• Harvest Festival Oct 25th - FREE
• APC Selects New Executive Director
• Upcoming Community Events
• Holiday Wish List
• Cycles APC Hosts Family Bike Rides
• New Carpet for Kids Homework Room!
  
  

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Please join us for our upcoming Harvest Festival, to celebrate our new farm at 2600 Barbers Point Road. Featuring: Music BBQ lunch Winter garden workshop Games and activities (apple bobbing, pumpkin carving, planting seeds, flag painting and more)

FREE! Saturday, October 25th 11AM-3PM Growing Youth Farm 2600 Barbers Point Road Click here to view our youth on video

Donations appreciated. For details, please visit our website. Over 500 residents have been invited to attend.

We are delighted to thank hundreds of recent volunteers at APC. Groups from Google, Saint Mary's College, the United Way, Chevron, Wachovia, Wells Fargo, Leapfrog, Clif Bar and Kaiser Permanente generously donated over 1800 hours of volunteer time since this summer.

These volunteers helped transform a vacant lot into a new urban farm at 2600 Barbers Point Road, Alameda. They also worked with Ploughshares Nursery to break ground on a low-water demonstration garden, and helped the Growing Youth Project get our community garden ready for winter.

Holiday Wish List

Please consider donating holiday gifts for our residents. Nearly two-thirds are under 18, and your generous donation can bring holiday cheer to a whole family!

* Gifts and gift certificates for teens
(younger children are served through Toys
for Tots, while teens are often left out);

* Wreaths and Christmas trees.

Ongoing Donation Needs

* Diapers for newborns and toddlers;

* Household cleaning supplies (environmentally-sensitive cleaners only please);

* Paper, pens and pencils for our homework help room;

* A truck in good condition to haul donations and food grown in the garden;

* Used bicycles in good condition.

For more information, please check out our donation page.

The Board of Directors of APC is pleased to announce that Doug Biggs has been appointed APC's new Executive Director, effective immediately. Biggs has been working as the Development Director at APC for the last four years, and has been a resident of Alameda for the last 20 years.

APC is the largest supportive housing program for homeless families in the East Bay, serving 500 residents, including almost 300 children and youth.

Mr. Biggs brings to the Executive Director position over 30 years of experience in community development, ranging from work with at-risk youth programs in the Bay Area to a stint in the Peace Corps and Care International, working on community development activities in rural Nepal.

According to Rev. Roger Bauer, Chair of APC's Board of Directors, "the Board, staff and residents just completed a strategic planning process, and knew that we needed someone dedicated to the mission and the community to lead the agency forward. Doug fits that need very well. It speaks to the stability of our organization, and our belief in community empowerment that we were able to promote from within for this position."

According to Mr. Biggs, he is taking over at an exciting time for the agency. "The redevelopment of Alameda Point looks like it will finally be moving forward, providing new economic opportunities for our residents, and our existing social enterprises. Ploughshares Nursery and the Cycles of Change Bike Shop are becoming well established and supported by the community."

Regarding the challenges of running an organization in tough economic times, Mr. Biggs said that, "unfortunately, the demand for our services has never been greater. More and more families are becoming homeless, and many more are only a paycheck away from losing their homes. We have already shown that supportive housing is an effective and cost efficient way of helping people overcome homelessness, and we hope that our donors continue to value the need to help families get off the street and back on their feet."

Thanks to Carpet Express and volunteers from Wachovia who helped us clear the room, our tutoring program had a great start to the school year.

Press Coverage

The Growing Youth Program's Kate Casale was recently featured on The Island. View full article.

Check out a recent feature article about Growing Youth here.

Cycles APC is hosting family bike rides and teaching adults and families about bike safety so that they can ride safe while they run errands and make local trips.

Please consider volunteering or donating supplies for the holidays. For more information or to RSVP, please contact Lindsay Germain at (510) 898-7845.

Halloween Party Friday, October 31 12pm - 4:30pm Help out with our annual Halloween party by serving food, drinks and candy, helping set up or clean up.

The party lasts from 1pm to 4pm, and we would love if a group wanted to come early and build a haunted house (volunteer-sponsored haunted houses have been a huge hit in previous years). We also welcome donations of supplies, candy and decorations.


Thanksgiving Brunch
Wednesday, November 26
9am - 3pm
Help cook, serve, clean up or help feed young ones to give parents a break.

Holiday Craft Night Thursday, December 11 4 - 7pm Host a craft table by selecting a craft project, providing materials and helping residents make your crafty gift. We also welcome donations of craft supplies and refreshments.

Holiday Feast
Thursday, December 18
4 - 9pm
Join our annual holiday dinner as an evening cook, server or part of our clean up crew.

Thank you for supporting the Alameda Point Collaborative!

Sincerely,

Lindsay Germain
Outreach Coordinator

Alameda Point Collaborative
works to end homelessness by providing housing
and services to create communities where formerly homeless families and individuals can flourish.

677 W. Ranger Ave.
Alameda CA 94501
info@apcollaborative.org
(510) 898-7800