{"id":3297,"date":"2009-09-15T05:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T05:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/special-olympics-finding-ways-to-work-with-budget\/"},"modified":"2009-09-15T05:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T05:06:00","slug":"special-olympics-finding-ways-to-work-with-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/special-olympics-finding-ways-to-work-with-budget","title":{"rendered":"Special Olympics Finding Ways To Work With Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you’re not aware that we’re weathering a rough economy right now\u2026well, good for you.  <\/span>But we’re seeing, across the board at every level of local sports, cutbacks and belt-tightening, and it’s going to take some creativity, and some teeth-grinding to get through it.  <\/span>Happily, we’ve just heard that Special Olympics Southern California (headquartered in Long Beach) is relying on the former, with a leg up from Toyota.  <\/span>Here’s the full release.<\/p>\n

Fifteen Special Olympics Southern California (SOSC) staff members, currently located in Culver City, have moved to new locations to make better use of the organization\u2019s resources.  A new Los Angeles\/San Gabriel Valley Region Office will be located in Gardena, where office space was generously donated by Toyota to help defray overhead costs.  Toyota\u2019s donation will save SOSC an estimated $200,000 over two years.  <\/o:p><\/p>\n

Sports & Field Operations as well as Information Technology staff joined the regional staff in Gardena today.  Administration and Finance staff moved Sept. 8 to SOSC Headquarters, which is located in Long Beach.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very grateful to our long-time partner, Toyota, for opening its doors to us during a time when we were seeking ways to cut expenses,\u201d said Bill Shumard, SOSC President & CEO.  \u201cWhen a corporate partner like Toyota steps up like this, it shows that giving to the community continues, even during tough economic times.\u201d<\/o:p><\/p>\n

\u201cToyota forged a partnership with Special Olympics Southern California 23 years ago.  We truly feel that friends are there for you through the good times and bad, and we are pleased to be able to lend a hand,\u201d said Michael Rouse, Vice President, Philanthropy and Community Affairs.  \u201cHaving Special Olympics staff located with us will benefit both of our organizations, but most of all will help the Special Olympics athletes who deserve the very best.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In a rough economy, some creative moves by the SOSC, with help from Toyota, should help the organization see the rough weather through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3297"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=3297"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}