A New America Community Corporation
1918 University Avenue, 3rd Floor
Berkeley CA 94704
510-540-7785 (p)
510-540-7786 (f)
www.anewmerica.org
Offers a comprehensive three-year program of support for new American entrepreneurs including micro business incubation, asset building, and social responsibility.
ALAS (Women's Initiative for Self-Employment)
Oakland Office:
519 17th Street, Suite 110
Oakland CA 94612
(510) 287-3100
www.womensinitiative.org
www.minegocito.org
Alternativas para Latinas en Autosufiiencia program (ALAS) assists low-income women to become economically self-sufficient through entrepreneurial activities. The organization provides comprehensive micro entrepreneurship services for Latinas, who speak Spanish as their first or only language; services offered in San Francisco and Oakland.
BAHIA Bay Area Hispanic Institute for Advancement
1000 Camelia Street
Berkeley CA 94710
510-525-1463 (p)
510-524-1317 (f)
Provides bilingual child care and offers support, opportunities and tools for developing parenting skills.
Ballet Folklorico Mexicano de Carlos Moreno
57 Marlow Drive
Oakland CA 94605
510-562-6046 (p)
510-562-6062 (f)
Dedicated to promoting Mexican and Mexican-American culture through the performing arts.
Casa Joaquin Murieta
2336 Piedmont Avenue
Berkeley CA 94704
510-540-1984 (p)
510-540-1988 (f)
www.greenlining.org
Provides housing and support services for UC Berkeley students and Community College students.
Cesar E. Chavez Library Branch, Oakland
3301 E. 12th Street, Suite 271
Oakland CA 94601
510-535-5620 (p)
510-535-5622 (f)
www.oaklandlibrary.org/Branches/CCB/index.htm
Provides vital and direct services for Spanish speaking people who come to Oakland from countries around the world; provides important library services, information and materials in Spanish and English available to the entire Oakland community.
Center for Latin American Studies - Berkeley
University of California
356 Stephens Hall
Berkeley CA 94720
510-642-2088 (p)
Brings political figures and Latin-American scholars to the classroom, helps plan curricula, distributes publications, and develops grants for teachers and students.
Center for Latino Policy Research
2420 Bowditch, #5670
Berkeley CA 94720
510-642-6903
510-643-8844
www.clpr.berkeley.edu
Provides the academic community, government officials,
and advocacy organizations with timely and important
research on topics related to the Latino population.
Centro De Servicios
525 H Street
Union City CA 94587
510-489-4100 (p)
510-489-4543 (f)
www.ci.unioncity.ca.us/centro/centrocontact.html
Provides food programs, day care, and assistance with
job applications.
Centro Infantil Annex
314 E. 10th Street
Oakland CA 94606
510-839-5773 (p)
510-879-8756 (f)
Provides child development program to families; meets the cognitive, social, emotional, and physical needs of children; culturally and linguistically diverse students and exceptional children.
Centro Infantil de la Raza
2660 E. 16th Street
Oakland CA 94601
510-879-1521 (p)
510-879-1520 (f)
Serves lower income families in the Latino community by providing health services, day care and preschool services.
Centro Legal De La Raza
1001 Fruitvale Avenue, 2nd Floor
Oakland CA 94601
510-437-1554 (p)
510-437-9164 (f)
Provides one-on-one legal counseling and representation; services focus on issues of: housing, employment, student rights, immigration, family law, and consumer protection.
CET Oakland
8390 Capwell Drive
Oakland, CA 94621
510-568-6166
http://www.cetweb.org/oakland
CET, working for the past 37 years in collaboration with industry, has successfully developed a national enterprise of training centers, providing job training to improve the lives of farm workers, high school dropouts, welfare mothers and immigrants.
Chabot College Puente Project
25555 Hesperian Boulevard
Hayward CA 94545
510-723-6600 (p)
www.puente.net
For more description, look under Puente Project.
East Bay Consortium of Educational Institutions, Inc
314 E. 10th Street, Room #9
Oakland, CA, 94606
http://www.eastbayconsortium.org
One of 15 California Student Opportunity & Access projects (CAL-SOAP), it provides services to students and teachers in Oakland to increase number of students completing high school and enrolling in postsecondary institutions.
Hispanic Chamber of Commerce - Alameda
1840 Embarcadero, Suite #7
Oakland CA 94606
510-536-4477 (p)
510-536-4320 (f)
www.hccac.com
Advocates, promotes and facilitates the success of Hispanic community businesses in Alameda County.
Hispanic Community Affairs Council
4335 Redwood Hts.
Castro Valley CA 94546
510-535-6940 (p)
Provides a forum for debating issues of interest to the
Latino/Hispanic communities, for sharing employment
information and for developing a broad network of
concerned individuals.
La Clinica de La Raza
1515 Fruitvale Avenue
Oakland CA 94610
510-535-4000 (p)
510-535-4189 (f)
www.laclinica.org
Provides a broad range of outpatient health-care servcies (including dental, eye care and mental health), without financial or cultural access barriers, to the medically indigent and ethnic communities of Alameda and Contra Costa counties.
