West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project

Oakland, California, 94607 United States

Mission Statement

The West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project is a resident led, community-based environmental justice organization dedicated to achieving healthy homes, healthy jobs and healthy neighborhoods for all who live, work, learn and play in West Oakland, California. Through our Community-Based Participatory Research projects and our Collaborative Problem-Solving Model we build community empowerment and help local residents to achieve their own vision for healthy neighborhoods. Our mission is to build grassroots capacity to provide local leadership for positive change. Our work aids residents in understanding the political, social and natural forces that impact their lives. We give impacted residents the tools to participate in these processes and to drive change from the bottom.

About This Cause

Environmental justice through community resilience WOEIP has been centering the voices of impacted residents since 2012: people experiencing the negative impacts of local industrialization that stem from decades of redlining and discriminatory policy and enforcement. These are the people living on toxic soil, with polluting businesses for neighbors and diesel trucks rumbling past their windows. Everyone talks about community empowerment, but what does this really mean? It means that business and real estate developers shouldn’t be the loudest voice at the table when land use planning is on the civic agenda. Local residents, whose lives will be enhanced or degraded by land use decisions, deserve not only to inform but to drive local redevelopment decisions. WOEIP helps them do just that.

West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project
349 Mandela Pkwy
Oakland, California 94607
United States
Phone (510) 257-5640
Unique Identifier 202384563