02/06/2026
JANUARY 2026 EVENT: What has Project Pop Drop NEVER DONE in the entire 16 year history of their existence? Project Pop Drop is FAMOUS for going to a different homeless shelter, food pantry, or soup kitchen every month of the year, all year long, to SPREAD THE WEALTH to as many different people in as many different places as possible. But THIS MONTH, for the FIRST TIME EVER…..We revisited the same place we went to last month, the first time we EVER visited the same place two months in a row, as we again traveled to the Echo Park section of Los Angeles, where we again visited The Dream Center, the largest homeless shelter in California, checking in at a whopping 14 stories tall! BUT….This visit was so different than last month’s visit was! Last month, we delivered toys for the homeless children who are amongst the 700 to 800 people being housed at this enormous shelter on top of a high hill. THIS time, we handed out food directly to the people who so desperately needed it! And not just the many people being housed at the shelter, but to hundreds of people who came in, who are trying to survive while living outside on the street, and who came in to receive a free full course meal, which was given to them by The Dream Center, and then our Project Pop Drop team handed all of them snacks!
Project Pop Drop traditionally purchases food specifically to donate to people experiencing homelessness out of the profits of their printer ink and toner business, Platinum International Products and Services, as well as the profits of our business coaching course, our Giving While Making A Living Master Class.
In addition to that, Project Pop Drop received an enormous donation of SkinnyPop popcorn which was donated to us by their parent company, HERSHEY'S (The Hershey Company), so we gave out over 700 bags of Skinny Pop popcorn!
Also, through the Careit app, Project Pop Drop was assigned by Food Cycle LA to rescue apples, bananas, and milk from the Grand View Blvd Elementary School Cafeteria in Culver City, California, which our team members also handed out to people experiencing homelessness who came in off the street.
Food Cycle LA also assigned us, through Careit, a food rescue at the Cinnabon, located in the Westfield Fashion Square Mall in Sherman Oaks, California (INSIDE Macy's on the 2nd floor). Cinnabon donated several boxes of their cinnamon frosted pastries, which we also handed out to unhoused people in need.
Then, we received a phone call from “Vanessa” who found Project Pop Drop while she was Google-ing, trying to find a place to donated her very gently used (almost new) clothing, so we picked that up, too, and donated all the clothing to The Dream Center, so they can provide clothing to people experiencing homelessness who desperately needed it.
Our Project Pop Drop team who handed out all of the above at The Dream Center included our co-founders John Snyder and Niki Shadrow Snyder, our Chief Operating Officer (COO) Jeff Korell, and our Junior Project Pop Drop team members who also worked very hard, Chloe Snyder, Dylan Snyder, Ava Snyder, and Levi Snyder. Here are the photos….
