🍲 Volunteer Appreciation Dinner (VAD) 🍲 Thank you to everyone who joined us for VAD, it was such a special night celebrating our mentors for all of their dedication to supporting our students at Lincoln this semester 💙. Using mystery items, mentors worked together to create gingerbread houses with wild and creative stories (a ginger asteroid ☄️, the Mushroom Kingdom 👑, and even a carrot solar-panel masterpiece! 🥕). The fun continued with holiday bingo, where winners walked away with the best prizes—LEGO flowers, adorable otter plushies, and more 🎄🎁 We wrapped up the semester surrounded by fellow mentors, great conversations, and delicious food at Racha’s Café. A hugeee shoutout to our new coordinators for next semester—Zoe, Connor, Davina, and Elana! We’re so excited to welcome you to the coord family and can’t wait to collaborate on even more amazing events next semester. 💛✨ Here’s to a great semester and see you in the new year! 🎉💫

✨Last tutorial week ✨Wrapping up this semester with gratitude for our amazing mentors for bringing so much energy to Lincoln Elementary this semester! Mentors helped students color holiday-themed worksheets filled with snowmen⛄ and cheered them on as they counted points and picked out prizes🧸 at the student store. We can’t wait to welcome our mentors back to Lincoln next semester and create even more great memories together!! 🎨🎁💙

OASES Spring ‘26 apps are officially OPEN! 🌱 We’re searching for Coordinators and Committee Interns to help lead, create, and support our mission of empowering Oakland youth. Whether you’re into graphic design, social events, tech, finance, or outreach — there’s a place for you here. 💛 ✨ Apps due Thursday, Dec 11 @ 11:59PM — links in flyer & bio!

Hello OASES! ✨ We’re so excited to invite you to our Volunteer Appreciation Dinner (VAD)! 🎉 📍 Racha’s Café
2516 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA 94704 ⏰ 6:00 PM Please make sure to RSVP! ✔️
We’ll have delicious food 🍽️ and fun activities 🎲 ready. This is a special time to celebrate everyone’s hard work and the amazing community we’ve built together. 💛🤝 We can’t wait to see you there! 🥳

🎉OASES Friendsgiving 2025🎉 Friendsgiving filled with good food, great games, and even better community 🧡🍂Grateful for our members who showed up with so much spirit and for our mentors who continue to support and make OASES so wonderful!

⭐️ OUR DECEMBER 2025 COORDINATOR SPOTLIGHT: TIFFANY TRAN ⭐️ 🌟 For our December 2025 Spotlight, we’re thrilled to highlight someone who has made an incredible impact in just one semester—Tiffany! Even as a newer coordinator, she has jumped in with full energy, heart, and dedication, quickly becoming an essential part of the OASES team. 🎉 Tiffany has played a major role on our social committee, helping shape everything from our officer structure to countless social events that brought our members together. Her thoughtful planning, creativity, and willingness to step in wherever needed have strengthened the club’s sense of community and made our gatherings more welcoming and enjoyable. 🌼 Beyond her contributions behind the scenes, Tiffany’s warm spirit has become a bright spot in OASES. She’s the kind of person whose smile lifts the room and whose laughter brings people together—someone who makes every meeting and event just a little more joyful. We’re so grateful for everything you bring to OASES, Tiffany. Thank you for pouring so much into our community—you make it better just by being here! Keep on shining :) 💛

✨Alumni Network Event✨ Thank you all for joining us for OAN. Our incredible panel of grad and undergraduate panelist shared powerful experiences and perspectives with our community. A huge thank you to everyone who supported and helped bring this event to life! 💙See you at the next one 🎉📸

Snapshots from our tutorial days and recent events! 📚✨ Our amazing volunteers have been hard at work helping students grow, learn, and have fun outside the classroom. From tutoring sessions to exciting mentor outings supporting our fundraisers, it’s been a month full of memories and positive energy! We’re so proud of the impact our club is making, and we can’t wait to see what’s next! 💫

Hello Mentors!!! 🌲✨❄️ Fill out our Secret Santa form by TONIGHT to participate in our December festivities before finals! ☃️🌟🍭 https://forms.gle/pB5G6TYs7DsTov3FA

Hey Mentors!!!✨ Bready or not, here we crumble with a Friendsgiving Potluck on Sunday, November 16th, from 6-9 PM! Let’s make and share some dishes to gobble down on together as we celebrate what we’re thankful for this semester. 🍂🎃🍞🥧🧣🦃 RSVP Link ⬇️ https://forms.gle/96UEitk6GXxETwvb7