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Search current and former Kenneth Rainin Foundation grantees in the Arts, Education and Health to learn more about what we fund.

Grantee Giving Area Program Grant Year Project Title Amount  
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
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
FULCRUM Education Strategic Networks 2023 General Support $175,000
High Expectations Education Family and Community Support 2023 Increasing Early Literacy Outcomes Through Strengthened Home-School Partnerships $100,000
Lead Liberated (formerly Educate 78) Education Teaching and Learning 2023 Anti-Racist Collective $30,000
Lighthouse Community Public Schools Education Teaching and Learning 2023 Design a Teacher Pathway & Braid Funding Streams $100,000
Lotus Bloom Education Family and Community Support 2023 Family Resource Center $85,000
Mindful Life Project Education Teaching and Learning 2023 Mindfulness for East Oakland Schools $45,000
Oakland Literacy Coalition Education Strategic Networks 2023 Supporting Oakland Literacy Coalition’s Four Strategies for Impact $200,000
Oakland Public Library Education Family and Community Support 2023 Children’s Literacy Programming Fund $60,000
Reading Partners Education Teaching and Learning 2023 Individualized Literacy Support $40,000
Springboard Collaborative Education Teaching and Learning 2023 Springboard Summer Programming with OUSD $20,000
The Oakland REACH Education Family and Community Support 2023 Literacy Liberator Fellowship & Advocacy $350,000
The Oakland REACH Education Family and Community Support 2023 Liberator Fellowship $105,000
A site specific dance in Bayview-Hunter’s Point where three dancers are on top of a roof and one dancer is dancing on a wooden block with a briefcase.

Arts

Our Arts Program funds dance, film, public space and theater projects that highlight important issues facing our society and local communities.

A young Black girl smiling while she looks down at an open book, reading.

Education

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

A female scientist in the lab looking into a microscope.

Health

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