Nonprofits and NGOs

First Ever 'Ladies Rock Camp' in OC Happens This Weekend!

The push for an inaugural Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls in Orange County continues! This Saturday in SanTana, young women ages 18 and up will be taking on an extensive weekend of songwriting workshops, drum circles, self-defense classes, and instrument instruction. Hosted by El Centro Cultural de Mex ... More >>

33rd Annual Wine Extraordinaire

Anaheim Hilton

2013 Orange County Indicators Show Where We Shine ($$$) and Need Improvement ($$$)

Half of Orange County's adults own smartphones, nearly a third of our young adults have no health insurance and most nonprofits here  make due with less than they have in the past. Those findings are in the 2013 Orange County Community Indicators report issued Thursday that found gains in key s ... More >>

Sex Offender Law Reformers Sue Websites That Post Personal Details, Demand Cash to Remove

California Reform Sex Offender Laws (RSOL), which has been part of lawsuits against the County of Orange and Orange County cities over controversial laws that ban registered sex offenders from public parks, now has a new target. A lawsuit filed by RSOL in federal court Wednesday challenges websites ... More >>

Tet Festival

Garden Grove Park

Bill Clinton to Stress "Patients" in OC

Bill Clinton is reportedly returning to Orange County Monday, when he won't be stumping for a candidate but organizers of a nonprofit summit aimed at seeking ways to increase patient safety and decrease costs. Bubba last darkened our collective doorstep in October, when he appeared at a packed UC I ... More >>

Jamaal Wilkes and Norm Nixon of "Showtime" Lakers Brighten Christmas for Homeless Kids

Showtime-era Lakers starts Jamaal Wilkes and Norm Nixon are scheduled to come to Buena Park tonight to help give Christmas gifts to homeless children. But, given the state of the Los Angeles Lakers these days, perhaps convincing "Silk" and "Stormin' Norman" to suit up and rejoin their old team would ... More >>

Nestle Purina PetCare Sued by Garden Grove Nonprofit Hemopet for Copyright Infringement

A Garden Grove nonprofit that provides animal blood banks and veterinary diagnostic services is suing Nestle in Santa Ana federal court for copyright infringement.Hemopet accuses Nestle's Purina PetCare unit of infringing on four patents related to determining nutritional programs for dogs and cats ... More >>

Costa Mesa High Marching Band and Color Guard Need Help After Embezzlement Arrest

Last week's arrest of Jennifer Border-Piatti for allegedly stealing $40,000 from the Costa Mesa High School Band Booster Club has not only spelled trouble for the nonprofit's 50-year-old treasurer.It may have also doomed the school's marching band and color guard program.

Capistrano Terrace Mobilehome Park Residents Successfully Save Their Homes ... for $8.25 mil

In these days of shady foreclosures, robo-bank calls for mortgage payments before your mortgage is due and other assorted example of Mitt Romney's pals trying to royally fuck with us just trying to make ends meet comes a bit of happy news. About 150 families in San Juan Capistrano banded together to ... More >>

[VIDEO:] Vegan Zombies Help Filipino Chamber Promote Green Fair (Just Go With It)

The Filipino American Chamber of Commerce of Orange County is dedicated to helping small and medium-sized businesses grow to their full potentials, and one way they will do that is by sponsoring the Aug. 22 "Conserve, Go Green, Be Healthy: The Winning Edge For Your Business" fair in Garden Grove.And ... More >>

Costa Mesa Convention & Visitor Bureau: Marketing Business Stole $100,000 From Us!

The folks at the Costa Mesa Convention & Visitor Bureau feel duped by a sneaky Irvine marketing business and want, if a court documents filed this week are any indication, painful financial revenge.According to a July 30 lawsuit, bureau officials claims they paid more than $100,000 in fraudulent ... More >>

Adam Hunter: Giving Back And Giving Laughs

​FLOC (Future Leaders Of our Community) is an organization whose main focus is to get young professionals engaged with doing service work, philanthropic work, and volunteer work in the community. They act as a bridge builder to help young professionals get involved in non-profits and recognize tha ... More >>

North Orange County Heritage Festival

Muckenthaler Cultural Center

New Year's Eve Block Party

OC Fair

Rebecca Black, the Gift That Keeps on Giving

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

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 >>

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 >>

A Fine Caterer Chef Molly Kruger Is

​A couple of months ago, I was asked to be a judge at some food contest or other sponsored by a nonprofit. Tell you the truth, I can't even remember the name of the nonprofit, or the theme of the contest. I do remember two things, however: that the new chef of 6ix Park Grill at the Irvine Hyatt (w ... More >>

Long Beach Says Goodbye to Annual Celebrity-Studded Women's Conference

​The annual, superstar-studded women's conference that brought speakers like Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Diane Sawyer, Sandra Day O'Connor, Sarah McLachlan and Suze Orman to Long Beach, along with major tourism dollars, will not be back to the city this year.    It is uncerta ... More >>

Art of Haiti Opening Gala

Orange County Center for Contemporary Art

FAIR-y Tales In the Immigration Debate

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

Wyland Foundation Surfin' Santas

Ocean Institute

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 >>

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 >>

Gettin' Made: BAM Fest Tomorrow in Santa Monica

Looking for something to do this weekend? How about an event that combines your love of booze, paintings and tunes? You're in luck--the first Beer, Art and Music Festival takes place tomorrow to bring you three great tastes that taste great together! ​ After the jump, details on ho ... More >>

Taste of Downtown

East Village Arts District

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Eddie Money

Cerritos Center

Assembly Panel Opposes Fairgrounds Sale

Does Da Gov's stand on the fairgrounds sale help fat cats.​Facing a roomful of Orange County civic leaders wearing orange lapel buttons stating, "Derail the Sale," the California Assembly's Business and Professions Committee voted unanimously today to support a bill that would block the sale of th ... More >>

Got the Stuff to Be a Tableaux Vivant?

​Do you have a burning desire to be made up as a two-dimensional object so that strangers can ogle you while you stand motionless for several minutes, nightly for eight weeks?If so, the Pageant of the Masters wants you.

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

BreastFest

The Crosby

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

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, providi ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Downtown Dog Rescue

Bark Victory! At Taco Beach Cantina

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 >>

Earth Tones

Green Threads Fashion Show

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 >>

Out of Sight

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

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 ... More >>

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 >>

Deposition Men

They arent priests, but these four are sure to get deposed in Orange Dioceses boy-buggering trials