Charitable Giving

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At Chef Charity Event, Chocolate Fountain Steals Spotlight

Lisa RabChef Allen Susser makes garlic guava shrimp. ​Walking into the Boys of Summer celebrity chef charity event at Florida Builder Appliances in Pompano Beach, we could smell the chocolate before we saw it. We wound our way through islands of glimmering stainless-steel refrigerators, gas stove ... More >>

Feeding South Florida's Boys of Summer Is Tonight

Chef Oliver Saucy (right) will cook at the Boys of Summer charity event.​It's not often you get to sample food from chefs like Oliver Saucy, Carlos Fernandez, Andy Trousdale, and Allen Susser all in one place. But tonight, at the Boys of Summer food event in Pompano Beach, you can do just that and ... More >>

RA Sushi Holds Charity Sushi Rolling Contest Tomorrow Night

​Chain sushi joint RA Sushi has long been an active contributor to charity organizations. It's annual Nicky's Week event held in early June each year has raised more than $700,000 for the St. Jude Research Children's Hospital. And tomorrow, its inaugural "Roll 'N With RA" sushi contest held at the ... More >>

City Of Sunrise: No Foreclosure Benefit Concert Forthcoming

Sunrise mayor Wishner. Not pictured: egg​Though it sounded like a good idea a month ago, the city of Sunrise does not appear poised to stage a benefit concert to raise money for residents in foreclosure."There has been no discussion of a benefit concert, nor has the board ever voted for a benefit ... More >>

Attorney for Embattled Deerfield Charity Not Feeling Talkative

For the past five months Deerfield Beach has been trying to find out what happened to the $30,000 it gave to a charity, Arlington Park Family, which promised to provide senior services. A series of letters to the charity's president, Mae Frances Feagin, went unanswered, and on April 15 City Attorney ... More >>

Deerfield Beach Close to Filing Suit Against One Charity, Likely to Spare Another

Deerfield Beach City Attorney Andy Maurodis says that a charity run by the Poitier family, the Westside Deerfield Businessmen Association, has finally provided documents in response to the independent auditor's request, meaning that he won't need to file the lawsuit he'd prepared against the organiz ... More >>

Deerfield Housing Official May Be Relative to Poitiers and Target of Investigation

The program director of Deerfield Beach's Community Development Block Grant allegedly has family ties to the Poitiers, who run a charity at the center of an investigation for misuse of taxpayer dollars.Wednesday morning that program director, Stephanie McMillian, received an email from the investiga ... More >>

[UPDATED] Charity Linked to Deerfield Commissioner Took Out 10 Percent Loan With Relative

deerfield-beach.comSylvia Poitier​A charity under investigation by Deerfield Beach took out a high-interest loan from a brother of Commissioner Sylvia Poitier in hopes of paying taxes on property it owned in the city. The charity then listed that liability in a financial statement to the city, rai ... More >>

Deerfield May Sue Charity Group for Withholding Information

deerfield-beach.comGanz: "Whatever it takes."​For three months, the City of Deerfield Beach has tried to give Arlington Park Family the benefit of the doubt. The local charity was paid $30,000 for "outreach" in 2007. The city attorney, Andy Maurodis, wrote a letter in late December asking for info ... More >>

Treasurer's Departure Raises More Questions About Deerfield Beach Charity for Elderly

Flickr: scenery.​The former treasurer and vice president of the Deerfield Beach nonprofit group Arlington Park Family left that position after misgivings about the way the charity was spending the $30,000 it was given by the city.Archie McKeithen, 80, remembers attending a meeting in 2007, shortly ... More >>

Arlen Specter's Charitable Donation Too Tiny to Clean Rothstein From Campaign

Flickr: radder photosSen. Arlen Specter will only give away a small portion of his Rothstein money.​Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter was another far-flung politician to ride the Scott Rothstein gravy train, to the tune of at least $4,200. This morning, Specter's reelection campaign is reporting tha ... More >>

Lake Worth Charity Makes Holiday Contributions Count

Gardening Day at For the Children, Lake Worth.​Tis the season for charitable giving, and choosing where to spread your meager holiday surplus is harder than ever this year. But folks who donate to one Lake Worth charity don't have to worry about whether their dollars will be spent wisely. For the ... More >>

The Way We Were: In Honor of Rothstein Charges, Pictures From a Happier Time

Las Olas Lifestyle, March 2009The Rothsteins, cozy among sports celebrities​ This past weekend, while waiting for a dryer to finish drying near Fort Lauderdale Beach, I spotted an old copy of Las Olas Lifestyle magazine. From March 2009 to be exact, some six months before Rothstein's billion-dolla ... More >>

Rothstein's Donations to Jewish Community Center "Immaterial"

Photo by Downtown Jewish Center ChabadRothstein gave generously to Jewish causes.​One of the great ironies of Scott Rothstein's legacy in Broward County is the way he painted himself as such as a humanitarian. This spring, his Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler law firm was a major sponsor of the Soref Je ... More >>

Best Mustache in Broward, Palm Beach, Planet Earth: Burt Reynolds

Flickr: Photo by Alan LightThe Reynolds 'stache in full bloom at the 1992 Emmys​We have some splendid local mustaches, but the only suspense in this week's contest was for readers who forgot that Burt Reynolds is eligible based on his brief residence at a West Palm Beach addiction treatment center ... More >>

Bonnie Raitt

Dog With $20,000 Wardrobe Keeps Economy Alive

Gail Posner, a Miami resident, is said to have inherited $100 million from her late father's estate. She was a generous supporter of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. But she may be best-known as mom to a famous chihuahua, Conchita. The posh pup likes to model her $20,000 wardrobe (including ... More >>

Boca Painter A Victim in Inauguration Swindle

Michael Israel, the Boca painter who whips out large-scale portraits of patriotic scenes (like the ones above) by karate-chopping his canvas, was scheduled to create a painting at the so-called Veterans Presidential Inaugural Ball in Washington on the night of Barack Obama's inauguration. But the ba ... More >>

Bienes, Avellino, Madoff and The Church

Bienes Knighted By Catholic Church Well, the Sun-Sentinel, apparently in a panic over the New York Times beating it to the story, finally reported on the connection between Fort Lauderdale philanthropist Michael Bienes and his partner, Frank Avellino, to Bernie Madoff, the $50 billion Po ... More >>

Love She Wrote and Fallen From the Sky

Urgently, Aaron

Rick Ross' Credibility Takes a Bullet

Local Hip-Hoppers Decide to Give Back

Cause Way

Parties can be about more than egos

Dave Matthews Band

Phantom Bar (Bush)

On a Roll

Brendan O'Hara and the Humble Ones settle just long enough to make their mark on South Florida.

I Heart PvD Too

Summer Groovin'

Bullet Bob

Smooth-talking philanthropist Bob Montgomery has a dark side you don't want to see

Rhinestone Cowboys

Go down to the Hoedown

Pickpocketing the Public: Part 2

Chip in a buck: a penny to support your local cops and firemen, 99 cents for boiler-room hucksters

Best Stage Ensemble

John Archie, Elizabeth Dimon, Dawn Renee Jones, Tracey Conyer Lee, Dan Leonard, and David Mann

Swim Stuff

Area high school students get wet

Bloodletting

South Florida Blood Bank scrambles to make ends meet while paying its CEO big bucks

Blood Trade

Two companies wage a never-sanguine war for your bodily fluid

The Wheel Deal

If you're thinking of donating your car to charity, look north, young man

The Music of Healing

Local bands Share the Music at the Culture Room

Hunger Strike

Can a non-9/11 benefit album make any noise?

Bandwidth

Remembering Fred Neil, and a forgettable Lovefest

Feed the Nation

Fort Lauderdale’s Taste of the Nation allows you to stuff your face while feeding the hungry

Poor Ferdy

Ferdinand Mahfood embezzled thousands of dollars from his own charity to support his mistresses. So why is he hanging around?

Bandwidth

Is Orbit, Boynton Beach's new nightclub, big enough for the egos of Ronnie James Dio and Yngwie Malmsteen?

Best Correction

Sun-Sentinel, November 23, 1999

Foodstuff

Atlanta Bread Company

Best Charity

Poverello Center

Best Name For The H. Wayne Huizenga Fountain

The Throw-the-Billionaire-a-Bone Memorial

Other People's Money

The new king of South Florida philanthropists, Richard Bronson, built his empire on the shady side of Wall Street

Sound Check