Author Archives: Taekia Blackwell

Taekia discovered Harry Potter when she was forced to read Chamber of Secrets in sixth grade and never looked back. She was excited to join the HPA staff over two years ago, combining her love of helping others with her near obsession with the Boy Who Lived. As recent graduate of the University of Pittsburgh she is both thrilled and terrified to begin planning the rest of her life and knows that Harry and the HPA will be a huge part of it.

Signed HP Books Charity Raffle Livestream – featuring Melissa Anelli – Sat Jan 15 at 2PM

Join Andrew Slack, Melissa Anelli, and other special guests this Saturday at 2:00pm ET on an extra special livestream to learn how you can help raise money for two great charities including Kamp Kiwanis, an organization in upstate New York devoted to giving handicapped and underprivileged children an outdoors experience where they can learn about [...]

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Sirius Black Friday Sale

We hope that everyone in the United States had a truly happy Thanksgiving. In the spirit of the holidays, the HPA is excited to announce two new t-shirts, available for pre-order now! Shirts will be shipped the week of December 15th, just in time for the winter holidays! They make excellent gifts for the Harry [...]

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Vote for the Enough Project

Our partners at the Enough Project have a unique opportunity to receive $10,000 and much needed media attention for their work fighting for genocide prevention, but they need your help! Vote for The Enough Project Co-Founder, John Prendergast, in the “Better Man, Better World” Competition today – http://thegentlemensfund.com/vote. The competition ends at 5:00pm EST, today, [...]

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Are You Ready to Party? HPA 5th Anniversary Blowout!

We will soon be marking the 5th Anniversary of the HPA, another great milestone for this organization, with a huge birthday party on October 10, 2010 – 10.10.10 – at The Center for Arts in the Armory in Somerville, MA. The party will have a great food, great friends, and great stories of the last [...]

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Members Say Happy Birthday Andrew!!

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An HPAFTW Video By Tom Milsom

We continue to receive an outpouring of support from the YouTube community and other fansites. They want us to win this $250,000 in the Chase Community Giving Contest so that we can expand upon all the great things that we have done. It is incredibly awe inspiring and speaks to the sheer magnitude of all [...]

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HPAFTW Resources: Helping People Vote for the First Time

We are getting closer and closer the end of the Chase Community Giving competition. I know that many of you have had trouble voting on the Chase Community Giving App for the first time. Not to mention, it can be very difficult to explain the process to someone when you’re not sitting there next to [...]

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Five Points for Asking Friends to Vote

The HPA is doing fantastically well at the Chase Community Giving competition on Facebook, but other organizations are catching up fast and there are still six days before the end of the contest. Anything can happen in six days, so we need every single vote we can possibly get to ensure that we stay in [...]

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A Hearty Thanks From The Delta Center for Culture and Learning

A few short months ago our members were collecting, and hauling, and packaging, and shipping TONS of books to the Mississippi Delta as part of our Accio Books campaign. Due to this great effort, many children and adults in the Mississippi Delta will have a better opportunity to do something we all love so much [...]

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Plane #4 Reminds us: DFTBA!

Nearly two months ago I announced that our first plane was heading to Haiti, and now we celebrate the fourth! The cargo plane DFTBA has taken flight to join the trio in bringing supplies to Haiti to help rebuild the lives destroyed by the earthquake. It also reminds us of what a great collaborative effort [...]

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