Coalition Partners
Our partners
Partnership and coalition building are core to OKF’s values and approach empowering youth to advance educational equity or racial justice campaigns through intergenerational organizing. OKF centers the voice, experience, and leadership of young people in shared or adult-led spaces in order to build their power and agency in making positive changes.
OKF is part of two coalitions. We are a founding organization of the Justice for Oakland Students (J4OS) Coalition and are the anchor organization of the Oakland Youth Vote Coalition (OYV). OYV also established a Core Leaders Committee specifically for youth members of each organization that OKF also helps to facilitate. Coalition partners include: Oakland Youth Commission (OYC), OUSD’s All City Council Student Union (ACC), AYPAL, Californians for Justice (CFJ), Youth Together (YT), Bay Area PLAN, Parents United for Public Schools, and Parent Voices.
OKF is also a long-standing partner of OUSD’s Student, Family & Community Engagement Office and All City Council Student Union.
Our staff work in close partnership with school principals and lead agencies to integrate Castlemont Community School Initiatives and REAL HARD with high school campuses. We partner closely with the lead agencies BACR at Fremont and Oakland Tech; EBAYC at Oakland High School; Youth Together (YT) at Skyline; and OKF’s own staff who direct the Knight Time and Knight Success programs at Castlemont.
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