User:JimmyCrossnoe/sandbox/Alameda Peeps

Alameda Peeps is a private Facebook group and community organization for people living in Alameda, California. The Alameda Peeps group was created on October 11th, 2010. As of October 31st, 2022 it has 15,968 members.

Philanthropy and Activism
Alameda Peeps is well known for it's philanthropic and activist activates. . . In 2017 Alameda Peeps rented and filed a truck with supplies for victims of the October 2017 Northern California wildfires.

Peeps organizes an annual "Turkey Drives" for the Alameda Food Bank, raising $25,885 in 2021. .

Peeps hosts sporadic "Cash Mob" efforts to help local businesses and causes. In January 2019 Peeps organized a "cash mob" to help local Coast Guard members stationed in Alameda who were left without a salary during the 2018–2019 United States federal government shutdown

In May 2016, after a number of pedestrian accidents, Alameda Peeps organized a Slow Down in Town campaign in cooperation with the City of Alameda.

In May of 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic pandemic, Alameda Peeps members created a directory of local businesses still open and offering takeout and delivery food. The City of Alameda would take ownership and maintenance of the list to make it public resource for the city.

Trademark and Incorporation
In 2020, after dealing with a number of off shoots groups by former members claiming to be the original Alameda Peeps group, admins of the Alameda Peeps group filed a federal trademark to protect the brand name.