces of art: paintings, textiles, pottery and commercial foil. Contributing to OpenDoors are artists whose work is in collections at Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the[...]  Read more.