'Bursting with Pride' -- Mosholu Montefiore Community Center fundraiser -- on May 13

The Bronx News Network is a media sponsor of the annual "Bursting with Pride" celebration/fundraiser put on by the Mosholu Montefiore Community Center (MMCC), the primary social and recreational hub in Norwood.

We would like to encourage all of our readers to join the celebration. It will be fun and contribute to a good cause.

Proceeds from the event will go toward funding the invaluable programming that the community center provides, often at no cost or low cost, to the local residents it serves. In addition to Norwood, MMCC serves several other neighborhoods through its satellite locations. Due to budget cuts at the city and state level, the community center needs as much help as it can get to continue to provide the programming it has provided since 1942.

The event will be held Thursday, May 13 at 6:30 p.m. at the Lehman College Music Building, 250 Bedford Park Blvd. 

For more information on tickets and sponsorships, call (718) 882-4000, ext. 317 or for more information on the Community Center, visit mmcc.org.

Burn the Fat, Feed the Hungry

http://potsbronx.org/Part of the Solution (POTS), one of the biggest and best soup kitchens and multiservice assistance centers in the Bronx, is holding a gut-busting charity fundraiser tomorrow morning at 8 a.m. at Excel Martial Arts, 3044 Westchester Ave.

Basically, you pay $25 and get a courtesy hardcore 3-hour workout (or you can workout for a few minutes and take off, no commitment necessary) conducted by New York Fit Body Boot Camp. Plus, 100% of your $25 goes to POTS, which will use the money to feed the hungry and provide other potentially life-changing services for people in need of just that.

Here's more details and how you can sign up.

Here's a story the Norwood News wrote about POTS last May. (You might notice the photo from our logo.)