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03 Jul
High school students Hilairee Lubin and Andres Arcia are working this summer for an accounting firm. They got their jobs as part of a program that links youths ages 16 to 19, many from the Overtown area, with work opportunities with summer employers. Hilairee, a rising junior at Booker T. Washington High School, works with the accounting team. The daughter of an accountant, she did not think she would like following in her mother’s footsteps until she started working at Gerson Preston.
MIAMI (WSVN) - Gun violence was the main topic of an annual event at the Overtown Youth Center that aims to help young men in the community. Jamari Wright, one of the young participants at Friday’s Save Our Sons program, said the event helps build relationships. “It makes me feel safe because I always can count on someone,” he said, “because they know me, and I know them.”
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.)

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...

Ford 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...

Legal 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...

The “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...

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...

Warren Henry Auto Group presented a check for $25,000 to the Overtown Youth Center on Wednesday, Nov. 9. Basketball legend Alonzo Mourning accepted the donation on behalf of his youth empowerment organization. Since partnering with the former Miami Heat star and his charities, Warren Henry...

MIAMI (WSVN) - Hall of Famer Alonzo Mourning was on hand to give out Thanksgiving turkeys to 500 families, Tuesday morning. Mourning and volunteers began Tuesday morning at a Southwest Miami-Dade Publix where they loaded up Thanksgiving meals, and then traveled to the Overtown Youth Center...

Special to South Florida Times MIAMI – During her visit to the Overtown Youth Center on Oct. 11, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton spoke to the assembled students about the importance of a college education. She shared her intention, if elected, to provide free college at...

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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...

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....

Alonzo Mourning, Tracy Wilson Mourning, Cynthia Marin, & Wayne Boich Wayne & Cynthia Boich opened their beautiful waterfront home in Miami Beach to host charity dinner benefiting for the Mourning Family Foundation along with founders Alonzo Mourning and wife Tracy Wilson Mourning, Mark Fisher, Stuart Miller and Gonzalo...

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