Awards and Recognition

Employees Community Fund of Boeing California awarded The NCCJ of Southern California with the Crystal Vision Award for 2006 to support NCCJ's Bridge Builders Leadership Program.

The Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations awarded The NCCJ of Southern California with the 2006 John Anson Ford Human Relations Award, Fourth Supervisorial District Honoree.

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. honored The NCCJ of Southern California for its outstanding contributions to Long Beach, neighboring communities and society which parallel AKA's target service areas.

The Neighborhood Leadership Program was recognized as one of the nation's best practices by the Housing and Urban Development Program

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) awarded NCCJ its 1999 Organization Award at its 20th Annual Freedom Fund Banquet for NCCJ's contribution to eliminating hate and ignorance.

Long Beach Community Partnership honored NCCJ as a Super Hero for NCCJ's contribution to the Long Beach Community.

Long Beach City Council passed a Human Dignity Policy and voted unanimously to implement a program with a key contractual agreement with NCCJ to help expand on events that promote acceptance of diversity and awareness in addition to the creation of a Hate Crimes Response Team.

City of Long Beach Strategic Plan:  "Long Beach 2010...The Strategic Plan" Education and Youth Task Force identified NCCJ as a key collaborator with the Long Beach Council of PTAs, and the Public Corporation of the Arts to promote multi-cultural and community youth events.

The National Association of Mayors recognized the NCCJ/City of Long Beach Neighborhood Leadership Program as one of America's best practices in leadership development.

NCCJ was recognized in the Governor's Report on Hate Crimes for their outstanding work with law enforcement and for the Building Bridges Youth Human Relations Camps.

Teachers Association of Long Beach honored NCCJ with the Human Rights Award (06/07/01).

The City of Long Beach was one of ten cities awarded with the Honorable Mention City Livability Award for cities larger than 100,000 by the United States Conference for Mayors for the city's Human Dignity Program (08/01).

Honored with the Community Service Award from the Long Beach Police Department (03/02), for their long-time partnership in providing diversity training for police department employees.

The City of Long Beach awarded NCCJ with a Pride of Partnership Award, recognizing NCCJ's outstanding contributions for volunteer assistance and in-kind service (04/03).

The National League of Cities - National Black Caucus of Local Elected Officials recognized the NCCJ/City of Long Beach Neighborhood Leadership Program with the 2004 City Cultural Diversity Award (02/04).

Numerous proclamations from state, county, and local government in recognition of leadership in human relations programming.