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20 Families from 10 Different Countries Annual Celebrate Multicultural Day at Thurgood Marshall Head Start
Out of the seven Head Start sites The Unity Council manages, Thurgood Marshall is by far the most culturally diverse site. Families from Africa,…
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Mobile COA: We Can Help You Enroll in Community College!
College of Alameda and The Unity Council invites you to “MOBILE COA” a series of workshops to help you apply and select your classes…
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Earth Day 2018 at Cesar Chavez Park
Join the Fruitvale Business Improvement District (BID) for the annual Earth Day clean-up and beautification day at Cesar Chavez Park in Fruitvale. This is…
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The American Red Cross of the Bay Area Announces The Unity Council as a 2018 Red Cross Gala Honoree
The American Red Cross of the Bay Area announced its 2018 Red Cross Gala Honorees: The Unity Council, Tyler Florence, Jackson Phillips and Patrick Foley,…
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Meet Maria Sanchez, the Fruitvale Business Improvement District Manager
Maria Sanchez is an Oakland resident and a true Fruitvale living legend. For the past 30 years, she has worked tirelessly to improve the…
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What do Moms Say about Head Start?
Before Maria enrolled Vicente her three-year-old son in the Cesar Chavez Head Start Program in Concord, she was apprehensive about kindergarten. Vicente first language…
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Should I Stay or Should I Go? A Policy Brief by UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Initiative
UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Initiative (LPPI) conducted an empirical analysis of the Fruitvale Village in Oakland, California, a multi-dimensional Transit Oriented Development (TOD) in the…
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Over 200 People Attend the Groundbreaking of Casa Arabella
On Friday, March 2nd Bay Area leaders and community members gathered to celebrate the groundbreaking of Casa Arabella, the largest affordable housing project in…
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A Dreamer’s Story
Clara is a 24-year-old Family Advocate at De Colores Head Start & Early Head Start, a preschool for low-income families in the Fruitvale neighborhood…
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Head Start Program: Annual Report 2016-2017
The Unity Council serves 187 Early Head Start children, and 180 Head Start children throughout our Concord and Oakland grantee-operated programs. The 2016-2017 school…
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