Vision
EBALDC forges thoughtful partnerships across industries in Oakland to address specific social conditions unique to each neighborhood. Our rich knowledge of Oakland enables us to identify and establish the right partnerships across different industries to address each community’s needs. By aligning resources and goals, we leverage the expertise of each partner to collectively make an impact on the health and wellbeing of residents in under-resourced neighborhoods.
Our Role as a Neighborhood Impact Incubator
We launch and shepherd each collaborative with support and resources through its pilot phase, with the objective of handing the collaborative to the partners. We convene neighborhood residents, institutional partners, and organizations across a diversity of industries to participate in the collaborative.
Neighborhood-Informed Priorities
We are also guided by our community-led process to benefit the neighborhood. We work with community residents and community partners to identify assets, neighborhood concerns, areas of priority and develop action plans.
Where We Work
We see the city’s highest distribution of poverty strikingly correlates to patterns of death and disease. An African-American child born in West Oakland can expect to live almost 15 years less than a Caucasian child born in the Oakland Hills (a more affluent neighborhood) as a direct result of the differences in environment and wealth in the neighborhood1. Through our work, we aim to bridge this divide and transform Oakland’s disadvantaged neighborhoods into healthy places to work, live, learn and play.
1. Alameda County Public Health Department, Life and Death from
Unnatural Causes: Health and Social Inequity in Alameda County, 2008.
Learn more about our work in the Oakland Chinatown Coalition, the San Pablo Avenue Area Revitalization Collaborative, the Healthy Havenscourt Collaborative, and more through the Ten Years of Neighborhood Collaboratives report!