15 Local Nonprofits Receive Total Of $200K In Grants From MemorialCare

LONG BEACH, CA — MemorialCare — a Southern California-based healthcare nonprofit — announced the recipients of its Community Benefit Grants for 2023 last week, which includes many Long Beach organizations.

A total of $200,000 was donated to be dispersed among the 15 recipients that serve vulnerable communities including health access and equity, mental health, transportation, food insecurity, housing and health prevention, MemorialCare officials said.

“Giving back to the community is one of MemorialCare’s core values,” said Marcia Manker, CEO, MemorialCare Orange Coast and Saddleback Medical Centers. “Following the holiday season, we are thrilled to be able to provide targeted grant funding to nonprofit organizations providing services that address social determinants of health and health equity throughout the community we care for.”

The full list of recipients included:

• Filipino Migrant Center
• Jewish Family & Children’s Services of Long Beach and West Orange County
• Harbor Community Health Centers
• Project Angel Food
• Long Beach Immigrant Rights Coalition
• BreastfeedLA
• Long Beach Bar Foundation’s Juvenile Emotional Management program
• Tichenor Clinic for Children
• The Guidance Center
• Boys & Girls Clubs of Long Beach
• Friendship Shelter
• Helping Hand World Wide
• Orange County Rescue Mission’s Village of Hope
• Vietnamese American Cancer Foundation
• Meals on Wheels Orange County

MemorialCare's four hospitals — Long Beach Medical Center, Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital Long Beach, Orange Coast Medical Center, and Saddleback Medical Center — put out the call for applications in July 2022. The applications focused around addressing key health priorities that each hospital identified as most important for the communities.

Funding for the grants came from the four hospitals.