Author: Alan Martinez

Watch a Recap of This Years Vigil made by PADNET

Thank you to PADNET for this wonderful video. A big thank you to our event sponsors, community partners, attendees, and speakers for making this year’s vigil so successful.

A special thank you to Mayor Robert Garcia, Councilmember Al Austin, Assemblymember Patrick O’Donnell, Megan Kerr, Barry Welsch, and Teachers Association of Long Beach. Your support and participation helped WSLB raise much needed DV awareness and education.

We look forward to future collaborations so that we can continue strengthening our community.

UFCW Local 324 Donates $20,000 to WomenShelter of Long Beach

WSLB is incredibly thankful to our longtime, loyal supporter, UFCW – Local 324, for their continued support. For the past 9 years your financial contributions, raised through your charity golf event, has furthered our ability to reach, educate, counsel, shelter, and save thousands of lives. Thank you for playing an integral role in our agency’s success and continued growth. Your involvement is important and has made a real direct impact in our community.

https://www.ufcw324.org/

Employees Community Fund of Boeing Donates $5000 to WomenShelter of Long Beach!

Thank you Employees Community Fund of Boeing for continually selecting WSLB as a recipient of your amazing giving fund. Your contribution directly supports our organization’s victim and children services. We are so thankful for your support!

Blue Shield’s Charity Branch Awards $15,000 Grant to WomenShelter of Long Beach

Blue Shield of California Foundation recognizes WomenShelter of Long Beach as a critical leader in California’s domestic violence field

Long Beach, CA (August 12, 2016) – Blue Shield of California Foundation today
announced a grant of $15,000 to WomenShelter of Long Beach to support its capacity
to provide essential services and shelter for survivors of domestic violence and their
families. These core operating funds offer the flexibility to respond to new demands
and opportunities so that WomenShelter can continue to reach many of the most
vulnerable Californians.

“Domestic violence can happen to anyone, and impacts everyone. Though we all
have a role to play, it is organizations like WomenShelter that are there when women,
children, men, and families need help the most,” said Peter Long, Ph.D., president and
CEO of Blue Shield of California Foundation. “WomenShelter is making our
communities safer and healthier every single day, and we remain committed to
ensuring that they – and the entire field – have the resources and adaptability to
support survivors and bring us closer to ending domestic violence in California.”

“This generous support from Blue Shield of California assists WomenShelter in providing
emergency shelter and services to all intimate partner violence victims. The grant also
supports our important prevention programs presented in schools and campuses to
help young people recognize the signs of potentially violent behavior and give them
tools to build healthy relationships,” said Mary Ellen Mitchell, Executive Director of
WomenShelter of Long Beach.

This unrestricted funding is part of a group of grants designed to strengthen and
empower domestic violence service providers and enable them to adjust to
unexpected changes and challenges. As California’s largest private funder of
domestic violence prevention and services, the Foundation is proud to support
WomenShelter through this grant.
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WomenShelter of Long Beach is thrilled to announce that it has been selected for the highly competitive “Developing Development Program.”

WomenShelter of Long Beach is thrilled to announce that it has been selected for a highly competitive capacity building program: the Executive Service Corps of Southern California’s Developing Development program. We want to send a big thank you to the John Gogian Family Foundation for sponsoring WSLB.

As we approach our 40^th year serving survivors of Domestic Violence, we look forward to building upon one of our most successful fundraising years. This intensive program will strengthen and expand our growing development efforts. We are excited to take WomenShelter to this next level, so that we can transform and empower the community for another 40 years.

http://www.escsc.org/ http://www.gogianfoundation.org/