AT&T Donates $25K to Overtown Youth Center
MIAMI, FL — AT&T recently delivered a surprise check for $25,000 to the Overtown Youth Center’s 4th Annual Save Our Sons (SOS) Youth Summit. “AT&T believes it is critical for…
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MIAMI FOUNDATION AWARDS NON-PROFITS THAT SERVE COMMUNITIES OF COLOR
STAFF REPORT— JUNE 8, 2017 Left to right: Javier Alberto Soto, President of The Miami Foundation; Tina Brown, Executive Director of Overtown Youth Center; Yance Torres, Development Director of Overtown…
Miami Foundation Gives Grants To Five More Miami Organizations
Ford Foundation leader Xavier de Souza Briggs was the featured speaker at the Miami Foundation event. HOLLY PRETSKY / WLRN The Miami Foundation announced a round of grants to five…
LEGAL PROFESSIONALS COMPETE TO HELP OVERTOWN YOUTH
Legal professionals from all across South Florida faced off at the 3rd annual Zo’s Hoop-Law Madness Tournament, held Saturday, March 11. PHOTO COURTESY OF MC GREGOR LAPIERRE Staff Report MIAMI…
The do-good ‘Sharks’ pick a winner: pop-up barbershops
The “Sharks” had a tough choice among the four social ventures. Would they choose Master Honey that empowers low-income women to start their own micro-beekeeping businesses? Or perhaps prefer Miami…
Zo’s Hoop-Law Madness 3-on-3 basketball tournament to benefit Overtown Youth Center
Alonzo Mourning wants South Florida’s lawyers to compete on a different type of court when he hosts the third annual Zo’s Hoop-Law Madness 3-on-3 Charitable Basketball Tournament. Proceeds from the…
Dream realized for Liberty City families who’ve moved into transformed project
BY ADRIANNE RICHARDSON schoolscenemia@gmail.com The American Dream was just a fairy tale to Pethrona Sims. Every day, she and her four children would come home to their apartment in the…
Warren Henry Auto Group presents check for $25,000 to Overtown Youth Center
Warren Henry Auto Group presented a check for $25,000 to the Overtown Youth Center on Wednesday, Nov. 9. Basketball legend Alonzo Mourning accepted the donation on behalf of his youth…
Alonzo Mourning, Publix, Fedex gives Thanksgiving dinners to 500 families
MIAMI (WSVN) – Hall of Famer Alonzo Mourning was on hand to give out Thanksgiving turkeys to 500 families, Tuesday morning. Mourning and volunteers began Tuesday morning at a Southwest…