Organizational Development! 🔐
Thank you Community for keeping the faith! The EB PREC Staff Collective is extremely grateful to be building a movement for community-investment-supported collective land & housing stewardship among historically under-served BIPOC communities in the East Bay! We give thanks for the grace to hold a vision for lasting change although many of us struggle for immediate housing and basic needs.
Ch, Ch, Changes
(i) The Staff Collective is engaging with EB PREC Points of Unity and Mission Pillars for both internal flow and strategic planning,
(ii) Director, Noni Session is coming on full time and fully engaging in the EB PREC vision going forward,
(iii) Community Owner Circle is now open!!
(iv) Online organizing and community building platform, Mighty Networks is launching soon.
Past Goings On!
COMMUNITY OWNER CIRCLE: Meeting One!
“I believe in people, in our communities. I don’t believe in financial institutions masquerading as our community.”
- EB PREC Director, Noni Session at SELC’s March 6th...
Screening of “What is Democracy”
at the Grand Lake Theater
https://www.facebook.com/ebprec/videos/422021865031463/
March 14th, EB PREC joined Mandela Grocery and Alena Museum to hold space for learning about opportunities to create and develop complementary worker-owned businesses in and around the future West Oakland BART Station retail space.
To Prefigure is to envision something into existence; a Cooperative Black-future driven by worker-owned businesses.
Information and conversation was lead by Black developers and Cooperative business owners stewarding this historic project.
Land Justice Convening
...held March 8th-10th at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center.
Leaders from Land Justice, Food Justice and Indigenous Organizations convened to build relationships and a common pathway that will seed a 100 year vision of land justice, collective stewardship, indigenous leadership and Black self determination in the Bay Area!
Shouts out to the Facilitators Kiran Nigam and Christine Cordero, these two powerful humans did an amazing job leading 25+ organizations toward our 100 year vision for land justice.
Please scroll down to see a short video on “Counter-Mapping” featuring Zuni tribal leader Jim Enote and his Cultural Mapping project.
Upcoming Events!
How Co-ops Work
A follow up from the Prefigure Oakland Coops event is being held on Thursday, March 28th 6:30 to 9:30pm at Nassi: Rebirth where Greg Jackson, EB PREC's Partnerships Director, will be speaking about Cooperatives.
EB PREC COMMUNITY EVENTS
In-Person Orientations 1st Wednesday Evenings
Next in-person orientation:
Wednesday, April 3rd 6:30 to 8:00
1428 Franklin St, Oakland
RSVP for by email or register on facebook
Online Orientation 2nd Tuesdays at Noon
Join April 9th from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/6412395409
Or Telephone: US: +1 669 900 6833 or +1 646 558 8656
Meeting ID: 641 239 5409
Also Mark Your Calendar for the Quarterly
Advisory Council Happy Hour
Next Session: Friday, April 26th 5:00pm to 6:30 pm
Register of FB or send an email.
followed by:
Black Economics Salon:
This is a curated conversation around grounding a vision around Black Economics in the historic West Oakland BART project.
6:30 to 8:00 pm
1428 Franklin St. Oakland
RSVP by sending an email.
COMMUNITY OWNER CIRCLE
EB PREC Community Owner Circle is every 3rd Wednesday from 6:30 to 8:30 at 1428 Franklin St., Oakland.
If you're not a Community Owner yet but want to attend, sign up on our website!
RSVP for April 17th to info@ebprec.org
At Community Owner Circles we provide an update about EB PREC's projects and movement toward fulfilling our mission. Community Owners will have space to connect with each other while sharing interests and offerings.
Community Owner information: Community Owners of EB PREC sign the Community Owner Agreement, contribute chosen frequency of $10 dues, and attend in-person, online, or watch an orientation from the EB PREC facebook page.
Cooperative Book Clubs
The Sustainable Economies Law Center, Repaired Nations, and the East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative are collaborating on a new learning pedagogy for cooperative education in the Black Community through cooperative book clubs held in East Oakland and Richmond.
Community Co-Ownership Initiative
Next round of Trainings! Contact Rumsha.Sajid@nclt.org or Marissa.Ashkar@nclt.org for more information.
West Jackson Ground Workers Exchange
EB PREC Director, Noni Session and an amazing group of people will gather to learn, do, think, and connect at West Jackson Ground Workers Exchange in Jackson MS, March 26th to 31st!
Good Reads & Viewings!
Collective Courage, by Jessica Gordan Nembhard
"There were so many Black Cooperatives!" says Greg Jackson, co-organizer of Cooperative Book Clubs for the Black Community.
#BlackTrust
This video from an event by our kin organization, Boston Ujima Project, author Jessica Gordon Nembard begins with the idea that "Collectivity is something we have all practiced. It is a matter of bringing it back up."
Adam Loften & Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
As we envision collective land and housing stewardship with indigenous leadership, please click the photo to view a beautiful and inspiring new 8-minute short video on “Counter-Mapping” featuring Zuni tribal leader Jim Enote and his Cultural Mapping project.
Cooperation Richmond is Hiring 2 Program Officers
Cooperation Richmond is seeking two 0.8 FTE (32 hours per week) Project Officers to provide coaching, connections, and capital for cooperatives in Richmond, CA.
Cooperation Richmond is a 501c3 non-profit one-stop-shop for the education, training, mentorship, and capital support required to create, convert, and continue to develop successful cooperative enterprises in Richmond. Cooperation Richmond builds community controlled wealth through worker-owned and community-owned cooperative businesses and enterprises by and for low-income communities and communities of color in Richmond whose wealth has been extracted.
In Collective Motion & Gratitude,
- the EB PREC Staff Collective
Noni, Greg, Marissa, Shira & Ojan
