It was a good week for giving
Long Beach Gives was a huge success this year, raising a record $2,120,279 for nonprofits from over 10,000 unique donations. In the last five years, the weeklong effort has now raised over $10 million for nonprofits.
Some of the top organizations this year included the Assistance League of Long Beach ($170,854), Rising TIDE ($135,880), BOSS Inc. ($87,386) and For the Child ($73,790).
This was the first Long Beach Gives campaign for the Long Beach Post after we became a nonprofit nine months ago, and we raised an incredible $8,209 online, with two other individuals pledging offline donations of $1,000 each. Our media partner 562 Sports raised over $16,000 for their coverage of local athletics…