About Us
Kiwanis Mission:
To support and serve Long Beach, one child and one community at a time.
Who we are:
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".
2021-2022 Kiwanis Division 13, Lt. Governor
District 13 Lt. Governor
Tony Diaz
Past President
Bixby Knolls Kiwanis
Kiwanis Member for 8 years
Former Elementary School Teacher & 38 yrs President of
Teachers Association, L.B.
2021-2022 Kiwanis Club of Long Beach Leadership
Immediate Past President
Don Budai
Past President 1990&2019
Current Builder Editor
Member since 1978
Retired Naval Officer
2021-22 President
Maria Elena Rincon
Member since 2019
Past Foundation Chair
Quality Assurance,
Children's Bureau of
Long Beach
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.
Treasurer
Bob Dillon, CPA
Member since 1983
Endowment Treasurer
Raimondo, Pettit Group, CPAs
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Assistant Treasurer
Co-Chair Sponored Youth
Sun-Sun Lin
Member since 2016
Retired Actuary
Vice President of Committees
Robert Stewart
Member since 1993
Past President 1999
Principal, Robert Stewart, Architect
Vice President of Administration
Pam Dingwell
Member since 1997
Community Hospital Foundation,
Director of Administration
Co-Chair Sponsored Youth
Chairman of Social Events
Rick Pinson
Member since 2016
Past Presdient 2017
Software Engineer, Retired
