ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Meet our mission partners below. Click on the First Pres liaison and contact names to email for more information.

Habitat for Humanity

First Pres liaison: Gary Laymon
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Contact: Faith community – Karen Hernandez
Phone: 866-450-4432
Website: https://www.habitatebsv.org/

Habitat for Humanity East Bay/Silicon Valley believes in a world where everyone has a decent place to live. God’s love is put into action by bringing people together to build homes, communities, and hope.

Habitat welcomes volunteers and supporters from all backgrounds and also serves people in need of decent housing regardless of race or religion.

International Rescue Committee

First Pres liaison: Barbara Frost
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Contact: Aria Brock
Phone: 510-452-8222
Website: http://www.rescue.org/united-states/oakland-ca

Since 1933, the IRC has become a global leader in responding to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helping people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future.

In more than 40 countries and in 26 U.S. cities, dedicated teams provide clean water, shelter, health care, education, and empowerment to support refugees and displaced people. Since 1975, IRC has provided comprehensive resettlement and integration services to nearly 400,000 refugees comprised of 119 distinct nationalities.

Opportunity International

First Pres liaison: Kathy Drake
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Website: https://opportunity.org/

Opportunity International (OI) is a global non-profit working to end extreme poverty in our lifetime. OI believes that empowering individuals to work their way out of poverty and give their children a quality education is the most sustainable way to transform lives, families, and communities.

Small loans, training, and support to people living on less than $2 per day, are provided so that they can grow their businesses and send their kids to school. OI has worked in developing countries for 48 years, empowering millions of small business owners, farmers, and educators. It’s a hand up approach, rather than a handout. Opportunity responds to Jesus Christ’s call to love and serve the poor. They seek to emulate the “Good Samaritan” whose compassion crossed ethnic groups and religions and aims to serve the more difficult places when others cannot.