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While diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging have been pillars of Leadership Long Beach, they has not always been at the forefront of how we approach every aspect of what we do and who we are as an organization. That is why, since early 2019, a group of alumni and staff stepped up to create the change that we did know we needed.
They started with creating our DEI+B statement…
The vision of Leadership Long Beach cannot be fully realized unless it is approached with diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging as our foundation. To connect and meaningfully serve Long Beach, we must acknowledge inequities and create opportunities for future leaders to thrive, belong, and create systemic change.
The DEI+B Committee of Leadership Long Beach works to promote and support diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in our community and within our organization. We identify gaps in our programs, policies, and practices, and strive to improve our organization’s effectiveness in meeting the needs of our diverse membership. We develop strategies to address these gaps, celebrate our successes, and support partner organizations and community agencies in their own DEI+B efforts.
Click here to sign up for upcoming events and activities that you could volunteer for and help spread the word about. Watch our short video introducing our DEI+B initiative and pledge here.
Leadership Long Beach operates in the City of Long Beach, CA, which we acknowledge is the traditional, unceded territory of the Kizh/Tongva people. In the virtual environment, we depend on Zoom and Google, which do not exist in an abstract “cloud” but are headquartered on unceded Ohlone and Tamyen land. More information available at: https://native-land.ca/
The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness. It is generally a personal choice to uphold oneself to consistent moral and ethical standards.
The possibilities we see in the context of our core values; a picture of what we want “it” to be.
The collaborative effort of a group of people to willingly achieve a common goal or complete a shared task.
Standards of duty and virtue that indicate how we should behave; involves two aspects:
1) the ability to discern right from wrong, good from evil, and propriety from impropriety;
2) the commitment to do what is right, regardless of temptations and pressures otherwise
The feeling of sympathy and concern for the suffering of others coupled with the desire to help to alleviate it.
To take responsibility for our lives. Instead of blaming circumstances, conditions, or chance for our behavior, we choose our own responses and make our own decisions.
To honor and value ourselves first and then others or, we choose our own responses and make our own decisions.
To be counted on to keep our word; to do what we say we will do.
To dare to take action; to take a personal stand.
To hold in trust, take responsibility for, protect, and act on behalf of an asset; stewardship.
The action of helping or doing work from someone else.
To devote ourselves to a purpose and/or person.
Agreement or harmony; compatibility
The regard that something is held to deserve; the importance, worth, or usefulness of something
Since 1989, Leadership Long Beach (LLB), through its principled leadership programs, helped inspire, create and cultivate more than 2,000 community-engaged alumni to give back to Long Beach.
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