Oakland Fund for Public Innovation

Oakland is a city that punches above its weight. It is home to radical imagination, movement-building, and brilliance. The Oakland Fund exists to match that brilliance with outcomes.

Vision

The Oakland Fund exists to match our city’s brilliance with outcomes. We move beyond structural limitations. We move with urgency, creativity, and a deep belief in Oakland’s potential. Through bold investments, catalytic partnerships, and sustained civic infrastructure, OFPI helps Oakland thrive—for real, and for all.

MISSION

To improve the prosperity, safety, and quality of life for all Oaklanders by establishing innovative public-private partnerships in our most vulnerable communities.

The Oakland Fund was formed to connect the city’s already existing genius to sustainable systems. Our city government and nonprofit sectors cannot solve complex challenges alone, and since inception, The Oakland Fund has stepped in as a convener of ideas, resources, and changemakers, aligning public, philanthropic, and community action to move solutions forward.

Our collaborations across private and public sectors pilot new ideas and scale proven ones to create measurable change. From keeping Oaklanders housed, to mobilizing resources during COVID-19 for trusted community partners, to funding small businesses, and partnering with artists and city leaders to reimagine how Oakland works, these catalytic initiatives are core to our work.

The Oakland Fund continues to pioneer, optimize, and amplify strategies that keep the city safer, rooted in culture, and engineer a place of opportunity and abundance across every part of Oakland.

We focus on three primary areas

1) Jobs, Housing, & Economic Security

Work that empowers. Homes that last. Wealth that's secure.

2) Public Innovation & Systems Change

A city where the people's ideas shift outcomes and environments.

3) Community Belonging & Safety

Real safety grows from deeply connected communities.