Keep Oakland Beautiful

Keep Oakland Beautiful Mission and Objectives:

Our mission is to create and sustain a beautiful, clean, green, litter-free Oakland through education, community engagement, and volunteer action.

Keep Oakland Beautiful achieves our mission following two core pillars:

1. Education
   • We partner with the City of Oakland and local on-profits aligned with our mission to disseminate helpful information with the community regarding best practices on recycling, sustainability and "Zero Litter" through our digital channels including social media, our newsletter, and our website. We also table at farmers markets!
2. Community engagement/volunteering
   • We organize and support city-wide cleanups throughout the year, activating direct community involvement and action. We track our volunteers and pounds of trash collected, and also provide their cleaning supplies. In addition, we support community engagement and volunteering through our annual Community Grants program where we fund Oakland Adopt-A-Spot beautification projects, an annual Daffodil Days bulb giveaway, as well as Earth Day beautification events and Creek to Bay Day activities.

We had two incredibly beautiful public mural projects launch, one of them at the historic Marcus Books in Oakland. And this year, we're proud to announce our partnerships with Blue Shield of CA and The Oakland Ballers to plant trees and beautify the stadium respectively.

We're one of the first volunteer run organizations to hold a Youth Advisory Committee, and this year, our interns worked state wide to help create Keep California Beautiful's first youth led committee!

We are 100% a volunteer working board and rely on private donations grants to do our work. Thank you for thinking of and supporting Keep Oakland Beautiful!

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Below is a recap of some of our community work over the past 2 years:

2024 (to date)

• Blue dragon mural by 333 Arts at 1745 International Blvd (Turbo Tires)
• Board Chair Christina featured on Keep America Beautiful: Do Beautiful Things podcast
• We were featured in the Blue Shield employee engagement article 
• 100+ volunteers and 50 bags of litter removed at Lake Merritt cleanup
• Biggest community appreciation event to date
• 100+ volunteers and 1,000lbs of litter removed at Inaugural Oakland Ballers Litter League
• 70+ volunteers and 85 trees planted at KOB x Blue Shield of CA corporate engagement event
• We awarded over $14,000 in awards to 15 projects across diverse Oakland neighborhoods through the Community Grant program
• Our Youth Advisory interns helps launch the Keep California Beautiful youth led committee
• Gave away over 3,000 daffodil bulbs to Oakland residents and community groups to plant in their public spaces.

2023

• 100+ attendees at our annual Earth Day event celebrating the community
• $7,000+ for 13 projects distributed in our Community Grants program
• 3,200 daffodils planted to delight Oakland neighborhoods
• 1.8 tons of litter cleaned up from Grove Shafter Park
• One new mural commissioned at the historic Marcus Books
• Media coverage & a feature from parent organization Keep America Beautiful