The North Hills Community Association (NHCA) is a registered 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization located in the North Hills region of Oakland, California. The NHCA's all-volunteer board organizes programs and activities that support the NHCA's three-pronged mission of improving public safety, maintaining and beautifying community gardens and open spaces, and advocating on behalf of area owners and residents with local city and county governments and agencies. Click on the tiles below to read more about each of the NHCA's programs.

Public Safety

Your NHCA Board seeks to better protect and inform you by working with Oakland Fire & Police Departments, and City of Oakland Officials.

Gardens & Community

Your North Hills Community has adopted Gateway Emergency Preparedness Exhibit and Firestorm Memorial Gardens.

Advocacy

Your NHCA Board is advocating for City, County and State awareness and focusing on issues enhancing our areas' livability.

News & Notes

Fabulous workday with the UC Project Day leaders!

The Gateway Demonstration Exhibit Garden benefited from an energetic Cal group!!   On Sat Oct 4, we had 17 Cal students, and they worked hard!!!  They painted the graffitied irrigation box, deck posts and painted out graffiti on the understory of the deck.  Other students hammered in the heads of hundreds of popped nail heads on […]

Firestorm Memorial Garden Cleaning

On Sat September 27, our intrepid NHCA garden volunteers cleaned up the Firestorm Memorial Garden.   Donna got the great idea to cut down a clump of very tall, 20’+ Euc suckers which were blocking the directional highway signs.  So attack we did! Pic #1     Before our work, you can verify our location with the bike […]

Meet Our Garden Beautification Crew

This is Peggy Mooney, our steady octogenarian volunteer. She specializes in path restoration. Every little weed is out, every tiny chard of glass, gone. Rocks all together and mulch separated. Here are most of us! To our delight Donna has joined our merry crew. On the left is Geri and her husband Kevin with the […]

ARE YOU IN THE NHCA?

Everyone who lives in the area bounded by Ashby/Highway13, Claremont Blvd., GrizzlyPeak/Skyline, and Thornhill is a member of NHCA. Membership is free, but we depend on your support and participation so that we can cover our expenses (mostly for communication, a little for plants), work on issues that are important to everyone, and represent the community’s views when we interact with city officials.

 

 

This is the new map of City of Oakland Council Districts. NHCA is part of District 4 now, an all hill district

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