7:15am | In an open letter to media outlets, Kate Jones of the We Love Long Beach organization, provides a plea in support to help the non-profit garner grant money from Chase Bank’s Community Giving Project:

To Whom it May Concern,

Local community non-profit, We Love Long Beach is currently in the running to win grant money in the Chase Community Giving project. Receiving the funds would allow them to continue to do more free community/neighborhood events throughout the city in 2012! If you have a Facebook account or wouldn’t mind quickly signing up for one, please log on and lend them your support. For more information about We Love LB please visit: www.welovelb.org. To vote please visit tinyurl.com/WLLBVOTE. Important note: voters will have to agree to allow the Chase application when asked to do so in order for the vote to count. They can remove the application after they have voted. 

Thank you for your support support, Long Beach and friends of Long Beach! 

For more information on We Love Long Beach, please visit www.welovelb.org.