The Unity Council Día de Los Muertos Annual Festival is a free, outdoor festival that brings over 100,000 people to the vibrant, culturally-rich Fruitvale neighborhood to enjoy world-class live music, family-friendly games, rides and activities, traditional Latin American artisans, and the stunning altar artistic installations created by community members paying homage to los Muertos. The Día de losContinue reading "Día de los Muertos Festival"

The Quantitative Studies of Diversity and Inclusion initiative of the City University of New York is excited to announce the 2nd annual Diversity and Inclusion Research Conference taking place at the CUNY Graduate Center on November 7, 2019. With the support of our fantastic sponsors, last year's event featured 49 distinguished presenters and panelists from within and outsideContinue reading "2019 Diversity & Inclusion Research Conference"

Inspiration Awards is a fundraising celebration honoring four champions bringing positive change through their passion, dedication, and innovation. It’s your chance to meet Bay Area thought leaders in the fields of technology, business, and economic development. By attending Inspiration Awards, you are supporting digital literacy education to hundreds of organizations and nonprofits, opportunity and jobsContinue reading "Inspiration Awards 2019"

Mission Bit's Third Annual Gala is a celebration of six years of growth, impact, and learning. Due to the support of this generous community, we have reached over 3,500 students through our workshops, coding courses, and career prep classes. We're on pace to reach 10,000 students by the year 2020, and we plan to doContinue reading "Mission Bit Gala"

Beloved Oakland 2020 is a celebration that honors Oakland, CA's longstanding legacy of social justice. Hosted by Just Cities, Beloved Oakland will generate proceeds to fund initiatives and projects that aim to bring dignity to the unhoused and justice to the movement to end houselessness. Together, we will achieve the vision of Ron Dellums andContinue reading "Beloved Oakland 2020"

CBE Summit '20: Elevating Our Voices, Amplifying Our Impact Day 1: Thursday, February 20 - 2:30pm - 8:00pm Day 1 is CBE Connect, the Summit’s focus on business development. This day will consist of a Pitch Competition with cash prizes for winners, Legal Pitch Day where in-house counsel are provided an opportunity to be matchedContinue reading "CBE Summit 2020 & Code Black Gala"

The 3rd annual Black Joy Parade is here! Join us for the largest free, family-friendly event of its kind in California. A parade and festival to celebrate the black experience past, present and future. We invite you to come be present, be creative, be open and be free. The parade begins on 14th and Alice inContinue reading "Black Joy Parade"

The FLOSS and Code event is a hack day where attendees will get hands-on experience contributing to meaningful open source projects on GitHub. Companies of all sizes need open source software to run effectively and hiring managers at major technology companies have cited regularly that candidates with open source consistently experience stand out from theContinue reading "FLOSS and Code Oakland"

This year marks the 11th Oakland Running Festival, which has been rescheduled to Sunday, August 30, 2020.  It has been nationally recognized as the Bay Area race to run. Corrigan Sports makes the process easy from registration to race day, and the people of Oakland make you feel welcome from start to finish. Experience Oakland’sContinue reading "Oakland Running Festival"