BEACH CITY MC
Beach City MC is a Motorcycle Club based out of Long Beach California with emphasis on giving back to the community. Currently we are recognized by the Long Beach Chamber of Commerce, Carson Chamber of Commerce and the County of Los Angeles. We collect and distribute food to homeless shelters throughout the year and donate blankets for the winter months. Beach City MC also provides clothes for battered women and children shelters. We collect and distribute toys for the Sickle Cell ward at Children Hospital and the American Marrow Association. One of our most proud moments is when we turned Long Beach’s Martin Luther King Jr. Park into a Winter Wonderland equipped with snow, toys and Santa Claus. We also provided a four course meal to the children and sent the parents home with turkeys. On this day we passed out backpacks filled with school supplies and gave the parents food vouchers from various grocery stores in the local area.
American Marrow Association helps educate the community on the different cancer that directly affects the bone marrow. Our focus is on the effects it has on the children with the disease. Our endless efforts in helping them raise awareness and financial support is done on an annual basis.
On June 5th - 8th 2008 Beach City MC will be participating at a campout in honor of the 100th Anniversary of the Allensworth Township. We will have a group of children from the Marrow Association and the Sickle Cell Foundation camping at the historical park. During the three day event there will be a motorcycle stunt show along with games and entertainment for their enjoyment. Medical staff and ambulatory services will be on hand for the welfare and safety of the participants.
The month of June we sponsor a camping trip with Rare Breed MC at Allensworth State Historical Park where we provided two representatives from the AMA to conduct a seminar on bone marrow and administer the testing. At the last event 56 of the participants were tested to see if they were a perspective match for any child on the marrow registry. The same was done at Long Beach Veterans Park in July for our Fourth of July celebration where 33 of the participants were tested. At both events monies were raised for the foundation and for the patients to help with medical expense. The smiles on these kids faces just make you want to keep doing and giving more! We adopted 7 year old Kayla Smith who is in need of a transplant immediately! She was at both events to tell her story and shed some much needed light on a disease that doesn’t get that much exposure in low income communities.
In mid June 2008, Beach City MC would like to travel nation wide to promote and educate the effects cancer has on the bone marrow. For summer months we are preparing an awareness run throughout various states. Our goal is to travel on our Harley Davidson motorcycles leaving from Long Beach, CA and travel to Houston, TX. There we will go to various neighborhoods (low-income) and educate the community about the disease and how the benefits of being a donor can help children in their local community. We will choose a location to have an awareness fair and set up an information booth at a local Juneteenth celebration. While there we will raise funds to help the research for the AMA foundation. We will also contact the local AMA to have local children with the disease attend the event in order to help raise financial assistance to help cover some of their medical expenses.
In collaboration with the energy drink Pitt Bull, a Hip Hop Bev product, the American Diabetes Association will have their mobile units at the event's testing participants for diabetes. Pitt Bull energy drink has been certified by the American Diabetes Association as the only sugar free energy drink that can be consumed by diabetics.
This is the first time we are putting on an event with this magnitude and open to suggestions, we are able to add new features to our event. If you think of any way your company can be involved, please let us know.
