About Us
Kiwanis Mission:
To support and serve Long Beach, one child and one community at a time.
The Kiwanis Club of Long Beach, founded in 1919, has always maintained a strong and respected leadership with the city. Many members are small business owners, representatives of large corporations, non-profit leaders, educators, individuals, retirees, moms, dads and anyone with a spirit of altruism and a desire to help make the community a better place by improving the lives of children and youth.
Through hands-on service projects and financial grants, the Kiwanis Club strives to enrich the lives of our community children. Through the many partnerships with organizations who also focus on service projects, we support families in need, the physically challenged, school youth programs and more. Kiwanis provides mentor programs and career enrichment to high school Kiwanis "Key Clubs" and the Circle "K" college programs which teach service and leadership skills. For more information about our history "Click here".
2022-2023 Kiwanis Division 13, Lt. Governor
District 13 Lt. Governor
Rick Pinson
Member since 2016
Past President 2017
Current Co-chair of
Sponsored Youth
Retired Software Engineer
Who We Are:
2022-2023 Kiwanis Club of Long Beach Leadership
Immediate Past President
Maria Elena Rincon
Member since 2019
Past Foundation Chair
Quality Assurance,
Children's Bureau of
Long Beach
2022-23 President
Beth Roach
Member since 2020
Program Chair 2020
Financial Advisor
J.P. Morgan Chase Bank
Secretary -1
Andrea Sulsona
Member since 2011
Past President 2013
YMCA, Long Beach Exec. Director,Early Childhood
Education Programs.
Secretary-2
Sue Baker
Member since 2004
Past President 2009
Endowment Fund Trustee
Foundation Board of Directors
Retired, YMCA, C.O.O.
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Treasurer
Co-Chair Sponored Youth
Sun-Sun Lin
Member since 2016
Retired Actuary
Vice President of Administration
Pam Dingwell
Member since 1997
Community Hospital Foundation,
Director of Administration
Vice President of Committees
Robert Stewart
Member since 1993
Past President 1999
Principal, Robert Stewart, Architect
Vice President Communications
Don Budai
Past President 1990&2019
Current Builder Editor
Member since 1978
Retired Naval Officer
Vice President of Membership
Phil Appleby
Member since 1995
Past President 2001
Retired Real Estate Broker
2022-23 Board of Directors
Pat Brown
Vince Sanchez
Pat Paris Appleby
Manuel Campos