Leadership Long Beach

What Your Donation Supports

Leadership Long Beach is raising funds to support Youth Leadership Long Beach, a 10-month leadership program that has been free for high school students in LB since its inception in 1996. Every year, Leadership Long Beach and its partners at the Munzer Foundation, Dwight Stuart Youth Fund, and Evalyn Bauer Foundation invest $100,000 into creating this unique opportunity for young people in our city to learn from one another, grow, and develop as leaders. This year, we are thrilled to invite our alumni and the greater Long Beach community in to support the program and help ensure it stays free for the next 30 years!

Students in our 2026-2027 cohort attend Cabrillo, CAMS, Jordan, Lakewood, McBride, Millikan, Poly, Sato, St. Anthony, and Wilson High Schools.

About Leadership Long Beach

Leadership Long Beach was founded in 1989 by some of Long Beach's most influential and visionary stakeholders. These founders envisioned the formation of a civic improvement program that would serve the community by educating and motivating leaders on issues important to the future and sustainability of the community. An additional purpose was to create a network of knowledgeable and informed community leaders who would be able to support and benefit from each other as they continued in their selected areas of endeavor. The leadership programs are built on the foundation of 14 principles the organization focuses on: Integrity, Teamwork, Respect, Values, Ethics, Accountability, Vision, Personal Responsibility, Compassion, Commitment, Courage, Congruence, Service and Trusteeship. The organization strengthens the community through the 2,000+ graduates of the leadership programs, who now impact every sector of the community at every level and more than 125 community class projects that have been completed over the last 35 years.

Testimonials from Our Adult Programs

During the course of the program, we had the opportunity to build connections with other leaders, shaping the city's future through networking within the Long Beach community. - Kenneth McDonald, President and CEO of Long Beach Transit.

In looking back on my experience with the Institute, I've never met a group of people so diverse yet so united in their focus to support each other and in their love of our city. This brings leadership to a whole new level. It's not just about success, but about accomplishment, satisfaction and growth as a person and as a group. I've never experienced anything like this. I want more! - Santiago Ogradon Cortes, Realtor of EXP Realty