LBCEI, The Long Beach Center for Economic Inclusion, is a community development corporation that has taken on the challenge of expanding inclusive economic opportunities for all communities in Long Beach. It’s mission and values include: Bringing Everyone In An Economy for All Access to Capital Inclusive Opportunity Then, COVID-19 hit and the priorities changed. LBCEI…
Centro CHA is a Long Beach-based Latino/a/x nonprofit social service agency formed in 1992. The non-profit serves to advance and advocate for the well-being of underrepresented low-income Latino/a/x children, youth, and families in the City of Long Beach. Jessica Quintana is the organization’s long time Executive Director. PalacioMagazine.com conducted a Zoom interview with the Centro…
Darick Simpson is a man comfortable in his goals and his direction in life. During much of the time that I’ve known Simpson, he served for sixteen years as the executive director of the Long Beach Community Action Partnership (LBCAP). He is one of the most incisive, committed, and the chilliest people I’ve ever met….
Alfredo Velasco is President and CEO of the YMCA of Greater Long Beach. Velasco heads an organization that, according to the organization’s website, encompasses a service area with a population of nearly 850-thousand people, six branches, numerous childcare sites, as well as a number of other facilities. It is an organization that he knows well….
The community organization, Centro CHA, Mayor Robert Garcia and First District Councilperson Lena Gonzalez are sponsoring a lecture and panel discussion called Latino Urbanism: Defining a Model for Economic and Cultural Development. The event will take place at the Museum of Latin American Art on Thursday, October 13, 2016, 4:30-7:00pm. The Museum is located at 628 Alamitos Ave, Long…