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Please consider joining us in transforming lives of troubled youth by donating $10 per month to help us ensure that we keep our valuable programs running. Automatic monthly deductions can be made thorough our secure website. Thank you for your generosity.
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Our Founder Honored by Museum of Tolerance
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Create Now is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 1996. Our mission is to transform the lives of high-risk and at-risk youth through creative arts mentoring, education, resources and opportunities. The organization serves kids who have been abused, neglected, abandoned and orphaned (foster youth), are left homeless, runaways, teen parents, victims of domestic violence, children of prisoners, substance abusers, gang members or incarcerated. In the past thirteen years, we've reached almost 20,000 of these vulnerable kids through our unique arts mentoring and cultural programs and services.
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Fostering LaughterGame Developer Myles Nye
joined Create Now with the goal
of teaching vulnerable kids how to express themselves in a fun way through an
Improv Comedy Workshop. As part of our Show Off performance arts program, we set Myles up at Vista
Del Mar, a large group home for around 100 foster youth, located near Culver
City. He has around 10-15 teens that have joined his Saturday morning class.  Using team- building
exercises, Myles gets the kids to work together, which can be challenging for
high-risk youth. One game was to kick around a ball made out of a wad of
paper. They quickly learned to help each other, in order to complete the game.
" Paying it forward -- it's the best way I know to repay the gifts I've
received," Myles said.
"What
I like about the class is we get to do different things." - Saeed, age 16
Karen Vines, the
Activities Coordinator at Vista Del Mar said, " Laughter is healing and a dose of Myles is just good medicine." |
The First OUTing
by David De Bacco
It's
estimated that 40% of all homeless youth in major U.S. cities are GLBT
(gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender). Suicide is the leading cause of
death amongst these adolescents. Their families often reject them and when placed in foster care, they're harassed and beaten by other
kids, even the staff. David De Bacco is an openly gay man who is a
screenwriter. Here is his story:My Screenwriting Workshop
may be a little different than the usual Create Now class. We are working with Lifeworks, a new youth mentoring group at the GLBT Center in
Hollywood.  This experience is making me
more comfortable with being myself. In many ways this mentoring outing has been
like a mirror -- seeing myself in them and discovering how the times in the
GLBT community have truly changed for the better. Here's what one of
David's students has to say about this workshop:
"I've felt like I'm creating a real screenplay like a
professional, and I'm able to be as creative as I want when it comes to the
category of sexual orientation, religion, or other beliefs." - Syd, age 13 |
Thank You To Our Sponsors!
We thank the Kaiser Permanente Foundation for their generous donation to our Take Heart program. We're proud that they have selected Create Now as a new partner, especially during this difficult economic time when the healing power of the arts are especially needed. Because of their support, we'll be able to bring our therapeutic visual arts projects to the most troubled children and youth in Southern California.
Create Now would also like to extend our deep appreciation to the Los Angeles County Arts Commission for their generous donation for the past two years. Thanks to their support, we have been able to provide our services to thousands of the most troubled kids in the region. We're proud to be an LACAC grantee, which includes many wonderful benefits.
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 Laugh with The Lean (Live)
Join us on Thursday, November 5th from 8:30 to 10:30 PM for The Lean
(Live!) at The Ice House Annex in Pasadena. Seven hilarious comedians
will make you roar, while they raise money for Create Now to provide our
programs. It only costs $10 plus a two-drink minimum.
This special evening includes an After-Party at the Equator Café in
Pasadena. If you mention The Lean (Live!) you'll get 15% off your tab.
This is a 21+ event and it's not family-friendly (R-rated). To find out
more and to sign up to attend, click this link. We look forward to
seeing you there! |
Thank you!
Thanks to you, Create Now
programs prove that the arts can impact the lives of high-risk and at-risk
youth in ways that other intervention programs cannot.
Working together, we are transforming lives through creative arts!
Sincerely,
The Create Now Team
Phone: (213) 484-8500 Email: info@createnow.org Website: www.createnow.org
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