InAdvance

Fiscally sponsored projects: InAdvance serves as a fiscal sponsor for projects focused on mission related work. In 2022, the 2 projects included Saba Grocers Initiative, which works with corner stores in Oakland, CA to build the infrastructure to provide fresh produce to residents in neighborhoods with few grocery stores and My Eden Voice, a community lead organization working in the unincorporated Alameda County Eden Area communities of Ashland, Cherryland, San Lorenzo, and Hayward Acres to strengthen relationships among residents and develop leaders advancing a vision for equity in their communities.

The Sugar Freedom Project (SFP) encourages decision-makers to recognize and commit to the priorities promoted by communities most impacted by sugar-sweetened drinks low-income communities of color whose rates of diabetes and obesity can arguably be described as a health epidemic. In 2022, SFP recruited and trained eight resident-leaders to conduct 550 household surveys in East Oakland to solicit community priorities that deserve support from Oakland's Soda Tax. Community engagement was primarily done in Spanish, English, and Mam. These priorities will help inform new policy priorities on food access issues for years to come.

Spadework is an organizing school preparing individuals in the art and science of community organizing through essential skills training, case study analysis and mentorship as well as supporting on the job field experience in real-life campaigns that impact everyday people. In 2022, Spadework trained 20 staff organizers from 14 organizations in an intensive Summer and Fall cycles that featured in-person trainings, field support, and mentorship matches to support organizers in the field. Spadework organizers worked on campaigns to address issues of affordable housing, police accountability, education justice, and immigrant rights.