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Alameda County Community Asset Network |
The Alameda County Community Asset Network (ACCAN) is a working group of service providers, advocates, community based organizations, public agencies, and base building organizations that work in partnership and with other stakeholders committed to increasing the income and assets of Alameda County residents.
Our Mission
Alameda County CAN's mission is to provide a continuum of strategies, services and activities that serve all low to moderate income Alameda County residents in every phase of increasing their income and assets.
Our Philosophy
We believe that people should be met where they're at in their income and asset development efforts and that effective, relationship-based services and products should be appropriate to their needs. |
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The OakCLT is exploring the idea of incorporating one or more community gardens into the land trust. Recognizing that fresh food options can be scarce (and often prohibitively expensive for low-income families) in our target neighborhoods of East and West Oakland, the community garden model would provide a healthy and locally accessible source of vegetables and fruits for neighborhood residents.
Local Community Garden/Food Justice Resources
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While all OakCLT homes will have undergone substantive rehabilitation and energy efficiency retrofitting prior to being sold, new land trust homeowners will be offered a range of unique home maintenance-related benefits to help maintain their homes over the long term. In addition to homebuyer education classes offered prior to purchase, the OakCLT is planning to host an ongoing series of workshops on basic home maintenance and repair. Land trust homes will be valuable assets to their owners. Accordingly, we want to ensure that all OakCLT homeowners have the tools and preparation to look after their homes.
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The OakCLT is planning on establishing a Tool Lending Library accessible to all land trust homeowners. Home maintenance and landscaping tools, for example, can be quite expensive, or are only needed on rare occassions. The OakCLT Tool Lending Library will give homeowners access to a wide range of tools to assist with general home maintenance, yard work, and other projects.
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In collaboration with City of Oakland Council Member Desley Brooks, Urban Strategies Council is undertaking a detailed crime analysis and community policing pilot program focusing on the Neighborhood Crime Prevention Council (NCPC) system in District 6. As part of this pilot we are conducting spatial analysis of reported crime data, developing prototype web systems for visualization of crime data, and developing tools that help both the NCPCs and the OPD to understand neighborhood crime in relation to other issues, problems, and assets. For information and a map of your local NCPC try this page.
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Check back soon for more information on the various community amenities that will be a part of the Oakland Community Land Trust.
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Community Financial Resources (CFR) is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering low-income and financially marginalized people through education and low cost banking and payment tools. CFR currently offers a low cost prepaid debit card (pdf) distributed through community-based organizations, social service agencies, and unions. The card functions as a checking account, purchase and money transfer card, a money management tool and can be easily linked to an interest-bearing savings account.
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The Urban Strategies Council is a community capacity building, support, and advocacy nonprofit organization working to eliminate persistent poverty.
