Grantee | Giving Area | Program | Grant Year | Project Title | Amount | |
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3Ls Academy | Education | Teaching and Learning | 2023 | Sobrante Park Network | $200,000 | |
Aspire Public Schools | Education | Teaching and Learning | 2023 | Structured Literacy Initiative: TK-2 Coaching/Training & Tutoring | $380,000 | |
Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School | Health | Innovator Awards | 2023 | Defining immune organization in intestine inflammation. | $100,000 | |
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center | Health | Innovator Awards | 2023 | Epithelial Signals Mediating Intestinal Fibrosis. | $175,000 | |
Dalhousie University | Health | Innovator Awards | 2023 | Targeting thioesterases to correct loss-of-function NOD2 variants. | $100,000 | |
Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ)/Weizmann Institute of Science | Health | Innovator Awards | 2023 | Functionally decoding the contribution of human host-fungal interactions to the pathogenesis of IBD. | $150,000 | |
East Bay Agency for Children | Education | Family and Community Support | 2023 | Little Steps to College Program | $54,000 | |
Education for Change | Education | Teaching and Learning | 2023 | Structured Literacy Initiative: TK-2 Coaching/Training & Tutoring | $900,000 | |
Emerging Bilingual Collaborative | Education | Strategic Networks | 2023 | Pooled Funding to Support Emerging Bilingual Priorities | $75,000 | |
Families in Action Oakland | Education | Family and Community Support | 2023 | Quality Counts Campaign | $100,000 | |
Family Engagement Lab | Education | Family and Community Support | 2023 | Advancing FASTalk Development | $60,000 | |
FluentSeeds (formerly CARES for Learning) | Education | Teaching and Learning | 2023 | Oakland PreK-2 Coaching/Training | $800,000 | |
Francis Crick Institute | Health | Innovator Awards | 2023 | Resolving gene-environment interactions in IBD via AHR. | $175,000 | |
FULCRUM | Education | Strategic Networks | 2023 | General Support | $175,000 | |
Harvard Medical School | Health | Innovator Awards | 2023 | Pain and neuro-immune crosstalk in gut barrier function and colitis. | $75,000 | |
Harvard Medical School | Health | Innovator Awards | 2023 | Role of regulatory fibroblasts in eliciting immune tolerance to colitis. | $100,000 | |
Harvard Medical School | Health | Innovator Awards | 2023 | The enteric nervous system primes peripheral immunity and drives systemic inflammation during IBD. | $100,000 | |
Harvard University | Health | Innovator Awards | 2023 | Discovery of therapeutic microbial metabolites in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. | $175,000 | |
High Expectations | Education | Family and Community Support | 2023 | Increasing Early Literacy Outcomes Through Strengthened Home-School Partnerships | $100,000 | |
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | Health | Innovator Awards | 2023 | PREDICTS-Net: Multi-omics network analysis to identify key drivers of disease initiation and progression in the preclinical phase of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). | $75,000 |

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Education
Our Education Program supports schools and community-based organizations that help Oakland’s children develop literacy and social emotional skills.

Health
Our Health Program invests early in novel approaches and collaborations to advance Inflammatory Bowel Disease research.