Case Study
The LGBTQ Center Long Beach
The LGBTQ Center Long Beach The LGBTQ Center Long Beach is a nonprofit dedicated to advancing equity for LGBTQ people through culturally responsive advocacy, education, programs and services. They were initially founded in 1977 as an informal forum to discuss issues important to the LGBTQ community. The organization was officially incorporated under the name One in Long Beach, Inc. in 1980. Since then, the Center has been providing a variety of health, social, advocacy and legal services to the LGBTQ community and has operated under its current name—The LGBTQ Center Long Beach—since 2014. When the COVID-19 pandemic struck North America in March of 2020, the Center was forced to begin providing services remotely, a transition that coincided with the rollout of Social Solutions’s ca