Partnering with us at Love Riverside www.loveriverside.org
Partnerships & Sponsorships
Make a difference in your community and join the other businesses and organizations that have made a difference via partnership / sponsorships / gifts in kind / donations to further improve the City we live in and love! *
Love Riverside began with our first Serve Day on Saturday October 22, 2016. In a surprising twist of events, anticipating only 15 projects and 200 volunteers, we started the inaugural Serve Day with 30 diverse projects and more than 500 volunteers that served their communities. The momentum did not end there, over the next 4 years, we continued to host many serve days that brought wonderful volunteers together to make a difference around our city! Serve Days benefit local schools, children, seniors and neighborhoods. The many projects included building toddler beds, crafts with Seniors, painting school dorms, collecting food, trash clean up and beautification projects throughout the city.
2016-2019
And then came a PANDEMIC!
After initially sheltering in place, Love Riverside saw the need to expand our efforts to love & serve our communities in new ways….
Early on,we saw the need to provide extra food to our local food pantries who were assisting so many families. In June 2020, we began hosting Food Drive/Collections and began asking the community (through social media) to collect non-perishable food items and drop off to our team of volunteers on a monthly basis. Our team would sort the food and then deliver the food to a local pantry.
We also began to increase our social media communications to resource our residents to understand what resources were available for them to find help in our city. And ways they could safely volunteer at any of our events we were hosting. Love Riverside has a strong partnership with most of our universities and we continue to work with a small army of volunteers where we do good in our city.
On October 10, 2020, we hosted our 5th annual Love Riverside Serve Day. After making many adjustments due to Covid-19 protocols (like not being able to have a rally and projects all over the city), we regrouped and partnered with other nonprofits to drive thru & drop off of 1) Food 2) Diapers 3) Household items and 4) Hygiene items. These items benefitted those serving in Neighborhood pantries, families and our homeless community.
In September thru December, Love Riverside partnered with the City of Riverside under the CARES Act and began to plan and staff FOOD BOX DISTRIBUTIONS where we handed out a box of nonperishable food + produce box to families in need. We hosted a total of 9 distributions where over 3,000+ boxes of food were distributed.
We also partnered with NORTHGATE MARKET and assisted in planning a food distribution on November 6th where over 850 boxes of food were distributed to families. Later, on December 17th, we assisted in providing volunteers for the Northgate Toy Drive.
Looking Ahead for 2022 and beyond....
As we are still in the midst of a raging Pandemic, we are reassessing and visioning of ways we can love & serve our city in this year (while still adhering to needed protocols).
4 Focus Areas
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- Food Insecurity & Partnering with Neighborhood Pantries & Senior Apartments
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- Ongoing Resources for our Community
- - Building ongoing collaborative partnerships towards the common good in our city
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- Annual Serve Day (October 14, 2023)
The need to serve our communities is greater than ever! We will continue with our Love Riverside Serve Day in October but we are also working on helping our Seniors throughout this year as they have been hit hard by this crisis.
Become a Monthly Partner with us at Love Riverside!
Presently, we are in need of monthly partners as we continue to step up and serve our community! You can donate (tax-deductible) via credit card on our PAYPAL site. Please email Lynn with any questions: lynn@thrivingcities.org
Sponsorships 2022 & Beyond
Make a difference in your community and join the other businesses and organizations that have made a difference via sponsorships/gifts in kind/donations to further improve the City we live in and love! *
Love Riverside began with our first Serve Day on Saturday October 22, 2016. With only anticipating 15 projects and 200 volunteers, we were wonderfully surprised to start the inaugural Serve Day with 30 diverse projects and more than 500 volunteers. The momentum did not end there, we continued to host Serve Days each October and accomplished many projects across the City (see our “At A Glance” document for details). In the midst of a pandemic, we have been able to host a Serve Day and collect food and items benefitting families in need along with distributing hundreds of boxes early on.
Our Serve Days benefit local schools, children, seniors and neighborhoods. The many projects have included building toddler beds, crafts with Seniors, painting school dorms, collecting food, trash clean up, murals, environmental and beautification projects throughout the city to name just a few.
Love Riverside inspires volunteerism and demonstrates kindness, spreads goodness and builds community in the city of Riverside. However, we cannot achieve all we set out without the steadfast support of volunteers and donors. We request your help with a tax-deductible donation* to our 501c-3 non-profit for the year-round projects as well as our annual Love Riverside Citywide Serve Day.
We have the following Sponsorship Levels available:
✦ T-SHIRT SPONSOR - $ 10,000
This Sponsor has their Name or Logo on the Love Riverside T-shirts that are given to each volunteer and are proudly wore throughout the year. The Sponsor is also mentioned in all of our materials that are handed out on our Serve Day and are featured on all of our Social Media/Websites. The T-Shirt Sponsor may also include a handout about their business in each packet given to each volunteer.
✦ NEIGHBORHOOD SPONSOR - $ 2,500
These Sponsors are recognized at our Neighborhood Rallies being hosted in multiple sites across the City. They are also featured on all of our Social Media/Websites.
✦ PROJECT SPONSOR - $ 500-1,000
These Sponsors support a particular project and are recognized on the Project Sign. They are also featured on all of our Social Media/Websites as sponsoring a particular project.
INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS
Any monetary donation is tax deductible and very appreciated.
For Sponsorships and Donations (501c3 - tax-deductible*), please make check payable to LOVE RIVERSIDE and mail to:
Love Riverside
PO Box 52442 Riverside CA 92517
or go online (www.loveriverside.org) to donate with a credit card.
There are many ways to LOVE RIVERSIDE: a) Be a project host b) Assemble your friends/family to volunteer for a project c) Provide gifts-in-kind d) Tell others about Love Riverside Serve Day e) Like us on our Social Media pages (Facebook, Instagram and Twitter). Thank you!
*Love Riverside is a dba under our nonprofit 501(c)3 organization HEALTHY LEADERS THRIVING CITIES (EIN 33-0826079) where we currently host serve days and work collaboratively year round with projects & programs that serve communities in Riverside, CA.
For more info, please contact Lynn Heatley at 951-374-0807 or info@loveriverside.org
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Thank you to our Sponsors in 2022
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Love Riverside is so grateful for our 2020 Serve Day Sponsors:
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Previous Sponsors for Past Years
Thank you to our 2019 Sponsors:
Thank you to our Sponsors from 2018
Thank you to our Sponsors from 2017
Thank you to our Sponsors from 2016
