Ilene
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At Temple Beth Am, I’m involved with Baby Boomers and we just started a Havurah group with four other couples. I'm on the committee of Baby Boomers. It’s a gathering of older people and we have different events. Recently, we had an activity to learn about social media. We are planning an event for next Thursday night called Mindfulness Meditation.
Robyn
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One group that we've been involved with for the entirety of my girls' lives is called Friend of South Florida Music. They're a wonderful nonprofit that provides music educational to underserved communities. A couple other groups that are near and dear to my heart because of my daughter's condition is the Coalition Against Pediatric Pain. Also, US Pain Foundation. Both work with children living in chronic pain, whether it's something like my daughter has or any other type of condition. They provide family camps in the summer and a lot of support for families going through this. It's not just the child that has to deal with it, but it affects the entire family. So they've both been amazing in our journey.
Andrew And Ellie
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Ellie: We go up to New York City in March each year to support my best friend, Katy and her husband Greg, for the “Love Rocks NYC” event. The concert helps raise money for the charity “God’s Love We Deliver” which delivers meals to people who are too sick to shop or cook for themselves. Each year, they throw a benefit concert at the Beacon to raise money for this organization. They have a lot of celebrity involvement and it’s a wonderful organization. Andy: With my firm, I participate in an attorney basketball tournament each year that raises money for the Overtown Youth Center. They are a positive influence on our community.
Seth
Are there any community events or groups that are important to you and your family?
The Mark center for Jewish excellence. Also, JAFCO is a great organization. They are an organization that takes kids from like state run locations and places them in individual foster homes. Their training and credentialing is just top notch and they're committed to providing a loving environment for kids. We're looking to expand our family and wanted some options, so that's how we got to know them.
Abby And Jonathan
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We are both passionate about supporting agencies that work with kids and adults with diverse abilities such as Best Buddies, Special Olympics, and other local groups.
Bekki
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We are very active with the Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation. My husband has PKD and he had a kidney transplant almost three years ago. We've been super active in fundraising and creating awareness. Our family hosts a casino night every year in the spring time. It's always a great event and we've raised over a million dollars in the last nine years. My brother was my husband's kidney donor, so it's really an important cause for us and for our family.
Liz & Joe
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oral Gables Museum and Make-A-Wish
Raymond
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I'm on the board of the Sebastian Strong foundation. Sebastian was a kid that passed away from cancer about three years ago. The organization was started by his parents and they are making an effort to raise funds for new treatments for pediatric cancer.
Sebastian
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I'm part of a networking group that meets once a week called BNI - which stands for Business Networking International. There's 34 chapters here in Miami. The unique part is that there's only one person, per category in each chapter. (So, you've only got one social media guy, one architect, one printer...) We exchange about $1.5 million a year in business with each other. The structure has been around for 30 years.
Tiffany
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Up here in our area, there's this cool new house being turned into a community center. It's called Finca Morada. They do a lot of cool community programming, like queer and trans friendly women's circles. They do community work days once a month where volunteers help transform their half-acre into a permaculture food forest. I go to yoga there every Thursday, it's a donation, sliding scale, yoga. And, Buenezas, which means weeds is a very cool not for profit that functions out of Earth and Us. They received a Knight foundation grant to do a series of community workshops using and cooking with weeds. And, everything that Urban Oasis project does is cool. They do a farmer dinner series throughout the season that highlights a different local farmer and they have a chef come and make dishes around that farmer's specialties.