Word Up, the Washington Heights (NY) book store run by volunteers, is hoping to raise $25,000 through an IndieGoGo campaign that launched December 1st. The goal is to expand the shop’s Spanish-language and youth-oriented inventory and programming. The campaign ends January 18, 2015.

“Word Up started as a one-month pop-up shop during the 2011 Uptown Art Stroll. After months of operating for free and, later, at a reduced rent at its original location, Word Up lost its home in 2012 when a new landlord took over the space.”

“Now that we have a home, we want to grow and develop in ways that best allow for full participation from everyone in our neighborhood,” the volunteers who run the shop wrote on the fundraising page.

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