{"id":236493,"date":"2026-03-25T22:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/236493\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T22:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:19:09","slug":"port-awards-1-17-million-in-community-sponsorships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/236493\/","title":{"rendered":"Port Awards $1.17 Million in Community Sponsorships &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.randomlengthsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/port-png.png?fit=596%2C374&amp;ssl=1\" data-caption=\"Port Community Sponsorships Grants. Photo courtesy of POLB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"596\" height=\"374\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image cwvlazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/port-png.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"port png\"\/><\/a>Port Community Sponsorships Grants. Photo courtesy of POLB    <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners on March 23 awarded $1,174,900 in sponsorships to 364 local nonprofit organizations through the Port of Long Beach community sponsorship program, marking the largest award and highest number of recipients in a single call to date.<\/p>\n<p>The community sponsorship program supports events and projects centered on the environment, education, social justice, the arts and historic preservation while also informing residents about Port operations and initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>A list of the approved sponsorships <a href=\"https:\/\/polb.us6.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=179c9a35d1a49483d46ede9e8&amp;id=a783af897d&amp;e=8d27e9e4d7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Port received a record high of 394 applications in January for this round of sponsorships, 44% of which were first-time requests. The Harbor Commission has approved a $3 million sponsorship budget for fiscal year 2026, with applications accepted in January, May and September.<\/p>\n<p>The next open application period for sponsorships will be May 1-29.<\/p>\n<p>Details: <a href=\"https:\/\/polb.us6.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=179c9a35d1a49483d46ede9e8&amp;id=92de9a2fb7&amp;e=8d27e9e4d7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.polb.com\/sponsorships<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Port Community Sponsorships Grants. Photo courtesy of POLB \u00a0 The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners on March&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[67210,106782,3281,131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-236493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-communitysponsorships","9":"tag-localfunding","10":"tag-portofla","11":"tag-long-beach","12":"tag-long-beach-headlines","13":"tag-long-beach-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}