Awards

The East Oakland Collective has been honored to be presented with:
  • Coalition of Excellence. Assembly District 18 and Assemblymember Rob Bonta, October 2018
  • Organization of the Year. East Bay Young Democrats, September 2018
  • Founders Award. East Oakland Boxing Association, 30th Anniversary Gala, November 2017

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Leaders from The East Oakland Collective and The Village featured on DemocracyNow! 


​In a recent visit by DemocracyNow! to the Bay Area, host Amy Goodman did a special segment "State of Emergency," reporting on Oakland's criminalization of growing curbside communities.

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2018

December ​November  ​October September  March February 
  • Environmental Justice and Economic Empowerment. Marquita Price, Urban and Regional Planning Officer, interviewed in Oakland Damon Slough: Communities Confront Water and Gentrification in the Coliseum Zone [Acclimate West, 2/5/18]
  • Cultivate resident leadership, community engagement and town halls for Healthy Havenscourt's Resident Leadership Training. 
  • Nick Houston, Community Engagement Officer and Candice Elder, Founder & Director, to serve on City of Oakland Transportation Department's Oakland Bike Plan Community Advisory Group.  
  • EOC to conduct community outreach and engagement in Deep East Oakland on City of Oakland Bike Plan Update with TransForm and City of Oakland Transportation Department. 

2017

December 
  • Civic Engagement & Leadership. Amir Abdul-Shakur, Chair of EOC's Civic Engagement & Leadership Committee, joined our friends at the Sugar Freedom Project, Oakland Food Policy Council and Roots Community Health Clinic on KPFA's Full Circle podcast to discuss being on the frontlines of Oakland’s new soda tax, making sure that it addresses the epidemic of diabetes and other health impacts from too much sugar in our diets, and the racial dimension of this issue. Take a listen. 
  • EOC participates in 2nd Annual NBA All-Star Baron Davis & Black Santa Visit Oakland and Community Toy Drive with Marshawn Lynch and Beast Mode Apparel. 
November  
  • Feed the Hood 3. Third feed the hood event where 200+ community members prepared 2,000+ bagged lunches and 1,000+ hygiene kits to distribute to the unsheltered across Oakland and even Berkeley and San Francisco. 
  • Launched East Oakland SuSu Lending Circle Program, a microSolution of self-help which utilizes  group economics, collective saving, and pooling resources.  
  • Civic Engagement & Leadership. Advocated and organized for a community benefits agreement that would include affordable housing, living wage jobs and more in the massive Oak Knoll Development Project in District 7, East Oakland hills. 94.1 KPFA Upfront's Friday host Salima Hamirani speaks with The East Oakland Collective (94.1 KPFA Upfront, 11/10/17). 
  • Initiative on Homelessness. EOC members trained by Alameda County Health Care for the Homeless Program on how to use and distribute opiate prevention overdose kits to homeless population in deep East Oakland. 
  • Partnerships. Entered into partnership with Communities In Collaboration, EBALDC and Healthy Havenscourt for Havenscourt (East Oakland) Resident Leadership Training. 
October 
  • Civic Engagement & Leadership / Collaborations. EOC members facilitate City of Oakland Cultural Affairs Department's "Make It Yours - Oakland Cultural Community Dialogue" at East Oakland Boxing Association. 
  • Founder and Director Candice Elder recognized as a Trailblazer by the In the Spirits Awards. 
  • Initiative on Homelessness. Volunteers distribute respiratory masks to the homeless in Oakland (Oakland North, 10/17/17). 
  • In the News. Oakland Approves 'Safe Havens' for Homeless Camps and Services (East Bay Express, 10/4/17). 
  • Awarded Best Baby Zone: Castlemont Community Innovation Award-- funds for community based projects to promote health equity supporting Castlemont neighborhood, East Oakland. 
  • Awarded grant from The Pollination Project to engage youth in Take Back Our Streets coalition and campaign. 
September
  • Civic Engagement & Leadership / Economic Empowerment. EOC joins the Sugar Freedom Project planning committee to analyze and implement a plan for Deep East Oakland to address food access and the correlation of health issues stemming from the consumption of sugary beverages. 
  • Feed the Hood 2. Second feed the hood event where 250+ community members prepared 1,600+ bagged lunches and 1,600+ hygiene kits to distribute to the unsheltered across Oakland. 
  • Participated in East Oakland Congress of Neighborhoods' 1st Annual East Oakland Community Assembly. 
July 
  • Membership officially launched! EOC has grown to over 50 dedicated and awesome members. 
April 
  • Environmental Justice / Economic Empowerment. East Oakland Community Pushes to Turn Eyesore Into Asset (NBC Bay Area, 4/10/17)
  • Environmental Justice. EOC joins planning committee for San Leandro Creek Urban Greenway Plan to ensure community engagement and equity of Deep East Oakland residents and communities in access, jobs and design of the portion of the Creek that runs through Deep East Oakland. 
March 
  • Launched quarterly Deep East Oakland Community Town Halls in partnership with East Oakland Boxing Association. 
  • Civic Engagement & Leadership. Drive to increase district, age and racial diversity on Oakland boards and commissions. Oakland Needs Board and Commission Members (Medium, City of Oakland, 2/10/17) . 
February 

2016

December 
November 
  • Awarded grant from Akonadi Foundation - So Love Can Win Fund. 
  • Civic Engagement & Leadership. In partnership with Organizing for Power, Black Women Organized for Political Action (BWOPA) and Oakland Votes, we hosted forums and created campaigns to engage and educate Oakland residents on candidate races, local measures and state propositions that would have significant impact on communities of color. 
July 
  • Founder and Director Candice Elder is a 2016 finalist for the Black Women Organized for Political Action (BWOPA) Top 6 Under 40 HerStory Empowers Award. 
  • Awarded All In Alameda County Community Listening Session grant. Submitted a report to Alameda County Board of Supervisors on recommendations for change in East Oakland.  
September 
  • Feed the Hood. Held the first feed the hood event where 30 community members prepared 500+ bagged lunches and hygiene kits to distribute to the unsheltered across Oakland. 
  • Beautification projects and illegal dumping. Partnered on many beautification projects in East Oakland that included park cleanup and restoration; neighborhood cleanups. 
January 
  • Founded! 

Members in the News 
New EOC member Mitzi Lewis tells her story of going from living in a Deep East Oakland homeless encampment to self-determination in her new home. [KTVU 2 News. March 6, 2018]
PictureScreenshot from PBS' THE TALK: Race in America.
​EOC member Amir Abdul-Shakur and his beautiful family were 1 of 6 families chosen to be featured in a 2-Hr PBS documentary entitled "THE TALK: Race in America" by Emmy award winning director Sam Pollard. THE TALK is a two-hour documentary about the increasingly necessary conversation taking place in homes and communities across the country between parents of color and their children, especially their sons, about how to behave if ever stopped by the police. [PBS. "The Talk," aired February 20, 2017.]

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