- July 14, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
Five businesses in Long Beach’s Washington neighborhood have received — or will soon receive — $20,000 each thanks to a partnership between Habitat for Humanity Greater LA and Republic Services Charitable Foundation.
The grants expand Habitat for Humanity’s philanthropic goals from homebuilding — which has been at the heart of the nonprofit’s mission since its 1976 founding in Americus, Georgia — to also addressing safety, quality of life and eroding neighborhood infrastructure.
Long Beach Rising, Crystal Clear Learning Center, La Bodega Mexicana 8, Popeye Donuts and La Fiesta Tortilleria will receive the grants — funding for which came from Republic Services Charitable Foundation — to help them recover from the coronavirus pandemic. Habitat for Humanity helped select which businesses received the grants, with two others receiving money in the coming weeks.
“Habitat LA has seen the toll that COVID-19 has taken on many of our local…