Help EFC Families and Children
Tax deductible
Education for Change serves almost 3,000 children in East Oakland, concentrated in neighborhoods disproportionately impacted by COVID on many levels. First, the economic crisis created by the pandemic had more than half of our families needing additional support financially to just feed their families throughout the Spring. Many of you contributed generously to our Spring campaign to ensure our families could buy groceries and feed their children. We continue to see families needing ongoing food support, but we also have families who are months behind in rent, utilities payments, etc.
Second, our families primarily reside in three zip codes (94601, 94621, 94603), all of which have been devastated by COVID-19 with some of the highest rates of COVID in the state. Our families are disproportionately frontline workers who reside in more congested communities. Additionally, to add insult to injury, the wildfires have created air quality so low that all people will experience health impacts. That said, our children have some of the highest rates of asthma in the County, AND many of our families are migrant farm workers who commute out to the farms in the North and South Bay.
At Education for Change, we know that children need to feel safe, be fed, and remain housed for learning to be facilitated. Our educators are working relentlessly to provide quality distance learning, but we need as a community to lean in to address the financial and health crisis overwhelmingly impacting our families in East Oakland.
We need you to join us, to contribute as much as you can or contribute regularly until these crises have passed. Many of us have the privilege to weather these series of crises, but our families need us to lean in. Our children and communities need you.
100% of proceeds will go directly to families as cash payments.
More information about Education for Change Inc.: Our mission is to provide a superior public education to Oakland’s most underserved children by creating a system of public schools that relentlessly focuses on our students’ academic achievement. We believe that high quality instruction, and its continuous refinement, will lead to success for our students. When our students succeed, they will be prepared to make thoughtful and informed choices that will set them on a path for a successful life.
Second, our families primarily reside in three zip codes (94601, 94621, 94603), all of which have been devastated by COVID-19 with some of the highest rates of COVID in the state. Our families are disproportionately frontline workers who reside in more congested communities. Additionally, to add insult to injury, the wildfires have created air quality so low that all people will experience health impacts. That said, our children have some of the highest rates of asthma in the County, AND many of our families are migrant farm workers who commute out to the farms in the North and South Bay.
At Education for Change, we know that children need to feel safe, be fed, and remain housed for learning to be facilitated. Our educators are working relentlessly to provide quality distance learning, but we need as a community to lean in to address the financial and health crisis overwhelmingly impacting our families in East Oakland.
We need you to join us, to contribute as much as you can or contribute regularly until these crises have passed. Many of us have the privilege to weather these series of crises, but our families need us to lean in. Our children and communities need you.
100% of proceeds will go directly to families as cash payments.
More information about Education for Change Inc.: Our mission is to provide a superior public education to Oakland’s most underserved children by creating a system of public schools that relentlessly focuses on our students’ academic achievement. We believe that high quality instruction, and its continuous refinement, will lead to success for our students. When our students succeed, they will be prepared to make thoughtful and informed choices that will set them on a path for a successful life.
Organizer
Hae-Sin Thomas
Organizer
Oakland, CA
Education for Change
Beneficiary