Nonprofits and NGOs

Arts Garage Wins Fight to Stay in Delray Beach

After a pretty bruising back and forth, Delray Beach finally made a decision on what to do with the Arts Garage. In front of a pro-Arts crowd packing the house, the city commission last night voted three to one to let the nonprofit stay put. The decision put a win in the column for supporters who ha ... More >>

Fancy Art, Fine Wine & Fromage

Prideful Giggles

Back Away From the Processed Crap

Give My Regards to Broadway

Publix Chooses 2-1-1 Broward as Charity Beneficiary For Holiday Season

It happens every time you're about to pay in the check out line at Publix this time of year. "Would you like to make a donation for Food For All?" Sometimes you throw in a buck. Sometimes you don't. But have you ever thought about what you're where you're money is actually going? We're guessing ... More >>

A Night of Mantastic Fashion

SAIA at Sunset

Save the Music, and Listen to Great Tunes Too

Gulfstream Park Holds Fourth of July Celebration and Food Drive

Independence Day is one of America's most beloved days. It's a time where friends and families gather to bask in the sunlight, barbeque, drink beer and lemonade, then watch the night sky light up with fireworks as a tribute to our great nation.What better way to pay tribute to our country than by gi ... More >>

Cricket, Anyone?

Show Your Poker Face and Save a Greyhound

Fort Lauderdale to Blow Nearly $30K on Ads Urging Onlookers to Stop Giving to Homeless

​Officials in Fort Lauderdale apparently think the city needs signs and ads urging onlookers to stop feeding loose change to begging beasts homeless people.On Tuesday, the city approved a $26,350 campaign to plaster the slogan "Panhandling: Don't Contribute to the Problem. Contribute to ... More >>

Tell Mavericks High What You Think: Public Meeting Tomorrow

Facebook.comFrank Biden is president of Mavericks in Education Florida.​For three months, we've been telling you about Mavericks in Education Florida, a local charter school chain headed by the vice president's brother, Frank Biden. Tomorrow evening is your chance to see a Mavericks campus for you ... More >>

Support Your Melons: Rachel's Hosts 2nd Annual Pour Star Inc. Breast Cancer Awareness Fundraiser Monday

Flickr.com​What better way to show your commitment to finding a cure for breast cancer than to visit a place that pays homage to these lovely lady parts daily?At Rachel's Adult Entertainment in West Palm Beach, you now have an excuse to do more than simply ogle a perfect pair of breasts. ... More >>

Newborn Appears at Coral Springs Fire Station, Umbilical Cord and Placenta Still Attached

loyalkng.com​A newborn girl was left at a Coral Springs fire station last night, umbilical cord and placenta included in the set.Firefighters say they heard the cries outside their fire station at 45th Street and Rock Island Road, whereupon they discovered the little girl."She was wrapped in some ... More >>

Underground Dining Groups: Q&A With Anna Brana of Brana Food Group

This week marks the underground dining groups series' halfway point. With only two groups left to go, here's a recap (in case you missed one or want to go back and re-read one): South Florida Foodies, Cobaya Undergrond and Algonquin.

It's Kevin Bacon Made Out of Bacon!

Ever wonder what Kevin Bacon would look like if he were actually made out of bacon? No, me neither. But artist Mike Lahue did. Lahue used seven bottles of Bacon Bits to cover a styrofoam bust of the star of Footloose. The result looks more like a Conan O'Brien made out of bacon, but it's for a good ... More >>

Hospital District Still Struggling to Prove That Reorganization Plan Isn't Driven by CEO's Self-Interest

Bernstein says this definitely wasn't his idea.​The North Broward Hospital District is eager to prove that its CEO and president, Frank Nask, did not come up with the idea to lease the district's assets to a nonprofit organization all by himself. Because if it was his idea, then he would be vulner ... More >>

[UPDATED] Timing of Broward Health Proposal Raises Questions About CEO's Motive

From BrowardHealth.orgFrank Nask​The pending changes at the North Broward Hospital District have been advertised as a way to make the hospitals more profitable and adaptable in the era after health-care reform. But a far more recent news event may have played a bigger role in the move: Florida's R ... More >>

Broward Health Commissioner Says System Will Be Less Political as a Nonprofit

browardhealth.orgCommissioner Richard Paul-Hus​If the North Broward Hospital District follows through on plans to lease its assets to a nonprofit organization, then it will "take the politics out" of managing that public hospital district, according to Commissioner Richard Paul-Hus, who responded ... More >>

Chefs Allen Susser, Carlos Fernandez, Oliver Saucy, and Andy Trousdale Team Up for Charity Cooking Event

Flickr: dinemagChef Oliver Saucy (right), chef at Cafe Maxx.​These Boys of Summer don't make a billion-gazillion dollars a year to play what is grandly dubbed "our national pastime," to gobble steroids like M&Ms and scratch their balls in front of a national TV audience.  Thankfully, thes ... More >>

Mango Festival This Weekend Clouded by Questions

Photo: The Mango Festival​Maybe Deerfield Beach's Mango Festival has learned something from the promoters of Hollywood's major awards shows: that the possibility of a spectacular gaffe or wild, unscripted moment is the key to building suspense and thus, public interest.Because this 25th anniversar ... More >>

Between the Trees Tops Indie Rock Showcase at the Talent Farm

Suddenly, Sylvia Poitier Is Deerfield's Most Ethics-Conscious Commissioner

deerfield-beach.comSylvia Poitier​Deerfield Beach is in the midst of a forensic audit and the state prosecutor is reviewing a report that found suspicion of fraud in the way the city's Community Development Division doles out funds from state and federal housing programs. Could that be the reason ... More >>

Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. Repurpose?

Who Benefits from Surfing License Plate?

flickr user: neeta lind​By the end of today, Florida drivers could have a new design option for their license plate: an image of a surfer inspired by the 60s surf flick, The Endless Summer. The state legislature is expected to OK a bill authorizing the new plate. Sounds pretty rad, right? But some ... More >>

The Pretty Dragling

Deerfield Beach Sues Charity; Corruption Storm A-Comin'

Flickr: Dominic Fasino​Three years after entrusting $30,000 to a nonprofit organization called Arlington Park Family, the City of Deerfield Beach has filed suit against that charity on grounds that it's withholding financial records that would show how the charity spent the money.City Attorney And ... More >>

Three Local Pastors Will Have to Answer Questions From Deerfield Auditor

An investigation into possible misuse of taxpayer dollars in Deerfield Beach has led straight to the local church till. The pastors of three North Broward congregations have been questioned by auditor Michael Kessler as to how they used thousands of dollars entrusted to them by the city.Their answer ... More >>

Deerfield Beach Commissioner Admits Taking Past Payments From Charity Being Investigated

Flickr: ANVRecifeWhere did Deerfield Beach's housing money go?​Deerfield Beach Commissioner Sylvia Poitier told Juice Thursday that she received stipend payments from a charity that later became a recipient of tax dollars for the improvement of the city's low-income housing. That same charity, the ... More >>

Deerfield Housing Charity Owes Nearly $150,000 in Delinquent Taxes

A nonprofit organization in Deerfield Beach under investigation for mishandling tax dollars has failed to pay taxes on any of six properties for at least five years, according to records released to Juice this afternoon. The Westside Deerfield Businessmen Association stands to lose all six propertie ... More >>

In Deerfield, Tonight's Multi-Million Dollar Question: Who Should We Sue?

By the end of tonight's meeting of the Deerfield Beach Commission, local lawyers will be licking their chops. That's because the city appears to be on the brink of filing lawsuits against a number of nonprofit agencies who have been slow to give the city a better look at the accounts.Arlington Park ... 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 >>

Deerfield Beach Hires Independent Auditor to Analyze Public Housing Programs

A few minutes ago, the Deerfield Beach City Commission voted to hire Kessler International, a forensic auditing firm that will try to find out how the city spent its federal housing dollars.The request came from City Manager Burgess Hanson, who has been reviewing that spending since he took over the ... More >>

Morning Juice: Lauderdale Cops Suspended Over Rothstein Ties; Mass Murder Suspect Makes First Remarks

​Amid Florida's longest, coldest winter, let's warm up with local news in Broward and Palm Beach on this frigid Monday.Two Fort Lauderdale cops who worked the Scott Rothstein off-duty detail have been suspended with pay. Sgt. Steve Greenlaw and Officer DeAnna Garcia-Lemieux. It's not yet clear wha ... More >>

Research: Floridians Can Learn Safer Driving Habits

Flickr: robstormerA couple of Florida drivers get acquainted in a busy intersection.​To anyone who's recently been near a South Florida roadway, it seems preposterous to hope that drivers in this region can change their dangerous ways and adapt to walkers, runners, and bikers. Deadly driving is pr ... 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 >>

West Palm Beach Mayor Lois Frankel Took on Community Activists, and Dreams for Northwood Village Died

Blind Faith in Attorney Raises Questions at Ethics-Plagued Hospital District

It sure sounds like a nice gesture: Attorney Sam Goren's Fort Lauderdale firm gives pro bono legal work to the Broward League of Cities, the nonprofit organization through which the county's 31 municipal governments collaborate and work toward state and federal policies that serve their collective g ... More >>

Rock Out

On Front Lines of Poverty War, Conflict Between Broward Agencies

With Florida experiencing record unemployment rates, it's critical that the nonprofit agencies helping low-income people find jobs get along with one another. But the stress has begun to fray relations between at least two Broward County agencies with an important role in that mission.Positive Image ... More >>

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