LBCF In the News
2022
- ‘It’s become a little community’: Work is underway to revitalize Lincoln Park with classes, events – Long Beach Business Journal 11/26/2022
- Long Beach Community Foundation hands out $180,000 in scholarships – Press-Telegram 8/1/2022
- Check Out the Press-Telegram’s 23rd Annual Send-a-Kid-to-Camp Fund – KFI 640 AM Radio 05/17/2022
- Send a Kid to Camp: Donations off to good start, but long way to go – Press-Telegram 5/16/2022
- Send a kid to camp: Kids want to go, but they need financial help – Press-Telegram 05/11/2022
- Rich Archbold: Mama Mia, at 96, still helping kids enjoy the outdoors at mountain camps – Press-Telegram 05/08/2022
- Kid to Camp: Kids looking forward to camp in the mountains, but they need help – Press-Telegram 05/02/2022
- Rich Archbold: Press-Telegram launches its 23rd Send-a-Kid-to-Camp fund campaign – Press-Telegram 05/01/2022
- 12 local scholarships and grants available for students and nonprofits – Long Beach Post News 2/27/2022
- Frank Newell new Long Beach Community Foundation board chair – Press-Telegram 2/26/2022
- Long Beach Community Foundation seeks scholarship, grant applications – Press-Telegram 2/26/2022
- Zaferia Junction Community Garden set to begin ‘all-abilities’ renovation on Saturday – Signal Tribune 2/25/2022
- After 20 years, LA County’s Safe Surrender program saving more babies’ lives – Daily Breeze 1/21/2022
2021
- Q&A: Long Beach Community Foundation CEO Talks Nonprofits, Holiday Giving – Long Beach Business Journal 12/14/2021
- Rich Archbold: Lightning, monsoon can’t stop Ironwoman Marcelle Epley and her friends – Press Telegram 12/04/2021
- Rich Archbold: Jim Worsham honored for creating the premier Long Beach Community Foundation – Press Telegram 10/24/2021
- From $1,000 to $60 million: Long Beach Community Foundation celebrates 25th anniversary – Long Beach Business Journal 09/13/2021
- Rich Archbold: Philanthropy helped build Long Beach, but the younger generations are reinventing it – Press Telegram 08/29/2021
- Long Beach Community Foundation tops $100,000 in scholarships – Grunion Gazette 07/27/2021
- Send a Kid to Camp: Donation drive sets record, but mountain lion sightings close Girl Scout’s Camp Lakota for summer – Press Telegram 07/11/2021
- P-T readers set donor record in sending kids to camp – Press Telegram 07/03/2021
- Time to help: Deadline nears for donations to secure matching funds to send Long Beach kids to camp – Press Telegram 06/29/2021
- To rekindle memory of a beloved Long Beach legend, friend sent kids to camp – Press Telegram 06/26/2021
- Deadline approaching for Send-a-Kid-to-Camp campaign – Press Telegram 06/23/2021
- Going to camp helped get Mike Walter where he is today – Press Telegram 06/21/2021
- Donor makes $25,000 offer to send more kids to camp on one condition – Press Telegram 06/14/2021
- Send-a-Kid-to-Camp Fund: Youngsters can’t wait to get to summer camp in the mountains – Press Telegram 06/05/2021
- Send a Kid to Camp: Mom knows benefits of summer camp; she’s been there herself – Press Telegram 05/30/2021
- Rich Archbold: John Morris’ Big Bang on the Bay will provide spectacular fireworks and help kids, too – Press Telegram 05/23/2021
- The pandemic has dealt a blow to arts and culture nonprofits, while basic needs providers have flourished – Long Beach Business Journal 05/20/2021
- Send a Kid to Camp: Carol has been a camper all her life – Press Telegram 05/18/2021
- Rich Archbold: It’s time – finally – to send kids to camp in mountains this summer – Press Telegram 05/14/2021
- Online portal launched to help migrant children who will be housed at Long Beach Convention Center – ABC News 04/20/2021
- Long Beach Community Foundation begins 25th-anniversary celebration – Press Telegram 03/23/2021
2020
- Pandemic-era heroes: Melinda Lankford launches distance-learning assistance center in Long Beach – Press Telegram 12/25/2020
- Long Beach NAACP provides Thanksgiving baskets, face masks to communities of color in need – Press Telegram 11/21/2020
- Long Beach Community Foundation Continues Philanthropy Day Project – The Grunion 11/10/20
- One of the city’s largest parklets gets the Long Beach mural treatment – Long Beach Post 9/15/2020
- Parents thank donors for helping kids go to camp next year – Press Telegram 07/18/2020
- First Safe Surrender Babies Head To College With Don Knabe Scholarships – The Grunion 7/16/2020
- Former LA County Supervisor Don Knabe gives scholarships to Safe Surrender survivors – Press Telegram 07/13/2020
- Fundraising drive closes for sending Tom’s Kids to camp this summer – Press Telegram 07/12/2020
- Long Beach Economic Inclusion Center, newly formed, adapts quickly to help people overcome coronavirus – Press Telegram 07/01/2020
- Organizing Small Donors in Support of Local Reporting – Philanthropy Magazine
- Summer camp fun beats out noises, stresses of the city for kids – Press Telegram 06/26/2020
- Long Beach Send-a-Kid-to-Camp fund: Foster mom thanks donors for sending her child to camp – Press Telegram 06/25/2020
- Long Beach officials still preparing for mountain camps to open this summer -Press Telegram 6/20/2020
- For A Good Cause: June 18 – The Grunion 6/18/2020
- Send a kid to camp: Long Beach kids will finally get to enjoy outdoors in mountains – Press Telegram 6/17/2020
- Mountain camps will open for Long Beach kids this summer after all – Press Telegram 6/14/2020
- Rich Archbold: Camp for kids is break for parents, grandparents, too – Press Telegram 6/6/2020
- Parents say children need to get outside and experience summer camps – Press Telegram 5/29/2020
- Rich Archbold: Mom says daughter needs camp to brighten her day – Press Telegram 5/26/2020
- Senior’s Fitness, Nutrition Donna Helsley’s Passion – Grunion 5/25/2020
- Rich Archbold: Long Beach kids, parents, youth groups remain hopeful that summer camps will open – Press Telegram 5/22/2020
- Boys & Girls Clubs counselor got his start as a kid going to mountain camp – Press Telegram 5/15/2020
- Where to get food resources, rent relief and other help in Long Beach during this pandemic – Long Beach Post 5/9/2020
- Jean Bixby Smith and Debbie Hennessy hope kids can go to mountain camps this summer – Press Telegram 5/8/2020
- Rich Archbold: Press-Telegram’s 21st fundraising campaign opens to send kids to camp experience – Press Telegram 5/3/2020
- Coronavirus Crisis Drives Up Demand For Diapers At Long Beach Charity Press Telegram 4/24/2020
- Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia’s April 24 update on coronavirus outbreak – Press Telegram 4/24/2020
- Long Beach Center for Economic Inclusion starts ‘In This Together’ program to support vulnerable communities during pandemic – Signal Tribune 4/21/2020
- Food banks, crushed with more people in need, fear not having enough – Long Beach Post – 4/18/2020
- Long Beach’s coronavirus relief fund gets more than $1 million in donations – Press Telegram 4/13/2020
- Long Beach Relief Fund Reaches $1 Million Milestone – The Grunion 4/13/2020
- Coronavirus Relief Fund tops $1 million; over 30 nonprofits receive grants – LB Post 4/13/2020
- Resources for businesses affected by the coronavirus closures – Long Beach Business Journal 4/6/2020
- Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia’s April 2 update on coronavirus outbreak – Press Telegram 4/2/2020
- Coronavirus Relief Fund awards 5 grants to nonprofits – LB Post 3/28/2020
- Live Chat: About the Coronavirus Relief Fund with Long Beach Community Foundation CEO Marcelle Epley – LB Post 3/27/2020
- Relief fund grants help Long Beach nonprofits fighting coronavirus impact – Press Telegram 3/27/2020
- Long Beach Relief Fund Makes First Grants To Nonprofits Dealing With Coronavirus – The Grunion 3/27/2020
- Long Beach Launches Coronavirus Relief Fund – Random Length New 3/19/2020
- Long Beach to use disaster relief fund to aid residents impacted by coronavirus – Press Telegram 3/18/2020
- New radio station opens in downtown Long Beach – Press Telegram 3/6/2020
- Mesa Airlines agrees to pay $84,000 for Long Beach Airport noise violations – Press Telegram 3/4/2020
- Airline to pay $84,000 for breaking late-night noise rules at Long Beach Airport – Long Beach Post 3/4/2020
- ‘Underground’ radio station opens studio beneath Shannon’s on Pine – Signal Tribune 3/2/2020
- Sound Garden, Houghton Community Center Near Completion In North Long Beach – The Grunion 2/23/2020
- Scholarship Opportunity for Long Beach High School Students – Grunion Gazette – 1/9/2020
2019
- Long Beach, California food trucks to serve the homeless – Food Truck Operator – November 20, 2019
- Trucksgiving Comes To Long Beach To Help Homeless – Grunion – November 18, 2019
- LA County food trucks to join together to feed homeless during Long Beach ‘Trucks-Giving – Press Telegram – November 18, 2019
- Care to Give? Experts Say Research Is Key When Donating to Charitable Organizations – LB Business Journal – November 4, 2019
- Change for Change: City Announces Awareness Campaign for the Mayor’s Fund to End Homelessness – Signal Tribune – October 1, 2019
- Long Beach wants you to donate pocket change to help keep people off the streets – LB Post – October 1, 2019
- Long Beach unveils ‘change for change’ meters as part of new fundraising effort to prevent homelessness – Press Telegram – October 1, 2019
- Long Beach Community Foundation Supports Causes That Need It Most – Grunion – September 28, 2019
- Catalina Island Foundation recognized by LB community group – Catalina Islander – September 2019
- Long Beach Community Foundation Awards $100K In Grants To Local (page 8) – Long Beach Business Journal – September 24, 2019
- The Long Beach Community Foundation to give $100k in grants to nonprofits – Signal Tribune – September 10, 2019
- Annual LBCF State of the Foundation Event – Press Telegram – August 9, 2019
- Kids enjoy camp in their “magic bubbles” in the mountains, thanks to Press-Telegram readers – Press Telegram – July 19, 2019
- Press-Telegram readers donate record $84,043 to send kids to camp – Press Telegram – July 19, 2019
- Cheryl Carter Makes Dreams Come True – Press Telegram – July 12, 2019
- Last chance to donate to send kids to a great week at summer camp – Press Telegram – July 5, 2019
- Growing Long Beach: Fellowship Program Connects College Grads With Employers – Long Beach Business Journal – July 1, 2019
- Critical Time to Donate to Send A Kid to Camp – Press Telegram – June 14, 2019
- Send a Kid to Camp Dine out Event – Press Telegram – June 10, 2019
- Nancy Foster, former Long Beach first lady, supports sending kids to camp – Press Telegram – May 31, 2019
- Fennie Grant Well Used in Alavon– The Catalina Islander – May 17, 2019
- Here’s how much the Press-Telegram’s Send-a-Kid-to-Camp Fund has raised so far – Press-Telegram, May 14, 2019
- Long Beach schools aim to connect more students to local jobs. This is how they plan to do it. – Press-Telegram, April 26, 2019
- LB Community Foundation initiates college-to-career program to match ‘local talent to local employers’ – Signal Tribune, April 26. 2019
- Send a Kid to Camp – 20th Anniversary – Press Telegram, April 26, 2019
- ANOTHER VIEW: A Foundation For Community. Answering the question “What does a community foundation do and why are they important?” – Gazette, February 1, 2019
2018
- ‘I needed to change’: Former homeless man declared dead finds new life – LBPost, December 10, 2018
- LBCF Hosts Event for Residents to Learn Ways They Can Help Homeless – Signal Hill Tribune, December 7, 2018
- Final Chapter of LBCF’s Homeless Summit Equips Residents with Knowledge – Press Telegram, December 10, 2018
- A Matter Of Inclusion – Grunion Gazette, December 6, 2018
- Long Beach gathers ‘Around the Table’ to tackle complex issue of homelessness – Press-Telegram, December 4, 2018
- Long Beach needs your help to tackle homelessness in round 2 of ‘Around the Table’ – LBPost, November 30, 2018
- Around The Table’ Tackles Homelessness In Long Beach – LB Business Journal, November 29, 2018
- Long Beach’s Second Around the Table Focusses on Homelessness – Grunion Gazette, November 28, 2018
- Sound Garden– Grunion Gazette, November 16, 2018
- The Long Beach Community Foundation held a groundbreaking ceremony Nov. 14 at Houghton Park – Signal Hill Tribune, November 16, 2018
- Houghton Park in North Long Beach to Install ‘Sound Garden’ for Children – LB Post, November 15, 2018
- The City and Long Beach Community Foundation Establish Disaster Relief Fund – City of Long Beach Press Release, August 14, 2018
2017
- Local Homeless Shelter for Women and Children to Receive Outdoor Improvements – LB Post, October 11, 2017
- Knight grant will fund ‘Around the Table’ conversations in Long Beach – Press Telegram, August 6, 2017
- Long Beach Residents Invited to Join Largest One-Day Conversation in City’s History This Fall – LB Post, August 3, 2017
- Nonprofits Move Toward Clarity and Collaboration – Long Beach Business Journal, May 22, 2017
- Long Beach Community Foundation Reaches a Record High $30 Million in Assets – Long Beach Post, May 9, 2017
- Long Beach Community Foundation Reaches $30 Million in Assets – Press-Telegram, May 4, 2017
- Long Beach Community Foundation Bundles Philanthropists To Offer Mega-Grant – Grunion Gazette, April 29, 2017
2016
- Giving Tuesday Starts Sean of Support for Long Beach Nonprofits – Press Telegram, November 29, 2016
- The Heart of Giving (VIDEO), October 2016
- Long Beach’s Precious Lamb Preschool To Get Renovated – Gazette, September 2, 2016
- Local Preschool to Receive Major Upgrades Thanks to the Long Beach Community Foundation – Long Beach Post, September 2, 2016
- Volunteers to upgrade preschool that serves homeless – Signal Tribune, September 1, 2016
- Long Beach Foundation Recognized – Press-Telegram, June 18, 2016
- 2016 State of the Long Beach Community Foundation Event – Long Beach Business Journal, June 7-20, 2016
- Long Beach Comes in 2nd in Cool California Challenge – Long Beach Post, April 14, 2016
2015
- Georges Greek Cafe will donate 10% of proceeds to camp fund – Press-Telegram, June 25, 2015
- Citywide Ice Cream Social Sees Largest Turnout Yet (Funded by the Knight Foundation Fund held at the Long Beach Community Foundation – Long Beach Post, June 25, 2015
- Special Connect: Support for Families with Special Needs
Made Possible through the Knight Foundation Fund held at the Long Beach Community Foundation (Front Page) – Long Beach Public Library Foundation, Spring 2015 Newsletter - One Stop Shop For Charitable Giving – Long Beach Business Journal (page 20), March 30, 2015
- The Next Generation of Giving is Now – Long Beach Business Journal (page 31), February 18, 2015