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The Rest and Care Award is a one-time, invite-only program for current and past Education and Arts nonprofit grantees, offering six-week sabbaticals with pro-rated salary, benefits, leave expenses and organizational support, recognizing the dedication and resilience of leaders in our grantee community. Oakland Literacy Coalition is a coordinating and capacity-building organization dedicated to improving literacy outcomes in Oakland. Their Founding Co-Executive Director of eight years is Sanam Jorjani.

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Oakland Starting Smart and Strong (OSSS) advances racial justice and advocates for systemic changes to create an effective early childhood ecosystem for children ages zero to five. The technical assistance grant supports a communications.

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Convenes early childhood organizations and educators, as well as provides early care advocacy and data-sharing.

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Oakland Literacy Coalition (OLC) strengthens OaklandÕs network of schools and literacy providers to ensure every child learns and loves to read. The technical assistance grant supports fundraising.

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A devised theater piece that explores intergenerational silences left in the wake of migration. Through relationships with their parents and local community members, Erika Chong Shuch and Sharon Shao will devise an immersive performance that uses theater and food to facilitate intergenerational conversations and stories.

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To support Rise East in meeting a $50M local match goal to unlock $50M in funding from Blue Meridian Group.

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Provides TK-2 literacy and language coaching and training for educators in OUSD focal schools.

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A monument to queer and trans creative expression in the Bay Area designed by lead artist Evan Favela, also known as the Drag performer Evian. Oaklash will use a development support grant to identify a location, prototype designs and invite community feedback through focus groups and community events.

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An evening-length dance-theater experience that immerses audiences in the sacred and spiritual traditions of Indigenous Filipino culture, integrating dance, music, attire, songs, chants and narrative to create a more holistic representation of Filipino culture.

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The Rest and Care Award is a one-time, invite-only program for current and past Education and Arts nonprofit grantees, offering six-week sabbaticals with pro-rated salary, benefits, leave expenses and organizational support, recognizing the dedication and resilience of leaders in our grantee community. Parent Voices is a parent-led grassroots organization that advocates for affordable, accessible, quality childcare. Their Executive Director of 12 years is Clarissa Doutherd.

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Parent Voices Oakland (PVO) is a parent-led organization advocating for affordable, accessible and quality childcare to advance economic and educational justice. The grant supports a community skills-sharing model “each one teach one” to integrate organizing efforts with early literacy and language development training for their parent base.

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A queer, multidisciplinary evening-length double-bill program with a full queer/BIPOC creative team exploring asianfuturist performance that engages with the riskiness of hope so that we may enact change.

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To support PEAK Grantmaking’s field leadership and its ability to respond, collaborate, partner and advocate for equitable, effective grantmaking practices.

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The Rest and Care Award is a one-time, invite-only program for current and past Education and Arts nonprofit grantees, offering six-week sabbaticals with pro-rated salary, benefits, leave expenses and organizational support, recognizing the dedication and resilience of leaders in our grantee community. PUSH Dance Company creates interdisciplinary contemporary dances that examine issues of identity and cultures alongside a dance education outreach program and dance/cultural center, the Sanctuary. Founder and Artistic Director Raissa Simpson has led the organization for 19 years.

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Increases alignment between the University’s current credentialing coursework and California’s new Teacher Performance Expectations.

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$1,200,000 for the Roxie Forever Campaign and $100,000 for general operations support of the new facility and staff.

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A multidisciplinary dance theater piece exploring Candomblé and Pentecostalism; as these venerable expressions of faith and culture – similar, yet distinct – took root and evolved in Brazil and throughout the Americas.

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This new play by Reed Flores is a Sailor Moon-esque adventure through the Bay Area pitting unlikely, nunchuk-armed heroes against a slew of wild villains. “Cuckoo Edible Magic” explores themes of Bay Area Asian American Pacific Islander life, Queer love and complex family dynamics–both “born” and “chosen.”

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ScholarCHIPS empowers youth with incarcerated parents by providing college scholarships, mentorship and mental health support to help them complete their education and build a stable future. Founded in 2010 by Yasmine Arrington during her own college journey, ScholarCHIPS fills a critical gap by offering scholarships tailored to these students’ needs and inspiring them to overcome systemic barriers to success.