Join us this Wednesday February 22nd from 12-1:30 for the first #Here2Stay Online and In-Person Legal Cafe!

Are you or someone you know a current or aspiring small business owner in East Oakland? Do you need assistance with choosing the best legal structure, have questions about contracts or lease agreements, or want to start a traditional business or create a worker-owned cooperative and don’t know where to start? If so, this Legal Cafe is for you!

In partnership with the Better Neighborhoods, Same Neighbors Initiative, The Black Cultural Zone, The Sustainable Economies Law Center and the Law Center for Civil Rights of the SF Bay, we are hosting a free Legal Cafe for East Oakland Small Business Owners!

Our DAP (Displacement Avoidance Program) Team is showing up for East Oakland small businesses to help make sure they have the resources to sustain and thrive! To sign up for your 30-45 minute session in-person or on Zoom, sign up below.

If you have any questions or need Spanish interpretation, please email hope@theselc.org

The EB PREC Money Team is Resisting Economic Exploitation in Investment

*New Release* Shifting Capital and Power to Build the Regenerative Economy: A Just Transition Investment Framework for Philanthropic Institutions

We are thrilled to share an exciting new resource on Just Transition Investing developed in collaboration with movement partners on the leading edge of this work!

Noni and Annie worked together along with our partners to create this toolkit on a Just Transition Investing Strategy for Funders. This Toolkit supports our ongoing work to engage with Funders on best practices for financing work like ours in a non-extractive manner. The Toolkit focuses on how philanthropic assets can be invested in ways that shifts capital and power away from the extractive economy toward local, regenerative solidarity economies that build power and self-determination in Black, Indigenous and People of Color communities.

We also participated in the live webinar announcing this publication--here is the tool and report, the recording and the slidedeck!

Speaking of Solidarity Investment Strategies…

Community and Investor Owner Update

This year, EB PREC turns 5 years old (!!!!) and our unconventional model, that many doubted could work, is proving to be a wild success! As of our latest Staff update, EB PREC’s Community Owner and Investor Owner membership and total investments received now stands at: $3,306,930IO

Community Owners: 200

Investor Owners: 359

Agreements Signed: 494

Shares Sold: 2835

Thank you to each and every person who has joined us in this movement to create #LandWithoutLandlords and invest in a just future for the East Bay!

More Announcements!

Tonight on Zoom at 6pm!

At tonight’s Community Owner Circle (on Zoom at 6pm), we’re excited to review the 100% Schematic Design of Esther’s Orbit Room!

This is a member-only event where Community Owners (COs) will get an opportunity to review and give your feedback on the look and feel of Esther’s! Current COs should have received an invite from Princess, our Co-op Educator and Facilitator. If you didn’t get the invitation and would like to attend, please email princess@ebprec.org.

EB PREC New Member Orientation

Not a Community Owner yet and ready to learn more about who we are and what we do?!

Attend an upcoming New Member Orientation for an intro to our model and method for cooperatively acquiring property. Yes! We *in community* can own and manage our own properties! Tell that to your landlord….

We hope you can share with your network and neighbors to attend our upcoming LIVE **Virtual** Orientation on Tuesday, February 21 from 12-1pm on Zoom

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Our Quarterly **Hybrid** Orientation on Tuesday, March 21 from 6:00 pm - 7:00pm on Zoom AND in person atter t the BeNeighborhoods, Same Neighbors Resource Center in Deep East Oakland. Please register in advance, space is limited

KARAOKE at Esther’s!!

EB PREC invites you to a special event hosted at the historic Esther's Orbit Room in Oakland CA.

Our next Happy Hour on March 10 from 5 - 7pm will feature KARAOKE, light food, open bar, and networking. If you made it out to any of our happy hours last year, you know how we get down! Let's gather cooperatively to share space and vision the future of this community controlled asset. We can’t wait to see you!

EB PREC is looking for powerful creative members of our community to fill the role of Marketing & Communications Manager.

Full job posting and downloadable PDF HERE. The priority deadline is past, but we're accepting applications until the position is filled.

This is an integral position, helping tell the stories of EB PREC and our community. They will develop high level communications strategy, as well as day-to-day implementation of marketing materials in collaboration with staff and community.

Please help spread the word by sharing our Job Announcement Image through email and social media, or send us a note with any candidate recommendations to jobs@ebpec.org!