Vision
Cultivate an inclusive and sustainable world by exploring the historic connections between people and Rancho Los Cerritos.
Mission
Honor diverse perspectives, enrich collaborative conversations, and inspire broader understanding through stewardship of Rancho Los Cerritos’ natural and cultural history.
Values
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 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 inclusive understanding and appreciation of history and culture that 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.
Pillars of Our Work
Rancho Los Cerritos (RLC) has made its Four Pillars the centerpiece of our work — Preservation, Innovation, Education, and Stewardship. These four goals guide 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, complementing and supporting each other.
I Preservation:
Serve our diverse community by preserving and restoring the Adobe Home, site, gardens, collections, history, ecology, and the diverse voices that brought it into being.
II Innovation:
Adapt to changes in society and the climate by using technology, fostering new collaborations, strengthening our connection to the natural environment, and using the home, gardens, and collections to tell a more inclusive range of stories that reflect and honor our diverse and shared history.
III Education:
Enliven understanding and appreciation of RLC as a historical resource with rich curricula, programming and experiences to serve students and adults with an emphasis on diversity, equity, inclusivity and accessibility.
IV Stewardship
Ensure the long-term sustainability of RLC by securing new and diverse sources of revenue, engaging and honoring our donors, volunteers and leadership and aligning our work to the Pillars of the Rancho’s identity in partnership with our broad and diverse community.
Environmental Commitment
Rancho Los Cerritos received its Green Business Certification in February 2020. It is also a signatory to the America is All In climate resilience statement.
Ensure the long-term sustainability of RLC by securing new and diverse sources of revenue, engaging and honoring our donors, volunteers, and leadership, and aligning our work to the Pillars of the Rancho’s identity in partnership with our broad and diverse community.
