Grantee Database
OAKLAND COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICE
Grant Year
2023-24
Grant Program
Impact Projects
Award Amount
$21,250.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, Oakland Communities United for Equity & Justice (OCUEJ)’s Self Help Hunger Program (SHHP), an organization founded ‘by and for’ displacement-vulnerable low-income BIPOC North Oakland residents, has supported our community for 15 years.
The SHHP delivers direct services in a broader context of community and cultural solidarity, and of mutual support.
To bolster this sense of culture and community, the SHHP hosts quarterly community arts & cultural gatherings. The ‘Every Day Is Black History Month’ series in North Oakland draws the full spectrum of North Oakland residents, artists, vendors, allies and community leaders. Our place-based celebratory events build bridges in our community . . . even between prosperous homeowners and chronically-homeless folks! Along the way, community-based musicians, artists, poets, and other cultural practitioners are supported as they delight, inform, and unify our festival goers.
Organization Summary
Oakland Communities United for Equity & Justice (OCUEJ), through our flagship Self-Help Hunger Program (SHHP), addresses social, health, and economic pressures affecting low-income, displacement-vulnerable, and unhoused North Oakland residents. We provide direct services in a community advocacy and empowerment framework and operate collaboratively, with 16 other community service agency partners.
Services include:
Nutritional support through a free food pantry operating 4 days/week, offering produce & other foods rescued from the waste stream and/or donated from local sustainable urban farming training programs & enterprises to our 1,500 constituents. This includes twice-weekly prepared meals served by our Cooks For Food Justice food industry employment-readiness trainees and graduates.
Most importantly for CA Arts Council reviewers, culture/arts/community-building gatherings showcasing Indigenous, African-American, Latinx, and Asian-American traditions and practitioners from Oakland;
Anti-displacement organizing and empowerment trainings & practice, often in conjunction with partner organizations, for vulnerable North Oakland residents to more effectively self-advocate for public policy changes before public agencies and lawmakers.
The SHHP also organizes our served constituency, to advocate for: our rights, access to resources & services, and authentic representation.
Organization
Self-Help Hunger Program.
Address
823 58th St.
OAKLAND
94608
County
Alameda
Region
Bay Area – Other
Phone
(510) 944-2443
Congressional District
12th
State Assembly District
18th
State Senate District
9th
