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
Dear Friends
November 2021

Preserving Affordable Housing. Keeping Families Housed.

As part of our vision for an East Bay where everyone has a place to call home, EBALDC launched the Housing Acquisition Fund (HAF) in 2015. HAF is designed to preserve and expand quality affordable housing for low- and moderate-income families and individuals in the East Bay. One of those properties is Highland Palms. Highland Palms was purchased in 2017 with support from The San Francisco Foundation, NeighborWorks Capital and Community Housing Capital, and later refinanced with Enterprise Community Loan Fund, the City of Oakland, and First Republic Bank. In June,... Read more
News
August 2019

EBALDC stands with immigrant communities against the Trump Administration’s latest attack on legal immigrants

Housing stability is a key factor in people’s overall health and wellbeing. Yesterday (August 14), the Trump Administration released its final changes to the “public charge” rule. These changes will effectively subject millions of immigrants living in this country to the possibility of deportation if they ever used or were deemed likely to use government benefits to help their families meet basic needs, like Medicaid, food stamps, and non-cash housing assistance. The changes will compel many immigrants to give up lifeline assistance that keep their families one step away from homelessness,... Read more