The Junior League of Oakland-East Bay (JLOEB) is proud to announce the recipients of the 2025–2026 Community Enrichment Fund (CEF) grants: A Safe Place and Teen Advocacy Going Strong (TAGS).

Each year, JLOEB’s Community Enrichment Fund provides grants to nonprofit and community organizations serving Alameda and Contra Costa Counties whose work aligns with our mission of advancing women’s leadership and improving the lives of women and children in the East Bay.

Grant recipients were recognized during JLOEB’s May 3, 2026 May Celebration following a thoughtful review and selection process led by the 2025–2026 CEF Committee.

A Safe Place

A Safe Place provides a wide range of services focused on addressing and preventing domestic violence, including emergency shelter, legal advocacy, mental health services, prevention education, and community training programs.

Grant funding from JLOEB will support the organization’s legal services program, helping women access free or low-cost assistance with urgent legal matters such as protective orders, child custody, immigration, employment, and housing issues.

A Safe Place is currently the only shelter serving both Alameda and Contra Costa Counties that provides legal assistance as part of its services.

Learn more at asafeplace.org

Teen Advocacy Going Strong (TAGS)

Teen Advocacy Going Strong (TAGS) empowers women and girls through creative expression, entrepreneurship, mentorship, and skill-building opportunities designed to increase confidence and create pathways for future success.

Youth participants engage in hands-on creative workshops including pottery, fashion design, and other artistic programs, while also gaining real-world work experience through TAGS’ community thrift shop and traveling Maker’s Markets.

JLOEB grant funding will help support future creative workshops by covering supplies, instructor support, and related program expenses.

Learn more at teenadvocacy.org

We are honored to support these organizations and their ongoing work to uplift women, girls, and families throughout the East Bay community.

Thank you to the 2025–2026 Community Enrichment Fund Committee for their dedication and leadership throughout this year’s grant process: Julia Alvarez and Sarah Velen (Committee Co-Leads), Thelma Andree, Angela Craven, Amalia Cunningham, Kristen Nailor, and Zeenna Stapper.

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Dear JLOEB Community, 

Looks like we made it! THANK YOU to our members and our community for helping to make our #GivingTuesday fundraising campaign a huge success! Through the efforts of our 340+ members, their friends and family we were able to exceed our goal of $5,000. This money will go a long way to support delivering on our mission, to advance women’s leadership for meaningful community impact through Volunteer action, Collaboration (via community partnerships and grants) and Training. Thank you for your support.

Congratulations to the Sustainers team for being our 2023 #GivingTuesday champions. Their team raised almost $2,000. 

The impact of your collective efforts will help address our focus area of women, children and gender expansive people who are experiencing homelessness in Alameda and Contra Costa counties for years to come and will make a massive impact on our League. 

On behalf of our board and management team, please accept our heartfelt gratitude for your commitment to the Junior League of Oakland-East Bay. 

Leslie Fisher

2023–2024 JLOEB President

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Dear Junior League Community,

I am thrilled to announce we surpassed our Giving Tuesday goal of raising $2,000 and raised a total of $5,600 to support valuable East Bay programs, many of which target homelessness.

As the fund development team lead, I worked together with an army of chefs to create the perfect recipe for our fundraising “soup.”

Special thanks to my team members Chalon Rogers, Akilah Crossdale and Ashley Deluce for sourcing and chopping “content carrots.”

A big thanks to our storytellers Molly Kreuzer, Andrea Vollmer, Nicole Cox, Leslie Fisher, and Elizabeth Ervin for giving some flavor to our soup with compelling stories and elevator pitches.

Ericka Nicholes, as the league president you gave members the space to cook up new ideas. Thank you for your support of our live q&a experiment.

Marketing team, Trish Sagare, Alena Le Blanc, Thelma Andree, and Katrina James, you are the heat that cooked the soup and put a pretty bow on it. Thank you for making our recipe easy to eat.

Ericka Ames and Lisa Parker, thank you for your help taste-testing the soup, with your review of emails and QC of the hosting platform.

And finally, we can’t forget to thank the league members and the community at large. You are the broth, the main ingredient of the soup! We could not have done this without you.

Thank you to everyone who supported this campaign, we hope to see you again next year!

Best wishes,
Kaitlin McCroskey
VP Fund Development

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Thank you to the Bay Area Crisis Nursery for partnering with us here at the Junior League of Oakland-East Bay to serve three families through our annual Adopt a Family Program. We hope the families enjoyed their holiday!

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Everyone in the space gets an “avatar”, a character you control within the space. The space itself looks like the floorplan of a large house, with several meeting rooms, a kitchen, a garden, and a conference room. Your avatar can interact with other avatar in the space via audio and video. You can also interact with various objects placed in the space, including things like video, images, websites, and Zoom meetings. We also have private spaces set up that contain conversation to the area within the space, which can be used for planned meetings or confidential discussions.

Currently, our use of the JLOEB House is in “beta” – that is, we are testing things and seeing what works, what people like, and how we can serve your needs best with the tools we have. Watch this page for updates, and find more information on how to use the space below!

Using Gather.Town: An Introduction to the JLOEB House

See the video recording of our November 5th training on the basics of interacting in the JLOEB House. Also see the PowerPoint deck for more information.

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The Junior League of Oakland will be joining forces not only alongside other organizations to get the most women involved, but racing together with other Junior Leagues to see who gets the most Members engaged and ultimately create the biggest impact.

What’s the activity?

Vision2020Votes uses Motivote, a digital platform that helps you help your League Members, friends, family and community get ready to vote in the next election. Motivote makes it simple by sharing the most up to date information about voting, walking you through the steps to prepare to vote while earning rewards points along the way for every action you take.

Did you say rewards points?

Yes, you heard right! All participating Leagues are eligible to win monthly prizes for the highest number of “rewards points” completed each month. Our League can win awesome things like free registrations to upcoming conferences and a 1 hour consultation with AJLI’s Social Media Strategist.

PLUS each of you, our members, can use your points to enter to win raffles for Junior League branded swag. We know how much you love swag!

How do I get started?

It’s simple to get set up. Here’s how:

1. Create your member account. Click this link to access our League’s special Vision2020Votes Motivote page. Create your individual account by entering your name, phone number, email and a password. Need help creating an account? Here’s more info.
2. Activate your account. You’ll receive an email with an activation link within 10 minutes of signing up. Once you click the link, your account will be active.

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All California voters will be sent a vote-by-mail ballot with prepaid postage for the General Election. To make sure you get your ballot, please double-check your voter registration information at voterstatus.sos.ca.gov.

For voters unable to take advantage of vote-by-mail, you can still visit your local polling place for safe in-person voting and same-day registration.

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to have your ballot mailed directly to your home!

Additional County Voting Information:
Alameda County: https://my.lwv.org/california/oakland/voter-election-resources

Contra Costa County: https://my.lwv.org/sites/default/files/leagues/diablo-valley/lwvdvvoterresourceslinks.pdf

Election Volunteer Opportunities

JLOEB members are encouraged to participate in pre-election and voting day volunteer opportunities. Shift credits will be awarded for participation.

Get Out the Vote Opportunities with the League of Women Voters (LWV):
The League of Women Voters modified their voter services outreach this year due to Covid-19. The Berkeley/Albany/Emeryville chapter of LWV is offering virtual and in-person/socially distanced volunteer opportunities leading up to the election. Some of these opportunities may require volunteers to attend planning meetings. Non-LWV members are welcome.

• LWV BAE (Berkeley/Albany/Emeryville):
  Currently, volunteers are needed for the following projects:
  • Community Outreach: Reaching out to community groups/orgs and offering to connect them with our different events and resources. Scripts and guidance will be provided!
  • Drop-off materials
  • Bike Caravan
  • Media Design: Video editing, poster design, swag design (t-shirts, buttons, stickers, etc.)
  • Candidate Forum and Pro/Con Forum Volunteers

If you are interested in working on any of the above projects, please email juniorspac@jloeb.org
and we’ll connect you with the Voter Service Coordinator at LWV BAE.

Write letters to registered citizens who do not vote
Vote Forward is a 501 (c) 3 non-partisan organization looking for volunteers who would like to write letters to registered citizens who do not vote. Writing short, personal messages encouraging nonvoters to vote is proven to be a highly effective method of boosting voter turnout. Interested parties must register on the Vote Forward site. Once your account is approved, you’ll receive additional instructions. All letters must be mailed by Saturday October 17th. https://votefwd.org/vote-forward-instructions.pdf

Help Protect Our Election
Common Cause California and Election Protection
Where: Counties across CA
California Common Cause is seeking nonpartisan Election Protection volunteers to help protect our democracy in the upcoming election as poll monitors, social media monitors, and text bankers. Work can be done in person and remotely. Learn more and sign up.

Poll Workers Needed on Election Day (Tuesday, November 3rd):

Interested members must register on their county website (below) and attend a mandatory training session. These shifts are in person.

• Alameda County: https://www.acvote.org/community/become-a-poll-worker
• Contra Costa County:
  https://www.cocovote.us/poll-worker-center/become-a-poll-worker/
  

How To Earn Community Credits For Election Volunteer Shifts:

For virtual shifts:
After your shift: Complete the Election Volunteer Shift Proof of Completion form

For in-person shifts:

• JLOEB volunteers MUST complete the Volunteer Assumption of Risk, Waiver of Liability & COVID-19 Agreement prior to their shift and send a scan or picture of the completed form to: juniorspac@jloeb.org
• After your shift: Complete the Election Volunteer Shift Proof of Completion form

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For every purchase, 12.5% will be going back to JLOEB. You can find fun and great quality products!

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The Junior League of Oakland-East Bay, Inc. (JLOEB) grieves the murder of George Floyd and other Black lives that have been tragically taken. These deaths were systemic and senseless. For us, they underscore the severity and violence of racism that communities of color experience every day.

As Junior League Leaders, we cannot stay silent and sit on the sidelines watching as our community feels the heaviness of grief. We stand with our Black members and communities who feel this like no other.

As an organization that believes in building better communities and strives for leadership excellence, many of us have asked what we can do. We as Junior League women strive to be civic leaders in our communities. We will do so not only by speaking out against racism, but by doing the work required of us to be anti-racist. We must be humble and vulnerable. We must speak out, and we must be visible. We have to know when to be quiet and listen—and equally important, when to speak up.

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor… If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.” – Desmond Tutu

We raise our voice to unequivocally say that Black Lives Matter. We must give support to our Black members—and all members of color—neighbors, friends, coworkers, partners…and as an organization be an authentic ally in this fight for justice. Our commitment to equity and inclusion is as important as ever.

JLOEB is working to put together additional programming on how we can be agents of change in our community. Below are some of the items we are working on in the coming weeks and months.

• A “Town Hall” style meeting on systemic racism in conjunction with other Bay Area Leagues
• Leadership and Membership Trainings on Equity and Inclusion
• A plan for how JLOEB can support local civil rights organizations and organizations that serve communities of color

We ask you to explore the resources listed below.. It is critical that as leaders in the community we are informed and educated on the topic of systemic racism. Thank you to the members who have shared these valuable resources.

• Anti-racism Resources (including materials for talking to children, podcasts, movies, article)
• New Era of Public Safety: An Advocacy Toolkit for Fair, Safe, and Effective Community Policing
• Ted Talks
• NMAAHC, Talking About Race
• American Civil Liberties Union
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
• Black Lives Matter
• Campaign Zero
• Color of Change
• I Run With Maud
• George Floyd Memorial Fund

Junior League of Oakland-East Bay, Inc. 2020–2021 Board of Directors

Julianne Averill, President

Emily Wasserman, President-Elect

Ericka Nicholes, Executive Vice President

Angela Wuerth, Treasurer

Clara Dellenbach, Secretary

Odette Vandaveer, Nominating Director

Shelby Swartz, Director of Community Impact and Outreach

Lisa Parker, Sustainer Director

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Anne Morrison Rabe Photography
Anne uses photography as an illustrative rather than a literal medium. Through editing, her finished images become almost painterly or abstract. Her fine art prints are limited signed editions printed on a multitude of materials including aluminum, acrylic, wood, canvas, and paper. She also produces custom-commissioned work as well as decorative products and apparel. 

• Anne Morrison Rabe Photography
  annemrabe@mac.com 
• Website: https://www.amr-photography.com/
• Instagram: @annemrabe 
• Contact: 415-713-2816 
• Junior League of the East Bay Members: Receive 10% off any custom fine art order.

Stella and Dot 

If you’ve never heard of Stella & Dot, you’re in for a treat! We are a lifestyle brand made by women, for women with an incredibly versatile selection of products! Shop bags, clothing, accessories, and skin care! 

www.stelladot.com/ts/1o8tk

Sosie’s Stacks creates gemstone bracelets that are fun and affordable.

Visit her Etsy shop www.sosiesatacks.com!

For natural solutions to everyday living and wellness, partner with LiGal Essentials and get the support and guidance you need to boost your physical, mental and emotional health.  With 100% pure, effective and affordable products, revolutionize the way you and your family can take control of your self directed healthcare needs.

• Promo:  Schedule a consultation today and receive a free customized sample or make a purchase and a portion of the sale will be donated to the Junior League of Oakland. Just fill out your information in the comment section on the website and put “JLO” in the message.
• Website:  www.ligalessentials.com

Carolyn Rovner, Stylist + Shopper, provides wardrobes for men and women suited to their personal style and carefully curated to increase their confidence and helping them take on the world.  Services include closet edit, personal shopping, wardrobe management, “shop-in-your closet” outfit coordinating and special-event looks. Gift certificates available!

• Website: carolynrovner.com
• Facebook: Carolyn Rovner
• Instagram: @shopwithcarolynrovner
• JLOEB members will get $50 off The Style Consultation from May1—November 30, 2020.

Color Street is 100% nail polish that provide base, color, and top coat in a strip form with the bonus of no drying time! The colors are vibrant, the finish is glossy, and they easily adhere to the nail instantly! 

Shop at: www.shopabbeysnails.com 

• About me: William McDaniels works in Healthcare I.T. by day, and escapes to nature in their free time. William is delighted to share those journeys with you all from their own unique perspective.
• Website: www.williammcdaniels.com
• FB: @wmcdanielsphotos
• Promo Code (20% off entire site): STAYATHOME

Fabula Tea specializes in blending small batch connoisseur-grade teas with stories, people and art. Each of our mindfully sourced teas comes with its own tale of origin, story of healing powers and inspiring connection to the original artwork that adorns its housing canister.

• Online store: mkt.com/fabulatea
• Instagram: www.instagram.com/fabulatea
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/fabulatea
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV7zeaqKcndUcNCEXO1bjzQ
• Promotion: 15% off + FREE shipping on our online store with the promo code SPRING2020
• Fabula Tea would love to offer some support to the community at such unprecedented times through our FREE 30 min virtual tea retreats on Zoom!
  
• Our past 2 virtual tea retreats have been very well received! As such, we will have another one planned for this Sunday (Mother’s Day) May 10th from 3:15-3:45pm. There will be a guided meditation that is followed by a simple tea ritual. It would be a good way to find a place of rejuvenation, connection and renewal.
• Please register via this link to help us keep track:
• https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-tea-retreat-mothers-day-special-registration-104217760126
• Fabula Tea is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
  Topic: Virtual Tea Retreat (Mother’s Day Special)
  Time: May 10, 2020 03:15 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
  Join Zoom Meeting
  https://us04web.zoom.us/j/78234552275
  
  Meeting ID: 782 3455 2275
  
  Everyone from the Junior League of Oakland East-Bay community is welcomed to join us! Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

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