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Help4Kids
Help4Kidz was founded by an extraordinary woman named Eve Nunez, who turned personal tragedy into a powerful force for good. 

In 1995, Pastor Eve’s teenage son, Frankie, was diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer. What Frankie wanted most was to leave a legacy of hope for other young people facing an uncertain future, and Pastor Eve fulfilled his wish by forming a charitable foundation in his name. Today the Frankie Nunez Foundation supplies equipment and counseling to disabled children through Help4Kidz. It also offers mentoring and job training to adolescents through its new Help4Teenz program.

With funding from LC’s “Reclamando Nuestro Futuro” grant, Help4Kidz has been able to expand the services it provides to at-risk and adjudicated youth in the Phoenix area. And with the training Pastor Eve has received at LC’s Capacity Building Academy, she has been able to modernize her organization’s operations and improve its overall management.

“Thanks for all your help,” she recently wrote us. “The RNF grant has been instrumental in moving Help4Kidz from a loosely defined organizational structure to one that is well defined, with sound written policies.”

Just as young Frankie inspired his mom to work so tirelessly on behalf of her community, Pastor Eve’s example inspires us at the LC to work even harder on behalf of Help4Kidz and similar groups around the country. Visit the Help4Kidz web site at www.help4kidz.org.