March 20
Joint Open House and Spring Celebration
March 27
Bay Area Social Equity Caucus Quarterly Meeting
Mar 31
César Chávez Day
April 11
Wheeling the Watershed Event
April 25
CBE's "Love Yo' Mama" Earth Day Event
April 30
Centro Legal de la Raza 40th Anniversary Dinner
MAY
May 8-17
Affordable Housing Week
May 11
Making Climate Change Policy in Difficult Economic Times Conference
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SEC Quarterly Meeting
Friday March 27
9:30 AM -12 PM
Local and Regional implications of the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
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At the
E. Bay Community Foundation
De Domenico Bldg.
200 Frank H.
Ogawa Plaza
Oakland,
CA 94612
RSVP to
rsvp@urbanhabitat.org
Breakfast
& lunch served
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Members
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Allies
ACORN
Alameda County Public Health Department
Akonadi Foundation
Asian Neighborhood Design
Association of Bay Area Governments
Bay Localize
Black Alliance for Just Immigration
Building Opportunities for Self Sufficiency (BOSS)
California Environmental Rights Alliance
California Pan-Ethnic Health Network
California Reinvestment Coalition
Center for Environmental Health (CEH)
City of Richmond
Communities for a Better Environment
Contra Costa Faithworks!
EARN
Earth House Leadership Center
East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy
East Bay Housing Organizations
East Bay Regional Park District
Education Trust West
Genesis
Gerbode Foundation
Greater Richmond Interfaith Program
Greenbelt Alliance
Greenlining Institute
Housing Rights, Inc.
Insight Center for Community Economic Development
Institute for Social & Environmental Justice Education
Just Cause Oakland
Mandela Marketplace
Marin Community Development Corporation
Mission to Seafarers
Movement Generation
NEXT 10
Oakland Rising
PolicyLink
Public Advocates, Inc.
Redefining Progress
Richmond Community Redevelopment Agency
San Francisco Department of Public Health
Somos Mayfair
The California Endowment
The David Brower Center
The San Francisco Foundation
TransForm
UC Berkeley Labor Center
University of California - Berkeley
Urban Habitat
West Berkeley Artisans & Industrial Companies
Walter and Elise Haas Fund
Women's Initiative for Self Employment
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Dear Members, Allies, and Friends:
We look forward to seeing you next Friday, March 27, for the Spring quarterly meeting -- an overview of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The ARRA aims to create jobs, restore economic growth, modernize infrastructure, enhance energy independence, expand educational opportunities, preserve and improve affordable health care, provide tax relief, and protect America's neediest groups.
To whom these federal resources will be made available and through what channels is a matter of clear concern for our local and regional work in transportation, housing, land use, and jobs. Join us as we work together to survey the landscape and consider best strategies for moving forward.
Confirmed speakers to date include:
- April Chang, Congresswoman Barbara Lee's Office
- Margaretta Lin, Director of the Community Economic Justice Practice at the East Bay Community Law Center & City of Oakland Fellow in the Office of Public/Private Partnerships
- PolicyLink & Urban Habitat staff
We'll have ample time to address questions from attendees, including generating key items for follow-up on the part of speakers and/or Urban Habitat staff.
We're excited about this gathering -- and
about this timely and stimulating topic that brings us together. As always,
feel free to forward this message!
RSVP by sending confirmation to: RSVP@urbanhabitat.org
See you next week!
Juliet Ellis, Executive Director
Connie Galambos Malloy, SEC Coordinator
Riana Shaw Robinson, Program Associate
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Housing Town Hall Meeting Calls Richmond City Council Members to Action
 At the Richmond Housing Crisis Town Hall meeting on March 12th, REDI members secured commitments from the mayor, city council members and state reps to stop preventable foreclosures and develop quality long-term affordable housing. The emotional testimony from homeowners, who have suffered from foreclosures, attached a human face to the problem. REDI partner organizations, representing thousands of Richmond families, pulled together to create this powerful event. READ MORE...
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Van Jones joins the Obama administration and passes on leadership of Green for All to Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins
 Van Jones is the new Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). His duties will include: helping to shape and implement job-generating climate policy; working to ensure equal protection and equal opportunity in the administration's climate and energy proposals; and publicly advocating the administration's environmental and energy agenda.New leadership for Green For All will come from Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins. A savvy champion for justice, Ellis-Lamkins has successfully expanded health-care access across California and helped to raise the minimum wage for low-income families in the South Bay. READ MORE...
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Woodfin workers win $200,000 backwage decision
 Current and former workers of the Woodfin Suites Hotel in Emeryville won a historic victory against the hotel that owes them some $200,000 in backwages for shifts they worked in 2006. The workers' victory is this latest chapter of the 3-year "David vs.
Goliath" dispute. With the Woodfin pledging to take the matter to court, workers vow to continue their fight until they have the money in hand. READ MORE...
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Join The California Green Stimulus Coalition
The California Green Stimulus Coalition is an alliance of dozens of California's most influential and respected organizations advocating for the environment, economic justice, organized labor and a strong workforce system. As federal stimulus dollars arrive in California, they advocate for high quality job creation and economic development in the greenest and most equitable way possible.
Do you represent an organization in California
that would like to join this coalition? If your organization has
capacity to work at least a couple of hours per week, including
conference calls and some in-person meetings, please contact Ian Kim at ian@ellabakercenter.org.
READ MORE...
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Other News
 Oakland ACORN joined with six other cities across the country to
announce the Home Defense Campaign, a national foreclosure-prevention
project in which families facing eviction for foreclosure are refusing
to leave their homes. READ MORE...
Over 100 bus riders and community members showed up at the Metropolitan
Transit Commission Meeting and testified against the costly, wasteful
Oakland Airport BART connector. READ MORE...
California Senate President pro tem Darrell Steinberg introduced SB 675, a plan to invest $5 BILLION in green job training in schools, community colleges, and more. READ MORE...
 More than 100 LIFETIME children and parents held a noisy protest
outside the Governor's office demanding that policymakers protect poor
children in the 2009-2010 state budget. READ MORE...
Oakland's Waterfront Food Trail bus tour highlighted thirty-one
businesses along The Waterfront Food Trail to publicize, celebrate and
support Oakland's burgeoning food production and distribution sector. READ MORE...
Bay Area LISC AmeriCorps members answered President Obama's call for
service by helping create the places and events kids and youth need to
thrive. READ MORE...
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General Announcements
The State of the Region 2008 Indicators report is now available on line. Click here to view the full report.
Affordable Housing Week is May 8-17, 2009. This year's theme is "East
Bay Housing Organizations: Celebrating 25 Years of Promoting Vibrant,
Affordable Communities". READ MORE...
Book Release - THIS COULD BE THE START OF SOMETHING
BIG: How Social Movements for Regional Equity Are Reshaping Metropolitan America READ MORE...
Planning on a Shoestring? Take a Nonprofit Resource Survey! READ MORE...
The David Brower Center, a thriving nonprofit center and a home for
environmental and social activism, will be ready for tenancy in April
2009. READ MORE...
Celebrate Earth Day at CBE's 1st Annual Environmental Justice Earth Day Event. The theme is, "Love Yo Mama" in honor of mother earth, women and families that have the most to gain by joining an Earth Centered people's movement. READ MORE...
TEEN ECO ACTION WEEK: Teens making a difference in the environment. READ MORE...
Join BOSS at their INDIAN TAMASHA! This event will pay tribute to the courage of the homeless and celebrate boona cheema's 30 Years as Executive Director.
READ MORE...
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Staffing Updates
Nikki Fortunato Bas has been appointed as EBASE's permanent Executive Director. READ MORE...
Karuna Jaggar named Executive Director, East Bay of the Women's Initiative for Self Employment. READ MORE...
Jessamyn Sabbag will be Oakland Rising's new Field Director. READ MORE...
Roger Kim is APEN's new Executive Director. READ MORE...
EBHO hired a Director of Resident Organizing to support the pilot resident leadership program in Oakland.
READ MORE...
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Job Openings
Civil Rights Coordinator at the Asian Law Caucus MORE INFO
EBHO Interfaith Action in Housing Organizer MORE INFO
Economic Justice & Human Rights Director at the Women of Color Resource Center MORE INFO
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