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A San Diego-based music education nonprofit is providing instruments for students stuck at home during the pandemic without their usual classroom instruments.

NBC4 and Telemundo 52 with the Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation are awarding $225,000 in grants to five nonprofit organizations in Southern California that are using innovation to tackle social service issues and urgent COVID-19 needs in their local communities. Through its Project Innovation, the 2020 grant recipients all exhibit flexibility with their programming and will use their funding to deliver direct…

Just because prom is canceled in real life doesn’t mean prom has to be canceled entirely. The Wall-Las Memorias Project, a local nonprofit organization serving the Latino community, is serving up a virtual prom to celebrate the class of 2020 on Friday, May 15 at 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. PST. The event will include special guests, DJ’s, raffle giveaway…

For those looking for ways to help the community with COVID-19 relief efforts, visit the links below for opportunities in Southern California and statewide. This page will be updated as more opportunities become available.   LA Regional Food Bank: https://www.lafoodbank.org/volunteer Second Harvest Food Bank: https://www.feedoc.org/volunteer Food Share Ventura County: https://foodshare.com/volunteer Feeding America Inland Empire: https://www.feedingamericaie.org/volunteer Hollywood Food Coalition: https://hofoco.org/volunteer Union...

A Virginia Beach bridal boutique is giving away wedding dresses to dozens of engaged healthcare workers on the front lines. Ava Clara Couture Bridal has been closed to the public for over a month, but the boutique is still giving a special group of brides their Cinderella moment.

To help fight hunger during the Covid-19 pandemic, Esports District, a company started by teenagers Jack Lasky and Nick Starkman from Studio City, Calif., will host a national online 1 vs.1 Fortnite Tournament on April 25 benefiting Feeding America. All proceeds from the tournament entry fees will be donated to Feeding America, a nonprofit organization that collaborates with farmers and food…

During this time of unprecedented uncertainty due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many community-based organizations are struggling to keep up with the high demands for social services. To help, NBC4 and Telemundo 52 have teamed up with Ralphs and Food 4 Less to raise funds for nonprofit organizations in Southern California through the Emergency COVID-19 Response Fund.   If your organization…

Americans have been told to practice “social distancing” to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, but that hasn’t prevented people across the country from lifting the spirits of those in need and saying thanks to those on the front lines of the crisis.

A Richmond, Virginia, artist, hoping to share messages of hope, is using his talent to show the faces of recovered coronavirus patients.

A herd of firefighting goats, who normally eat brush that could fuel wildfires, have been left without work due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Their owners are asking for help.

Kids around the country are using chalk to spread positive messages on the sidewalk.

With a microphone and passion for music, Chris Lomeli is spreading joy throughout California’s Coachella Valley during the era of coronavirus social distancing. After the pandemic shut down venues, Lomeli decided to take his talents on the road, performing for families outside of their homes.

A rural Minnesota couple is sharing their experience recovering from COVID-19. Annette and Larry Bremer are two of 23 confirmed cases in rural Martin County — an experience that, according to Annette, felt like being “hit by a bus.”

For most Americans alive today, the idea of shared national sacrifice is a collective abstraction, a memory handed down from a grandparent or passed on through a book or movie. Not since World War II, when people carried ration books with stamps that allowed them to purchase meat, sugar, butter, cooking oil and gasoline, when buying cars, firewood and nylon…

More Americans are self-quarantining amid the coronavirus pandemic as some states and municipalities enact shelter-in-place orders to require social distancing. Technology and social media are becoming more vital as the coronavirus outbreak is now seen across each of the 50 states. President Donald Trump said that the country and our way of life may be impacted until July or August….

In an effort to comply with the latest health department guidance and Governor Gavin Newsom’s directive to avoid public gatherings due to the escalating conditions of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), please be advised that NBC4 is suspending its news talent appearances effective March 11, until further notice.  Although we do not know how long this situation will last, please be…

Candles burned atop a menorah in Jersey City marking the first night of Hanukkah as well as a moment of strength for a community still recovering from the deadly attack on Dec. 10. Yoely Greenfeld lit the menorah Sunday night in front of Jersey City Kosher Supermarket, the site of a horrific shooting that took the life of his sister…

NBC4 Southern California and Telemundo 52 are teaming up with the Los Angeles County Alliance for Boys & Girls Clubs to launch Supporting Our Schools, a campaign aimed at providing school supplies to more than 100,000 youth in need before they embark on a new school year.

Cumbia, mobilization and unity — that is what you can expect at “Selena for Sanctuary,” an event in Los Angeles with the purpose of bringing immigrants and allies together through music.