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Make your for Oakland clear: $25 gets you a $35 Gift Card to nearly 20 Oakland businesses who need your help right now. Visit https://shop2help.org/ to show your love & get 40% bonus cash at Pamela's, Salud Juicery, Fuel & Fuddle, Mario's, Treats N Beans, Atarashi, CHiKN, Stack'd, Dave & Andy's, Fuku Tea, Hieber's Pharmacy, Lotsa Pizza, Maggie & Stella's, Milk Shake Factory, Prince of India, Medical Center Opticians, Salvatore Puccini Hair Design, The Pitt Shop & The University Store.

Let's make your $25 spend like it's $35! The $10 bonus cash you'll get to spend in Oakland goes directly to supporting these small businesses and their staff AND to donating meals to Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank as we all continue to fight to survive economic and health impacts of the ongoing pandemic. With no new federal assistance coming anytime soon for businesses like restaurants, bars, and cafes enduring capacity limits especially, your support today is exactly... what your favorite Oakland businesses need to ensure that they're here for us on the other side. Thank you for doing your part to make sure that our time spent socially distant today can be followed by a lot of joyous days together in the future! There's nearly 20 Oakland businesses right now that can use your help! Check out the website to explore the gift card marketplace now. Link in bio https://shop2help.org/

Happy election day! Today's to do list is really quite simple. Five easy ways to make an enormous impact on your community by 1. VOTING, and 2. Supporting Oakland businesses that need your help right now by buying gift cards through the #Shop2HelpOakland Gift Card Program giving 40% in extra bonus cash on every purchase, 3. Sharing!!, 4. Shopping online or in-person where you can, and 5. Leaving an awesome review for your favorite businesses. Positivity goes a long way in this world. Keep your energy high and relax with 6. Sit back and watch the election results come in tonight! Thank you for doing your part to support Oakland while many small business owners continue to endure the significant impacts of the pandemic and fight to still be here for you when we reach the other side. We love you all! #SupportOaklandPGH #onlyinoakland

Food Distribution Event on Wednesday at Schenley Plaza Tent from 2pm-6pm 10-meal food boxes at no charge with no requirement criteria. Details at https://mailchi.mp//food-distribution-event-on-wednesday-a

The Shop2Help Oakland Gift Card Program is live! Spend $25, get $35 in gift cards at over 18 Oakland businesses while the program lasts! Visit https://shop2help.org/ to show your support and grab your gift cards before they're gone Many of your favorite Oakland businesses need your help, so thanks to funding from the Richard King Mellon Foundation, we are selling gift cards with an extra 40% bonus incentive right now! Plus, for every $25 spent, we'll donate 25 meals to t...he Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank to help our neighbors overcome food insecurity and live happy, healthy lives. Buying gift cards is a simple, yet incredibly impactful way that you can do your part to help the businesses owners, employees, and families who continue to battle the economic impacts of COVID-19 every day and work to get back to serving our community. #SupportOaklandPGH #shop2help #Shop2HelpOakland #givebigpgh #giftcards #giftcardgiveback #onlyinoakland

Place matters because people matter. The environments we design physical, social, and economic have an enormous impact on the quality of people's lives and, as a curator of the public realm, I make it my duty to look out for the collective good. All aspects of our day to day lives are designed from furniture and buildings to programs and policies and as a proud member of the Urban Land Institute's 2020 Women's Leadership Initiative Steering Committee, I am excited for the infinite possibilities and solutions that we have yet to create with responsible use of land for sustaining thriving communities like Oakland worldwide. - Georgia Petropoulos, Executive Director, Oakland Business Improvement District

Check out today's Virtual Happy Hour from 4-6pm, hosted by lifelong disability rights advocate, Bill McDowell. Community members and people with disabilities advocates are invited to grab your favorite beverage and tune in for an opportunity to make connections, share experiences, and discuss the films that are part of Oakland For All's week-long access to the ReelAbilities film festival courtesy of Film Pittsburgh.

Have you registered for Today's Virtual Town Hall? You will not want to miss this great discussion!

Proudly serving Oakland since 1980, Sciulli's Pizza is celebrating 40 years! We're grateful to count Sciulli's among the very few pizza shops in Pittsburgh who can boast such a legacy. Stop in to see them at 3404 Fifth Avenue to grab one of their killer pizza pies, hoagies, and more for dine-in, takeout, or delivery tonight! Check out the full article at https://onlyinoakland.org//sciullis-pizza-forty-year-anni/ or get your online order for dinner tonight started at https://sciullispizza.com/ or calling 412-687-9287.

OBID is listening. Please refer to the link below for our full message, as well as direct donation links to organizations that we have supported. We must continue to listen, educate, and support. #BlackLivesMatter https://linktr.ee/OaklandBID

Many Oakland businesses are reopening their doors today some with dine-in & sidewalk seating available. Here's what going Green looks like in Oakland this weekend! Fuel & Fuddle & Garage Door Saloon return, Stack'd rooftop is open, Pamela's is open for dine-in & more. https://mailchi.mp//heres-what-going-green-looks-like-in-o for a complete list! Remember: Supporting the local businesses community means doing your part, too. Stay six feet apart, stay home if you're sick, respect others, where a mask, don't touch your face, wash your hands.

Almost time to celebrate responsibly! Garage Door Saloon is re-opening FRIDAY, JUNE 5!

The look on our faces when we found out that Fuel and Fuddle is re-opening TOMORROW! 11:00AM-9:00PM every day, with beer-to-go along with your choice of anything on the FULL MENU! Now, that's a treat for sure.

Need an excuse to order pizza tonight? Me neither... either way, it's National Pizza Party Day! And Oakland's got some of the best pizza shops in the city. - https://mailchi.mp//need-an-excuse-to-order-pizza-tonight- Worth mentioning: @maggieandstellas is offering 50% off S'well bottles in a flash sale right now, too. Check em out!