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RENEW Nonprofit Seeks to Empower Youth At Home and Abroad

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“Together we can bring change” is the motto of nonprofit RENEW and its co-founders Adam Rubin and Uswege Mwakapango. Together, they have launched an educational program to assist youth in positively impacting their community. While the organization has primarily focused on helping Tanzanians, RENEW will make its debut in the United States next month in Phoenix.

 

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A New Leaf: Telling Untold Stories, Roxanne

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Arizona Foothills Magazine and Azfoothills.com have partnered with the comprehensive, non-profit, and human service agency, A New Leaf, for an incredibly special series; one that is very near and dear to our organization's heart. "Telling Untold Stories" will illustrate multi-dimentaional and raw stories of real men, women, and families within our communities who have been dealt a tricky hand of cards. These...

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Still a Buzz: Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale Auction Raises Record Breaking Funds

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2015, the adventure that it has been thus far, hasn’t only been a bright and busy start-of-the-year. It’s been entirely basking in the glow of the highly anticipated high profile event calendar that Arizona held. Kicking off that beam, The 2015 Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale Auction that was unquestionably the biggest auction in history, reaching historic heights in giving both from sponsors and to beneficiaries.

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May 6: Ryan House Community Breakfast 2015

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For families with children battling life-threatening diagnoses, Ryan House feels like coming home.

The space is bright and sunny, the walls adorned with beautiful hand-painted murals. All of the children’s bedrooms open onto the patio and playground areas, and on any given day, families can be found settling in for a movie in the spacious Great Room or splashing around in the...

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Little Hooves & Big Hearts Bringing Joy to Seniors and Special Needs Children

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Since its founding in 2007 by Valley resident Patty Green, the nonprofit organization Little Hooves & Big Hearts has been helping seniors and children with special needs get to a better place in their lives, both physically and emotionally, through interaction with specially trained miniature horses. Patty, who remembers watching her father’s polo matches as a child, started riding at the age of four, and she’s been an avid horse lover ever since. When Patty met Tammy Mockbee, LHBH’s Executive Director, at the Miraval Resort, she knew she had found a soul mate who shared her love of horses and a passion for helping others.

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