Self-Help Hunger Program

New Grantee Video! In late 2025, MTF's Community Service Award to Oakland Communities United for Equity and Justice wrapped up their one-year project, “JUSTtouch: Community Access to Sustainable Healing.” Through the project, a supervising massage therapist and students from the National Holistic Institute (NHI) provided weekly chair massage pop-ups for severe low-income and individuals of color experiencing homelessness. See the inspiring impact of this project: https://bit.ly/41k9J9u

Blue Heart and Eva Orbuch have graciously granted us their support again this year. Aunti Frances was invited to their podcast to speak truth to power: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEIpxs1xGOA&feature=youtu.be
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Blue Heart Interview with Self Help Hunger Program Blue Heart Interview with Self Help Hunger Programhttps://www.selfhelphunger.org/blueheartaction.org

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Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Black History Month and the 60th Anniversary of the Black Panther Party with the 1st Annual Oakland Freedom Run & Community Wellness Festival on February 28! 👟The 5k run or walk route in West Oakland will take you past 5 historic Black Panther Party landmarks.

Learn more and register: visitoakland.com/event/oakland-freedom-run/34933/

📸: .freedom.run

Come to the Vallejo JFK Library for a community breakfast and a powerful look into the legacy of the Black Panther Party. After the presentation, we’ll roll up our sleeves for a hands-on writing and illustration workshop inspired by the Panther newspaper, celebrating Black grassroots journalism, creativity, and collective voice.

11am: Community Breakfast, courtesy of Noonie's Place

12pm: Talk/Presentation from Billy Jennings of the Oakland Black Panthers chapter.

1pm: DIY Newspaper Workshop

So much gratitude for the beautiful ComeUnity who sat with us houseless /formerly houseless "cast" in this prayer medicine called