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10 27 Long Beach Winter 2018 V20.Indd Wishing you a wonderful holiday season!Anchor Seaport Escrow full 16 6 CHILDHOOD MEMORIES Long Beach Day Nursery puts children fi rst since 1912 8 Chamber Business Councils work to engage members 10 New Members 14 Board of Directors 16 LONG BEACH HOSPITALITY Industry continues to boost city's economy despite hotels' struggles 24 Chairmans Circle Members 26 Signature Events CONTENTS 06 30 Master Nonprofi t Event Calendar YOUR ADVOCATE Chamber Staff: On the cover: Randy Gordon, President/CEO General Managers 562-436-6723 | [email protected] and the Hotels Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce Jeremy Harris, Senior Vice President they represent from One World Trade Center, Suite 1650 562-983-1241 | [email protected] clockwise at the top: Long Beach, CA 90831-1650 Ajmaa Heggie, Controller James McDaniel, PH 562-436-1251 562-437-8823 | [email protected] Holiday Inn Downtown FAX 562-436-7099 Judy Nelson, Vice President, Business Councils Area; Mac McCann, 562-432-8128 | [email protected] www.lbchamber.com Residence Inn; Silvano Tyler Habeck, Membership Manager Merlo, Courtyard 562-590-9234 | [email protected] The Chamber is the winner of: Downtown; Mooyon Marilynn Singer, Membership Coordinator The California Chamber of Commerce’s Advocacy Partner of the Year Kim, Holiday Inn Long 562-436-1251 l [email protected] Award 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006 Political Partner of the Year 2008 and Beach Airport; Jon Amanda Donahue, Special Events Manager & President’s Circle Award 2009-2018 Benson, Hyatt Regency Long Beach and Hyatt The Executive Assistant to President/CEO Pike; Courtney Russell, Residence Inn Marriott; and 562-432-7830 l [email protected] This is a MetroMedia Publishers, Inc. publication. Barbara Bayer, Magazine Editor Pam Ryan, Renaissance Hotel. Member hotels and Jerry LaMartina, Writer General Managers not pictured: John Thompson, Copyright © 2018 MetroMedia, Inc. Joshua Rose, Sales Executive The Westin; David Bodette, Queen Mary; 4210 Shawnee Mission Parkway, Suite 314A Ryan Moore, Director of Production Jef Fazzio-Lawrence, Hampton Inn & Homewood Fairway, KS 66205 Photos by Carlos Delgado Photography Suites by Hilton; Terri Haack, Terranea Resort; Wayne Nagel, Hotel Current; Sanjay Patel, The To advertise in our next issue, please contact Joshua Rose at Cove Hotel; Marriott Courtyard at the Airport; and [email protected] or call 510-734-7028. Best Western Golden Sails. Fourth Quarter 2018 Your Advocate • 3 BOARD OF DIRECTORS THE TIME OF THE SEASON TO GIVE BACK TO THE COMMUNITY any of us at this time of the year think about I wish I had an estimate of how much our service clubs those special charities that are dear to our have given back since their inception. It has to be in the M hearts and how we can give back to them in the millions! form of the Three Ts: Time, Talent and Treasury. The Chamber is honored to have the following Over the years, I have had the great opportunity to give back designated 501(c)(3) Chamber members: Long Beach Ronald to many nonprofi t organizations by being their emcee or their McDonald House · Precious Lamb · Long Beach Blast · auctioneer at their fundraisers. I’ve also had the pleasure of Operation Jump Start · Child Net · YMCA · YWCA · Boys serving on several nonprofi t boards, and I have personally and Girls Club · Long Beach Boys Scouts · Power for Youth donated to several charities in our city. · Long Beach Day Nursery · Assistance League · Woman’s It’s amazing just how generous our business community Shelter · International City Theater · Long Beach City College and our residents are to the many nonprofi ts in our city. Sure, Foundation · CSLUB 49er Foundation · Ukleja Center for the large companies give across the board to many charities Ethical Leadership · Long Beach State Athletics · Goodwill but, as research will tell you, the majority of the major Industries · Leadership Long Beach · Habit for Humanity · donations to charities come from individuals. Special Olympics · Museum of Latin American Art · Long Service clubs give back to our community in a big Beach Museum of Art · US Vets, Long Beach Rescue way. Rotary Club of Long Beach, founded in 1917, Mission · Aquarium of the Pacifi c · Long Beach recently donated $250,000 to the new library Symphony · Long Beach Opera · CCEJ · Bob under construction at civic center. Just a Hope USO · American Cancer Society · Able few years ago, the total contributions from “I wish I had an Arts Work · Su Casa · Tee it Off Foundation club members to build the new Ronald estimate of how much · Alzheimer’s Association · Lakewood McDonald House gave over $500,000. Christian School · Long Beach Police During my year as president of the club our service clubs have Foundation · Families Uniting Families · in 2005 we dedicated a new park in the given back since their Long Beach Memorial Foundation · St. city named Rotary Centennial Park in inception. It has to be Mary’s Foundation · Community Hospital celebration of Rotary International’s 100th of Long Beach Foundation · Catalina Island anniversary, along with a $150,000 donation in the millions!” Conservatory · Disabled Resources Center · that year. The Long Beach Rotary Scholarship Harbor Regional Center · California Consortium Foundation has given over $5 million since its of Addiction Programs and Professionals · Olive inception in the 1950s. Just this past year they gave Crest · Pediatric Therapy Network · Long Beach Library out $375,000 in scholarships to Long Beach State and Long Foundation · Long Beach CaLL · Long Beach Basket Brigade Beach City College. And their current endowment fund is · Human Save · The Salvation Army · Arbor Road Church $12 million! · Jewish Federation of Greater Long Beach · The Giving The Soroptimist Club, chartered in 1924, built and Space · The Guidance Center · The Nonprofi t Partnership · furnished a house on the Long Beach State campus to serve Retirement Housing Foundation · Century Housing Corp. as a meeting place for students and presented the outright During this holiday season, please consider donating gift to the Associated Student Body at a cost of $27,000 in to a charity of your choice. Contact the Chamber directly to 1961! receive contact information about any of the above charities. The Kiwanis Club of Long Beach, founded in 1919, has an endowment fund of $500,000, which funds its service activities and projects. The Downtown Lions Club, chartered in 1921, raised $206,000 to build the 10-story Lions Light House for Sight in Rainbow Harbor as a permanent reminder of Lions Clubs Randy Gordon International’s dedication to ending blindness in the world. President and CEO Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce 4 • Your Advocate Fourth Quarter 2018 LEADING GENERAL CONTRACTOR BUILDING PEACE OF MIND HEALTHCARE. HOSPITALITY. EDUCATION. COMMERCIAL Brascia Builders full CHILDHOOD MEMORIES Long Beach Day Nursery puts children first since 1912 By Jerry LaMartina Photos by Carlos Delgado Photography hitney Leathers wants everyone in Long Before she took the job at LBDN, she was advocating Beach to know how important they are for quality early childhood care and learned about the W to her mission of providing quality early organization. childhood care and instruction. “Everything I’d spent nine years advocating in Nevada Leathers is executive director of the the day nursey had fi gured out how to put into practice,” nonprofi t Long Beach Day Nursery (LBDN). She left Reno, she said. Nevada, about fi ve years ago to take the job. She had LBDN has had a long time to fi gure that out. It was worked in early childhood and nonprofi t management for founded in Long Beach in 1912 to support working about 15 years. mothers and now employs more than 70 full- and part-time 6 • Your Advocate Fourth Quarter 2018 employees and substitute teachers, Leathers said. That need LBDN’s three-year strategic plan includes expanding has grown over the years with more two-parent-working services for infants and toddlers, increasing technology use and single-parent families. LBDN has two locations, both for internal operations and external communications and accredited by the National Association for the Education of increasing fundraising for early childhood programs. Young Children. Only two other childcare programs in Long One staunch supporter of LBDN nearly since its Beach are accredited by the organization. inception is the Rotary Club of Long Beach, which took on LBDN stands out as an early childhood education LBDN as its fi rst charity more than 100 years ago, Leathers institution for many reasons, she said, including: said. Rotary bought one of the buildings LBDN operates in and donated it to LBDN, supports LBDN’s literacy • An in-house early intervention program for children programming, gives grants for the day nursery and adopts who need extra support; families for Christmas gift giving. • A consulting psychologist who works on-site a minimum Jean Bixby Smith, Long Beach Rotary’s treasurer and an of two times a month and doctoral students who do LBDN honorary board member, has a longstanding family on-site internships weekly, all of whom work one-on-one connection with LBDN. Florence Bixby, a cousin of Bixby with children, in small groups and with families; Smith’s grandfather, founded LBDN. Bixby Smith and her • Teachers who’ve worked there for more than 30 years sister, mother and grandmother all served on LBDN’s board. and some for 15 to 20 years (the national turnover LBDN holds the second social service license issued by rate for early childhood teachers is 30 percent to the state of California and the longest-standing one, Bixby 40 percent annually); Smith said. LBDN consistently receives high ratings as an • Integration with the community through support educational institution. received and involvement of its board, honorary board “People think of daycare and don’t always understand and volunteers; the distinction,” she said.
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