Anti-poverty, Model Cities and Related Community Renewal Programs in Oakland, California, 1960s-1970sAnti-poverty, Model Cities and Related Community Renewal Programs in Oakland, California, 1960s-1970s

Materials on Oakland’s anti-poverty, Model Cities and related community renewal programs from the files of Gene Bernardi, a research associate in the Research Division of the Oakland Department of Human Resources. Under the direction of the Oakland Interagency Project and its successor, the Oakland Economic Development Council, the Research Division wrote grants that funded the various community renewal programs, provided operational support, and was deeply involved in program planning and evaluation. The collection consists of reports, memoranda, grant proposals and other assorted documents, and ranges from the 1960s to the early 1970s. The original order of Gene Bernardi’s files was not preserved.