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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. Shakespeare San Francisco makes the words of Shakespeare accessible to everyone through arts education and free community performances in parks throughout the Bay Area. Executive Director Toby Leavitt has led the organization for 25 years.

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A site-specific devised dance theater re-imagining of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Nightingale” that deconstructs the fairytale in the context of the daunting questions that come with generative AI seeping into our everyday experience.

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Supported by a production support grant, “CRANE” transforms the iconic Hunters Point Shipyard crane into a canvas for community storytelling using advanced projection mapping and soundscapes created from histories contributed by local residents. Visible from multiple vantage points, “CRANE” will feature a year-long geo-tagged audio tour and a two-week illumination with live performances, offering a powerful tribute to the complex intertwined history of the Shipyard and the Bayview Hunters Point community.

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A community-engaged dance-theater project highlighting the stories of Indian immigrant women, created through a collaboration with Bharatnatyam artists and domestic violence recovery nonprofit, Narika.

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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. Sins Invalid is a disability justice-based performance project led by disabled people of color that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, artists of color and LGBTQ/gender-variant artists. Co-founder, Executive and Artistic Director Patty Berne has led the organization for 18 years.

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To support evidence-based summer programming for participating students in Oakland Unified School District (OUSD).

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Despite advances in understanding Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), research has been constrained by the inability to sample the intestinal microenvironment under physiological conditions. Current methods utilize fecal specimens, constraining our comprehension of regional differences within the gut, or use invasive biopsies from colonoscopy-accessible areas, which represent less than 25% of the intestine. Furthermore, these biopsies are usually performed in fasted, sedated patients who have undergone rigorous bowel preparation. Unfortunately, all of these actions significantly change the intestinal microenvironment and limit our knowledge of how the microbiome influences IBD pathology.

Utilizing CapScan, a novel sampling device the size of a common vitamin pill, and our team’s expertise in integrating multi-omics investigations, we aim to fill crucial knowledge gaps, particularly in understanding the intricate interplay between the human microbiome and IBD pathophysiology. This pill technology passively samples the colon and crucially, the largely unexplored small intestine under physiologic conditions.
For the first time, we can directly assess the regional gut microenvironment (including the microbiome, inflammatory proteins, drug metabolites/levels, as well as host and bacterial metabolites) under natural conditions.

Leveraging our expertise in machine learning, we will correlate changes in the intestinal microenvironment with clinical characteristics including medical/dietary exposures. Our approach will address the pressing need for a more comprehensive understanding of IBD pathology, laying the groundwork for improved diagnostic/prognostic biomarkers and personalized treatments.

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This one-time capacity building grant supports Tandem, Partners in Early Learning, in implementing a broader organizational-wide sabbatical program.

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A new play and modular community performance by poet and activist Yosimar Reyes created through a participatory storytelling process with Teatro Visión’s community in East San José. The piece blends local history and music to elevate community voices and inspire neighborhood civic engagement.

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Support for research into climate change and arts organizations, as well as the development of an impact evaluation report.

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Provides administrative support to OUSD’s Structured Literacy Initiative.

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Funding supports Plain Talk Flights and Administrative Fees to manage the Plain Talk Reimbursement Fund.

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Provides general support.

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Provides anti-racist and healing programming for educators and leaders.

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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. The Teaching Well supports educator retention by consulting with school leaders on human-centered policies and providing educators with trauma healing and wellness programming. Their executive director for three years is Lindsey Fuller.

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To support responsive communications and operations needs.

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To support the distribution of funds to diverse Bay Area micro dance and theater organizations and individual artists.

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To support Oakland’s primary nonprofit organization focused on expanding affordable housing for early elementary teachers who are responsible for teaching early literacy.

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A three-day theatrical production that explores self-love and self-acceptance through monologues, poems and dance collaborations by Black Trans emerging artists.