Our Partners
Oakland Peace Center “Peace Partners” are any organizations that have claimed alignment with the mission of the Oakland Peace Center and have expressed interest in deepening their connections with one another and working together to create access, opportunity, and dignity for all people in the Bay Area. We have in-house partners (organizations that have offices in the Oakland Peace Center building) or at-large partners (organizations that have offices outside of the Oakland Peace Center but still reside in Oakland. Are you part of an organization that should be part of this collective?
In-House Partners
Buddhist Church of Eternal Enlightenment
Buddhist Church of Eternal Elnightenment introduces and transmits the philosophies of its sect by targeting at needs of new generation of Asian Americans.
Soul Shoppe
Creates safe learning environments that bring forth a culture of compassion, connection and curiosity — eliminating bullying at the roots.
East Point Peace Academy
East Point Peace Academy works to build a powerful, nonviolent army of peace warriors: leaders and active participants invested in creating, supporting and nurturing the Beloved Community.
Project Darreis
Gives hope to those unable to feed or clothe themselves and to assist in curbing the violence in the community of Oakland.
First Christian Church of Oakland
Nurturing tranquility and peace for all generations in a world of chaos and violence, creating a sense of family in a profoundly disconnected culture and shaping opportunities to experience the Holy Spirit in our community and in the world.
First Mongolian Christian Church
Read this article about FMCC’s contributions to peace in the community!
At-Large Partners
Alliance of South Asians Taking Action
A San Francisco Bay Area all-volunteer group working to educate, organize, and empower the Bay Area South Asian communities to end violence, oppression, racism and exploitation within and against our diverse communities. They also offer a Berkeley Radical South Asian History Walking Tour.
boonachepresents
Creating peace in the community through bringing together people of all beliefs and cultures serving the East Bay community through transformative wellness and peace-making gatherings and contributing all profits to small grassroots organizations dedicated to creating peace through non-violence.
East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy
Convenes coalitions of community, labor, and faith organizations to fight for economic and racial justice. They were established in 1999, and are an affiliate of the national network, The Partnership for Working Families.
Growing Together
Fostering the health and sustainability of school communities through schoolyard greening, growing school gardens with youth, and increasing access to fresh food.
Krip-Hop Nation
Seeks to educate the music, media industries and general public about the talents, history, rights and marketability of Hip-Hop artists and other musicians with disabilities. Listen to this interview with Kri-Hop Nation founder Leroy Moore.
Nafsi Ya Jamii
A sustainable urban farm, retreat and renewal center, building on Oakland’s long history and strong legacy of generating movements for social change and recognizing that the members of movements need renewal themselves, which includes healing work, study groups, learning communities, gardens, art and ceremony.
POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE
Cultivating seeds of resistance and providing revolutionary media access, arts, education and solutions from youth, adults and elders in poverty across Pachamama.
St. Mary's Center
A community of hope, justice, and healing that serves at-risk seniors and preschoolers in the heart of Oakland, improving their quality of life through counseling, shelter, nutrition, advocacy and social support.
Urban Peace Movement
Seeks to to transform the culture and conditions that lead to urban violence. Builds the leadership of communities hit hardest by street violence through fostering non-traditional leaders who are the key the ending this crisis.
Better Birth Foundation
Provides services to the Oakland East Bay Community services and opportunities which will reduce the infant and maternal mortality rates in our community.
Bluu Speaks
Brings a new energy to communication and marketing strategies by providing a thoughtful, collaborative, holistic approach, working with nonprofit organizations, foundations, faith communities, small and emerging businesses seeking to effect positive social change in their communities.
The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Advances racial and economic justice to ensure dignity and opportunity for low-income people and people of color.
InSolidarity (Partners for Collaborative Change)
Supports organizations to become more equitable through democratizing research, planning and design and through anti-oppression facilitation and coaching.
Labrys School (formerly known as Siren Project)
Creates and produces empowering and inspiring interdisciplinary creativity/art programs for and by women as vehicles to broaden human perspectives and affect social change.
New Beginnings Sister Circle
Brings together young women for a six-week series to build up their self-worth and leadership skills so they can transform the community while also building up solidarity among women who are often encouraged to see each other as competition.
Project Peace East Bay
Pusues justice through creating partnerships between local churches and social service providers that work together for just and sustainable communities in Berkeley, Oakland, and surrounding areas.
Sunflower Alliance
Brings together individuals and organizations committed to environmental justice and the health and safety of all Bay Area communities threatened by toxic pollution and climate change. They fight against the poisoning of our communities and the destruction of our planet, and for an equitable and sustainable economy fueled by renewable energy sources—wind, water and solar.
Urban Releaf
Addresses the needs of communities that have little to no greenery or tree canopy, focusing efforts in under-served neighborhoods that suffer from disproportionate environmental quality of life and economic depravity.
Black Alliance for Just Immigration
Educates and engages African American and black immigrant communities to organize and advocate for racial, social and economic justice.
Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (BOSS)
Provides comprehensive services that help homeless families and individuals move from homelessness to homes—with improved skills and knowledge of resources so they can stay healthy and housed.
Evolve Oakland
Building an entrepreneurial coworking community to create and prototype solutions for a world that works for all and envisioning a new kind of economy in service of people and planet.
International Peace and Art Center
Provides an atmosphere that facilitates an agenda of peace and harmony through the arts, offering workshops, exhibitions, performances, classes and training programs with an end goal of fostering well being and positive human interaction.
The Law Office of Peggy Bristol/Mustard Seed Immigration
Bringing a thoughtful, diligent and passionate approach to representing clients in immigration matters.
Oakland Leadership Center
Seeks out emerging leaders, between the ages of 17 and 28, who are from East Oakland. Provides mentoring, resources and opportunities for young adult leaders to launch simple programs to serve the community, developing organizational and entrepreneurial skills in the process.
Sacred Space (formerly Open Cathedral)
Provides spiritual companionship to homeless men and women and all who seek a non-threatening way to be with others in relationship and in community.
the Table
A community of people interested in nurturing their spirituality through small groups, common meals, service, and a variety of events and activities.
YES!
Connects, inspires and collaborates with change-makers to build thriving, just and regenerative ways of life for all. Primarily works with people ages 20-40, though many programs are multigenerational as well. To listen to the Hope from the Hood podcast about Shilpa Jain and YES!, click HERE.
Black Organizing Project
Reviving the spirit of Oakland’s Black community through relationship building, leadership development, political education and policy-change.
Circle Up Education
Cultivates happy, thriving, and stress-free cities, organizations, and schools by delivering custom training, consulting, coaching, and tools that are intentionally designed to interrupt implicit bias, restore community wellbeing, resolve conflict and misunderstandings, and inspire deeper connection and inclusion.
Faith Alliance for a Moral Economy
A network of people of faith who support low wage and immigrant workers who are organizing for respect, dignity and living-wage jobs.
JustUs Kitchen
Creating liberation and love with every meal. Inspiring each other to reconnect with themselves, the earth, and one another to create a greater capacity for understanding and change.
The Mind Body Awareness Project
Seeks to help youth transform harmful behavior and live meaningful lives through mindfulness meditation and emotional awareness.
Oakland Peace Ambassadors
Serving many sectors of the community from schools to prisons to to city departments, to faith-based activist organizations and more. Bringing extensive experience in facilitation, mediation, Circle process, HeartMath trainings, and other modalities all toward creating just, equitable, thriving communities. Watch this video for a sense of the network that is the Oakland Peace Ambassadors.
SOS Juice
Promotes health, supports sustainable agriculture, small organic farmers and green career paths.
United Roots
Engages and empowers marginalized youth in socially innovative ways, like arts and media training, instilling confidence and developing talents, career and workforce development, cultivating work and business skills..