EBALDC’s 2020 – 2021 Impact Report
Dear Friends,
We are proud to present the East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation’s 2020 – 2021 Impact Report – in a new, dynamic online format. The year 2020 was extremely traumatic for our community, our country, and the world as we faced multiple crises – an attempted insurrection that shook our belief in a shared institutional democracy; the continuing impacts of a pandemic caused by the COVID-19 virus; a racial reckoning – sparked by the murder of George Floyd and so many other Black Americans under the color of law; and the rise of AAPI hate crimes. As we write this at the end of 2021, all of these issues continue to disproportionately impact the community that EBALDC serves – Asian, Black and Brown communities in Oakland and the East Bay which suffer from the effects of institutionalized racism and disinvestment over many decades.
Click here to view EBALDC 2020 – 2021 Impact Report
In the face of these crises, EBALDC demonstrated how community-based, culturally competent, and trusted partners are critical to provide essential services and support resilient communities. EBALDC’s model of “Healthy Neighborhoods” – organizing our work around four pillars of affordable rental housing, income and wealth building, resident and community engagement, and neighborhood partnership – meant EBALDC had the organizational infrastructure and community trust to respond to community need. And the needs were many – keeping people housed and helping them meet basic human needs for food, and access to health care, supporting our neighborhood, BIPOC businesses so they could stay open, and connecting our residents and community members to financial supports.
As we end 2021 and look ahead to 2022, the challenges will continue. Even as the public health and medical community advanced our preventative practices, technologies, and treatments, the pandemic continues to disproportionally impact the very communities who have made Oakland and the East Bay culturally diverse and vibrant.
Join us in our journey to continue to create, invest in, and build Healthy Neighborhoods.
In community,
Andy Madeira Sean Sullivan
Chief Executive Officer Chair, Board of Directors