THE COMMUNITY BULIDING PLAN | East Oakland the "CityEast" community Urban Renewal and Economic Development Planning.

Following is The Kinte Center’s comprehensive and well researched Community based Community Economic Development Plan to economically revitalize the flatlands of the area in East Oakland bordered by 55th Avenue east to the Oakland-San Leandro border (Our targeted area). In our plan development, we avoided the common pitfall of planning without supporting research. Our plan is well researched. It will bring economic improvement to the flatlands of our targeted area and provide jobs and job training for 850 unemployed area youth and create 2800 new jobs in order to reduce our targeted area’s unemployment rate to the national level or better while improving and expanding community based job producing retail. Our plan is a proven American capitalistic model for improving economics at the community level.

STEP 1 THRU 12 OF THE COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN

Step # 1 - Conduct targeted area research and perform analysis needed to develop a community specific community economic development plan:

1. Analyze targeted area populations demographics
2. Analyze targeted area income and education levels
3. Analyze targeted area unemployment noting youth and ex-offender numbers.
4. Acquire business and residential databases for targeted area for analysis and direct contact etc.
5. Coordinate with City improvement efforts such as Redevelopment, Neighborhood Revitalization etc.
6. Conduct door-to-door visits to businesses in targeted area for visual analysis.
7. Analyze targeted area business community i.e., numbers, location, annual sales, business hiring capacity, goods and services offered etc.

Step # 2 - Document research findings; source all data.

Step # 3 - Develop community economic development plan

Step # 4 - Translate and document community economic development plan into a list of programs as this is the language of the funding world.

NOTE: To view our programs click here

Step # 5- Publish community economic development plan

Step # 6 - Develop a funding strategy

Step # 7 - Develop preliminary implementation strategy

Step # 8 - Establish alliances, support, partnering with entities needed to move forward with pursuit of funding.
a. Arrange for volunteer recruitment with Faith based community
b. Arrange with specialized non profit organization for services i.e., training, orientation etc. as needed to implement plan/programs
c. Develop working relationships with existing community improvement organizations such as Neighborhood Community Policing Councils (NCPC) etc.

Step # 9 - Develop final implementation strategy

Step # 10 - Present plan to prospective corporate and philanthropic funding sources

Step # 11 - Gain funding and implement plan/programs according to implementation strategy.

Step # 12 - Conduct ongoing research to track the extent to which community serving businesses are meeting the community’s consumer and employment needs and the extent to which community residents and workers shop with community serving businesses and make adjustments as required.

IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY
To follow THE PLAN implementation (click here)