Each year, the Mission Beach Women’s Club gives away thousands of dollars to community nonprofit groups, which is the club’s mission.
 This year, the club wrote checks totaling $30,260 to 22 nonprofit groups, seven of which are headquartered in the beach area. In addition, the club waived rental fees for its clubhouse venue totaling $9,000 to nonprofits, community organizations, and schools.
The largest donated amount, $8,100, went to Pacific Beach Street Guardians, which, through payments from local businesses, helps homeless people by training and hiring them to do street and alley cleaning, janitorial work, and custodial property maintenance. The funds from the club will go toward expanding its services into Mission Beach. The remaining list of recipients of this year’s Mission Beach Women’s Club funds includes: Leap for Success received $2,000; Center for Community Solutions, $2,000; Mind Treasures, $500; Mission Bay High School Band Boosters, $900; Mission Bay Alumnae Association for MBHS girls lacrosse, $500; Community Campership Council, Inc. (Kids2Camp), $1,000; Angel Faces, $1,000; Outdoor Outreach, $1,000. Also, South Mission Crew Foundation’s Jetty Kids, $1,000; Maruta Gardner Mural, $1,000; Friends of Crown Point Jr. Music Academy, $1,000; A Bridge For Kids, $1,000; Just In Time for Foster Youth, $2,500; Support the Enlisted Project (STEP), $1,500; The Unbattle Project, $1,000; LightBridge Hospice Community Foundation, $1,000; Special Delivery San Diego, $1,500; Foundation For Animal Care and Education (FACE), $1,000; miscellaneous, $760.
Throughout the year, Mission Beach Women’s Club gathers money through fundraising activities and events such as auctions, a restaurant walk, and other donation drives. At the end of the fiscal year, the group then donates between $25,000 and $50,000 to nearly two-dozen groups, plus waives clubhouse rental fees for a number of nonprofit groups for their private events and parties.
The club’s philanthropy committee visits the nonprofit organization applicants and interviews them to learn more about their groups. Recommendations are then submitted to the club’s board for discussion and then onto the general membership for a vote.
The club welcomes nonprofit organizations to request funding by going to mbwc.org with their requests and dollar amounts they are seeking.