Partner Profiles
Our partners are community-based organizations, systems change advocates, and funders. They provide direct services, advocacy, collaboration, and funding. Each one is vital to Oakland's early childhood ecosystem.
|
Parent Voices Oakland
Learn More
Parent Voices Oakland (PVO) is a parent-led grassroots organization that advocates for affordable, accessible, quality child care. PVO organizes and empowers families with the highest need to build effective campaigns toward economic and educational justice. From their Leadership Academies, which provide parents with an opportunity to gain community organizing and advocacy skills while learning from each other in a supportive environment, to their advocacy to win more funding to keep child care businesses open in Alameda County and to increase capacity at East Oakland Head Start sites, PVO continues to show up for Oakland’s families. PVO's commitment to “growing a beautiful and powerful political home for impacted parents, families, and caregivers” contributes to creating an early childhood ecosystem in Oakland where all children, families and early educators flourish. |
BANANAS
Learn more
BANANAS has been supporting families since 1974! Working in partnership with early education providers, their programs and services include assisting families find and pay for quality child care, parenting workshops, playgroups and professional development for all types of early care and education providers. BANANAS envisions a world where all children grow up to succeed in life and that they have all the support and tools they need to be eager, joyful, and curious learners. Their dedication to their values, including treating everyone with dignity and respect, commitment to collaboration and teamwork, and ensuring families thrive, shows in their projects like Black Joy! (which encompasses several programs to support Black families and providers in Oakland) to their family resource navigators who work with unhoused families to provide tools and resources. |
Lotus Bloom
Learn more
|
Tandem
Learn more
|