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Project Pop Drop is fueled by our sister company Platinum International Products And Services, which sells ink and toner cartridges for printers, and uses a percentage of the profits of every ink or toner cartridge that is purchased from us to purchase food, beverages, and many other necessities for men, women, and children who are experiencing hunger and homelessness outside on the street every night......BUT.......We also receive generous donations from stores, restaurants, bakeries, and even school cafeterias, and we also rescue food from restaurants that WOULD have ended up in a landfill, and instead of feeding landfills, we make sure that food is feeding human beings instead! FOR OUR NEXT PROJECT POP DROP EVENT, we picked up an emormous amount of snack and beverage donations from the BevMo! store in Sherman Oaks, California. BevMo! is now owned and operated by Gopuff, a food and beverage home delivery service. Take a look at the ENORMOUS amount of donations that BevMo and GoPuff has provided for Project Pop Drop for our next event to end hunger for people experiencing homelessness!

This is what it looks like to GIVE BACK to people experiencing homelessness with PROJECT POP DROP from THE point of view of someone who once joined our team for the day!~....

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FEBRUARY 2026 FIRST EVENT: DID YOU KNOW that many restaurants throw out hundreds of pounds of food every single day if they didn’t sell it that day? That’s because they can’t leave freshly prepared food overnight and sell it the next day because they like to make a brand-new batch fresh every day. This is perfectly good food that people can still enjoy for several more days, thrown in dumpsters and ending up in landfills. The same is true of grocery items that are passed the “Best by” date, which is NOT an “Expiration Date” and is still perfectly good to eat, and hundreds of grocery items get thrown out every single day as a result.

But that is finally changing! Smart restaurants, grocery stores, and numerous other food service companies, have listened to the public and are now setting up “food rescues” so this perfectly good food feeds PEOPLE…..Not LANDFILLS!

Project Pop Drop is part of this movement! So are wonderful companies like Cinnabon, BevMo!, Gopuff, and hundreds of others who agree to have “food rescuers” like us come and rescue food that would otherwise have been thrown out. We receive pickup assignments from three “food rescue” organizations, Rescuing Leftover Cuisine, FoodCycle LA, and Careit.

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 MasterClass. However, to add to what we purchase, we also receive donations from supermarkets and food manufacturing companies, PLUS we now do “food rescues”!

For the first of our TWO Project Pop Drop events for FEBRUARY of 2026, Project Pop Drop was assigned through the Careit app, another 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 17 BOXES of their world famous cinnamon frosted pastries! Also through Careit, we were assigned a pickup at the BevMo (Beverages & More, which is now owned and operated by the food delivery company, Gopuff), located in Canoga Park, California. BevMo and Gopuff donated a whole box filled with large bottles of Apple Cider, a box containing bags of Taco Flavored Sunflower Seeds, a box containing Double Chocolate Granola Bars, and a box filled with bowls of Chicken Flavored Ramen Noodles.

Project Pop Drop then delivered all of these delectable delights directly to the San Fernando Valley Rescue Mission homeless shelter in Northridge, California, so many families experiencing homelessness can enjoy these special treats! Once again, we fed PEOPLE not LANDFILLS! Here are some photos….

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….

DECEMBER 2025 - THIRD EVENT: Project Pop Drop ended 2025 with the THIRD of our THREE events in December of 2025 with a visit to the largest homeless shelter in Southern California, The Dream Center. This 14-story behemoth of a building, which was once the former Queen of Angels Hospital, is situated on top of hill towering over the U.S. 101 freeway in the Echo Park section of Los Angeles, California, not far from Dodger Stadium, and features a 9-acre campus focused on providing transitional housing, a homeless shelter, addiction recovery, and various community services for people experiencing homelessness. The Dream Center is also the home of the Justin and Kourtney Turner Food Bank, which was renovated and sponsored by former Los Angeles Dodgers player Justin Turner and his wife. Besides well over 700 men, women, and children who are being sheltered there, they also serve full course meals to homeless people who are not being sheltered there, who walk in off the street into their dining room.

In the spirit of the holidays, Project Pop Drop was there with an abundance of food, toys, and clothing purchased by us out of the profits of our sister company, Platinum International Products And Services from our sales of printer ink and toner and also from our online course, the Giving While Making A Living MasterClass. In addition to that, we also donated an abundance of toys donated by Disney and Five Below, and clothing and footwear that was donated by Nike, and provided all of these to the hundreds of people experiencing homeless who are served at The Dream Center.

This abundance of toys created a Christmas for homeless families and their children who would not have had a Christmas otherwise. For children experiencing homelessness, there is usually no Santa Claus, but wherever Project Pop Drop goes for the holidays, there IS a Santa!

Our Project Pop Drop Santa’s Elves included our co-founders John Snyder and Niki Shadrow Snyder, our Chief Operating Officer (COO) Jeff Korell, and junior Project Pop Drop elves Chloe Snyder (age 12), Dylan Snyder (age 8), Ava Snyder (age 8), and Levi Snyder (age 8)

And of course, we would be remiss if we didn’t provide you with photos of our glorious Christmas Project Pop Drop event. We ended our visit to The Dream Center with a hearty “Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!”

This concludes our ““PROJECT POP DROP 2025: YEAR IN REVIEW” retrospective series. We hope you enjoyed our look back at this fabulous year in the annals of Project Pop Drop. Now, we begin our 12 months of GIVING for 2026 with our first Project Pop Drop event of 2026, THIS COMING Saturday, as we return to The Dream Center to provide the over 700 families and countless walk-ins from the outside with even MORE! So stay tuned for our NEXT post when we report on our JANUARY 2026 EVENT this coming Saturday, and in the meantime, check out these photos!

DECEMBER 2025 - SECOND EVENT: QUESTIONS: What happens when you have a newborn baby and that baby grows so fast that he or she is unable to wear all the beautiful new clothes he or she received from you, or as gifts from loved ones? Or what about all those nice shirts you yourself received as Christmas Gifts, that are beautiful, but are “just not your style” and you will never wear them, what do you do with them? You are cleaning out your dresser drawers and your closets and discover brand new clothing still in their store packaging with their tags still on them or with their price or size stickers still on them, what do you to with them? Call PROJECT POP DROP! As long as it is either brand new or used only once or twice and still in “new condition”, if you are in Southern California, we will come and pick it up! Just call as at (877) 339-0174, and we will donate it all to people experiencing homelessness who can REALLY use it!

Back in December of 2025, TWO different people did JUST THAT! They found Project Pop Drop by doing a Google search, and we came right over, picked it all up from them, neatly folded and sorted all the clothing, and then delivered it all to people in need. And just like that, it became the SECOND of our THREE Project Pop Drop events in December of 2025.

Project Pop Drop delivered all of it to two very special organizations who made sure people in need received it! First, we called on the San Fernando Valley Rescue Mission in Northridge, California and brought an abundance of either brand new or HARDLY used clothing. Josie Casarrubias, who runs that wonderful organization made sure everyone who needed new clothing received it!

Then we continued on and donated even more new and HARDLY EVER used clothing to Hope The Mission, the amazing organization run by Ken Craft and Rowan Vansleve that helps thousands of people experiencing homelessness all over Southern California. In addition to operating many homeless shelters, interim housing facilities and “tiny homes villages” for people experiencing homelessness, Ken, Rowan, and Hope The Mission also operate a chain of thrift stores in which ALL of the profits from the sale of donated clothing and countless other items goes directly to providing food, supplies, and most importantly, shelter to people experiencing homelessness.

Here are the photos from the SECOND of our THREE December 2025 events, and we will be back tomorrow to post about the THIRD event that Project Pop Drop did that month to help thousands of people experiencing homelessness during Christmas. Stay tuned for our next post and here are the photos!

DECMBER 2025 - FIRST EVENT: When the holidays rolled around, we kicked up our Project Pop Drop activity another notch with THREE events in December of 2025! Welcome back to our “PROJECT POP DROP 2025: YEAR IN REVIEW” retrospective series for the first of THREE posts for our THREE activities in December!

For the FIRST of our three events in December of 2025, Project Pop Drop traveled to Malibu, California where we visited the Malibu United Methodist Church with a plethora of food donations. As always, Project Pop Drop purchased food out of the profits of our printer ink and toner business, Platinum International Products And Services and our online course, the Giving While Making A Living MasterClass, plus we received two more assignments through the Careit app to rescue an abundance of food and beverages from both the Grand View Blvd. Elementary School Cafeteria in Culver City, California AND the Pura Vida Miami restaurant in Malibu. Some of those donations we handed out directly to people experiencing hunger and homelessness RIGHT ON THE STREET! The rest, we brought to the Malibu United Methodist Church for their very special program in which they hand out an enormous amount of food and beverages, also directly to those in dire need who live homeless on the street.

In our next two posts we shall exhibit photos from TWO MORE events, one that delivered donations to both the San Fernando Valley Rescue Mission and Hope The Mission, and another post in which we delivered donations to The Dream Center.

Here are the photos from the FIRST of our THREE December 2025 Project Pop Drop events, and we look forward to seeing you when we return with our next post.

NOVEMBER 2025 - SECOND EVENT: What do you see when you envision what a “homeless person” looks like? Do you envision a dirty man with tattered clothing, tousled hair and a long scraggly unkempt beard? Do you envision an alcoholic stumbling down the street? Or someone who is shouting at no one in particular because he is mentally challenged? Did you know that many people experiencing homelessness are FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN? Or MOTHER’S AND BABIES? And people who are NOT alcoholics or who are NOT mentally challenged? It only takes one missed paid day of work to cause the head-of-household to be unable to pay the rent. Or the breadwinner of the family becomes sick or injured and unable to work for a few days, causing too many days of lost income. Or a woman who is a victim of domestic violence who becomes homeless by walking out of that situation rather than continue to be beaten and abused. Or the abuser, who happened to also be the income earner, is arrested for his actions and taken to jail, leaving the victims of his abuse, the woman and their child, unable to pay the rent and thus homeless.

For our SECOND event in November 2025, Project Pop Drop visited the Harvest Home, a special homeless shelter in Los Angeles, California specifically for pregnant women and women with newborn babies of whom are younger than 6 months old. In addition to purchasing our own donations out of the profits of our printer ink and toner business Platinum International Products And Services and our online course, the Giving While Making A Living MasterClass, we were also once again assigned by Rescuing Leftover Cuisine to rescue an abundance of fruits, vegetables, burritos, egg rolls, and LOTS of milk, not only in cartons, but also milk that comes in plastic bags. We rescued this from the Grand View Blvd. Elementary School Cafeteria in Culver City, California, and we hauled it over to the Harvest Home homeless shelter for the homeless women and their very young babies who were being sheltered there.

Through the magic of conducting an online Google search, a couple with a young baby found us online when they were looking for a place to donate all of their new and "hardly ever used" baby items because they were moving back to Great Britain where they were originally from. And they found Project Pop Drop in that Google search! They had enough hardly used baby paraphernalia to open up a Maternity Store! Everything from Breast Milk Pumps to Basinets to Rockers to Baby Carriers to Car Seats to Baby Bottles and Formula Kits to Boppy Pillows, and of course, lots of brand new NEVER USED Baby Clothing and Toys! This was also brought to the pregnant women and brand new moms at the Harvest Home homeless shelter by our Project Pop Drop team, which included one of our co-founders, John Snyder, and our Chief Operating Officer, Jeff Korell.

We also performed THREE events in December 2025, and we are currently gathering the photos from those three events, which we will show you in our next three posts. In the meantime, here are the photos from our SECOND Project Pop Drop event in NOVEMBER of 2025 at Harvest Home, and we can’t wait to see you back here for our next post!

NOVEMBER 2025 - FIRST EVENT: We now look back at NOVEMBER of 2025 as we continue our monthlong “PROJECT POP DROP 2025: YEAR IN REVIEW” series. Project Pop Drop kicked things into high gear as we again had a TWO EVENT month! For our FIRST event of November 2025, Project Pop Drop traveled to Malibu, California, and called on the Shemesh Farms at the Shalom Institute for a major “give back” event!

As always, Project Pop Drop purchased food specifically to donate to people experiencing homelessness as well as to victims of the wildfires in Malibu and Pacific Palisades from earlier in 2025, out of the profits of our printer ink and toner business Platinum International Products And Services and our online course, the Giving While Making A Living MasterClass. We also delivered grocery items generously donated by both Five Below AND by Whole Foods Market, plus we provided SkinnyPop popcorn snacks, naturally sweet carbonated beverages were provided by Zevia, and Happy Coffee beverages were provided by Robert Downey Jr's company, We Are Happy, LLC, plus freshly baked bread that was donated by the Pura Vida Vida Miami restaurant. We picked up the bread as an assignment from FoodCycle LA through the Careit app to rescue food that would have otherwise been discarded.

Project Pop Drop also provided Give Back Bags, which are Blessing Outreach Bags containing personal hygiene items for people experiencing homelessness as well as the wildfire victims and also contributed games and other fun activities to round out the grandeur of this fabulous event.

Many other fine organizations were here with us to round out this Project Pop Drop and Shalom Institute event in what they call their “Mitzvah Day Celebration”.

P.S. For those who don’t know, “mitzvah” is the Jewish word for “a good deed”, or for “someone who shows kindness and does great things for other people”

Stay tuned and we hope to see you at our next post regarding our SECOND event in NOVEMBER of 2025. In the meantime, here are some photos....

OCTOBER 2025 EVENT: What do you envision when you think of Section 8 Housing for poor individuals and families? Do you think of a rundown deteriorating structure in the middle of a crime-ridden ghetto? If you do, you are NOT correct. Back in October of 2025, Project Pop Drop delivered an abundance of food to a Section 8 Housing facility, run by the Penny Lane Centers. It was a beautiful brand new spacious gleaming modern state-of-the-art building in a beautiful neighborhood on a safe street in Burbank, California across the street from a golf course.

As always, Project Pop Drop purchased food specifically to donate to those less fortunate families living there who desperately needed it out of the profits of our printer ink and toner business Platinum International Products And Services and our online course, the Giving While Making A Living MasterClass. But this month, we added to our FOOD RESCUE efforts. In addition to Rescuing Leftover Cuisine, we also joined a SECOND Food Rescue organization, FoodCycle LA, and through the Careit app, we were assigned EVEN MORE Food Rescues! This is fresh food that restaurants, throw out in the dumpster at the end of each business day because they don't like to keep anything overnight and prefer to make their food fresh each and every morning. So we rescue it, so instead of it feeding trash landfills, it feeds hungry human beings in need!

Rescuing Leftover Cuisine assigned us to rescue trays of made-from-scratch catered food leftover from an office party at the offices of Pacific Coast Capital Partners (PCCP, LLC) at their office in El Segundo, California. They also assigned us to rescue freshly baked cakes, cookies, pastries, and bread from the world renowned Levain Bakery in the Larchmont Village section of Los Angeles, California. And FoodCycle LA, through the Careit app assigned us to pick up an abundance of milk, macaroni & cheese, fruits & vegetables, salads, and egg rolls from the Grand View Blvd. Elementary School Cafeteria in Culver City, California, plus freshly baked breads and pastries from the Pura Vida Miami restaurant in Malibu, California.

We also picked up grocery items that were donated by Whole Foods Market, also in Malibu, California.

Then, our Project Pop Drop team delivered all of that to the beautiful Section 8 Housing facility in Burbank, California, operated by the Penny Lane Centers, and the families and individuals there were absolutely THRILLED to receive all of that! Here are some photos....

SEPTEMBER 2025 EVENT: As the leaves turned a plethora of phosphorescent colors and eventually turned brown, Project Pop Drop NEVER forgets our veterans! Especially when they, unfortunately, become homeless. They helped us experience the freedom we enjoy, now it's time to help them in their time of dire need. Every month, Project Pop Drop purchases a bountiful array of food specifically to donate to people experiencing homelessness out of the profits of our sister company, Platinum International Products And Services, which provides ink and toner for printers for businesses, schools, and doctor's offices all across America, and also from the proceeds of our online course, the Giving While Making A Living MasterClass, that teaches businesses how to increase their profits by helping people in desperate need. But as an added bonus for our veterans, Dunkin' (formerly Dunkin Donuts) and Domino's Pizza donated pizza and donuts respectively to our hungry veterans in dire need. Project Pop Drop traveled to the West Los Angeles and Westwood sections of Los Angeles, California to the New Directions for Veterans homeless shelter to deliver all of these delectable delights to our veterans where one of our co-founders John Snyder and our Chief Operating Officer (COO) Jeff Korell served them all up! The veterans, as always, were truly delighted by our visit and what we brought!