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Join Leadership Long Beach for the 16th annual MLK Day of Service benefitting Long Beach! This year, we’re partnering with California Volunteers, Office of the Governor, a statewide agency that engages Californians in service, volunteering, and civic action to tackle our State’s most pressing challenges while mobilizing all Californians to volunteer and serve in their communities.
We are thrilled to activate our community in service in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy.
Join us from 8:30am to 10:00am for a pancake breakfast before the volunteer projects begin at 10:30am:
Long Beach City College
Trades, Technology, and Community Learning Campus (formerly PCC)
1305 E. Pacific Coast Highway
Long Beach, CA 90806
Donations of food for the Volunteer Center’s newly opened pantry and full-size hygiene items for Long Beach City College’s Basic Needs program are encouraged!
Additionally, Leadership Long Beach is walking in the MLK Day Parade, hosted by Council District 6, on Saturday, January 18 from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. Leadership Long Beach is in Spot #35 during the parade. Please arrive to the staging area on Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue between Anaheim and 7th no later than 9:30 am. For a more exact meeting location, please text our office on Saturday morning at (562) 997-9194 or look for the Leadership Long Beach banners! The parade route will end at Martin Luther King, Jr. Park – attendees are encouraged to park at Long Beach City College’s TTC across the street from the park as streets will be closed for the parade. We hope to see you there!
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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