Celtics star and University of California, Berkeley alumnus Jaylen Brown and Dallas Mavericks Coach Jason Kidd have partnered to launch Oakland XChange.

“Giving resources back to our community and allowing them to have opportunities, I think is key,” Brown said. “The wealth gap is widening in other places of the US not just Boston, so to be able to invest in our community is important.”

The East Bay mission is forming off the back of Boston XChange, which aimed to bring Black Wall Street to Boston. The hope locally is to generate $5 billion for historically marginalized communities by investing in real estate and providing support, resources and programing to entrepreneurs.

“Being able to teach people how to run a business, how to grow a business and how to start a business,” Kidd said. “When you talk about the different programs from A to Z there is going to be everything under one roof, and that just doesn’t happen.”