I am proud to announce that we have hit our halfway point for completed number of returns!  Our goal for this year is to prepare 1,000 tax returns, so far we are just past 500 returns.  

   

86 from SparkPoint Oakland (SPOC)  

420 from the Asian Resource Center (ARC)  

Over 15 from Beehive  

  

Total refunds so far: Over $928,000  

$208,751 from SPOC  

$712,422 from ARC  

$30,000 from Beehive  

  

Total Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC): Over $435,000
 

$106,036 from SPOC  

$321,395 from ARC  

$12,092 from Beehive  

  

  

  

  

We partnered with the Walmart Foundation, Beehive, the United Way of the Bay Area (UWBA), the National Disabilities Institute to host a free tax preparation service where clients could prepare their own taxes under the supervision of our IRS certified volunteers.  More pictures are on the way from our exciting press conference with Oakland Council woman Patricia Kernighan.  

We also have been very fortunate to receive several youth translators through a partnership with the United Way of the Bay Area, Matchbridge, and Premier Staffing.  The youth have enabled us to accomplish our goals and have played a vital role in our success.  We feel very fortunate to work together to provide youth with work experience and benefit from their skills, it has been a mutually beneficial partnership for everyone involved. 

  

Here’s a sneak peak of our tax preparation with Beehive from Tuesday afternoon:  

 

And as we were running Beehive, we began to set-up:  

 

This is what our typical Tuesday afternoon looks like before we begin tax preparation, then it starts to look like this:  

 

And on a busy night it ends up looking like this: