Case managers, nonprofits and those who serve veterans sacrifice actual service in order to do routine administrative duties. They also need help for which they don't have to pay - hence the use of volunteers. But they also don't have the time to recruit, save and manage hours. Long Beach Area Veterans Collaborative has implemented volunteer management software to alleviate this burden on this overworked group. Using a modern database that allows an applicant to apply, take online training and track their hours, enables our partners to utilize our tools, saving valuable time in assessing those who apply.
As a support organization to our collaborators, Long Beach Area Veterans Collaborative sends out valuable communications to our partners. We also convene online meetings to facilitate the various organizations who have a common goal - help veterans get the benefits they deserve.
Our Mission: Getting the necessary and essential services for local veterans efficiently and effectively with the least amount of hassle to the veterans and their families.
Who we are: A support organization in the Long Beach area for the providers of housing and services to veterans. We are a start-up that got our nonprofit status in January 2024.
What we do: We have three main areas we feel can assist our members.
#1– Coordinate and convene a collaborative with organizations that serve the local area. We c serve as the coordinator between the various veteran-serving organizations, each with their own specialized focus. We work together with the veteran and veteran-serving organizations to find the gaps in services and try to fill the gaps though our network.
#2 – Help find volunteers for those whose workload is overloaded and might be eased with administrative and peer support help from volunteers in the community. We have implemented a volunteer management system which can assist in recruiting volunteers through a web site where a potential volunteer can fill out an application and submit it. From there we can refer to a partner in need of their services. This relieves the nonprofit or agency of the need to do outreach and deal with the time it takes to find and send applications.
#3 – Create and maintain a dynamic resources database that is accessible to our members. This database is dynamic, meaning it can be updated regularly by both the members and the staff and volunteer of the Long Beach Area Veterans Collaborative. Adding the human factor to a research database makes this unique as there are questions of that take some strategy and depth of knowledge.
We also acknowledge that the general public may not be able to navigate a complex database as sometimes they don’t even know what they are looking for. We are in the process of creating a separate web site for them that says, “I don’t know where to start”.
Organization name
Long Beach Area Veterans Collaborative
Tax id (EIN)
99-0829450
Operating Budget
Small ($0 - $99,999)
Mission Category
Housing & Homelessness, Seniors
City Council District
District 5
Address
3904 CALIFORNIA AVELong Beach, CA, US