by FIAEB | Jun 30, 2022 | News
We are proud to release our new report today, “Antioch CHANGE: A Community Housing Assessment of Needs, Gaps and Equity” that summarizes the housing experiences of over 1,000 Antioch residents, gathered by East County Regional Group parent leaders in a...
by FIAEB | Jun 27, 2022 | News
Next week, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors (BOS) will finalize the budget for FY2022-23. Now is the time to insist that they fulfill their commitment to Care First, Jails Last by funding services to prevent people with mental illness or...
by FIAEB | Jun 6, 2022 | News
From Joseph Tomás Mckellar, Executive Director of PICO California on June 6, 2022 Today, after an eighteen month journey of collective reflection and renewal, we give thanks to our Creator as we celebrate the PICO California network’s in our new, independent,...
by FIAEB | May 27, 2022 | News
On May 24 local faith leaders and community members protested deaths at Alameda County Jail and presented demands to the County Board of Supervisors. There have been more than 58 in-custody deaths at Alameda County Jail since 2014. Several of the deaths were murders...
by FIAEB | May 16, 2022 | News
OakCLT is selling affordable homes dramatically below market value to qualifying low-income homebuyers. As part of that process there will be several information sessions to explain OakCLT’s model, what it looks like to be an OakCLT homeowner, and how OakCLT takes...
by FIAEB | May 12, 2022 | News
Twelve Oakland faith leaders, including Faith in Action East Bay Executive Direct Dr. George Cummings, have formerly called for accountability over negligence, deaths at Santa Rita County Jail. The move is part of a larger, growing movement for Alameda County...
by FIAEB | May 2, 2022 | News
Lesbhia listening. “Loving others means accepting others, no matter how different they are,” explained Lesbhia Morones, a leader with Faith in Action East Bay (FIAEB)—formerly Oakland Community Organization (OCO)—for over twenty years. “This organization has taught me...
by FIAEB | Apr 19, 2022 | News
Organization: Faith in Action East Bay (FIAEB) is a broad-based organization of 65 congregations, schools, and allied organizations, representing over 60,000 families across the East Bay, committed to building a powerful multi-faith, multi-racial, intergenerational,...
by FIAEB | Apr 15, 2022 | News
This year, this weekend three sacred observances align. Easter, sacred to our Christian friends.Ramadan, sacred to our Muslim friends.Passover, sacred to our Jewish friends. We pray that the themes these sacred days bring to each of their communities, will cast an...
by FIAEB | Apr 13, 2022 | News
Across the country guns are being forged into garden tools as in Isaiah 2:4: “They shall beat their swords into plowshares.” This movement is coming to Oakland on June 11, 2022. Oakland, CA — On April 14, a press conference to announce the Guns to Gardens buyback...
