Curious about our homepage graphic?

Michelle Nazzal and Riena Parente Ribeiro created CCB’s new homepage graphic to help tell a visual story of what CCB is all about.

Following the numbered yellow arrows above (left to right):

1. Blue circle is a street grid of Berkeley to represent our land-use work and that we were founded in Berkeley.

2. Construction worker at the bottom represents our work to support small builders of color.

3. House represents the divested, redlined neighborhoods we work to bring resources too, as well as our broader housing production work.

4. Mural, created by Girl Mobb, represents our ten-toes-down ethos.

5. Two protestors, from photo taken at the 1968 Third World Strike, is our nod and shoutout to the activists and advocates who came before us — and specifically our board members John Gamboa, Robert Apodaca, Joe Coto, Ortensia Lopez, and Marsha Murrington, all of whom were active in the Third World Strike at UC Berkeley or other civil rights campaigns.

6. Bank building is a picture of the old Federal Reserve in San Francisco and represents our work around banking and the financial services sector.

7. Handsome man at the podium is a picture of our founder, the inimitable (and irascible) John Gamboa. We weren’t able to place this specific photo, but John was probably giving a press conference at a protest of a bank, utility, or insurance company. Without John we wouldn’t have an organization, a guiding vision, or a specific dedication to building up student leaders.

8. Orange circle doesn’t represent anything, we just thought it looked cool.