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veterans for their stellar service.
Because of an outpouring of support from
El Segundo residents in the past eight months,
many of whom Tobias was able to meet through
the El Segundo Parents Network webpage,
Tobias and her volunteers have been able to
provide home-cooked meals at Thanksgiving,
sundry clothes, and gifts at Christmas, chocolates
on Valentine’s Day, and meals from local
restaurants. “People from the community help
deliver the items,” she said. “With the caseworkers,
we go door-to-door and thank the vets
for their service; they are very appreciative.”
Tobias said that once she started reaching
out to El Segundo residents to participate in
her endeavor, the “response has been incredible.”
She gave special thanks to El Segundo
resident Dione Dierks, who works at Bishop
Montgomery High School. Tobias said that the
Torrance high schoolers donated “three truck
and three carloads full of food, paper products,
toiletries, and other items to the vets in May.
It was incredible!”
Not to be left on the sidelines, Tobias said
that the El Segundo Rotary Club handled the
2021 May donation, ponying up “BBQ bags,”
which included hot dogs, buns, chips, and
cookies, while also donating a grill for the
apartment complex to prepare the food.
El Segundo resident Jane Belton has worked
with Tobias. “I so admire her, for not only her
willingness to do this, but her creativity and
ability to work with people. She is outstanding.”
Belton said she saw a post on Facebook and
responded to help in any way that she could.
“She is very sensitive to the veterans,” Belton
said of Tobias, relating that when donations are
brought to their residence, some veterans open
the doors, some are “a little more reticent,” not
opening their door to the initial knock, and
some are not even home. “Can’t say enough
good things about her and this program,” Belton
said. “Both my dad and my brother were in
the military,” Bolton offered, which piqued
her interest in lending a helping hand. “The
amazing response from El Segundo citizens
has been overwhelming,” she said, noting how
people “not only donated stuff that they had
in their home, but people went out and bought
brand new stuff.”
I emailed Michelle Leach, who has worked
with Tobias at tech start-up Mobilize Solutions
since 2015. “I’ve been friends with Elizabeth
for ten years and have worked with her for
six years. I met Elizabeth volunteering at a
women and children’s home through St. Michael’s
church ten years ago. She has not let
up her volunteer efforts since.
“She generously donates her time and talents
to so many meaningful causes for our
community and schools,” Leach said, “but the
one closest to her heart right now is working
with vets. She comes from a long line of
service members, so when she learned from
a caseworker about the desperate needs vets
have when moving off the streets and into
apartments, she rolled up her sleeves and got
to work organizing monthly care packages to
the apartment complex. What makes her efforts
so amazing,” continued Leach, “is the support
she gets from our friends and neighbors in El
Segundo. The El Segundo Parents Network
can sometimes be a bit of a drag, but then
you scroll to a post from Elizabeth asking for
donations, and the whole community jumps in
to help. And gosh, if you do not see the post
within the first 10 minutes of being up, forget
about it; you are out of luck, every spot will
be taken. And that is what is so wonderful.
You cannot help but feel good knowing that
we all come together to support a good cause.
It is easy to rally behind Elizabeth and her
cause because we all feel the same gratitude
and compassion for those who have given so
much to our country. I have been lucky enough
to help with of few of the monthly deliveries.
The caseworkers’ mouths drop open when they
see our carloads upon carloads of donations,
and the vets come out of their apartments to
help unload and deliver, to chat and tell a joke
or two, or just to say thank you. I hope everyone
that donates or even follows Elizabeth’s
posts on Facebook knows how much joy and
love our community is spreading with these
monthly donations. We should all be walking
around with a little more pep because we are
changing people’s lives, and we have Elizabeth
to thank for that.
“It is really meaningful work, and I’m so
Tobias delivering chocolates to a veteran.
glad you are writing about her and the work
she is doing.”
Diana Luna, Tobias’s boss at Loyola Marymount
University in the school’s Vet2Peer
program, added: “It has been a pleasure
to have Ms. Tobias as part of our team at
LMU Extension. For the past two years, she
has been committed to the implementation and
success of our peer counseling program for
veterans, Vet2Peer. She has been supporting
Volunteer members of “Team Tobias.” Photos courtesy of Elizabeth Tobias.
the recruitment efforts, outreach, and delivery
of the program. Last year, she was able to
fully adapt the program to an online format
while creating a sense of community among
the students and instructors. Her commitment
to the Veteran’s community was shown when
she highlighted to LMU Extension that the
student population required extra support to
manage the program during the pandemic.
Due to her request, we were able to provide
the necessary technology tools, materials,
and training to the students resulting in 154
students graduating in 2020 with lively and
emotional zoom graduations with the graduates’
families and friends.
“The caring and thoughtful approach to
the Peer Counseling for Veteran’s Program,”
concluded Luna, “and her charitable venture
are a consequence of her understanding and
commitment to a community that needs
our support.”
Wade Austin is an El Segundo resident and
Vietnam veteran. He chimed in that Tobias
recruited him to take part in her veterans’
program. “She is very persuasive and professional
and kind,” he said. “I don’t do enough
to support the vets,” he continued, but he
grasped the opportunity to get involved with
Tobias and her goodwill project. “They love
her at the veterans’ structure that she supports.”
When not working at her LMU job, parttiming
it at Mobilize Solutions, or selflessly
helping- out vets, Tobias said she likes to
entertain, cook, walk her dog, and travel.
Pre-COVID, she said she was the organizer
for trips to Italy, France, and Croatia and
that a year-long sabbatical to New Zealand
not too long ago was “the most phenomenal
year of my life.”
At the end of our phone interview with
Tobias, she said that she did not want the
story to be focused on her, but on the El
Segundo community members who have
rallied to support the vets. She said that we
have received “amazing community support,”
noting how some veterans returning
to the States may have “lost their sense of
purpose and belonging” when they return
to civilian life and attempt to merge back
into society.
“When I decided to start organizing the
donations,” Tobias said, “I knew that I wanted
it to be an ongoing program and not just a onetime
event. “I think to have a real impact; you
have to keep showing up. And the El Segundo
community keeps showing up.”
As do you, Elizabeth Tobias. •
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