Invest in a Child, Strengthen a Community
Winesday is a wine tasting event hosted by the Wine Studio of Asheville every Wednesday from 5-8pm. It is a chance for the wine lovers of Asheville to get together, socialize, and try new and exciting wines from around the world. During the month of January, a portion of the proceeds will be donated to [...]
Invest in a Child. Strengthen our Community.
Dear Friends, Please consider an end of year gift to OpenDoors of Asheville. With your help we support local children at risk, many of whom are born into multi-generational poverty. Poverty is not their doing, but it IS their undoing. Please help us BREAK THE CYCLE. [...]
Our first annual Dig the Du event on Sunday, October 9th was a tremendous success.
Open Doors School of Thought
There was a fight at Asheville High; it wasn’t the first and it won’t be the last, but what impressed me about this event was that OpenDoors volunteers heard about it even before my son who was on campus did, and we were able to contact one of the kid’s parents immediately and circle that child in crisis with our intentional community. This was possible because of students looking out for other students and having the ability and courage to contact responsible adults in their lives whom they know they can trust. [...]
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DTD Teams – http://www.leetiming.com/DTD2011_RELAY.HTM
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By sharing his time, talent and random great ideas, Artist Randy Shull helped get OpenDoors off the ground in 2009. One of our earliest contributing artists, it was Randy’s vote of confidence that nudged our first Benefit Art Auction into becoming reality. A master in painting, architecture, landscaping and furniture design, Randy’s creations are part [...]
Join us on Sunday, June 12th from 3 pm til 6 pm.
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Over 250 people filled the Haywood Park Ballroom for OpenDoors 2nd Annual Benefit Art Auction on February 12th. The lively crowd fell silent when OpenDoors student Antonio stood at the podium and described his goals–to play basketball and to attend a private school–and his desire to be a good example to his brothers and sister [...]
February 12th, 2011 @ Haywood Park Hotel Ballroom. Featuring live music by The Firecracker Jazz Band, Live and Silent Art Auction with Andrew Brunk, and Artwork donated by over 40 artists!
Preview artwork that will available at the Feb. 12th Art Auction.
The 2011 OpenDoors Annual Art Auction is just around the corner… get your tickets today!
The Gow School announces that basketball player J’Von Thompson, of Asheville, N.C., has been named the school’s Athlete of the Week. Thompson is commended for his abilities in the classroom and on the field. Read the full article on the Asheville Citizen-Times.
All ticket proceeds in advance or at the door go directly to OpenDoors of Asheville.
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 was [...]
