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Nonprofits and NGOs

  • Music

    September 8, 2011

    Rebecca Black, the Gift That Keeps on Giving

    [Mental Notes] Plus, Young the Giant deal with fame

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2011

    El Centro Cultural de Mexico Faces Eviction

    ​El Centro Cultural de Mexico, a long standing non-profit in the city of Santa Ana, faces eviction by mid-July. The award-winning organization has been housed for the past five years at the Knights of Pythias building on the corner of West Fifth Street and Broadway. The location had been one o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2011

    Friends, Families and Advocates Walk All Over Societal Misconceptions at 2011 Epilepsy Walk OC

    ​Millions of children and adults are affected by epilepsy, a brain disorder that causes frequent seizures. In an effort to stop seizures and show support for those diagnosed with the traumatic brain disorder, the Epilepsy Support Network of Orange County presents the annual Epilepsy Walk OC as ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 20, 2011

    Art of Haiti Opening Gala

    Orange County Center for Contemporary Art

  • News

    December 2, 2010

    FAIR-y Tales In the Immigration Debate

    Anti-immigrant think tanks are aiming their dubious statistics at the 14th Amendment

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2010

    What Do You Get When You Mix Dodgeball and Homeless Kids?

    ​Since Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story hit movie theaters in 2004, the once forgotten childhood game has made a comeback.  In September, a dodgeball world record was set at UC Irvine. Perhaps hoping to steal some collegiate thunder, Cal State Fullerton is holding an event where dodgeballs wi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2010

    CEO of Charity Clinic Pays Himself with Taxpayer Cash, Report Alleges

    AccountableCalifornia.org​The CEO of an LA-based non-profit that operates clinics in Anaheim and Stantion paid himself hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in taxpayer money that was intended to fund the clinics, according to a report posted on the website AccountableCalifornia.org, which is a ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 24, 2010

    Taste of Downtown

    East Village Arts District

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2010

    James Hirsen, Fox's Anti-Hollywood Pundit, Indoctrinates Local Screenwriters Tonight

    ​OC Screen Writers Association, a nonprofit organization formed to help amateur and professional writers and filmmakers pool their talents to help one another, warns that the guest speaker for its first networking event tonight is "not buying the drinks."That's a shame because members may need ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2010

    Someone Cares Soup Kitchen Fetes Wahoo's Fish Taco Founders and Their Mom

    ​The building on 19th Street in Costa Mesa that for 14 years has housed the Someone Cares Soup Kitchen was previously a Chinese restaurant run by So Ching Lee, whose sons Wing Lam, Ed Lee and Mingo Lee would go on to create the Wahoo's Fish Taco empire.Based on that simple handshake deal between M ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2010

    Santa Ana Mayor-for-Life Miguel Pulido Uses Libreria Martinez Re-Opening to Babble about Himself

    Don Papi Pulido: A knight in his chessboard?​It's not uncommon for politicians to grandstand at any community event, but most of them make the token effort to relate their comments to the occasion at hand. That scenario happened again and again this Saturday, when secular saint Rueben Martinez re- ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 8, 2010

    Eddie Money

    Cerritos Center

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2010

    What You Missed: MS Benefit, Common, the Cool Kids, Kevin & Bean's KROQ April Foolishness

    Christopher VictorioStacy Clark enjoys some Stereofix. ​On Saturday night, Turkey and Friends helped put together an awesome lineup of talented bands to benefit the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Local faves like Stacy Clark, Stereofix, Beta Wolf, the Relative Strangers, We Are the Pilots ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2009

    Ex-CHP Official Convicted of Trying to Have Sex With 13-Year-Old Girl

    Stephen Robert Deck​As the comments section to this post shows, at least one person did not believe longtime CHP official Stephen Robert Deck was guilty of trying to have sex with a 13-year-old girl he met online."You know, everyone makes mistakes," Teresa writes in her comment posted at 9:49 this ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2009

    Nativo Lopez's Latest, Saddest Fundraising Ploy

    Lopez, in happier times...​Longtime Orange County Aztlanista Larry "Nativo" Lopez still faces felony charges of voting fraud in Los Angeles County, a case I truthfully haven't followed much because it's still too bizarre for me to comprehend--as I've previously written, either Lopez is colossally ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2009

    TONIGHT: Joe Sib's one man show "California Calling" at The Boathouse in Costa Mesa

    ​If you ever hang around a group of aging punk rockers, you're ultimately going to get an earfull about the mayhem and magic of the glory days when legendary bands walked the earth and tore up the stage. Splice that in with a bag of comical life lessons, misadventures and a pinch of borderline&nbs ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 19, 2009

    BreastFest

    The Crosby

  • Music

    October 8, 2009
  • Blogs

    September 14, 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 Ter ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 13, 2009
  • Blogs

    July 9, 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, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 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 boo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2009

    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, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 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 Factor ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 11, 2008

    Downtown Dog Rescue

    Bark Victory! At Taco Beach Cantina

  • Calendar

    November 20, 2008

    Gobble Gambol

    Turkey Trot

  • Blogs

    October 1, 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 ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 28, 2008

    Earth Tones

    Green Threads Fashion Show

  • Blogs

    May 7, 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 sk ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 17, 2008

    Out of Sight

    ‘Fighting Blindness in 
the Trenches/A Clinician’s Perspective’

  • Calendar

    December 6, 2007

    Pull My String

    Icarus Puppet Co.: Stories From Around the World

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2007

    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 grad ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2006

    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 ... More >>

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