Buy Fabulous Jewelry and Accessories While Raising Money for Kids
Crush Crush Couture provides Jewelry+ Passion for a Better World! Visit their website and when you purchase some of their many styles of earrings, necklaces, bracelets, rings and accessories, be sure to select Create Now as your Charity of Choice and we will get 25% of the proceeds.
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Create Now needs your help 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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Special Thanks
to the Westside Children's Center and the DCFS
We're very grateful to them for their support of some of our Create Now programs this summer, which include the Hip-Hop Jam Not Bang Festival held on June 24th, our Singing, Dance and Theatre workshops with the Talent Show on August 11th, and our Graffiti-style Create A Mural Now workshop that you'll learn more about next month. All of the kids in SPA 5 who are participating in our programs are loving them! |
 To All of the Foundations and Companies
That Have Contributed to Create Now Recently:
Adamma Foundation
Greenspan Foundation
Muskin Family Foundation
Popchips
Hollywood Wax Museum
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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 sixteen years, we've reached more than 30,000 of these vulnerable kids through our unique arts mentoring and cultural programs and services. |
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Show Off Classes and Talent Show at the Westside Pavilion Mall in West L.A.
 Create Now has been hosting weekly classes in Singing, Dance and Theatre on Saturday afternoons in Community Room A at the Westside Pavilion mall in West Los Angeles, thanks to funds from the Westside Children's Center, with support from the Department of Children & Family Services.
Our free 12-week workshops are for children and youth of all ages. The kids are invited to learn from professionals in these fields. Performer Samantha Parks teaches singing. Hitcliff "Cliff" Tan from the Mix'd Elements Crew was a finalist on "America's Best Dance Crew," and actress Amie Meadows instructs kids in theatrical performance.
 Karla Meeks, a resident of the Upward Bound House homeless shelter, was there with her granddaughter Macayla. "This program is just amazing! My granddaughter loves every minute of it and can't stop performing for the entire week. She tumbles and sings all the time now. I can't believe that Create Now provides this to so many people. It's just too good to be true!"
The most exciting part of our Show Off program is that on Saturday, August 11th at 2:00 pm, any child or youth in the SPA (Service Provider Area) 5 area will have the opportunity to audition and perform at a Talent Show that will take place at the Westside Pavilion mall in West Los Angeles, near Nordstrom and the Bridge.
 Charlotte, age 12, said, "I love taking singing and acting classes because I want to be a rock star! Sam's singing classes are so fun and she teaches me how to perform for an audience. When I'm in Amie's acting class, I get to be silly and act out scenes. I'll be performing in the Talent Show, too!"
We hope that you'll come join us to see the 20 children who have already signed up to perform at our event. Support them in their efforts to Create Now.
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Dancing in Koreatown
 Patrick Colson is a Junior at Stanford University majoring in Urban Studies. He's active in the Common Origins Hip-Hop Crew and Stanford Breakdance as both a dancer and choreographer. He's interning with Create Now this summer to learn about nonprofit management by helping us with office tasks, while assisting with our Show Off program at the Westside Pavilion.
In addition, Patrick teaches hip-hop dance to kids of all ages at Koreatown Youth Center (KYCC). Asian gang membership is surging with an estimated 20,000 Asian gang members in Los Angeles County, so prevention of gang involvement is essential.
Patrick has taught his moves to the high school students at KYCC. In turn, they are mentoring the middle and elementary school children at the center. This helps them improve their own dance moves, while they build leadership skills and learn new techniques, plus gain credits for their resumes.
 Anna, a high school mentor said, "The dance program gave some of the shy kids a chance to let their true personalities come out. It was a fun way to get to know the kids better."
Another high school mentor, Calvin, said, "A few of the kids were very disobedient in the beginning, but we continued to work with them and they embraced the program and gained a new passion for dancing."
Patrick is preparing all the youth for an End-of-Summer Showcase and also assisting KYCC with their production of "The Lion King" by choreographing a number for their show.
H is personal goal is to become a stronger dance instructor. Patrick tells us, "This is an awesome experience. It has really helped me be a better teacher." Everyone at Create Now and KYCC is grateful for his energy, talent and support!
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Lydia House Mural
Mothers and children with mentor June Kaewsith
pose in front of their beautiful mural that
they painted of their silhouettes at
Lydia House homeless shelter, part of
Long Beach Rescue Mission.
Thanks again to the Employees Community Fund of Boeing California for their sponsorship of our
Create A Mural Now program.
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