By Larry Caballero
After reading about the tragedy in Japan that followed a severe earthquake, after shocks and a tsunami, the Irving Moskowitz Foundation offered to give assistance. At the Greater Long Beach Chapter Headquarters of the American Red Cross, Moskowitz Representative Sal Flores presented a $100,000 check Mar. 17 to American Red Cross CEO Nancy Kindelan.
“This has been the most generous donation so far,” said Kindelan, “and all the money that is raised will be put to good use to assist the victims of one of the worst disasters to hit Japan in many years.”
The Moskowitz Foundation has supported and contributed to many different relief efforts in the past including the Kosovo relief crisis in 1999, the devastating earthquake in Turkey in 1999, and the New York State World Trade Center Relief Fund after 9/11.
Large donations were made by the Foundation to the American Red Cross to help aid and give relief to the victims of the 2003 massive wild fires in California; the tsunami disaster that hit Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand in 2004; and most recently to the Hurricane Katrina victims in New Orleans and Louisiana in 2005.
One of the Foundation’s principal beneficiaries is the City of Hawaiian Gardens where it operates a state-legislated Bingo Club. Proceeds benefit the residents through social action organizations such as Head Start and the United Community Group, and through the Foundation’s direct support of the Hawaiian Gardens Food Bank, children’s athletic programs, scholarship awards, health care programs and educational initiatives.
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