Honor diverse perspectives, enrich collaborative conversations, and inspire broader understanding through stewardship of Rancho Los Cerritos’ natural and cultural history.
In carrying out our mission, we will use these criteria for making decisions impacting the future of the Rancho. These guiding lights embody our values and help ensure that our choices are aligned with our vision and mission.
Relevance: Demonstrating the Rancho’s relevance to Southern California and beyond by revising current and creating new programming, as well as enhancing experiences at the Rancho that are dynamic, relevant, and evolving.
Responsiveness: Infusing all aspects of the Rancho with Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA) to better meet the needs and interests of the diverse communities we serve. Listen, respond and partner with our diverse communities to foster an understanding and appreciation of history and culture that is inclusive and reveals the full breadth, depth and sometimes marginalized scope of our shared history.
Resourcefulness: Sharing our story and building allies for fiscal sustainability by strengthening advocacy, outreach, and stewardship. Manage adaptively to be financially sustainable.
Rancho Los Cerritos (RLC) has made its Four Pillars the centerpiece of our work — Preservation, Innovation, Education and Stewardship. These four goals serve as a guide for ensuring that RLC continues to build our understanding of the past, help us consider the present, and shape the future of Long Beach, Southern California, and beyond. These four goals have overlapping qualities, so they complement and support each other.
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