Dear Friends
November 2021

EBALDC’s Small Businesses Need You

Fun fact: EBALDC is the largest nonprofit commercial landlord in the East Bay: Over 300,000 square feet of space supporting over 110 nonprofits and small businesses. Not so fun fact: The pandemic devastated small businesses across the country, including here in Oakland. As a community development corporation, EBALDC plays a unique role in building healthy, vibrant neighborhoods. We prioritize women and BIPOC-owned businesses to lease our commercial spaces. We want them to succeed and be a part of the neighborhoods in which they operate. Within a few months of the start... Read more
Uncategorized
November 2021

Sometimes you need a refresh

refresh re.fresh ri-‘fresh to restore strength to freshen up to renew In 2017, we released our Strategic Plan, in which we formally introduced the four pillars of our Healthy Neighborhoods approach to community development: And while they continue to support our Healthy Neighborhoods approach to community development, we know more work needs to be done. We listened to you — our residents, commercial tenants, community members, community partners, neighbors — to inform a Strategic Refresh while we develop our next Strategic Plan: Click on the image or here to read our 2021-2022... Read more
Dear Friends
November 2021

What Healthy Neighborhoods Means for Oakland and the East Bay

At EBALDC, we talk a lot about Healthy Neighborhoods. It serves as our North Star in our vision of an Oakland and East Bay where everyone can live in a safe and affordable home, and that every neighborhood provides opportunities that enable people to live long, healthy lives, regardless of income or ethnic background. During our 46th Anniversary Gala, EBALDC CEO Andy Madeira and former COO and EVP of Community Building Charise Fong had a lively conversation with Board Member Dave Peters on what Healthy Neighborhoods means for Oakland and the East... Read more
SparkPoint Oakland
September 2021

SparkPoint Oakland (SPO) Newsletter – September 2021

SparkPoint Oakland builds financial health and increases access to good jobs for all Oakland residents.  A regional initiative started by United Way of the Bay Area, SparkPoint Oakland is the first SparkPoint Center of twenty-three in the Bay Area. The Centers are a collaborative of financial, workforce, and community-based services that integrate supports to residents so that they can become economically prosperous. SparkPoint focuses on four areas: managing credit, reducing debt, increasing income, and building assets. See our September 2021 Newsletter... Read more
SparkPoint Oakland
August 2021

SparkPoint Oakland (SPO) Newsletter – August 2021

From SparkPoint Oakland
SparkPoint Oakland builds financial health and increases access to good jobs for all Oakland residents.  A regional initiative started by United Way of the Bay Area, SparkPoint Oakland is the first SparkPoint Center of twenty-three in the Bay Area. The Centers are a collaborative of financial, workforce, and community-based services that integrate supports to residents so that they can become economically prosperous. SparkPoint focuses on four areas: managing credit, reducing debt, increasing income, and building assets. See our August 2021 Newsletter... Read more
Dear Friends
April 2021

EBALDC Reaffirms BLM Allyship

What do you say about a boy who just became a teenager? A man who was a new father? The former co-captain of his high school basketball team? A woman whose job was to save lives? A runner? A man who nourished our children? We say their names: Adam Toledo Daunte Wright George Floyd Breonna Taylor Ahmaud Arbery Philando Castile… And still, there are so many more names we have to say. So many lives for whose deaths we need to mourn. So many more humans. We are tired of seeing Black and Brown people killed. We are tired of seeing... Read more