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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 Education Grants 2023 Sobrante Park Network $200,000
Aspire Public Schools Education Education Grants 2023 Structured Literacy Initiative: TK-2 Coaching/Training & Tutoring $380,000
Boon Philanthropy, Inc. Education Education Grants 2023 Oakland pilot of the Boon Tutorial Program, which boasts up to 1.5 years growth on normed assessments after 40 hours of intervention. $12,000.00
East Bay Agency for Children Education Education Grants 2023 Little Steps to College Program $54,000
Eat. Learn. Play. Foundation Education Education Grants 2023 Contribution to Eat Learn Play’s fund supporting a Tier 3 literacy intervention pilot in OUSD. $100,000.00
Education for Change Education Education Grants 2023 Structured Literacy Initiative: TK-2 Coaching/Training & Tutoring $900,000
Education Resource Strategies Education Education Grants 2023 General support to advance the Reimagining the Teaching Job coalition’s goals. $20,000.00
EDvance College Education Education Grants 2023 College subsidies for Oakland preschool teachers participating in EdVance’s programming. $50,000.00
Emerging Bilingual Collaborative Education Education Grants 2023 Pooled Funding to Support Emerging Bilingual Priorities $75,000
Families in Action Oakland Education Education Grants 2023 Quality Counts Campaign $100,000
Family Engagement Lab Education Education Grants 2023 Advancing FASTalk Development $60,000
FluentSeeds (formerly CARES for Learning) Education Education Grants 2023 Oakland PreK-2 Coaching/Training $800,000
FULCRUM Education Education Grants 2023 General Support $175,000
High Expectations Education Education Grants 2023 Increasing Early Literacy Outcomes Through Strengthened Home-School Partnerships $100,000
Ignite! Reading Education Education Grants 2023 Expansion of the Ignite! Reading virtual literacy tutoring model. $90,000.00
Kristi Yamaguchi's Always Dream Education Education Grants 2023 Oakland pilot of the Always Reading program, which promotes home reading habits through two-way text coaching and access to a significant digital library. $30,000.00
Lead Liberated (formerly Educate 78) Education Education Grants 2023 Anti-Racist Collective $30,000
Lighthouse Community Public Schools Education Education Grants 2023 Design a Teacher Pathway & Braid Funding Streams $100,000
Lotus Bloom Education Education Grants 2023 Family Resource Center $85,000
Mindful Life Project Education Education Grants 2023 Mindfulness for East Oakland Schools $45,000
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.