For A Good Cause: Ways you can help others

Long Beach

More than $72,000 was raised astatine the AbilityFirst Long Beach luncheon astatine The Grand connected Oct. 16. AbilityFirst helps radical with disabilities scope their afloat potential.

The Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce has donated $15,000 to Long Beach Police Foundation and Friends of Long Beach Firefighters Foundation.

The 7th yearly CANstruction runs done Nov. 14 astatine Trademark Brewing, 233 E. Anaheim St. Teams from 3 section architectural and engineering firms constructed “artistic masterpieces” from canned goods, which are past donated to Food Finders.

The Long Beach Gray Panthers are collecting caller and mildly utilized blankets and coats to assistance seniors woody with the winter. Donations are accepted from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday done Friday astatine the Long Beach Senior Center, 1150 E. Fourth St.

It costs the Long Beach Rescue Mission conscionable $2.20 to supply a Thanksgiving repast to those successful need. They inquire that you lend what you can. Go to www.lbrm.org.

The Meals connected Wheels Holiday Food Drive is underway and continues done Dec. 31. Go to mowlb.org and find retired what items they need.

The Long Beach Community Improvement League, which creates prime nationalist work programs for each aspects of beingness successful Long Beach, is requesting donations to assistance successful its work. Go to www.lbcil.org.

The Salvation Army is accepting non-monetary donations including canned food, vegetables, beans, pasta, cereal, tiny oatmeal packages and much from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays successful beforehand of the nutrient slope astatine 3092 Long Beach Blvd.

The Heart of Ida will supply a free, doubly play connection from “a lukewarm and affable person” for seniors, their families and caregivers. Sign up by calling 562-570-3548 oregon nonstop an email to dbheartofida@gmail.com.

Wrap The Kids, which provides assistance and hygiene for the homeless, could usage immoderate help. Donations tin beryllium mailed oregon dropped disconnected astatine 297 Artesia Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90805.

Goals For Life is accepting donations for its enactment successful helping young boys and girls go men and women. The radical is made up exclusively of erstwhile NFL players. To donate, spell to goalsforlife.net/donate.

Precious Life Shelter, which helps stateless large women, is seeking donations and volunteers for its thrift shop. Call 562-431-5025 oregon email Tammy@PreciousLifeShelter.org.

Fisher House Southern California, which supports houses successful Southern California including Long Beach, is seeking donations of acquisition cards, nutrient and different items. Fisher Houses supply accommodations for families truthful they whitethorn beryllium adjacent a loved 1 receiving aesculapian attraction astatine VA facilities. Visit www.fisherhouseocal.org.

Operation Jump Start, which helps archetypal procreation students get successful and postgraduate from four-year colleges, is looking for mentors to enactment with students. Visit www.operationjumpstart.org.

Long Beach Heritage is looking for volunteers. The enactment promotes cognition and preservation of the architecture and civilization practice of Long Beach. For much information, telephone 562-493-7019 oregon sojourn www.lbheritage.org.

Rebuilding Together Long Beach is looking for fiscal donations to assistance it repair homes for those who cannot spend it. To donate, sojourn www.rebuildingtogetherlongbeach.org.

Volunteer Action for Aging, a radical that assists country seniors, is looking for caller “Friendly Visitor” volunteers. Call 562-637-7175 oregon nonstop an email to thershberg@scanhealthplan.com.

The ASK Foundation is collecting schoolhouse uniforms and supplies arsenic good arsenic currency donations for acquisition and assistance programs. Visit www.asklongbeach.org.

The Heart of Ida is looking for antheral oregon pistillate volunteers who tin assistance seniors enactment harmless with tiny repairs and installation of things similar fume alarms and drawback bars. Volunteers should person their ain tools and beryllium capable to lend 4-8 hours a month. Call 562-570-3548 oregon nonstop an email to heartofida6@gmail.com.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Long Beach, which helps supply harmless after-school attraction for children, could usage your help. Eighty-three percent of nine kids unrecorded successful poorness truthful assemblage enactment is highly important. Visit www.bgclublb.org.