WHO WE ARE:

Sticky Rice Club is an economic and community development nonprofit that aims to strengthen place-keeping in Oakland Chinatown through the development of public + commercial spaces, and programs that promote: compassion, mindfulness practices, healing, equity, collective ownership, community safety, neighborhood solidarity, and cultural food + arts

building staying power through collective ownership

We aim to heal our neighborhoods in Oakland through principles of compassion, collectivism, solidarity and prefigurative activism. Through commercial and public space activation, mindfulness/healing events, merchant organizing, cooperative development (training and programming); we aim to support working-class merchants and residents to build economic staying power in the face of gentrification, displacement, and cultural erasure, while also building towards a more inclusive, intergenerational, and intercultural neighborhood grounded in equality (social and economic), mutual aid, compassion, community safety and solidarity.

COMMUNITY SHARED SPACES

社區共享商業空間

We develop low-barrier commercial projects that are designed to support local community food entrepreneurs, artists, organizers and healing practitioners thrive through collective buying power, collective care, and pathways to ownership.

SUCCESSION PLANNING

继任计划

As older business owners in Chinatown look to retire, we collectively buy their businesses and work with them to pass down cultural knowledge and expertise as we train the next generation of culture bearers towards the development of worker cooperatives.

NEIGHBORHOOD FESTIVALS

鄰里活動

Our festivals are designed to bring together folks from different cultures and surrounding neighborhoods in Oakland, as a way to create a Chinatown that is inclusive, intergenerational, intercultural, and grounded in community safety.