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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Physical Fitness & Community Recreational Facilities, Sports
Mission: Walk oakland bike oakland (wobo), founded in 2006, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving neighborhood livability, vitality, and sustainability by making oakland a better place to walk and bike. We engage residents, workers, business owners, and commuters in education and advocacy for improving oakland's pedestrian and bicycling infrastructure.
Programs: We put on a community open streets event called oaklavia for over 10,000 people in oakland.
developed walking programs, such as partnering with oakland urban paths to support local walks, documentation and maintenance of city paths and stairways. We spearheaded the effort to convince the city.