 28,000 Youth Reached in 15 Years!
Create Now is proud that we have provided our arts programs to over 28,000 of the most vulnerable kids in our community. Thank you for your support!
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Create Now needs your support. Every penny counts so please click here to donate online, or send your contribution to: 1611 S. Hope Street, Suite # E, Los Angeles, CA 90015.
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Check out our new PSA
Thanks to Meme Bloc, an innovative media company that produced a public service announcement for Create Now, which will be broadcast on TV soon.  | Create Now PSA
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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, are left homeless, runaways, teen parents, victims of domestic violence, children of prisoners, substance abusers, gang members or incarcerated. In the past fourteen years, we've reached over 28,000 of these vulnerable kids through our unique arts mentoring and cultural programs and services. |
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Create Now Honored with the IVCLA "2011 Community Resource Award"
Create Now is thrilled that we have been awarded the "2011 Community Resource Award" thanks to the International Visitors Council of Los Angeles (IVCLA). We received this beautiful award on November 3rd at the Wilshire Country Club.
The International Visitors Council is an adjunct of the U.S. State Department, which invites emerging leaders from around the world to visit our country so they can exchange ideas and develop diplomatic relationships. These dignitaries are selected by staff at our American embassies.
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Kim Ngoc Le, Jill Gurr, Lourdes Saab
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This prestigious award was presented to Create Now Founder and Executive Director Jill Gurr by IVCLA Senior Program Officer Kim Ngoc Le. In addition, Lourdes Saab, Chief of Protocol for the County of L.A. Board of Supervisors gave us a certificate signed by all the County Supervisors.
Create Now participant 8-year-old Z'land Nunn from L.A. Family Housing performed a graceful dance for the large audience of IVCLA supporters. She and her mother Bobbi also shared with the crowd their appreciation of our programs. We are so honored that the IVCLA selected our organization as the recipient for the "2011 Community Resource Award" and we look forward to meeting more international diplomats through them.
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Debra Wilson Mentors Homeless Kids
 Debra Wilson ( MADtv) has been a supporter of Create Now for eight years. She has inspired hundreds of youth in detention camps and other facilities that we serve. Now Debra is volunteering every other Sunday at Comunidad Cesar Chavez, an emergency homeless shelter in Boyle Heights with around 30 young children. Debra spends hours with the kids, who adore her. Sometimes she reads them classic stories, acting out the characters with passion. Other days she helps them make fun arts projects, like glow bead bracelets, Halloween pictures and cookie decorations. Debra said "All of these families have become my family. The bonding experience through socializing, crafts, music and storytelling has truly made an impact on my commitment to Create Now" 
Children's Program Coordinator Mayra Chavez said, "Debra's reading and craft program have greatly impacted the children's interest in academics. They are now more engaged in reading and want to take books home to read. This is an amazing program."
Jackie, age 10 said, "Debra makes things funner. I love hanging out with her and doing arts and crafts and doing voices." Read more
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