SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2010
A DAY OF FREE FINANCIAL PLANNING

10:00AM TO 4:00PM
OAKLAND CITY HALL | 1 FRANK H. OGAWA PLAZA | OAKLAND, CA 94612

In these tough economic times, our local communities are facing tremendous financial challenges. Middle to low-income families have been disproportionately devastated by the unprecedented financial crisis facing our state.

To help you and your family better understand and better plan for your financial futures, we are offering our Third Annual Financial Planning Day, which will include free and private financial consultations with certified financial planning professionals. Whether you need guidance with basic financial planning or more specialized advice on retirement planning, investment strategies, estate planning, tax issues, insurance, employee benefits or other special circumstances, highly competent financial planners and experts will be available to assist you.

Participants can receive as many private consultations or attend as many of the free educational workshops as they like.

Planning for your financial future is more important than ever and by bringing together local communities and certified financial planners, we are offering individuals the opportunity to take control of their finances. The valuable services provided at this highly anticipated event are free, confidential, and unlimited! Please come and attend all of the workshops and receive several private consultations on your financial issues.

Do not miss this important day!!

THE FINANCIAL PLANNING DAY IS SPONSORED BY THE FINANCIAL PLANNERS ASSOCIATION-EAST BAY CHAPTER IN COLLABORATION WITH

ASSEMBLYMEMBER SANDRÉ R. SWANSON, SENATOR LONI HANCOCK, ASSEMBLYMEMBER NANCY SKINNER,
OAKLAND MAYOR RONALD V. DELLUMS AND THE CITY OF OAKLAND

MARK YOUR CALENDARS AND LOOK OUT FOR THE FLYER WITH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION SOON!!
THERE WILL BE SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS

For more information, please contact the District Office at (510) 286-1670.

Date: Saturday, November 6, 2010

Time: 9 AM to 4:30 PM

Place: Marriott Oakland City Center,

 1001 Broadway, Oakland 94607

MORE INFO and TO REGISTER:

YWCA Young Women and Money Website

Conference sold out last two years, sign up now!
YWCA Young Women and Money Website

Controlling your money, rather than having your money control you is key to every woman’s quality of life. The YWCA Berkeley/Oakland’s Young Women and Money Conference will help you gain financial independence and success.

YWCA Berkeley/Oakland

2600 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

510-848-6370 |info@ywca-berkeley.org
www.ywca-berkeley.org
conference corporate sponsor:

We at OneCalifornia Bank are excited to announce that we are leaders in providing SBA loans to Bay Area small businesses, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration.  Thanks to our SBA team, led by Robert Gebauer, the amount of lending for our small size and young age is amazing.

 In the first nine months of the fiscal year 2010, out of the 80 banks in the San Francisco SBA District Office, OneCalifornia Bank was 6th in terms of number of loans and 10th in number of dollars lent for the nine month period between October 1, 2009 and June 30, 2010*. We generated a total of $5.75 million in loans during this time. In fact, we lent more dollars than Citibank, Bank of America, Bank of the West, and JPMorgan Chase in this district.  Pretty impressive considering we’ve only been around for 3 years and their assets are on substantially larger than ours!  We look forward to having them join us in increasing the amount of loans being made to our local small businesses.

We are proud to be able to help many businesses in stay in operation (and grow!) during hard times, and in turn help retain and create jobs in our local community.  This is what our work is all about - strengthening our local economy to benefit community members of all income levels, races and walks of life.  You support our clients every day without knowing it, from a Hispanic bakery in San Pablo to a recycling retail business in Oakland, to a restaurant in San Francisco.  Thank you for supporting us in this work!

For enlightening facts about how small banks across the country are helping our communities, see this article in last month’s newsletter.

*for 7a loans

Not only did OneCalifornia Bank win a Best of the East Bay Award, but so did some of our Oakland Unwrapped members!  Congratulations to our fellow Best of the East Bay Winners on Oakland Unwrapped! 

Oakland Museum of CA: Best Face Lift

Oaklandish: Best Locally Made Kids’ Products; Reader’s Poll: Best Locally Made Products; Reader’s Poll: Best Men’s Clothing; Reader’s Poll: Best T-Shirts

Pendragon Books: Reader’s Poll: Best Book Store

Pro Arts Gallery: Reader’s Poll: Best Arts Organization

Yoshi’s Jazz Club: Most Balanced Kid’s Meal

Check out these and other winners at the Best of the East Bay Party on August 6th in Jack London Square!

The results are in: OneCalifornia Bank was voted Best of the East Bay for Best Community Bank!  Thank you to all our fans and supporters who voted for us.

Check out all the other Best of the East Bay winners in today’s East Bay Express: http://www.eastbayexpress.com/general/flash/07-14-2010/

And don’t forget to come to the Best of the East Bay party on August 6th at Jack London Square!  This year’s party will be at Jack London Square waterfront from 5-11PM.  The event is free and open for all ages, and features multiple bands, a kid’s zone, and a Blues Pavilion, paying tribute to the blues history of Russeel City in Hayward and 7th Street in Oakland.  For more details and ongoing updates, including updates of the band lineup for the evening, please visit www.EastBayExpress.com/BOEBParty

OneCalifornia Foundation will be running the bar, so make sure to stop by and say hi!  If you’re interested in volunteering with us at the bar, make sure to let us know–details are posted here.

UPDATED: for more information on the Best of the East Bay Party, check out the article in this week’s edition of the East Bay Express.

It’s that time of year again–time to vote for the Best of the East Bay!  The East Bay Express’s big summer issue and flagship event recognizes readers and editors favorites in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties.

This year’s theme is “Home Grown,” which recognizes things grown right here in our own backyard.  In this twenty-first century world of globalization and mass production, Home Grown asks the readers and editors to be thoughtful citizens and loyal localists when making their nominations for the Best of the East Bay.

Voting is taking place online at http://www.eastbayexpress.com/ballot until July 4th, so vote early and make your voice heard!

And mark your calendars now for Friday August 6th, the date for the Best of the East Bay Party.  This year’s party will be at Jack London Square waterfront from 5-11PM.  The event is free and open for all ages, and features multiple bands, a kid’s zone, and a Blues Pavilion, paying tribute to the blues history of Russeel City in Hayward and 7th Street in Oakland.  For more details and ongoing updates, please visit www.EastBayExpress.com/BOEBParty

On Friday, May 14th, Oaklanders celebrated the people and businesses that make the city great at OneCalifornia Foundation’s 4th Annual Oakland Indie Awards.  Hosted in partnership with the East Bay Express, the annual awards program is a celebration of all things Oakland and an opportunity to highlight the positive social and environmental impact of Oakland’s independent businesses and artists. The program was kicked off by keynote speaker Michael Kieschnick, Co-Founder, President and CEO of CREDO Mobile / Working Assets. 

The 2010 Indie Award Winners Are:

Neighborhood Dynamo: Uptown Body and Fender, a woman-owned body shop that focuses on the emotional well-being of its customers and hosts community events and fundraisers free to local non-profits at its stunning body shop in Oakland’s Uptown district.

Newbie: Snap Judgment, the new Oakland-based NPR program and multi-media company that offers a new voice in storytelling, showcasing Oakland’s diversity and telling stories that “drop listeners into another person’s skin”.

Youth Empowerment: Oaklandish, the extremely popular design and screen-printing company that celebrates all-things Oakland through its apparel and supports the city’s youth through innovation award grants.

Pillar: Peerless Coffee, the 86-year-old family-owned specialty coffee company that provides specialty blends to some of the Bay Area’s most esteemed restaurants, offers scholarships to Berkeley students, helps develop the communities that grow their coffee, and was one of the first businesses to be certified green by the Alameda County Green Business program.

Innovator: Natural Home Cleaning Professionals, the eco-friendly co-op that provides healthy worker-owner cleaning employment opportunities for immigrant women in Oakland and the Bay Area.

Ripple Effect: BayVAN and Compound Gallery, the arts organizations that founded the nationally-recognized Plaid Friday, the independent business’ answer to Black Friday that encourages people to do their holiday shopping at local indie businesses.

Greenie: Ryan Duke, an independent industrial designer that creatively re-uses reclaimed materials to build essential products to improve lives including refugees in the U.S. and individuals in developing countries.

Oakland Soul: Joyce Gordon Gallery, the downtown-Oakland based commercial fine art gallery that seeks to open doors and share the perspectives of the Bay Area’s diverse artist population, as well as those of international artists.

Please visit http://www.oaklandindieawards.com/ for more information about the winners and for pictures!

In addition to seeing the winners being announced and awarded, party guests sampled food, wine, chocolate and beer from as many as 30 food producers and restaurants, explored a selection of locally-made items from over 50 artists and retailers, and thanks to the generosity of DJ Mama L, listened to music from Oakland musicians, past and present. 

Thank you to everyone that came out to celebrate with us and we’ll see you at the 5th Annual next year!!

OneCalifornia Foundation and Oakland Unwrapped! is seeking volunteers to work at an awards ceremony that captures the Best of Oakland! The volunteer(s) will work on setting up, greeting guests, serving local food, greening the event, among other activities at the Oakland Indie Awards on May 14, 2010.

For the fourth year the Oakland Indie Awards is celebrating the spirit and impact of local businesses and artists in Oakland.

We are looking for volunteers that love Oakland, love people, and love a good time!

General Info

The event is celebrating the positive impact that local businesses and artists have on our community.  We have 8 great award categories, and have the honor of recognizing Oakland small businesses and artists that have positively impacted our community.  We need dedicated volunteers to manage the festivities.  This is our fourth event, and we need your help making it as successful as the first three.

Benefits

• Help honor those that make Oakland great.
• Talk to inspiring people, including other volunteers, board members, business owners and Oakland lovers.
• Discover cool new Oakland businesses that make our community thrive.
• Free party!
• Get recognition at the event.
• Creativity appreciated and rewarded!
• Taste food from over 25 different Oakland restaurants and caterers.

To get more info about the event and check out last year’s photos visit our website.

Location

Jack London Pavilion 98 Broadway, Oakland (formerly Barnes & Noble)

Time Requirements

The awards ceremony is from 5:30pm to 9:00pm. We will need volunteers before, during, and after.

Volunteer Positions:

Set-Up: We will need volunteers to help between 12pm and 3pm the day off the event setting up chairs, tables, and decorations

Greenie: Assist with keeping our event green by monitoring recycling/compost/waste bins throughout the event. We will also need volunteers to help prior to the event to post adequate signage for receptacles.

Registration: Greet attendees and finalists, sign them in and handle name tags.

Coat Check: Check in coats and bags at the event.

Ticket Taker: Collect admission tickets at the door and direct guests to the party, coat check or bathrooms.

Vendor Assistant: Help our vendor manager coordinate logistics as vendors arrive and set-up their stations.

Music & Stage Manager: Check and maintain sound, keep DJ informed,  manage stage timing to ensure that presenters are on cue.

“Unwrap Oakland” coordinator- Help sell tickets and handle logistics at the event.

Clean-Up Crew: Volunteers are needed to help clean up after the event is over.

Get Involved!

For more information or to sign up to volunteer please email Tamiko Blake at tblake@onecalfoundation.org or Erin Kilmer-Neel at ekilmer-neel@onecalfoundation.org.  You can also call us at (510) 663-2253.

Visit our website.

The Huffington Post  has started a national conversation about moving your money to local bank.  Hear

OneCal’s founder, Kat Taylor talk with Holly Kernan from KALW’s Crosscurrents about community banks and OneCal, how community banks are actually still lending money to small businesses, and how they are committed to actually recirculating money back into communities, instead of extracting money from them. Listen to the interview on the Crosscurrents website.

(For more about the Move Your Money movement, check out MoveYourMoney.info )

OneCalifornia Bank’s ATM network, Allpoint ATMs, has had an application for both iPhone and Andriod for awhile now.  But now BlackBerry users can join in the fun–Allpoint has just developed an app for BlackBerry users, too!

In addition, Allpoint has created an easy-to-use download page for cardholders to add the Allpoint moblie application specific to your device and carrier.  For more information, check out Allpoint’s website.