Programs for Peace
OPC programs aim to increase individual and collective capacity for peace through resource sharing, education, leadership development, and community building. We create a network of BIPOC-led emotional, spiritual and organizational support for educators, advocates, activists, musicians, youth and families. Together we advocate for and facilitate access to essential resources, opportunities for growth, justice, and inner peace throughout the Bay Area.
Office Space for Social Impact
The Oakland Peace Center provides affordable space rentals for collaboration, innovation, change-making and wellbeing. These partners are responding to immediate material needs, providing tools for resilience, or organizing strategies to dismantle oppression. In providing space well below-market rates, we help alleviate the inequitable burdens of capitalism. Use of the space should be in alignment with the mission of OPC.
Community Group &
Event Space
The Oakland Peace Center offers spaces to the community for mission-aligned events and activities. We have a variety of large halls for gatherings or meetings and flex-spaces that have hosted activities such as: dance classes and performances, art galleries, group art classes, choral group practices, and stage performances.
Beloved Book Club
Beloved Book Club is an opportunity for learning and community building. Participants will learn from and discuss writings on peacebuilding, nonviolent resistance, community organizing and resilience.
Look out for updates as we work bring this program back. Use the button below to let us know what you’re interested in reading and to sign up for Beloved Book Club invites.
Lift Every Voice:
Leader Development Program
Lift Every Voice is a leadership development program that helps people embrace leadership in the many ways it presents itself so that participants are empowered to lead change in their personal lives and communities.
Program participants will learn from facilitated group discussions and workshops with guest speakers from a range of diverse backgrounds including leaders in civil rights movements, political change, community organizing, and folks not traditionally uplifted as leaders. Anyone can be a leader regardless of their title or position. Leadership is a service to others.
Look out for updates as we work bring this program back. Use the button below to let us know if you would like to get involved.
Community Resilience Garden
The garden at OPC was developed in collaboration with the Hummingbirds Urban Farming Collective and Planting Justice. The community garden is a living food bank, a center for community connection, and a space to explore ancestral uses of food as medicine.
Look out for updates as we work bring this program back and expand the garden. Use the button below to let us know if you would like to get involved.