In Oakland, a significant loss of $2.6 million in public funding is jeopardizing nonprofit services that provide crucial support to vulnerable populations, such as meals for seniors and legal defense for immigrants. This cut is part of a larger $130 million budget deficit, leading to nearly 100 city worker layoffs. Nonprofit leaders emphasize the dire impact on the community and urge the restoration of funding to prevent a decline or loss of essential services that have sustained Oakland's social safety net.
We hire people from the community to help their community what is better than that? Andrew Park, of the family-service nonprofit Trybe, said at a news conference.
City Administrator Jestin Johnson... did promise reimbursements for work that the nonprofits had already completed. But money they had budgeted in the coming months will be squeezed.
The nonprofit leaders warned Tuesday that the services they provide will decline or may disappear if the city doesn't restore some of the funding.
The abrupt slashing of city contracts... is part of the fallout from a $130 million budget deficit that also resulted in layoffs of nearly 100 city workers.
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