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 students to have access to the tools and support systems they need to graduate high school, and succeed in college and they enter the workforce,”…
DetailsWith the help of teaching artists, the students utilized a non-traditional, but very familiar material – plastic yard signage. Typically utilized for political campaigns and advertisements, these young artists created visual messages inspired by public art and spaces.
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 Youth Center and Stephen Marino, Board Chair of Overtown Youth Center at the foundation’s 50th Anniversary Signature Grants Awards Ceremony, held June 2. PHOTO COURTESY…
DetailsFord 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 organizations Friday. The grants were part of the foundation’s 50th anniversary celebration. It’s investing $1 million over the course of the year to various organizations.…
DetailsLegal 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 – Hundreds of legal professionals returned for the third year in a row to face off on a different type of court at the Overtown…
DetailsThe “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 is Kind’s concept to create jobs for young people on the autism spectrum baking cookies for schools? Would they pick Mind&Melody, which crafts music engagement…
DetailsAlonzo 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 March 11 event will benefit the Overtown Youth Center, a nonprofit that “seeks to inspire and empower the lives of at-risk youth and families by…
DetailsWhen Nicolaus Gelin started middle school at Young Men’s Preparatory Academy in Wynwood, he dreamed of being in the school’s music program. “I saw them play at the pep rallies and I wanted to be a part of it,” said Nicolaus, 14. The opportunity came in 2013, when the school’s former band director told Nicolaus…
DetailsBY 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 heart of Liberty City and come face-to-face with shootings, gang violence and sometimes death. “I didn’t want my boys to grow up in that area…
DetailsStudents generally spend their days off from school in front of a television or glued to their computer screens, but thanks to the Overtown Youth Center, families in the community got a day to become immersed in the arts instead. The OYC hosted its first Enrichment Festival on Monday, Jan. 23 on its outside grounds.…
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