Dear Friends
September 2023

Dear Friends:

Dear Friends, At EBALDC, we envision healthy, safe, and vibrant neighborhoods for our families and our communities. As Oakland’s... Read more
Dear Friends
July 2023

Reflections at the End of the Eviction Moratorium

Dear Friends, As the City of Oakland’s eviction moratorium ends, we are reflecting on the critical role our staff and key partnerships played in keeping thousands of Oaklanders housed and providing vital resources for residents. Our vision for healthy and inclusive communities started nearly 50 years ago, when community activists founded East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation (EBALDC) to ensure Chinatown residents and those displaced by massive 1960s and 70s infrastructure projects retained access to health care and other social service resources in the neighborhood. We developed our first affordable housing... 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
Dear Friends
November 2020

Unity Wins

Dear Friends, This election felt deeply personal to me. And with 160 million people voting, the highest percentage turnout in the last 100 years, it felt personal to many of us. We voted like our lives depended on it. For EBALDC, the vision of building healthy, vibrant, and resilient neighborhoods here in Oakland the East Bay was definitely at stake. In the end, the message of UNITY for our country and prioritizing a national  response to the  coronavirus, economic recovery, criminal justice reform, systemic racism, and the climate crisis prevailed. CONGRATULATIONS... Read more
Dear Friends
October 2020

Vote!

Dear Friends, It’s time to Vote! Fortunately, in California, state officials have made it easy and safe to vote... Read more
Dear Friends
September 2020

Announcing Charise Fong as EBALDC Interim CEO

Dear Friends, As we reflect on the extraordinary challenges our communities and our staff have faced this year, we are humbled by the impact that we have been able to achieve together.  During this critical time for our organization and our communities, we have spoken at length about the strength, creativity and perseverance of EBALDC’s team at all levels. From our office staff and building maintenance teams, to the Board and the Executive Leadership Team and beyond, it is our people that make this impact possible.  Charise Fong, COO and executive... Read more
Dear Friends
September 2020

Thank you!

Dear Friends, Thanks to you, EBALDC’s 45th Anniversary Gala Celebration last week was an immense success, with over $320,000 raised to support our many programs that “bring health home” – to our residents, community serving businesses, clients and the greater East Bay community. If you missed it, you can still watch it at www.ebaldc45.com.  As this was my last EBALDC Gala as the CEO, I was especially touched by the words of our honorees: Congresswoman Barbara Lee, JPMorgan Chase, represented by Amy Wallace, and Nu Huynh, our Lynette Jung Lee Resident... Read more
Dear Friends
August 2020

Be My Guest: EBALDC’s 45th Anniversary Gala Celebration

Dear Friends, As many of you know, after nearly twenty years at EBALDC, I will be leaving at the end of October of this year. That makes our upcoming 45th Anniversary VIRTUAL Gala Celebration even more special and sentimental to me, as it will be my last EBALDC Gala Celebration as the leader of EBALDC’s talented professional family!  Please join me on Thursday, September 10th at 4pm by registering at www.ebaldc45.com as I begin a new chapter as an EBALDC alumnus and share details of my future plans!  The event is... Read more
Dear Friends
July 2020

We keep each other safe and healthy

Dear Friends, Out of respect for our neighbors, please wear a mask. It’s been over 110 days since Alameda County Public Health Officials ordered the Bay Area to shelter-in-place. With warmer weather, a holiday weekend coming up, and some businesses starting to reopen, many of us are eager to return to some semblance of normal. However, the pandemic is not over. In fact, the numbers in California are growing rapidly. The most devastating effects of the pandemic are on the low-income communities of color that we serve– Many are hourly workers for essential businesses that we... Read more
Dear Friends
June 2020

We are all part of one another

Dear Friends, Last Friday was Juneteenth, the celebration of African American emancipation from slavery. Next week, the 4th of July will be another national celebration of freedom — our country’s independence from Great Britain. But with the looming asterisk of freedom for whom? In fact, Independence Day in 1776 was limited to white males. As Frederick Douglas described it, “What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to... Read more