The Urban League of Broward County (ULBC), a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering communities and changing lives in the areas of education, jobs, housing and health, is the recipient of this year’s $350,000 Humana Communities Benefit charitable grant in Fort Lauderdale, funded by the Humana Foundation. “The Humana Foundation honors outstanding nonprofit organizations using transformative strategies to help prevent diabetes and congestive heart failure in their community,” said Virginia Kelly Judd, Executive Director of the Humana Foundation. ULBC operates nearly 20 initiatives in Broward County, including prevention and intervention education about chronic diseases. They will use the grant to launch […]

The Bank of America Starlight Musicals Concert series, which ran June 19 –Aug. 7, 2015, at Holiday Park in Fort Lauderdale supported a number of local charities while providing family-friendly entertainment on Friday evenings throughout the summer. Franilvia Bencosme, Bank of America Small Business Banker, and Mike Fortin, Bank of America Senior Client Manager, are pictured donating pet food. Abandoned Pet Rescue collected close to $800 in cash and pet food donations throughout the eight-week series. Each week during the concert series, Bank of America featured a nonprofit organization to help raise awareness of their programs and $22,515 was raised […]

The official global launch of the first annual “Jesus Gone Viral-Acts 4:12 Day” and “Free Outreach Concert” that took place on Friday, August 28th, 2015 was an incredible experience. In spite of the weather and the threatened storm that did not come our way, a number of people came out to celebrate and lift up the name of Jesus. As the scripture makes it known in Acts 4:12 that there is salvation in no other name under heaven, that is reason to awaken awareness to this truth.  We thank all the gospel artists, attendees and sponsors as we begin planning […]

On Thursday, September 24, thirty minutes before school commenced, thousands of Christian students across southeast Florida gathered at their public school’s flagpoles to pray. The initiative was connected to the larger national “See You at the Pole” prayer movement. This year marked the 25th anniversary of this student-initiated and student-led movement. What started as one school in Burleson, Texas, in 1990 has now spread across the entire nation. UNITED was this year’s theme, inspired from Acts 1:14, where we learn “they all met together and were constantly UNITED in prayer.” Like the early church, students were united in prayer, interceding for […]

Debutantes exhibited outstanding qualities in scholarship, leadership, community service and finer womanhood at the recent Zeta Cotillion at the Westin Hotel in Fort Lauderdale. In addition to experiencing an evening of royal elegance, the event provided an average of $10,000 in annual college scholarships to participants. In 1954, the vision of the members Fort Lauderdale Chapter (Delta Eta Zeta) was to create a special cultural event for outstanding young women that would focus on their total development, and 62 years later the Cotillion continues to make this vision a reality. It was the first of its kind in Broward history. […]

Palm Beach Atlantic University is ranked 46th among the best universities in the South according to U.S. News & World Report’s Best Colleges 2016 edition released today, rising from 51st place last year. The publication includes rankings of more than 1,800 schools nationwide. To learn more about the U.S. News College Compass, which provides access to the most complete rankings and data, visit the online U.S. News Store. Two statistics point to Palm Beach Atlantic’s favorable ranking – improvement in retention (up 3 percent) and graduation rate (up 7 percent). The 2016 ranking places Palm Beach Atlantic tied with Freed-Hardeman […]