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08 Dec

Swire Properties Inc will continue its commitment to the community and sustainable development with the launch of Home Grown, a multi-dimensional platform created to showcase the developer’s present and future commitments in the community. Through Home Grown, Swire Properties will create meaningful partnerships and charitable contributions...

28 Jun
The power to inspire others to excel is in each of us. As Mother Teresa famously said, “Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.” At the seventh annual Save Our Sons Youth Summit, young men spent a day acquiring skills in how to excel and better themselves through workshops, activities, an inspirational speaker, and communication with male mentors and role models. They learned how to tie a necktie while talking about their interests at a workshop called “The Ties that Bond Us.” Every young man also received the gift of a tie.
Beneath the scar tissue of the giant gash through the heart of Miami known as Interstate 95 are a series of dark and dreary underpasses. These intimidating, wasted spaces, suitable only for trolls, could connect neighborhoods instead of dividing them if only they were enlivened with color and light. Marcelo Ertorteguy and Sara Valente see four underpasses at Northwest 20th, 29th, 32nd and 35th streets as giant canvases for outdoor art, perfectly suited for a transformation from gun-metal gray walls into murals and abstract paintings. “Massive infrastructure tends to build barriers between people,” Valente said. “We want to make it an experience for pedestrians and drivers when they pass through the space. Right now it’s a scary tunnel to be avoided.”
14 Jun
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,” said Cristal Cole, AT&T Florida external affairs. “We are proud to support community programming provided by organizations like the Overtown Youth Center, who help foster a safe environment where children can dream big and access the resources they need to be successful in life.” (Sign up for our free Daily Newsletters and Breaking News Alerts for the Miami Patch.)
With 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. ​​

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 heart of Liberty City and come face-to-face with shootings, gang violence and sometimes death. “I didn’t want my boys...

Alonzo Mourning, Grammy-nominated recording artist Jonathan McReynolds, Season 8 Finalist of the voice Koryn Hawthorn, activist/author Kevin Powell and Florida Memorial President Dr. Roslyn Artist serving as panelist for Zo’s Youth Summit Groove. By Arri & Byler Henry, Generation Next Over 400 high school students from across...

Staff Report MIAMI – Last week, the Talent4Change Foundation launched its ‘Buzz It Forward’ campaign by debuting its signature initiative, The Buzz Boxx, during Art Basel week. The Buzz Boxx is a container-based barbershop designed to be placed at various locations that offers grooming and mentoring to...

Los hermanos Jojo y Jeante Rivero con su madre María Rivero muestran el lunes los alimentos distribuidos por Kiwanis Club en la escuela Phillis Wheatley Elementary School. C.M. GUERRERO. cmguerrero@elnuevoherald.com El agradecer a Dios por una buena cosecha, renueva los sentimientos de solidaridad y a partir...

Alonzo Mourning is used to a workout, but he didn’t think his latest victory would take nine years. “I believed in this and I knew this community needed it more than ever,” said Mourning, as Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez and other government, civic and business leaders...

The United Way of Miami-Dade opened the doors to their Eden Place at the Overtown Youth Center in Miami, Saturday. More than 200 people came out to the opening event where they enjoyed food, fun and entertainment. Former Miami Heat star Alonzo Mourning was on hand to...

Blaise Pronesti, who organized the volunteer effort at Miami Country Day School, sorts through school supplies. Roberto Koltun rkoltun@elnuevoherald.com It’s the end of the school year and that means lots of school supplies, books and backpacks have to find a home. Thanks to an entrepreneurial Miami Country Day student,...

Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter MIAMI (CBSMiami) — Students from the Overtown Youth Center faced off against City of Miami Police officers in a charity basketball game. The game was organized by the police department Saturday with the intent of helping create a better relationship between the city’s youth and officers...

MIAMI (WSVN) — Some lucky middle school students finished their day with a fun fitness session, Thursday. Barry’s Bootcamp instructor Kellie Sikorski taught 80 students from the Overtown Youth Center. "It’s really to teach them how to use their own body," said Sikorski. "You don’t need a gym....

MIAMI - Founded in 2003 by former Miami Heat superstar Alonzo Mourning and his wife Tracey Wilson Mourning, along with real estate developer Martin Z. Marguiles, the Overtown Youth Center is a safe haven for the children who live in the area. The center has graduated...

Prior to the Miami Open professional tennis event in March, Miami’s underserved youth were the recipients of The Big Serve, a first-time professional tennis play event and clinic that is planned to be an annual event at the Flamingo Center in Miami Beach. More than 400...

Miami Heat player Gerald Green teaches his son Geremiah Green, 4, how to fish at Bill Baggs Park on Key Biscayne. Green and Alonzo Mourning joined for an afternoon of fishing with 10 children from the Overtown Youth Center. Green gifted these children with brand...

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