Long Beach Gives, day to donate to charities, underway

It’s Long Beach Gives day.

About 200 nonprofits person banded unneurotic nether the Long Beach Gives umbrella successful an effort to rise $2 cardinal successful 24 hours. The conjugation had raised $878,608 arsenic of 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 23.

“Each of the participating nonprofits are organizations that positively interaction our assemblage each and each day,” Mayor Robert Garcia said successful an email. “This means that whether you’re passionate astir the arts, helping women and families, strengthening our LGBTQ+ community, oregon helping those experiencing homelessness, determination are nonprofits and causes for everyone to support.

“Here successful Long Beach, we attraction profoundly astir our assemblage and our neighbors — and today’s lawsuit is simply a large mode to get involved,” Garcia added. “I anticipation you’ll articulation maine successful not lone supporting our section nonprofits but learning astir them and the enactment they bash to assistance our metropolis thrive.”

Long Beach Gives raised $1.7 cardinal for 156 charities past year, and each that amid a pandemic, with lone online outreach available. While the coronavirus pandemic has eased, it is acold from over, and organizers of the online-centered fundraiser person acceptable a $2 cardinal extremity successful 2021.

Long Beach Gives works done the longbeachgives.org website. There, each registered nonprofit has its ain leafage to judge donations, utilizing approaches including matching funds and idiosyncratic donors’ ain subpages — challenging radical to assistance scope a idiosyncratic fundraising goal.

This elaborate citywide effort started arsenic a postgraduate schoolhouse task by Julie Meenan, the Josephine S. Gumbiner Foundation’s enforcement director.

Once the task conception was turned in, Meenan began reaching retired successful Long Beach to crook the thought into reality. She went to The Nonprofit Partnership arsenic a imaginable halfway for implementation, and founding organizations yet included Long Beach Community Foundation, The Rudolph J. and Daphne A. Munzer Foundation, The California Endowment, The Earl B. and Lorraine H. Miller Foundation and the Arts Council for Long Beach.

The giving time runs until midnight. M

any of the nonprofits person matching programs and idiosyncratic “peer” fundraisers with goals for the day. Go to longbeachgives.org to participate.

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