Campus Crash 2024 - UCI and IVC
May 10, 2024KidWorks high school students and parents met at UC Irvine and IVC on April 1st to tour their campus, connect with current college students and consider future career paths.
Amplían recursos para KidWorks en Santa Ana
Santa Ana - Más de 200 niños y jóvenes podrán inscribirse este año escolar en los nuevos espacios de KidWorks, una organización sin fines de lucro que ofrece programas académicos para niños jóvenes y adultos. Continue Reading
KidWorks Foundation to honor David A. Pyle at luncheon
SANTA ANA - KidWorks, a Santa Ana-based nonprofit that provides academic, spiritual and leadership programs for underserved children and teens, will present its 2017 Dan Donahue Leadership Award to David A. Pyle, a philanthropist and founder and CEO of American Career College of West Coast University. Continue Reading
David Pyle named as KidWorks Foundation For Success Luncheon Honoree
SANTA ANA - KidWorks, a Santa Ana-based nonprofit that provides academic, spiritual and leadership programs for underserved children and teens, will present its 2017 Dan Donahue Leadership Award to David A. Pyle, a philanthropist and founder and CEO of American Career College of West Coast University. Continue Reading
Steve & Susie Segerstrom Perry honored for 20 years of supporting KidWorks
SANTA ANA - Steve and Susie Segerstrom Perry have championed KidWorks for the past 20 years. As both volunteers and donors, their investment in KidWorks has allowed for the expansion of their facility and the services offered to at-risk youth in Santa Ana. Continue Reading
Volunteers team up to beautify a Santa Ana neighborhood
On Saturday, Arrendondo, her children and about 800 volunteers fought back as best they could, with paint brushes, sandpaper and shovels, erasing eyesores and beautifying the neighborhood surrounding Evergreen and Cedar streets. Continue Reading
Former CEO Honored at Annual Fundraising Luncheon
Santa Ana, Calif. – A highlight of the recent 2015 KidWorks’ Foundation for Success luncheon, held Thursday, Nov. 19 at the Doubletree Hotel, Santa Ana, was the special recognition given to former KidWorks CEO Ava Steaffens for her vision and dedication... Continue Reading
Foundation for Success Luncheon Raises Record $620,000
The 2015 KidWorks’ Foundation for Success (FFS) Luncheon, held Thursday, Nov. 19 at the Doubletree Hotel, Santa Ana, raised a record-breaking $620,000 that will fund afterschool education and leadership development programs conducted by the nonprofit for at-risk children in central Santa Ana. Continue Reading
Annual Charity Golf Tournament Comes to Newport Coast
This year, panoramic ocean views from every tee box, open canyons and golf at a cliff’s edge will challenge foursomes in the 4th Annual KidWorks Classic Golf Tournament. Presented by the Outlets at San Clemente and Citadel Outlets Los Angeles, the popular charity event comes for the first time to the Pelican Hill North Course... Continue Reading
KidWorks Makes a Final Push for Expansion Plan
SANTA ANA – Dozens of KidWorks youth, staff members, parents and supporters on Tuesday evening migrated from the nonprofit’s air-conditioned building on West Chestnut Avenue to a warehouse next door that was sauna-like from the heat of the summer day. Continue Reading
BikeIt! Santa Ana Youth Written Grant Recommended for Approval by State
Congratulations to the youth from Bike It! Santa Ana at KidWorks! The youth and city staff joined forces to submit a grant application to install protected bike lanes on Edinger Avenue from the Santa Ana River Trail to Bristol Street. Continue Reading
Meet the Bike It! Santa Ana Dream Team
Mirabel Mateo, Tony Gattica and Lynnete Guzman of the Bike It! Santa Ana project of KidWorks ride on Edinger Ave., where their protected bike lane will be created. Young people in Orange County are getting tired of the region’s lack of bike-friendliness. Continue Reading
Teacher seeks to shape young lives
SANTA ANA – Gabriela Cova is giving back. And she's doing so with some of Orange County's youth. On a recent Tuesday afternoon, the 31-year-old led a group of about 15 children, all around 5 years old, in assembling their own three-dimensional paper Christmas tree and snowman cards at Santa Ana's KidWorks. Continue Reading
Families attended the health fair at Bishop Manor
SANTA ANA - More than 100 families living in the Bishop Manor community in Santa Ana gathered on the morning of Saturday, March 19, on the outskirts of the residential courtyard of the apartment complex to receive free medical care at a fair intergenerational health. Continue Reading
Kyle Team Joins Volunteer Board of Directors
SANTA ANA – Kyle Team of Newport Beach has recently joined the volunteer Board of Directors of KidWorks, a nonprofit organization dedicated to restoring at-risk neighborhoods in central Santa Ana. Continue Reading
KW Board Member Erlinda J. Martinez honored as OC Register’s Most Influential
SANTA ANA – KidWorks Board Member, Erlinda J. Martinez honored by the OC Register for her outstanding work in the community. Continue Reading