Oakland Nonprofits Face Cuts After Losing Federal Grants

CBS Bay Area

April 29, 2025

Last week, across the country, nonprofits doing work for the Department of Justice got news that was bad, but not totally unexpected. The federal grants they were operating under were summarily cancelled by the Trump administration, and that included two organizations operating in Oakland.

"Yeah, so we got word about losing our federal funding last Tuesday," said Dr. Joe Griffin. "We lost a two million dollar grant, over three years, that really supports one of our programs that we're most known for, which is Caught in the Crossfire."

Dr. Griffin is Executive Director of a group called Youth Alive, a violence reduction initiative focused on young people in East and West Oakland. The Caught in the Crossfire program sends trained counselors to the actual hospital rooms of people injured in violent confrontations, both to ease the trauma, but also to try to calm a situation that could lead to retaliation on the streets.

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