AGENDA REPORT
TO: Elizabeth Lake FROM: Greg Elliott
Acting City Administrator Human Services
Department Interim Director
SUBJECT: OFCY Year-round Program Service
Term Awards FY 2026 - 2028
DATE: June 04, 2026
City Administrator Approval Date:
RECOMMENDATION
Staff Recommends That The City Council Adopt A Resolution Accepting The Planning And Oversight Committee Recommendation To Award Oakland Fund for Children and Youth (OFCY) Grants To Non-Profit and Public Agencies To Operate Distinct Year-Round Programs in An Annual Amount Not To Exceed Twenty Million Six Hundred Seventy Seven Thousand Three Hundred And Fifty Six Dollars ($20,677,356) For Two Fiscal Years, From July 1, 2026, Through June 30, 2027, And From July 1, 2027, Through June 30, 2028, Contingent Upon Funding Availability And Program Performance
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Oakland Fund for Children and Youth (OFCY) requests that the City Council accept the funding recommendation put forth by the OFCY Planning and Oversight Committee (POC) to award 92 agencies grant awards to operate programs during the program year service term, from July 1st to June 30th. OFCY seeks approval to fund these programs for two fiscal years, 2026 and 2027. The specific categories and awardees are shown in Tables 1-8 below.
These agencies were selected through a competitive process. Through this recommendation, over 23,000 youth and their families, particularly those with the least access to services, will get access to youth programming that promotes public safety, violence prevention, cultural enrichment, community belonging, leadership development, career access, and academic support.
BACKGROUND / LEGISLATIVE HISTORY
The Kids First! Amendment (Article XIII – Amended in 2020) of the City of Oakland (City) Charter requires that three percent (3%) of the annual actual unrestricted General-Purpose Fund be set aside as annual revenues, along with interest accrued and any unspent funds from Betsy Lake (Jun 9, 2026 10:25:10 PDT)
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prior years and appropriated to the Oakland Kids First! Children’s Fund. Ninety percent (90%) of the annual revenue is made available for grants to non-profit and public agencies to address the well-being of Oakland children and youth from birth through age 21. Ten percent (10%) is available for administration and evaluation. The City Council adopted Ordinance No. 13588 C.M.S. on March 3, 2020, which extended OFCY for twelve (12) years, beginning July 1, 2021, and continuing through June 30, 2033.
On October 16, 2024, the POC unanimously approved the OFCY FY 2025-2028 Strategic Investment Plan (SIP). On December 17, 2024, the City Council approved the OFCY FY 2025- 2028 SIP through Resolution 90580 C.M.S.
Eight funding strategies were approved in the 2025 - 2028, listed below.
1. Family Resource Centers and Parent Engagement
2. Elementary School-Based Expanded Learning
3. Middle School-Based Expanded Learning
4. Youth Development and Leadership
5. Career Access and Employment
6. Youth Summer Jobs/Mayor’s Summer Youth Employment Program
7. Independent Living
8. Place-Based Innovations for Youth Safety
On June 17, 2025, the City Council approved Resolution 90767 C.M.S. extending FY 2024- 2025 grants for FY 2025-2026 to 74 non-profit and public agencies operating 144 district grant programs to allow staff sufficient time to distribute the RFP for the next funding cycle.
On October 24, 2025, OFCY released the Request for Proposals (RFP) to fund programs under the FY 2025 – 2028 SIP. Attachment C provides a comprehensive overview of the FY 2026 – 2028 OFCY RFP, including the funding strategies, application timeline, campaign and outreach strategy, proposal submission statistics, and the process for reader recruitment and assignment.
OFCY received 333 completed proposals across the eight funding strategies by the deadline of 11:59 pm on December 12, 2025. This is a 45% increase from 2022, when 229 proposals were received. The cumulative annual amount requested by all proposals was $62.2 million. This is approximately a 65% increase from 2022, when $37.8 million was requested. 300 of the 333 proposals submitted were for year-round programs.
On May 5, 2026, the City Council approved Resolution 91138 C.M.S., awarding grants to 21 agencies during the summer, from June 1st through September 30th. As part of this resolution, the City Council approved nine programs under the Youth Summer Jobs/Mayor’s Summer Youth Employment funding strategy.
On May 6, 2026, the OFCY POC approved awards for 136 year-round programs recommended by OFCY staff in a public meeting.
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ANALYSIS AND POLICY ALTERNATIVES
In accordance with the POC recommendations, OFCY will make awards for a two-year grant cycle, for FY 2026-2027 and FY 2027-2028, contingent upon fund balance, satisfactory evaluation, grant monitoring and overall performance subject to approval by the POC and Oakland City Council. OFCY may extend the grant cycle for additional fiscal years.
Table 1 shows the program service by strategy, and Table 2 – Table 8 list the recommended year-round programs and total projected youth served by OFCY funding strategy.
Table 1: Year-round Program Service Term Proposed Awards by Strategy
OFCY Funding Strategy Proposed
Allocation
Program
Count
Youth
Served*
Career Access and Employment $4,058,559.00 23 3,617
Elementary School-Based Expanded
Learning $1,652,761.00 24 3,491
Family Resource Centers and Parent
Engagement $2,127,653.26 12 1,233
Independent Living $1,246,205.00 7 532
Middle School-Based Expanded Learning $1,479,873.19 18 1,909 Place-Based Innovations for Youth Safety $2,533,289.75 11 2,449 Youth Development and Leadership $7,579,014.80 41 8,797 TOTAL $20,677,356 136 22,028
*Parents and caregivers served through the Family Resource Centers and Parent Engagement funding strategy are not reflected in this table.
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Table 2: Family Resource Centers and Parent Engagement Year-round Proposed Awards
Agency Name Program Name Proposed
Award
Proposed
Youth
Served
Proposed
Adults
Served
1 Afro-Play Oakland Afro-Play $143,150.00 75 150
2 BANANAS Healthy Havenscourt Cub
House $500,000.00 300 400
3 Dads Evoking
Change
Family Wellness and
Engagement Program $71,450.00 25 70
4 Destiny Arts Center Teddy Bear Movement $50,000.00 175 160 5 Family Paths Parent Education Program $56,448.10 50
6 LifeLong Medical
Care Project Pride $99,506.00 20 20
7 Lotus Bloom
Culturally Responsive
Family Resource Center -
Room to Bloom
$312,499.52 122 122
8 Oakland Parents
Together
Parent Cafes and Early
Learning Workshops $50,100.00 75 60
9 Oakland Parks,
Recreation, and
Youth Development
Community Adventure Pre-
K Playgroups (C.A.P.P.) $115,000.00 50 45
10 Our Family Coalition
Project LIFE (LGBTQ
Intersectional Family
Enrichment)
$250,000.00 71 242
11 Refugee & Immigrant
Transitions (RIT) Parent Tot Initiative $350,000.00 160 450 12 Tandem, Partners in
Early Learning
Early Learning Everywhere:
Building Family
Connections
$129,499.64 160 250
TOTAL $2,127,653.26 1,233 2,019
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Table 3: Elementary School-Based Expanded Learning Year-round Proposed Awards
Agency Name Program Name Proposed
Award
Proposed
Youth
Served
1 Bay Area Community
Resources Acorn Woodland Elementary $65,000.00 83
2 Bay Area Community
Resources Esperanza Elementary $65,000.00 83
3 Bay Area Community
Resources
Fred T. Korematsu
Discovery Academy
Elementary
$65,000.00 83
4 Bay Area Community
Resources Global Family Elementary $65,000.00 83
5 Bay Area Community
Resources Markham Elementary $65,000.00 83
6 Bay Area Community
Resources
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Elementary $65,000.00 115
7 Bay Area Community
Resources Sankofa United Elementary $65,000.00 100
8 East Bay Agency for Children Achieve Academy $65,000.00 100 9 East Bay Asian Youth Center Franklin Elementary School $65,000.00 160 10 East Bay Asian Youth Center Garfield Elementary School $65,000.00 200 11 East Bay Asian Youth Center Manzanita Community
School $65,000.00 140
12 East Oakland Youth
Development Center
East Oakland Youth
Development Center $ 150,000.00 120
13 Girls Incorporated of Alameda
County Cox Academy $65,000.00 85
14 Girls Incorporated of Alameda
County Learning Without Limits $65,000.00 85
15 Life I Love School
Life I Love School -
Wellness Program for
Elementary Girls
$135,873.00 160
16 Lighthouse Community Public
Schools
Lighthouse Community
Charter $100,000.00 131
17 Living Jazz Allendale Elementary $31,250.00 30
18 Living Jazz Carl B. Munck Elementary $31,250.00 30
19 Living Jazz Cleveland Elementary $31,250.00 30
20 Oakland Leaf Foundation La Escuelita $65,000.00 150
21 Oakland Leaf Foundation Think College Now $65,000.00 120 22 Oakland Symphony Oakland Symphony MUSE
Stringendo $60,000.00 120
23 Ultimate Impact
Place-based Ultimate
Learning and Leadership
through Sports (PULLS)
$85,516.00 900
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Agency Name Program Name Proposed
Award
Proposed
Youth
Served
24 Youth Cooking Services dba
Kids Cooking For Life Franklin Elementary School $52,622.00 300 TOTAL $1,652,761.00 3,491
Table 4: Middle School-Based Expanded Learning Year-round Proposed Awards
Agency Name Program Name Proposed
Award
Proposed
Youth
Served
1 Attitudinal Healing Connection,
Inc. dba The Center for Art
Esteem
Community School for Creative
Education Afterschool
Programming
$100,000.00 100
2 Bay Area Community
Resources LIFE Academy $85,000.00 83
3 Bay Area Community
Resources
Frick United Academy of
Language Middle $85,000.00 83
4 Bay Area Community
Resources Elmhurst United Middle $85,000.00 100
5 Bay Area Community
Resources West Oakland Middle $85,000.00 83
6 Bay Area Community
Resources Westlake Middle $85,000.00 83
7 Bay Area Community
Resources Madison Park Academy 6-12 $85,000.00 83
8 East Bay Asian Youth Center Urban Promise Academy $85,000.00 180 9 East Bay Asian Youth Center Roosevelt Middle School $85,000.00 220 10 La Clinica de La Raza, Inc. Familia Adelante $165,681.19 30 11 Lighthouse Community Public
Schools Lighthouse Community Charter $85,000.00 64
12 Lighthouse Community Public
Schools
Lodestar: A Lighthouse
Community Charter Public $85,000.00 80
13 Living Jazz Claremont Middle $31,250.00 30
14 Oakland Leaf Foundation Bret Harte Middle $85,000.00 160 15 Safe Passages United for Success Academy
Middle $85,000.00 200
16 Safe Passages Coliseum College Prep Academy $85,000.00 270 17 Original Scraper Bike Team Elmhurst United Middle $38,971.00 30 18 Original Scraper Bike Team Greenleaf $38,971.00 30
TOTAL $1,479,873.19 1,909
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Table 5: Youth Development and Leadership Year-round Proposed Awards
Agency Name Program Name Proposed
Award
Proposed
Youth
Served
1 Alameda County Health Alameda County Court Appointed
Special Advocates $200,000.00 85
2 American Indian Child
Resource Center Culture Keepers $164,515.79 60
3 ARISE High School Leaders on the Rise Enrichment
Lab $200,003.00 365
4 Asian Health Services
Empowering Asian and Pacific
Islander (API) Youth and Southeast
Asian (SEA) Young Women through
Culturally Tailored Leadership and
Development Programming
$200,000.00 220
5 Aspire Education Community Reading Buddies $130,000.00 500 6 Attitudinal Healing
Connection, Inc. dba The
Center for Art Esteem
Art Esteem Leadership Program $200,000.00 976
7 Bay Area Outreach &
Recreation Program
Sports, Fitness, & Recreation for
Youth with Disabilities $80,000.00 50
8 Center for Empowered
Politics Education Fund
AYPAL Building API Community
Power $155,000.00 160
9 Center for Empowering
Refugees and Immigrants Clinton Park Youth Collaborative $400,000.00 327 10 Chapter 510 INK Write, Speak, Heal: Oakland Youth
Arts Collaborative $300,000.00 110
11 Communities United for
Restorative Youth Justice Homies 4 Justice $155,125.00 15 12 Community Works West Project WHAT! (We're Here and
Talking) $194,608.00 30
13 Cycles of Change Ride and Wrench Youth Program $150,000.00 154 14 Dimensions Dance
Theater Rites of Passage $96,500.00 95
15 Dream Youth Clinic Youth #GOALS Program $193,000.00 200 16 East Bay Agency for
Children
Youth Empowerment Services:
Leadership Pathways (YES
Pathways)
$225,000.00 200
17 East Bay Asian Local
Development Corporation Roaring Forward $101,164.43 22
18 East Oakland Boxing
Association
East Oakland Boxing Association
After School Program $60,350.00 55
19 EastSide Arts Alliance &
Cultural Center
EastSide Arts Alliance - Youth
Community Culture Builders $200,000.00 150
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Agency Name Program Name Proposed
Award
Proposed
Youth
Served
21 Friends of Peralta
Hacienda Historical Park Peralta Hacienda Youth Programs $200,000.00 605 22 Frontline Catalysts Climate Justice Youth Leadership Development $148,637.00 120
23 Girls Incorporated of
Alameda County
GIAC Downtown Oakland Middle &
High School Programs $100,000.00 184
24 Health Initiatives for Youth Level Up Relationships $65,768.08 75 25 Improve Your Tomorrow Pathways to Promise: IYT College Academy $154,981.50 75
26 Museum Of Children's Art Community Futures School_Black Nourishment Network $400,000.00 40
27 Native American Health
Center, Inc.
NAHC Youth Development and
Leadership Program $225,000.00 250
28 Oakland Genesis Oakland Genesis Academy $166,000.00 330 29 The Oakland Public
Education Fund
Oakland Goes Outdoors: Outdoor
Learning for Middle School Students $200,000.00 1,000
30 Oakland Kids First OKF Youth Leadership and
Organizing Programs $225,000.00 85
31 Oakland Lacrosse Club Oakland Lacrosse: Mentoring and Leadership $225,000.00 160
32 Oakland LGBTQ
Community Center LGBTQ Youth Leadership Program $225,000.00 80 33 Oakland Parks,
Recreation, and Youth
Development
Camp L.E.A.P. (Lead. Empower.
Adapt. Play.) $149,162.00 30
34 Oakland Unified School
District
Innovative EFG Internships and
Field Trips $200,000.00 630
35 Restorative Justice for
Oakland Youth RJOY Youth Leadership Program $225,000.00 50 36 Safe Passages Get Active $200,000.00 200
37 S.P.A.A.T. (Student
Program for Academic
and Athletic Transitioning)
- TBD
Athlete Leadership Institute (ALI) $100,000.00 350
38 Spanish Speaking Unity
Council of Alameda
County, Inc. dba The
Unity Council
Latino Men & Boys $225,000.00 85
39 Summer Search
Summer Search’s Youth
Development and Leadership
Program for Oakland Youth
$200,000.00 75
40 Youth ALIVE Teens on Target $225,000.00 227
41 YouthBeat YouthBeat Media Arts Training and
Leadership Development $190,000.00 355
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Agency Name Program Name Proposed
Award
Proposed
Youth
Served
TOTAL $7,579,014.80 8,797
Table 6: Career Access Year-round Proposed Awards
Agency Name Program Name Proposed
Award
Proposed
Youth
Served
1. Alameda Health System
Foundation
AHS - Health Excellence &
Academic Leadership (HEAL)
Program Middle & High School
Healthcare Internship
$236,400.00 195
2. The Center for Independent
Living, Inc.
Accelerate: Workforce
Development for Young
People with Disabilities
$200,000.00 250
3. Centro Legal de la Raza Youth Law Academy $200,000.00 80
4. Civicorps Conservation Career
Pathways $150,000.00 55
5. East Bay Asian Youth
Center
Career Pathways in Outdoor
Recreation Education $200,000.00 25
6. East Oakland Boxing
Association EOBA FutureWorks $125,030.00 50
7. East Oakland Youth
Development Center
East Oakland Youth
Development Center $150,000.00 120
8. Public Health Institute FACES for the Future
Coalition $200,000.00 60
9. First Place for Youth Youth Earn-and-Learn for
Economic Empowerment $150,000.00 175
10. Genesys Works Genesys Works High School
Internship Program $114,000.00 70
11. Junior Achievement of
Northern California
JA Workforce Pathways for
Future Ready Oakland Youth $150,004.00 1,250
12. Lao Family Community
Development, Inc.
Oakland Youth Industries
Exploration (YIE) Program $200,000.00 42
13. New Door Ventures
Comprehensive Job Training
and Employment Program for
Oakland Opportunity Youth
$150,000.00 75
14. Oakland Leaf Foundation Roots Internship $150,000.00 35
15. Oakland Technology and
Education Center
Oakland Story-Work: Archives,
Media & Workforce Pathways $83,125.00 150
16. Planting Justice
Planting Justice Food
Sovereignty Youth Leadership
Program
$200,000.00 540
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Agency Name Program Name Proposed
Award
Proposed
Youth
Served
18. Safe Passages Life and Career Roadmap
Program $200,000.00 80
19. Hidden Genius Project, Inc.
The Hidden Genius Project:
Alumni Pathways to Wealth
Building Careers
$150,000.00 110
20. Trybe Inc. Trybe Career Access and
Employment $250,000.00 70
21. Young Women's Freedom
Center
Young Women’s Freedom
Center’s Economic
Empowerment Program
$200,000.00 30
22. The Youth Employment
Partnership, Inc. Career Connections $200,000.00 35
23. Youth Uprising
YU Career & Education
Program- Job Training and
Placement
$200,000.00 80
TOTAL $4,058,559.00 3,617
Table 7: Independent Living Year-round Proposed Awards
Agency Name Program Name Proposed
Award
Proposed
Youth
Served
1 Big Brothers Big Sisters of
the Bay Area Big Futures $75,505.00 20
2 The Center for Independent
Living, Inc.
Centering Independent Living
for Youth with Disabilities $200,000.00 100
3 College Track
College Track Oakland:
Democratizing high school &
college success for low-
income, first-generation
Oakland youth
$125,000.00 272
4 East Bay Spanish Speaking
Citizens' Foundation
(SSCF)
LIBRE - Independent Living $83,475.00 35
5 Spanish Speaking Unity
Council of Alameda County,
Inc. dba The Unity Council
Launching Independence &
Future Empowerment (LIFE) $250,000.00 50
6 Young Women's Freedom
Center Beloved Village $312,225.00 25
7 Youth Employment
Partnership
Stable Futures for Oakland
Youth $200,000.00 30
TOTAL $1,246,205.00 532
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Table 8: Place-Based Innovations for Safety Year-round Proposed Awards
Agency Name Program Name Proposed
Award
Proposed
Youth
Served
1 Entitled Futures Quria at Tech: Student
Wellness & Support Hub $175,000.00 300
2 Family Violence Law Center
Fremont High Gender-Based
Violence Case Management
Program
$250,000.00 480
3 Fresh Lifelines for Youth FLY Law-Related Education
Program $99,230.00 80
4 Kingmakers Kingmakers $200,000.00 40
5 Lincoln ACORN $310,609.00 125
6 Motivating Inspiring Serving
and Supporting Sexually
Exploited Youth (MISSSEY)
Restoration and Safety for
Oakland’s Sexually Exploited
and Vulnerable Youth
$250,000.00 450
7 Oakland Kids First OKF Castle Cares $288,452.00 100
8 Safe Passages Place-Based Innovations for
Youth Safety $309,998.75 679
9 Special Service for Groups,
Inc. OTTP-NorCal ACOE Program $250,000.00 85
10 The Mentoring Center
The Mentoring Center's
Transformative Youth Violence
Prevention Program
$200,000.00 35
11 Youth ALIVE Pathways $200,000.00 75
TOTAL $2,533,289.75 2,449
The Alternative to this proposal would be that the Council rejects the recommendation from the OFCY POC.
Alternative #1
City Council rejects the recommendation from the OFCY POC to award 92 agencies operating 136 programs for the year-round program service term. OFCY staff return to the POC with updating recommendations based on City Council guidance.
Pros • Changes to the funding recommendations can be considered.
Cons
• Immediate interruption of services to over 23,000 children, youth, and families, predominantly those living in West Oakland, the Fruitvale, and East Oakland.
• Delays in the start of programming during the late summer and early fall, disrupting community-based academic enrichment, youth leadership, and violence prevention efforts.
• Delays in the contract execution, inhibiting the city’s ability to pay community-based agencies providing critical services to our children, youth, and families.
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• Failure to meet the 2025 – 2028 OFCY Strategic Investment Plan goal to expand investment in programming for older youth.
Reason for not
recommending
• Rejecting the POC’s recommended funding awards would
jeopardize community-based programs that provide essential jobs, youth services, violence prevention, public safety, academic enrichment, and basic needs support for Oakland youth and their families.
• Approving these awards ensures OFCY can invest in vital services that align with the spirit of the FY 2025 – 2028 SIP.
Staff reviewed all proposal submissions received by the deadline to ensure that the required proposal elements were provided according to the directions included in the RFP. In accordance with the evaluation criteria outlined in the RFP, all proposals that met the minimum threshold of 70 were considered for funding.
There are 92 agencies recommended for awards. Of the 92 agencies, 63 (68%) are current OFCY grantees, and 29 (32%) are new grantees for this RFP cycle.
Through approving these funding awards, the estimated number of participants (youth and adult) proposed to be served by year-round programs is 23,947 as shown in Table 9.
Table 9: Estimated Participants Served by Funding Strategy (Proposed)
Funding Strategy Total Projected Participants
Career Access and Employment 3,617
Elementary School-Based Expanded Learning 3,491
Family Resource Centers and Parent Engagement 3,152*
Independent Living 532
Middle School-Based Expanded Learning 1,909
Place-Based Innovations for Youth Safety 2,449
Youth Development and Leadership 8,797
TOTAL 23,947
*includes adult participants: 1,233 youth participants and 1,919 adult participants for a total of 3,152.
Across all proposals, there are more proposals that met the minimum threshold score of 70 / 100 than OFCY can fund.
108 of the 300 year-round proposals (36%) received an average score of 90 / 100 or higher. An additional 78 year-round proposals (26%) received an average score of 85 – 89 /100.
To determine final award allocations for the proposals, OFCY considered the following factors beyond average score, including:
• Geographic population served
• Number of proposals submitted by the agency
• Total funding requested
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• Percentage of funding requested from OFCY compared to total program cost • History in Oakland
• Applied expertise
• Alignment with the 2025 – 2028 SIP
• Funding climate
Significant consideration was given to how programs meet the vision of the FY 2025-2028 SIP to shift OFCY funding toward programs and services that reach older youth in Oakland. As identified in the 2024 OFCY Community Needs Assessment, older youth in Oakland have less programming and services available compared to younger youth.
Not only do older youth have less access to programs and services, but there are fewer dedicated funding streams to serve this population. In contrast, there are multiple local and state funding streams that serve children, youth, and families from birth through middle school. An overview of three funding streams is below:
1. The California Expanded Learning Opportunities Program (ELOP)
2. Oakland Children’s Initiative (OCI)
3. Alameda County Measure C
The California Expanded Learning Opportunities Program:
ELOP provides funding for school districts, including Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) to offer after-school and summer enrichment programming to students grades TK-6th grade.
When evaluating proposals in the Elementary and Middle school-based Expanded Learning strategies, OFCY funding recommendations considered the amount of ELOP funding received by the agency from OUSD to serve the population described in the proposal. Programs receiving ELOP funding were recommended for $65,000 for elementary school and $85,000 for middle school to enable these programs to provide higher quality enrichment activities and experiences to youth served.
ELOP funding is secure through FY 2026-2027. However, it is uncertain whether ELOP funding will be available in FY 2027-2028, the second year covered by this OFCY award term. OFCY staff recommend awards at $65,000 for elementary school and $85,000 for middle school programs receiving ELOP funds so that if ELOP funding is eliminated in FY 2027-2028, youth served in these after school programs are still supported.
Oakland Children’s Initiative (OCI) and Alameda County Measure C The Oakland Children's Initiative (Measure AA) is a 2018 Oakland City Charter Amendment to deepen investment in early childcare education and to expand access to scholarships and college for students.
62% of OCI funds are allocated to the Early Education Fund to support early care and education and preschool programs. 31% of OCI funds are allocated to the Oakland Promise Fund to reduce disparities for students in post-secondary education through supporting college and career access.
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Measure C is a 0.5% sales tax, generating approximately $150 million annually, for expanding access to early childhood education in Alameda County. 80% of funds generated are dedicated to supporting child care, preschool, and early education services and programming.
The deeper investment in early childhood education and college access illuminated the gap in funding for programs serving youth, specifically for violence prevention and services for transition-aged youth up to 21.
Despite there being additional funding available for programs serving young children and their families, approximately 10% of all proposals received (33 out of 333) were for the Family Resource Center and Parent Engagement strategy. To align with the intention of the FY 2025- 2028 SIP to prioritize serving older adults, OFCY staff prioritized programs from agencies that received a score of 90 or above for award for funding. Staff also prioritized awards in the FRC strategy for agencies not receiving funding in other funding strategies.
Chart 1 on the following page demonstrates how the proposed funding awards align with the FY 2025-2028 SIP, prioritizing deeper investment in programs serving youth ages 11 – 21.
Chart 1: Proposed Youth Served by Age Range
Based on the competitiveness of this Request for Proposal (RFP), 176 programs are not recommended for funding. Please see Attachment B for this list. Table 10 below shows the number of proposals awarded by funding strategy.
2,304
5,889
9,623
10,321
0 2,000 4,000 6,000 8,000 10,000 12,000
0 - 5
6 - 10
11 - 15
16 - 21
Proposed Youth Participants by Age
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Table 10: Programs Submitted Versus Awarded Comparison
Funding Strategy # Submitted
Proposals
# Awarded
Proposals
% Proposals
Awarded out of
Submitted
Career Access and Employment 56 23 41%
Elementary School Expanded Learning 74 24 32%
Family Resource Centers & Parent
Engagement 33 12 36%
Independent Living 12 7 58%
Middle School Expanded Learning 27 18 67%
Place-Based Innovations for Youth Safety 22 11 50%
Youth Development and Leadership 96 41 43%
TOTAL 333 136 41%
The following Table 11 shows how well aligned the proposed funding is with the funding allocation ranges approved in the FY 2025 - 2028 SIP.
Table 11: Proposed Awards Alignment with FY 2025 - 2028 OFCY SIP
OFCY FY 25 – 28
SIP Funding Strategy Investment Allocation Range
Proposed
Allocation
(Year-round)
Total
Allocation
(Summer &
Year-round)
FRC & Parent Engagement $1,600,000.00 - $2,600,000.00 $2,127,653.26 $2,127,653.26 Expanded Learning- Elementary $1,600,000.00 - $2,600,000.00 $1,652,761.00 $2,124,726.00 Expanded Learning- Middle $2,000,000.00 - $3,000,000.00 $1,479,873.19 $1,879,873.19 Youth Development &
Leadership $6,000,000.00 - $7,000,000.00 $7,579,014.80 $8,127,647.80 Youth Summer Jobs / MSYEP $1,200,000.00 - $2,200,000.00 - $1,030,253.60 Career Access & Employment $2,400,000.00 - $3,400,000.00 $4,058,559.00 $4,350,519.00 Independent Living $600,000.00 - $1,600,000.00 $1,246,205.00 $1,246,205.00 Place Based Innovations for
Safety $2,000,000.00 - $3,000,000.00 $2,533,289.75 $2,533,289.75 TOTAL $20,677,356.00 $23,420,167.60
Looking at the total allocations (both summer and year-round), the proposed allocations are within the SIP range for the following strategies:
• Family Resource Center (FRC) and Parent Engagement
• Elementary School-Based Expanded Learning
• Independent Living
• Place Based Innovations for Youth Safety
Elizabeth Lake, Acting City Administrator
Subject: OFCY Year-round Program Service Term Awards FY 2026 - 2028 Date: June 04, 2026 Page 16
Life Enrichment Committee
June 23, 2026
The proposed awards are below the funding range for the Middle School-Based Expanded Learning strategy and the Youth Summer Jobs / Mayor’s Summer Youth Employment Program (MSYEP) strategy.
The proposed awards are above the funding range for the Career Access and Employment strategy and the Youth Development and Leadership strategy.
OFCY staff recommend approving the proposed awards based on the spirit of the strategic investment plan to support older youth. Through deeper investment in Career Access and Employment, OFCY offsets underspending in the Youth Summer Employment Strategy.
OFCY staff recommend approving the deeper investment in the Youth Development strategy, recognizing that it received the highest number of proposals. This was the most competitive funding strategy for awards and received the largest number of proposals.
RELATED PLANNING EFFORTS: OAKLAND STRATEGIC PLAN
Under the Oakland Strategic Plan, this agenda item supports the Strategic Priority to Foster Cross-Department Collaboration. Specifically, this item relates to the implementation of the following task:
“Strengthen Governance and Coordination for Economic and Workforce Development.”
The RFP process and contract execution during Fiscal Years 2026–2027 and 2027–2028, RFP require a collaborative partnership between OFCY, the Finance Department (Contract Administration Bureau), and the Department of Workplace Employment Standards (DWES).
This interdepartmental partnership coordinated efforts to ensure that all agencies recommended for award:
• Comply with the Living Wage and Equal Benefits Ordinances • Are registered with the Secretary of State
• Participated in a fair and competitive solicitation process
RELATED PLANNING EFFORTS: OAKLAND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACTION PLAN
This item supports the Oakland Economic Development Action Plan Job and Community Investment priority. Specifically, the 23 programs recommended for award within the Career Access and Employment funding strategy aim to support over 3,600 youth ages 15 – 21.
These programs are based in community and employ a significant number of Oakland residents, many of which live and are from the neighborhoods served, which strengthens neighborhood supports. Thus, this investment not only supports the program participants, but also the Oakland residents employed to serve them.
Elizabeth Lake, Acting City Administrator
Subject: OFCY Year-round Program Service Term Awards FY 2026 - 2028 Date: June 04, 2026 Page 17
Life Enrichment Committee
June 23, 2026
FISCAL IMPACT
The City of Oakland Proposed Budget for FY 2026-2027 estimates a total allocation of $22,126,868.00 for FY 2026-2027 for the Oakland Kids First! Children’s Fund. $19,914,181.00 (90%) is available for grants and $2,212,687 (10%) is available for evaluation, strategic planning, and other administrative costs.
OFCY seeks approval to allocate $20,677,356.00 to year-round grant awards for FY 2026-2027 and 2027-2028. To cover the difference between the amount requested and the estimated amount available in the FY 2026-2027 Oakland Kids First! Children’s Fund, Carry forward (CF) funding will be used. The total estimated CF amount calculated by the HSD Fiscal and Budget staff based on the City of Oakland Auditor's Report and the Expenditure Detail Report (EDR) is $16,616,778.
The estimated CF amount for the period from 2018 through 2024 is $8,367,183, of which $7,446,792 is available for program expenditures and $920,390 is available for administrative costs. The estimated CF amount for the period prior to 2018 is $8,249,595, including $7,424,636 available for program expenditures and $824,960 available for administrative costs. The final CF amount remains subject to adjustment pending the close of the current fiscal year and subsequent confirmation, review, and approval by the City of Oakland City Administrator and the Oakland City Council.
Table 12: Proposed Carry Forward Allocation
Approved OFCY Summer Program Funding through Resolution 91138 C.M.S.
$2,742,811.60
Recommended Year-round Program Funding $20,677,356.00
Amount available in Oakland Kids First! Children’s Fund for Program $19,914,181.00 Total Annual OFCY Allocation $23,420,167.60
Difference: Covered by Carry Forward $3,505,986.60
A breakdown of the appropriated project funding sources for MSYEP and all OFCY summer program service term awards is included in Table 13.
Table 13: Project Funding Sources
Fund Source Organization Project Program Amount
1780 – Oakland
Fund for
Children and
Youth (OFCY) –
Kids First
Oakland
Children’s Fund
78251 – Youth
Services
Organization
1007730 –
OFCY FY 2026
– 2027 Project
YS04 – OFCY
Program
$ 19,914,181.00
TOTAL $ 19,914,181.00
Elizabeth Lake, Acting City Administrator
Subject: OFCY Year-round Program Service Term Awards FY 2026 - 2028 Date: June 04, 2026 Page 18
Life Enrichment Committee
June 23, 2026
PUBLIC OUTREACH / INTEREST
On May 6, 2026, the OFCY POC unanimously approved the 136 FY 2026-2028 year-round program service term grant recommendations in a noticed public meeting.
COORDINATION
These funding recommendations were developed in close partnership with staff from the Finance Department, Contract Administration Unit, and DWES. Before bringing this to City Council for consideration, all agencies recommended for award were reviewed by DWES for compliance with the Living Wage and Equal Benefit ordinances.
This report and legislation have also been reviewed by the Office of the City Attorney and the Budget Bureau.
PAST PERFORMANCE, EVALUATION AND FOLLOW-UP
All funded grantees must submit quarterly reports detailing participant demographics, the geographic areas served, and the impact of their programs. As part of the overall evaluation effort, outcomes reporting is shifting from open‑ended narrative descriptions to defined, prescriptive qualitative measures and outcomes.
In FY 2026 – 2028, OFCY will be tracking outcomes using eight identified outcome measurement categories to evaluation how participants are better off since being in the program funded by OFCY:
1. Client Satisfaction
2. Belonging and Community Support
3. Knowledge Acquisition and Skill Development
4. Connections and Access to Resources
5. Leadership and Development
6. Engagement in School and Academic Achievement
7. Violence Prevention
8. Employment and Financial Stability
Through the RFP, applicants were required to identify how their program aligned with the funding strategy outcome selected and at least two of the above outcome measurement categories. All grantees also consented to working with the OFCY independent evaluator to evaluate program impact.
OFCY contracted with The Bridging Group to conduct the FY 2024-2025 evaluation, which was approved by the City Council on May 19, 2026. This evaluation included a comparison of service goals versus actual goals met, an overview of the focus population served using an equity framework, a summary of responses to the grantee youth and parent participant surveys, highlights of successes, participant stories, identification of challenges and barriers, and a description of lessons learned.
Elizabeth Lake, Acting City Administrator
Subject: OFCY Year-round Program Service Term Awards FY 2026 - 2028 Date: June 04, 2026 Page 19
Life Enrichment Committee
June 23, 2026
The FY 2025-2026 program year ends on June 30, 2026. Final quarterly reports are due by July 15, 2026. Beginning in September 2026, the independent evaluator will begin compiling their findings to present to Council as required by Oakland City Charter Article XIII: Kids First! Oakland Children’s Fund.
RACE AND EQUITY
OFCY continues to partner with the City of Oakland’s Department of Race & Equity and recognizes the responsibility of implementing the City of Oakland Administrative Instruction 580 (AI580) to ensure funding investments support fairness and justice for all City of Oakland children, youth, and their families by removing barriers and reducing disparities.
OFCY adopted the following equity outcome statement into the FY 2025-2028 SIP:
All children and youth participating in OFCY funded programs will have opportunities to thrive, including those experiencing the most disparities.
OFCY programs predominantly serve participants of color. The largest ethnic category served is participants who identify as Latino/a or Latinx, followed by participants who identify as Black or African American. The chart below shows the demographics of proposed participants for the programs recommended for year-round funding awards.
Chart 2: Estimated Number of Participants Served by Ethnicity
Equity outcomes were also included in the OFCY FY 2026 – 2028 RFP guidance. Each Funding Strategy identified Priority Populations & Geographic Areas / neighborhoods listed as “Highest” or “High” priority as defined by the City of Oakland Department of Transportation Geographic Equity Toolbox.
220
276
303
381
474
669
1195
1563
2711
8678
11667
0 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 12000 14000
Other
American Indian or Alaskan Native
South Asian, Indian, or Desi
Pacific Islander or Native Hawaiian
Afro-Caribbean or Afro-Latin(o/a/x)
Arab and other Middle Eastern American
White, European, or Caucasian
Two or More
Asian, Asian American, Filipino
Black or African American
Hispanic or Latin(a/o/x)
Proposed Youth by Ethnicity
Elizabeth Lake, Acting City Administrator
Subject: OFCY Year-round Program Service Term Awards FY 2026 - 2028 Date: June 04, 2026 Page 20
Life Enrichment Committee
June 23, 2026
The programs proposed for funding intentionally serve communities in Oakland with youth and families experiencing the most disparities.
The following tables showing proposed participants served and number of programs funded by Council District.
Table 14: Estimated Number of Youth Served by Council District
City Council District Proposed Youth
Served
Percentage of Total
Youth Served
1 2,122 10%
2 1,843 8%
3 7,642 35%
4 260 1%
5 3,563 16%
6 2,820 13%
7 3,336 15%
N/A 465 2%
Table 15: Estimated Number of Programs by Council District
City Council District Number of Proposed
Year-round Programs
1 7
2 16
3 40
4 3
5 24
6 19
7 21
N/A 5
Lastly, below Table 16 demonstrates participants served by zip code, indicating that the primary zip codes served are 94601, 94621, 94603, 94606, and 94607.
Elizabeth Lake, Acting City Administrator
Subject: OFCY Year-round Program Service Term Awards FY 2026 - 2028 Date: June 04, 2026 Page 21
Life Enrichment Committee
June 23, 2026
Table 16: Estimated Youth Served by Zip Code
Zip Code Youth Served
94601 5138
94621 2921
94603 2856
94606 2586
94607 2021
94605 1963
94602 698
94619 632
94608 582
94609 566
94610 528
Homeless/Transitioning 493
94611 492
94612 316
94618 117
94613 105
94705 26
94704 24
94720 13
Elizabeth Lake, Acting City Administrator
Subject: OFCY Year-round Program Service Term Awards FY 2026 - 2028 Date: June 04, 2026 Page 22
Life Enrichment Committee
June 23, 2026
ACTION REQUESTED OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Staff Recommends That The City Council Adopt A Resolution Accepting The Planning And Oversight Committee Recommendation To Award Oakland Fund for Children and Youth (OFCY) Grants To Non-Profit and Public Agencies To Operate Distinct Year-Round Programs in An Annual Amount Not To Exceed Twenty Million Six Hundred Seventy Seven Thousand Three Hundred And Fifty Six Dollars ($20,677,356) For Two Fiscal Years, From July 1, 2026, Through June 30, 2027, And From July 1, 2027, Through June 30, 2028, Contingent Upon Funding Availability And Program Performance
For questions regarding this report, please contact ROBIN LOVE, MANAGER, at (510) 238 - 3213.
Respectfully submitted,
Greg Elliott
Interim Director, Human Services Department
Reviewed by:
Robin Love, Manager
Prepared by:
Robyn Levinson, Program Planner
Children and Youth Services Division
Greg Elliott (Jun 8, 2026 14:58:56 PDT)
Elizabeth Lake, Acting City Administrator
Subject: OFCY Year-round Program Service Term Awards FY 2026 - 2028 Date: June 04, 2026 Page 23
Life Enrichment Committee
June 23, 2026
Attachments (5):
A: Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended for Awards
B: Year-round and Summer Service Term Programs Not Recommended for Awards
C: FY 2026 – 2028 OFCY RFP Background Information
D: Approved Summer Service Term Program Awards
E: Scores for Year-round Service Term Programs Recommended for Awards