Dear Friends
December 2021

How SparkPoint Oakland Changes Lives

Let’s talk money! Fun fact #1: EBALDC has been providing financial services to our residents and community members for nearly 20 years! Fun fact #2: EBALDC, through our volunteer network, has distributed $25 MILLION back to the community since 2003, when we opened our first Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program. In 2018, EBALDC was named a National VITA Savings Champion Site for promoting savings at tax time. Fun fact #3:  Along with the United Way Bay Area, EBALDC opened its first financial services center – SparkPoint – in 2009. There are now... Read more
Dear Friends
November 2021

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... Read more