**NEW LOCATION**

EBALDC’s 48th Anniversary Gala

Preservation Park

1233 Preservation Park Way,

Oakland, CA

We’d like to notify all of our supporters of the change of venue.  For our 48^th Anniversary Gala Celebration we will be returning to Preservation Park, located at 1233 Preservation Park Way, Oakland, CA 94612.

Date: Thursday, September 7
Time: 5:30pm
Place: Preservation Park (1233 Preservation Park Way)

Click here for details and sponsorship opportunities!
Questions? Contact Vicki Shu: vshu@ebaldc.org
FAQ’s

San Pablo Hotel Anchor
Sponsor Spotlight: 

We are pleased to feature PNC Bank, which has come in as a San Pablo Hotel Anchor Sponsor for this year’s EBALDC Gala.  

With a long history of support for economic development programs, as well as programs that promote community health and well-being for youth, families, and low-moderate income neighborhoods, PNC Bank has supported EBALDC’s communities for several years, beginning during the pandemic, providing funds for senior residents in EBALDC housing to get bus passes and supporting EBALDC’s resident services work at our Housing Acquisition Fund (HAF) portfolio which preserves affordable housing through the acquisition of market-rate housing.

Vicki Shu, EBALDC’s VP of Resource Development & Communications, states, “Over the years, Agnes and PNC Bank have dedicated their time and resources to supporting EBALDC’s work in Oakland and East Bay communities. We are especially appreciative of Agnes’s tremendous personal commitment to our work—bringing in her family members to volunteer in EBALDC’s programs, like our VITA program, which provides free tax preparation assistance to low-income community members, making vitally needed funds for which they are entitled available to them.”  

Below is a Q & A with Agnes Ubalde, Senior VP, California Market Manager, Community Development Banking at PNC Bank:

What brought you into the EBALDC Family?  

As a board member, I have learned so much about the wonderful work of EBALDC — this amazing affordable housing development anchor here in Oakland–and fell in love with trying to grow and enhance the work they do to serve our low-to-moderate income communities here in the East Bay. I started volunteering for EBALDC as an advisory board member for EBALDC, and now I serve on the Board of Directors and have served on the Resource Development/Communications Committee for 4 years.

What about EBALDC’s work most excites you? 

What excites me the most about what EBALDC does is that it serves as an anchor institution for our low-to-moderate income communities here in Oakland and the East Bay. EBALDC is the largest provider of housing across all of Oakland, providing over 2200 affordable homes and serving nearly 6000 people annually with wrap-around services including benefits navigation, youth and family programs, free food distribution, and financial health programs. As a community development banker with a community health education & public policy background, I see and understand that this multi-pronged approach, combining social, economic, and physical factors to improve environments where people live, learn, work and play, has monumental impact. EBALDC’s Healthy Neighborhoods approach is its “secret sauce”!

How does your company’s vision align with EBALDC’s vision of an “East Bay where everyone has a place to call home and the resources to thrive”? 

EBALDC’s work aligns directly with PNC’s community development focus–building and creating healthy communities in our hardest-to-serve geographies. As a leader in community development banking, our company succeeds when our communities have access to affordable housing, sustainable jobs, and safe, healthy places for their children, families and businesses to thrive, and EBALDC is one of our local partners on the ground making this possible!

How does EBALDC’s work relate to your work and the transformation you’d like to see in the world?

I have always felt strongly about the transformation I’d like to see in the world—a world where communities have access to safe housing, after-school programs for kids, outdoor spaces for kids, families, and elders, access to education and good jobs, and a connection to neighborhood culture.

I have wonderful memories of my parents taking us to do our weekly grocery shopping at Housewives Market in Old Oakland, which eventually shut its doors in the early 1980s. It has been a privilege to contribute my time to EBALDC, the Oakland-rooted organization I later learned was responsible for renovating, transforming, and revitalizing the old Swan’s Market and Housewives block in the late 1990s and 2000s.

Through my work with EBALDC, I want to leave a legacy for my three children–Talio, Luisa and Mario Noel. I want each of my kids to see the value of improving the lives of others in Oakland and East Bay and what it looks like to create thriving local communities. That is why I expose my children to my community development work, and also ensure that they experience both the hard-working staff and community stakeholders/residents.

Learn more about PNC and their work here!