ALAMEDA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ADVANCES HEALTH ACCESS THROUGHOUT ALAMEDA COUNTY BY SECURING FUNDING AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOR ALAMEDA HEALTH SYSTEM’S STRATEGIC PRIORITIES THAT REDUCE HEALTH DISPARITIES AND INEQUITIES AND IMPROVE HEALTH OUTCOMES AND WELL-BEING.
ALAMEDA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION IS A 501(C)(3) NONPROFIT.
PROGRAM BOOK SPONSORS
KAISER PERMANENTE, ROYAL AMBULANCE, INC. , AND ZOOM
ALAMEDA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION PRESENTS AN EVENING OF COMMUNITY & ENTERTAINMENT CELEBRATING ALAMEDA HEALTH SYSTEM
APRIL 25TH, 2026
PROGRAM BOOK SPONSORS KAISER PERMANENTE, ROYAL AMBULANCE, INC., AND ZOOM
Stanford Health Care is a proud supporter of Alameda Health System Foundation.
Together, we are expanding access to quality care and advancing health equity in our community.
ALAMEDA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION LEADERSHIP WELCOMES YOU
On behalf of the Alameda Health System Foundation’s Board of Directors and the Host Committee, welcome to our 5th Soul of Spring at the historic Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts Calvin Simmons Theatre.
• AHS expands its services into the community by meeting patients and families where they are, whether it’s at a local wellness center or via our Mobile Health Clinic or our Dental Sprinter Van.
Caring, Healing, Teaching, and Serving All. The mission of AHS frames the work and focus of AHS in all that it does and how it serves our community. The five hospitals and nine wellness centers that make up AHS are the public health safety net system – an essential health system – in Alameda County:
• AHS co-creates patient-centered care by listening to patients and the community, creating opportunities such as the Patient Family Advisory Council, the Black Patient Primary Care Initiative, and the AHS Homeless Health Center Co-applicant Board. These are examples of engaging to elevate patient voices and shaping the work at AHS.
• AHS empowers pregnant and postpartum people with innovative approaches to increase social support and reduce depression and anxiety.
• AHS fosters hope through integrative care that provides a compassionate approach to serving patients with HIV. Multiple services collaborate to be partners in a patient’s health journey.
As president of AHS Foundation, it brings me great joy to bring people together to not just to spend time in community listening to great music and enjoying the festivities but to come together to support all that AHS is doing every day for the community and beyond.
Thank you to the many individuals who are a part of Soul of Spring – it is a project that is driven by the heart. Thank you for your ongoing support for AHS, its patients, and more importantly, our community.
Warm regards,
Preston S. Walton President Alameda Health System Foundation
PROGRAM
6 PM
COCKTAILS AND CONVERSATION
Opening DJ Trixamillion
7 PM
SOUL OF SPRING AWARDS
Community Partner Awards
East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC)
Legacy Award
Coach John Beam
Former Laney College Football Coach
7:30 PM
LIVE PERFORMANCE BY Chanté Moore
9 PM
DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY
DJ King Most
VIP LOUNGE ARTIST LUMOS
CELEBRATING ALAMEDA HEALTH SYSTEM
Saturday, April 25, 2026
Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts
Calvin Simmons Theatre, Oakland
HOST COMMITTEE
Melanie M. Shelby, Timothy L. Reed, JD, Jill M. Butler, JD, and James E.T. Jackson
FEATURING
AN EVENING OF COMMUNITY & ENTERTAINMENT
CELEBRATING ALAMEDA HEALTH SYSTEM
CHANTÉ MOORE
GRAMMY - NOMINATED SINGER, SONGWRITER, AND ACTRESS.
HENRY J. KAISER CENTER FOR THE ARTS
CALVIN SIMMONS THEATRE
10 TENTH STREET OAKLAND
A MESSAGE FROM OUR CEO
As the CEO of Alameda Health System, thank you for joining us tonight to celebrate the important work of AHS –Caring, Healing, Teaching, Serving All. Thanks to your generosity, AHS programs can serve more patients and have essential support that expands our ability to provide world-class care to the most vulnerable in our community.
Your support goes toward vital programs like:
• Project DULCE, a program that supports families of newborns by connecting them with services that promote healthy child development. Tonight, we will be honoring the East Bay Community Law Center, a community partner that serves Project DULCE’s patients and families.
• Meeting unhoused patients where they are, the Dental Sprinter Van and the Mobile Health Clinic provide health care throughout Alameda County and connect patients with critical community resources.
• HealthPATH, a career and workforce development program that builds the future of healthcare with Oakland Unified School district and schools across Alameda County.
Sexual Assault Response and Recovery Team, a compassionate, immediately responsive program that provides essential services to the most in need.
• The Bridge Clinic, which is at the forefront of the opioid epidemic with its innovative approach to substance use disorders.
Your generosity supports the well-being and health of our patients as well as AHS staff and physicians. Tonight take some time to listen to the stories of the patients, providers, and programs. Spread those stories beyond tonight to highlight the innovative approaches to building community health and wealth that happen every day at AHS.
Thank you for raising awareness, highlighting the critical work of AHS, and for strengthening our community.
In gratitude,
James E.T. Jackson CEO, Alameda Health System
A WELCOME FROM OUR HOST COMMITTEE
Welcome to Alameda Health System Foundation’s Soul of Spring! We are delighted you joined us in support of Alameda Health System’s mission—advancing world-class care for all.
Tonight, we celebrate five years of Soul of Spring—a vision that has grown into a vibrant tradition, made possible by your continued presence and generosity.
We extend our deepest gratitude to our partners, production team, and volunteers, and proudly recognize the extraordinary staff and healthcare providers of Alameda Health System, whose compassion and dedication bring health, hope, and dignity to those they serve.
Most of all, thank you for being here this evening. Your support ensures that Alameda Health System Foundation and Alameda Health System can continue uplifting our community and Caring, Healing, Teaching and Serving All.
We are truly honored to celebrate with you tonight. Thank you again and enjoy Soul of Spring!
With gratitude,
Melanie M. Shelby AHS Foundation Board of Directors, Chair
Timothy L. Reed, JD AHS Foundation Board of Directors, Vice Chair
Jill M. Butler, JD AHS Foundation Board of Directors, Treasurer
James E.T. Jackson AHS Foundation Board of Directors, Ex-Officio
Healthcare for All Rooted in Alameda County
We are proud to have partnered with Alameda Health System for the last 30 years.
Together, we have worked towards a shared goal of increasing access to quality care and reducing health disparities and inequities. Through our collaboration, we are improving health outcomes and well-being at every stage of life.
As we celebrate this milestone, we look forward to continuing our work together in building a healthier community, one block at a time.
2026
COACH JOHN BEAM
JANUARY 1, 1959 – NOVEMBER 14, 2025
We extend our deepest gratitude to the family of John Beam for their meaningful participation in this tribute.
Alameda Health System Foundation is honored to present the Legacy Award at our 5th Annual Benefit Concert to Coach John Beam, a beloved coach, mentor, and community pillar whose life of service changed generations across Oakland and the greater Bay Area.
college, including 200+ Division I athletes, 30+ NFL players, and seven Super Bowl participants. He believed that academic achievement, emotional well-being, and discipline were inseparable from athletic success, and he tirelessly advocated for counseling services and equitable resources— particularly for young men of color.
Beyond athletics, Coach Beam was a compassionate mentor who created safe, affirming spaces rooted in dignity, empathy, and accountability. His guidance strengthened not only careers, but lives. Above all, John Beam was a devoted family man—husband to Cindi, proud father to Monica and Sonjha, and loving “Boppa” to Lola and Nori, the true lights of his life.
“I BELIEVE IN YOU SO YOU CAN BELIEVE IN YOURSELF. ”
www.alamedaalliance.org
Affectionately known as Coach Beam, he dedicated his career to uplifting young people through education, athletics, and unwavering belief in their potential. After 25 years as Head Coach at Skyline High School, Coach Beam began a defining chapter at Laney College in 2004, where he served as Head Football Coach and later Athletics Director through 2025. During his tenure, he led Laney to a CCCAA State Championship, coached 14 bowl games, earned CCCAA Coach of the Year honors, and reached millions worldwide through Netflix’s Last Chance U—yet his greatest influence was always personal.
Over his career, Coach Beam taught more than 5,000 students, coached over 2,500 players, helped hundreds of student-athletes attend
Coach John Beam’s legacy is one of belief, service, and love. In honoring him with this posthumous Legacy Award, we celebrate a life that reminds us true success is measured by the lives we lift along the way.
Two claps. Ready-Ready.
THE EAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW CENTER
The East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC) is an East Bay-based organization dedicated to advancing racial, gender, and economic equity by providing expert and holistic legal services to low-income Alameda County communities at no cost.
For nearly 40 years, EBCLC has fought for justice and dignity for historically excluded East Bay communities, providing essential legal services to households that would otherwise go without.
As one of the largest legal advocacy organizations serving communities of color in the Bay Area, EBCLC delivers over 5,000 services to nearly 4,000 clients every year.
AHS is grateful to have EBCLC as a partner for our Project DULCE program. Project DULCE families are provided with legal support in partnership with EBCLC.
IMPACT REPORT
Our donors
Our donors are diverse in all ways — but they are singularly committed to advancing health access.
Here are some quick facts about our gifts and grants from our many donors.
464 total number of individual donors
86 total number of institutional donors
$5,621,750 total grant funds received
$864,761 total non-grant contributions received
Join us today in becoming a donor foundationahs.org/donate
Thank you to our donors, gift in-kind donors, partners, volunteers, AHS health care professionals, frontline caregivers and heroes, leadership, and staff who help make tonight possible.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Melanie M. Shelby
Timothy L. Reed, JD
Jill M. Butler, JD
James E.T. Jackson
ALAMEDA HEALTH SYSTEM
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Alan E. Fox
Greg Garrett
Lilavati Indulkar, MD
Donna Linton
Nicholas Moss, MD
Nely Obligacion
Rachel Richman
David W Saÿen – President
Sblend A. Sblendorio
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Melanie M. Shelby, Chair
Timothy L. Reed, JD, Vice Chair
Jill M. Butler, JD, Treasurer
Charlene Lobo Soriano, Ed.D., NCC, Secretary
Todd Brantley
Tarrell Gamble
Barbara Hardy
James E.T. Jackson, Ex-Officio
Anjali Jameson
Merve Lapus
Constance Slider Pierre
U. Mini B. Swift, MD
Nico Tuason
Josefina C. Baltodano, JD, Emeritus
HEALTHCARE VISIONARY
Stanford Health Care
EPIC
HEALTHCARE 5 YEAR
ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATOR
LAZ Parking
HEALTHCARE COLLABORATOR
Alameda Alliance for Health
Kazan, McClain, Satterley & Greenwood
HEALTHCARE BENEFACTOR
Kaiser Permanente
Royal Ambulance, Inc.
Zoom
HEALTHCARE ADVOCATE
Columbia Bank
CSI
Hanson Bridgett
James E.T. & Meryl Jackson
Lescure Company
Morrison Healthcare
Preston S. Walton & Danielle A. Hinton
HEALTHCARE SUPPORTER
Computacenter, Palo Alto Networks, Everpure, and Cisco
Continuum Health IT
Enelalma
ePlus, Zscaler and Saviynt Fremont Bank
Smith-Karng Architecture
AHS Information Services Management Team
HEALTHCARE FRIENDS CIRCLE
Anjali Jameson & David McKie
Comcast
Constance Slider-Pierre & Jermaine Pierre
Dignity Health Mercy Medical Group
Ellit Groups
Epic Care
Identified Talent Solutions
Jill M. Butler
Ron & Marilyn Boston
Nico & Bernadette Tuason
Siebert Williams Shank & Co., LLC
Timothy & Shondella Reed
Quest Diagnostics
Kate & Rick Happy
HEALTHCARE ALLY
Accenture
e360
City of Alameda Health Care District
CDW
Grodin Financial and Insurance Services
JP Morgan Chase Spadafy
Xerox
Superlanet
HEALTHCARE HELPER
Anderson Commercial Flooring
Arctic Wolf
Comtech Phones
Cornerstone on Demand
Donor Network West
Schlesinger & Garry Offenberg
End-to-End Lifecycle Services at Scale
Chanté Moore
With her crystal clear 5 octave range, her smooth, rich tone, and her ability to convey a wide swath of emotions with remarkable phrasing, Chanté Moore is likely a favorite singer of your favorite singer.
The daughter of a minister, Moore grew up on gospel music and albums by George Duke and Lee Ritenour and began her songwriting journey by writing lyrics to their music.
In the middle of her teenage years, Chanté decided that she was going to concentrate her efforts on becoming a professional singer after she gave an inspired performance in a high school rendition of The Wiz…and after she experienced her first standing ovation when she sang “Home”.
collaborative work including a feature on the Isley Brothers’ 2001 single “Contagious,” a Top 20 pop hit nominated for a Grammy in the category of Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. Moore also recorded a pair of duet albums; 2003’s “Things That Lovers Do” and 2006’s “Uncovered/Covered”. She was a key cast member in the hit TV One show R&B Divas LA
Her first appearance on the Billboard Chart was in advance of her own project when she was featured on El DeBarge’s top 15 single, “You Know What I Like”. In 1992, Moore released her classic debut album, “Precious” produced in part by George Duke. Propelled by the singles “Love’s Taken Over” and “It’s Alright” in addition to album cuts and fan favorites like “As If We Never Met”, the album was RIAA certified Gold.
In 1999, Chanté released her highest-ranking Billboard charging album, “This Moment Is Mine” which features her signature song “Chanté’s Got A Man At Home” which became a Billboard top ten Pop hit.
After her final Silas/MCA album “Exposed” the following year, Moore took a break from releasing solo albums and continued to have success with
Since 2008, Chanté has recorded and released four highly regarded albums. In 2024, Chanté was selected to be the first American ever to participate in one of China’s most popular TV singing competition shows, Singer 2024 and tied for having the most 1st place finishes over the show’s 13 week stretch and in doing so, endeared herself and her talents to the 220 million viewers that the show reached weekly.
In 2025, Chanté released her latest project “EVOLve” featuring production by Laney Stewart, Tricky Stewart, Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds and Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis (the team that produced “Chanté’s Got A Man At Home” with Moore).
Of course, throughout her career, Chanté Moore has been on stage dazzling audiences with her unique combination of humor, testimony…and pristine singing. She will continue to share her unique voice with the world.
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