Subject: Nonprofits and NGOs

• OC Drivers on the Pipe

  According to the for-profit Orange County Automobile Dealers Association, the top new retail car and truck registrations this year through May: Toyota: 29.3% GM: 12% Honda: 11.5% Ford: 9.7% DaimlerChrysler: 6.3% Nissan: 5.6% According to the nonprofit Environmental Defense, the percentage of carbon dioxide--the main pollutant causing global warming--emitted by vehicles on the basis of brand through 2004 was: GM (64.4 million vehicles): 31% Ford (49.8 million): 26% DaimlerChrysler (30.4

  June 29, 2006

• OC Beaches 92.3% Fresh

  Heal the Bay's annual summer report card for California beaches is in and 96 of the 104 monitored spots throughout the county earned "A's". The non-profit environmental group surveyed data from local health agencies from Memorial Day through Labor Day and averaged the results to come up with a grade for summer 2007. The West End at Baby Beach in Dana Point, Huntington State Beach at Magnolia Street, and North Beach at Doheny racked up solid "D's" while Poche Beach in San Clemente got the only

  September 27, 2007

• To Do Tonight - 10/04

  8 MINUTE DATING, 8pm Single? In a rush? Then, 8minuteDating may be the thing for you. You’ll get straight to the point by having 8 one-on-one dates that are limited to 8 minutes each. This new twist on speed dating is being held tonight and tomorrow night at the OC Autoshow. Anaheim Convention Center, 800 W. Katella Ave., Anaheim, (714) 765-8950. www.8minutedating.com/signup/eventList.cgi FIRST THURSDAY’S ART WALK, 6pm Embrace your artsy side in Laguna Beach every first Thursday of the m

  October 4, 2007

• Pssst! Looking to score St. Paddy's Day?

  Tired of St. Patrick’s Day just being an excuse to see how much green beer you can chug before regurgitating on yourself/buddy/some 220-pound tattooed bouncer; out the driver’s window at a red light alongside a police car; the front door/kitchen floor/girlfriend’s cat? Looking to do something constructive, something to help the less fortunate? Something that’ll give you a little exercise and fresh air, and still allow you to slurp a coupla cold ones while feeling good about yourself?

  March 7, 2008

• Shitty business

  The folks over at Surfrider Foundation are always working to clean up the ocean water from pollutants that degrade the environment, and they aren't alone. The Weekly recently received an interesting email from Dave Bulleshat, a.k.a. the Poop Detective. His personal mission is to remind people why they should clean up after their dogs before that shit goes right into the ocean and harms human health. He even made a video about the subject. "Poop contaminates our water supply," the poop detectiv

  March 14, 2008

• Down in the Dumps

  The LA City Attorney's office moved quickly to clarify the story that appeared in the print version of the Daily Journal, a legal newspaper, about a schizophrenic man who had been driven 40 miles from College Hospital in Costa Mesa and then mysteriously "dumped" near the Union Rescue Mission on skid row in downtown LA. The story suggested that City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo was investigating the incident as an incident of homeless-patient dumping, but spokesperson Nick Velasquez told the Weekl

  May 7, 2008

• Save Straight Marriages, Quash Queer Ones

  The funniest of articles appeared earlier this week in the Orange County Register: Christian churches are uniting to save marriage. At Eastside Christian Church in Fullerton, about 100 pastors gathered under the guise of the Orange County Marriage Education Initiative, which its website declares is "a non-profit organization dedicated solely to strengthening marriages and reducing the divorce rate within Orange County." On and on, these folks told reporter Serena Maria Daniels how important marr

  May 23, 2008

• Tiger Woods: Corporate Stooge?

  One of my favorite columns is "Edge of Sports," written by Dave Zirin. The man combines the best of sportswriting and progressive politics, disproving those asshole hipsters who say sports means nothing in this world. When Zirin's People's History of Sports arrives later this year, y'all crazy lefties better make some room between the Chomsky and Cornel West tomes in your bookshelf. This week, Zirin focuses his razor pen on a surprising subject: our own Tiger Woods. 'Round here, Tiger is a god,

  May 30, 2008

• Ed McKie, 1958-2008

  The Weekly regrets to report that Ed McKie passed away in his sleep this past weekend from a heart attack. You may remember McKie from our July 31 cover story, "Metheds to His Madness," detailing McKie's struggle to open a nonprofit foundation in support of recovering addicts in downtown Santa Ana—a dream McKie never got to see come to life. While there are no details for a memorial service yet, keep watching this space for further information. Friends of McKie are currently trying to de

  October 1, 2008

• After Five Years, Dennis Lluy Returns Koo’s To Santa Ana

  By Chris Ziegler After five years in downtown Long Beach, storied all-ages venue Koo’s is officially returning to Santa Ana and a new home at the historic Yost Theater, where a no-longer non-profit Koo’s, Inc., will begin programming in January. “We’re done in Long Beach,” says Koo’s founder Dennis Lluy today, shortly before he’ll begin hauling equipment and furniture out of the 530 E. Broadway space he’s due to vacate this weekend. “We had a five-year run and we took it as

  October 29, 2008

• Welcome to the Poorhouse: Relief Agencies Need Relief

  A big hole is ripping through the safety net, according to the Orange County Funders Roundtable, a coalition of local foundations that today released results of a countywide study that found 58 percent of responding nonprofits are facing declining revenues in 2009 and more than 66 percent are seeing a greater demand for services. "It's a perfect storm," says Michael Ruane, Children and Families Commission of Orange County executive director, of the study's conclusions. "Reduced donations, increa

  March 12, 2009

• Orange Video Producer Reaches Out to Uganda's Poor

  Post Factory, an Orange-based film and video production company, recently hooked up with the nonprofit A Way To Help to create a video aimed at raising funds to provide clean drinking water to the people of Northern Uganda. It's the brain child of Jonathan Hicks and Patrick Martinez in Post Factory's motion-design department. The challenge was to quickly sum up the dire need for facilities to clean dirty water in a land that has withstood 22 years of warfare. To immediately drive that point ho

  March 31, 2009

• Deposition Men

  November 18, 2004

• Planned Parenthood Seeks County Funds Despite Activist Supervisors

  Orange-based Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties, which had its $300,000 health-services contract voided in March due to activist county supervisors, only to have the grant reinstated Tuesday along with regulations that will make it more difficult to attain future county funds, defiantly vowed to apply this week for the new money anyway. "We will not be deterred by their persistent bias against us," said Jon Dunn, the nonprofit's president and CEO, in a statement sent to the

  May 1, 2009

• Sprinkles Marks Earth Day (Today) With Donations to Environmental Charities

  Until Friday, April 24, the Newport Beach branch of Sprinkles is donating 100 per cent of the proceeds from sales of its vanilla cupcakes to the local chapter of the Surfrider Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the country's beaches, oceans and waves (!)Not that we ever need an excuse to eat cake, but, seeing as it's for a good cause, we're happy to oblige. The figure to beat, from last year, is $2,700. That's more than 830 cupcakes, folks. Come on, we can do it!Sprink

  April 22, 2009

• California Gold: An OCWS Wine Classic Event

  August 13, 2009

• Center Aims to Help Families Victimized by Crime

  Dr. Ana NogalesA new, nonprofit mental health center for families who have been victimized by crime is scheduled to open Friday in downtown Santa Ana. Casa de la Familia arrives at a time of great need. The Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation, a nonprofit agency dedicated to ending domestic violence, reveals that 75 percent of domestic violence shelters in the U.S. have reported an increase in women seeking help since September, something 73 percent of these shelters attribute a rise in fina

  July 9, 2009

• Green Party Meeting

  September 3, 2009

• What You Missed: D23, Boston Buddies Tea Party, KCRW Summer Nights

  Keith May​Hell yeah, is that fall weather we detect!? So what'd you miss this weekend? The Fourth Annual Boston Buddies Tea Party took place at the always dog-friendly (complete with dog menu!) Park Bench Cafe in Huntington Beach on 9/12. It's exactly what it sounds like: A whole lot of Boston Terriers and their adoring owners, with some food and doggie costumes thrown in there. Boston Buddies, Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to the rescuing and rehoming of Boston Terrier and Bosto

  September 14, 2009

• Gettin' Made: Do You Feel Lucky?

  I met Kayte Turner at her Handmade District craft fair earlier this year, and have always been impressed with just how much time and energy she spends giving back to the community, while still having time to create one of a kind bags, bike basket liners (I have one!) and coasters for her indie craft company Lucky Find Designs. Sugar Skulls reversible bike basket liner from Kayte Turner of Lucky Find Designs, perfect for all of your upcoming Day of the Dead shenanigans!​ After

  October 5, 2009

• Invisible Children: Together We Are Free

  October 8, 2009

• [BEST OF OC] El DJ (the DJ): DJ Danny Love

  October 8, 2009

• Gettin' Made: Maxin' and Relaxin'

  Ahhhhh, Monday morning. Settle back into your 9-5 cubicle job, grab a cup of tea, it's time to surf the internet!   FemininiTea by Herban Lifestyle​Did you know you can find herbal teas (that people make themselves!) on Etsy? Herban Lifestyle is one Etsy seller doing just that, providing folks with tea and lots of other goodies for green living. After the jump, a closer look at the organic offerings by Herban Lifestyle.

  September 28, 2009

• Slick Willie Clinton: I Did Not Sleep With That MLB All-Star Woman

  Christine Shively, an "Angel" and an "All-Star Among Us."Major League Baseball has announced that Newport Beach resident Christine Shively and four other "All-Stars Among Us" will be saluted by all five living U.S. presidents before Tuesday's All-Star Game in St. Louis.(It's a good thing the MLB stressed "living" U.S. presidents. It coulda got creepy.)  President Barack Obama is scheduled to throw out the ceremonial first pitch of the 80th Midsummer Classic. But just before that, he will pa

  July 10, 2009

• To Do Tonight - 5/25

  Film Screening: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* But Were Afraid to Ask, 8 p.m.Woody Allen's 1972 eccentric adaptation of the book that was under every teenager's bed and in every parent's dresser drawer takes a comical look at the science of love. Several quirky skits follow the book's segments: Our favorite is the "What Happens During Ejaculation?" bit, in which a man's body is viewed as a complex factory. Burt Reynolds running the brain as Mission Control. Woody Allen as a rel

  May 25, 2009

• BreastFest

  November 19, 2009