HELPING YOUR OWN: With every dollar stretched,...
HELPING YOUR OWN: With every dollar stretched, many charities couldn’t afford the fees to attend a Chapman University conference this week. Topic: How to bring in charity dollars. . . . But the nonprofit National Society of Fundraising Executives pitched in to help pay the way for 41 nonprofit groups. . . . Says its local chapter president, Richard Stein: “No matter how successful a charity you are in Orange County, you have a different climate due to the bankruptcy.”
MONEY GOGHS WHERE? The May 6-7 arts and music festival scheduled for Orange’s Old Town Circle has a snappy title--”Gogh Van Orange”--and has everybody excited. Problem is, city expenses to pull it off will be at least $30,000. And, feeling pressured by bankruptcy-leery voters, its council insists that the Chamber of Commerce, a major sponsor, put much of that money upfront. But the chamber doesn’t have it. . . . Says Orange Mayor Joanne Coontz: “There’s no question of the quality of the event--we’re talking cash.” The sponsors say they’ll find the money somehow.
GANG PREPPIES? School gang counselor Roy Alvarado of Costa Mesa has one more new idea on how to reduce gang activity: He’s started a new publication for West Coast gang counselors. In its recent first issue, Alvarado warns about two areas of concern: the wanna-bes, who hang on the gang fringe, and those at what he calls the “prep schools”--reformatories and prisons--who will join gangs as soon as they’re released. . . . Says Alvarado: “We urgently need intervention now to prepare for the coming threat.”
HOLD THAT TIGER: With 10 years’ experience under her pelt--including the best tiger role of the year in “Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book,” Sara is now on a familiar stage--at the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove. . . . The 350-pound Bengal tiger is in her seventh year at the church’s “Glory of Easter” production. Actually, Hercules the donkey has seniority, at nine years. The passion play, now in its 12th year, closes its season Saturday night.