{"id":448061,"date":"2026-08-30T13:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T13:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/448061\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T13:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T13:34:09","slug":"shirley-wild-confluence-rising-hosts-annual-meet-greet-ahead-of-nov-5-humanitarian-awards-press-telegram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/448061\/","title":{"rendered":"Shirley Wild: Confluence Rising hosts annual \u2018Meet &#038; Greet\u2019 ahead of Nov. 5 Humanitarian Awards \u2013 Press Telegram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the warm (let\u2019s call it hot!) evening of Tuesday, Aug. 25, Confluence Rising (formerly the California Conference for Equality &amp; Justice) hosted its annual Humanitarian Awards \u201cMeet &amp; Greet\u201d get together at the home of Joyce and Hank Feldman. The heat didn\u2019t dampen the spirits of the 30 or so attendees.<\/p>\n<p>The Meet &amp; Greet precedes the 62nd Annual Humanitarian Awards Celebration, which will take place on Nov. 5, at the Reef, where the organization hopes to raise $50,000 to support its mission to educate and empower youth and adults \u201cto lead change for equity and justice in our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speakers spoke briefly on the goals and past achievements of the organization.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s honorees were also introduced: Long Beach City College Superintendent-President Mike Mu\u00f1oz will receive the Confluence Rising Humanitarian Award; Sharon Diggs-Jackson, executive director of Elite Skills Development, will receive the 2026 Gene Lentzner Award; and Ralphs\/Food 4 Less will receive the 2026 Building Bridges Award.<\/p>\n<p>The intimate evening was attended by approximately 30 past honorees, past and current Board and Advisory Board members, donors, supporters, and community partners.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/confluencerising.org\/humanitarian\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">confluencerising.org\/humanitarian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Seen at the Scene: Confluence Rising Board members Jessica Pandya and Shireen Pavri; advisory board members Rosecarrie Brooks, Rashida Crutchfield, Rich Lipeles, Jim Zehmer, Mike Mu\u00f1oz (honoree) and the evening\u2019s host, Hank Feldman; and Julie Meenan, Michele Dobson, Keith Curry, Darick Simpson and Katrin Grauer.<\/p>\n<p>News of Social events with charitable purposes may be sent to Shirley Wild at spwild@verizon.net. Please include a contact phone number. Send high-resolution jpeg photos, by attachment, to spwild@verizon.net and include group name and identification of individuals from left. Call Shirley at 562-594-9468 for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the warm (let\u2019s call it hot!) evening of Tuesday, Aug. 25, Confluence Rising (formerly the California Conference&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,23,131,133,132,137,648],"class_list":["post-448061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-california","tag-local-news","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-shirley-wild-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448061","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=448061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}