Fund Catalog

Child Lane Fund

Child Lane Fund opened one location in 1984, serving just a handful of children, and today serves close to 8,000 children a day through our Early Care and Education Program and Nutrition Program. CCD operates five child care centers, manages a network of 20 family child care homes, and monitors close to 700 family child care homes’ nutrition programs. The services we provide do more than temporarily address a need, but have contributed meaningfully to the lives of over $150,000 children and their families over the span of three decades.

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Children Today Endowment Fund

We provide early education and child care services to children of homeless families. We also serve children who are also being served by the child welfare system due to allegations of abuse and neglect. We offer trauma-informed care, to help minimize the impact of trauma on these children and to prepare them for kindergarten. We belong to the City of Long Beach’s Continuum of Care Homeless Assistance Program.

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Children's Dental Health Clinic Fund

The Children’s Dental Health Clinic is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to providing quality basic and specialty dental treatment, as well as orthodontics, and preventive and oral health education services. Since 1932, the Clinic has been serving disadvantaged children and young adults, from birth through age 21, in the Greater Long Beach and South Bay areas. As the dental home and specialty care resource for more than 10,000 children in Greater Long Beach, the Clinic is witnessing an overwhelming increase in the need for specialized services, such as dental treatment for special needs children, the medically compromised, and for very young patients. They continue to see an influx in emergency dental visits, and children in need of treatment under IV Sedation. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation today. Your donation will go directly to the Children’s Dental Health Clinic and help provide dental treatment for children waiting for care.

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Dr. Grant and Debbie Uba Fund

Dr. Grant & Debbie Uba believe that young people can do great things when given the opportunity, so with their help, the Boys & Girls Club of Long Beach established the Dr. Grant and Debbie Uba Fund to support the Boys & Girls Clubs of Long Beach. Thanks to this fund, Boys & Girls Clubs of Long Beach are able to award some of their exceptional teens with scholarships to college. The teens tend to come for unfortunate situations and, with the help of the programs at the Clubs, have been able to become great students, active Club members, and exceptional leaders in their community. For 80 years, Boys & Girls Clubs of Long Beach has been providing the most affordable and high-quality after-school programs to the most at-risk and vulnerable youth in Long Beach. With 11 Clubs throughout Long Beach, they give over 3,000 Club members a safe place to connect with role models and make friends, a quiet place to do homework, and a family-orientated place to enjoy a warm, nutritious meal (which for some, is the only food they will eat that evening). Programs are designed to help Club members become great leaders, aspire to attend college, find a great career, and live a healthy, confident, and active life. Your donation to the Dr. Grant & Debbie Uba Fund helps the Boys & Girls Clubs of Long Beach close the opportunity gap, fill the mentorship void, keep kids safe, and help kids achieve their dreams.

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Endowment Fund for the Children's Clinic Serving Children & Their Families

Established in 1939, The Children’s Clinic, Serving Children & Their Families (TCC) is the greater Long Beach community’s safety net provider offering innovative, integrated, high-quality health and wellness services for children, youth, and families including those with special health care needs in our community. TCC’s diverse team of pediatricians, family physicians, nurses, health educators, clinical and non-clinical personnel are dedicated to our vision of a Long Beach that is healthy for all residents. We do this by responding to the community – identified physical, behavioral health, and social needs of children and families and partnering with them and our community partners to deliver critically needed services that will ultimately help decrease health disparities.

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Harbor Dental Society Foundation Fund

Established in 1981, the Harbor Dental Society Foundation is the 501(c)3 not-for-profit charitable arm of the Harbor Dental Society, founded in 1915, with the mission to improve the oral health of the local underserved community through volunteer efforts and funding along with the vision to support projects and programs within the Harbor Dental Society component that improves the oral health of the underserved community. The Harbor Dental Society Foundation manages and administers grants, donations and contributions to sustain the community outreach services and activities as well as promotes volunteer service opportunities to help the underserved and to educate the public on oral healthcare by supporting similar 501 (c) 3 charitable organizations including CDA Cares, Children’s Dental Health Clinic, the Orthodontic Program of the Assistance League of Long Beach, and Everyone for Veterans.

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Health and Human Services Fund

Let’s work together so all Long Beach community members can thrive! The mission of the City of Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services (LBDHHS) is to improve the quality of life by promoting a safe and healthy community in which to live, work, and play. As one of only three city-operated health jurisdictions in the State of California, the LBDHHS has the unique opportunity to develop locally designed programs and policies tailored to improve the health and wellness of Long Beach residents and communities. The LBDHHS defines health using the World Health Organization’s definition of health as “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” The LBDHHS believes in the power of community and views its work through an equity lens, believing that one’s zip code should not determine one’s health status. Your donation to the Health and Human Services Fund will support programs, policies, and services that improve health directly, as well as other factors that directly affect health such as employment, housing, opportunities to be active and eat well, and more. Please join us by making a donation today.

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HOPE Endowment Fund

HOPE’s mission is to create stable, affordable housing options for people with developmental disabilities. The value of empowering individuals to live as active and contributing members of their community is at the very heart of HOPE. And there’s no doubt-living a life as independently as possible, and having a place to call home, changes people’s lives. HOPE partners with Regional Centers to offer a variety of housing programs. Regional Centers are private, nonprofit corporations that contract with the State Department of Developmental Services to provide or coordinate services and supports for individuals with developmental disabilities which include autism, cerebral palsy, intellectual disability, and epilepsy. Since 1995 HOPE’s programs have been allowing people with developmental disabilities to live a life they may have only dreamed about. Whether living in affordable housing, state-licensed group homes, or in a college dorm setting, HOPE’s tenants are making their dreams come true.

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Ilse J. Oetiker Accelerated Learning & Living Fund

This fund began as a gift provided by an anonymous donor in memory of his wife and is designated as an endowment for one of Harbor Interfaith Services’ key programs: The Ilse J. Oetiker Accelerated Learning & Living Program (ALL). ALL is a transitional housing program for homeless families in which the head of household lives in an agency-owned apartment building while she/he completes a certificate program or a degree to commence a family-supporting career. The program includes 24 families from across the South Bay, providing up to 18 months of housing and case management as well as support for tuition, books, fees, and childcare. Harbor Interfaith Services (HIS) is a nonsectarian nonprofit agency that served 8,300+ in 2018; 1,245 were from Long Beach. HIS is the county’s official Lead Service Provider for homeless services for Service Planning Area 8. Its mission is to empower the homeless and working poor to achieve self-sufficiency by providing support services including shelter, transitional housing, food, job placement, advocacy, childcare, education, and life-skills training.

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James Foster Mental Health Assistance Fund

To support The Guidance Center for the purpose of supporting the treatment of mental illness in young people.

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Long Beach Disaster Relief Fund

The Long Beach Disaster Relief Fund (LBDRF) provides funding to approved 501(c)3 non-profit organizations, governmental, or educational institutions that provide disaster-related relief to Long Beach residents. Residents impacted by county, state, and federally declared disasters, such as the 2006 Paradise Gardens Apartment fire, the 2015 Downtown Power outage, and the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic are examples of grant eligibility from this fund. Beginning in March 2020, LBDRF supported community-based organizations at the frontlines of the coronavirus response in the Long Beach area. Over $1.2 million was granted to groups that provided community members with food, rental assistance, critical expenses, sanitation supplies, and more.

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Long Beach Rescue Mission Fund

Since 1972, Long Beach Rescue Mission has opened its doors to thousands of men, women, and children. The Mission provides food, clothing, shelter, and spiritual guidance to the homeless and less fortunate people of the community. Long Beach Rescue Mission stands dedicated to helping individuals overcome the homeless cycle, achieve long-term goals, and make a world of difference in today’s society. The Mission provides meals and worship services in the evenings and on Sundays to senior citizens and neighborhood families. It provides loving care and spiritual guidance to help people who are homeless find purpose, direction, and hope.

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Mayor's Fund for Homeless Action

Give to the Mayor’s Fund for Homeless Action (previously known as the Mayor’s Fund to End Homelessness) to help realize the City’s vision that the experience of homelessness in Long Beach will be rare and brief. Your tax-deductible donation supports homeless services in Long Beach. The City of Long Beach implements a data-informed, innovative, multi-faceted strategy toward ending homelessness in the city. Contributions support the City and its partners in their efforts to house individuals and families experiencing homelessness, and to provide access to transportation services, medical care, mental health services, substance treatment, and more. Donations to the Mayor’s Fund for Homeless Action also support prevention. Prevention is essential to keeping people from falling into homelessness and it is one of the least-funded efforts nationally. Prevention services provide increased support for families and people in crisis and can prevent vulnerable seniors, families, veterans, and youth from falling into homelessness. The Mayor’s Fund for Homeless Action is a key component of the City’s initiative, Everyone Home Long Beach, which identifies new and innovative solutions to reduce homelessness, including prevention, services, and connections to housing. It takes everyone in our community to make a difference. Join us today and help put an end to homelessness in Long Beach.

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Nicandra Thomas Transgender Services Fund

Nicandra Thomas 2000 – 2018 Nici was a beautiful, bright, and talented trans woman who was a passionate advocate for social justice, especially in the LGBT community. She had a wicked sense of humor, played a mean banjo and guitar, and loved her family, friends, and pets. This fund supports trans individuals seeking financial assistance with name and gender change, hormone therapy, laser hair removal, or other related services.

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Ronald McDonald House Building For the Future Fund

The Building For Our Future Fund is a quasi-endowment, established by generous donors in memory of their son, Joshua, to support the capital improvements, capital projects and campaigns for the The Long Beach Ronald Mc Donald House (LBRMH). LBRMH, established in 2011, is a “home away from home” for families with critically-ill children. The house provides a place to stay, a source of comfort and care, and a chance to focus all of their energies on the one thing that matters most of all: their child. It is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for the families of children facing critical, often life-threatening, illnesses.

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