This week City Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas and Councilmembers Carroll Fife, Noel Gallo, and Dan Kalb presented their amendments to the Mayor’s proposed budget. Working closely together, Councilmembers and community organizations reprioritized budget areas...

Today, City Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas joined Oakland Rising's Executive Director, liz suk, to talk about her just-released proposed amendments to the Mayor’s budget proposal. Learn about the proposed budget, what got us here, and how you can get involved....

This May we launched our first field campaign since the beginning of the pandemic. The Healthy Future Program CA is about health equity so that our most impacted communities have the access to and information about getting vaccinated against COVID-19.

Our Executive Director, liz suk, spoke with Sonya Karabel, Researcher & Cynthia Morfin, Oakland Organizer from East Bay Alliance for Sustainable Economy (EBASE) to talk about the specific demands from the Refund Coalition’s People’s Just Recovery Budget for Worker...

Launching this year, the Revolutionizing our Economy for All Local (REAL) People’s Fund is a community capital fund investing in creating economic and political power for the East Bay’s Black and Brown neighborhoods. Watch the video to learn more.

Our struggles are local to global. Our struggles are intertwined therefore our liberation is intertwined. So show up in every way you can. Show up to the fight for Palestine. Show up for Oakland.

Oakland Rising's Executive Director, Liz Suk, invites Ecat Burton from the Oakland Budget Bureau to Monday Meals to help explore and navigate how to use the new Online Budget tool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vquK0pHVso

It is a great pleasure to announce that liz suk, who has been holding down shop as our Interim ED, is Oakland Rising’s new Executive Director! After a robust public search, our Executive Committee offered liz the position knowing that her 25+ years of nonprofit...

Don’t be fooled: After careful review, Mayor Schaaf’s proposed budget for FY2021-23 makes significant increases to the police budget, ignoring both the demands of the People of Oakland to #DefundOPD and invest in community services and programs. Schaaf’s proposal...

Oakland Rising’s Interim Executive Director, liz suk, talked with Cristina Flores and Breon Hatcher, Program Associates from Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice (CURYJ) about the realities and hopes for Black and Brown systems-impacted youth in Oakland on...