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The Agnes McCarthy Caregiver Foundation provides hope and relief to individuals who care for someone with mental or emotional health issues. The Caregiver Foundation offers a $500 scholarship annually to high school seniors living with a family member with a mental health condition, recognizing the challenges they face in balancing caregiving responsibilities with their educational aspirations.

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For general support as Artist Space Trust develops and launches the Acquisition and Renovation Impact Investment Fund.

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Funds a percentage of educator and tutor training and coaching, tutor wages and central leadership across four schools.

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The Association of Black Gastroenterologists and Hepatologists (ABGH) proposes a new mentorship program, “ABGH Rising,” a national mentorship and education program to promote health equity and address the root causes of health inequities, including IBD.

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Created in response to the California wildfires of 2020, “BURNING WILD” is a devised performance incorporating physical theatre, song, dance, documentary video and puppetry to tell a collaged docu-myth. Born out of a call for growth and transformation, “BURNING WILD” re-envisions the intersection of ensemble theater and radical community care, using arts and wellness as cultural liberation practice.

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A dance work that redefines ability and embodiment by using robotics technologies to assist disabled dancers, exploring new movement potential and the use of apparatuses for “superhuman” movement.

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Azora Therapeutics is developing a novel small molecule, AT177, for the treatment of refractory ulcerative colitis (UC). UC is a chronic inflammatory disease of the colon that affects over 1 million individuals in the United States and is associated with poor quality of life. Efficacy of currently available therapy is suboptimal, and most patients cannot sustain long-term remission, with 14% ultimately requiring colectomy surgery. AT177 is a potential first-in-class oral small molecule aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) agonist. AhR has been shown to play an important in regulating healthy immune and barrier function in the colon. The aim of this project is to conduct preclinical studies to support advancement to clinical studies in humans.

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For the MediaMaker Fellowship program and general support.

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The Berkeley Free Clinic provides free medical care, driven by the belief that healthcare is a fundamental human right. Their mission to ensure everyone has access to compassionate, dignified healthcare regardless of their ability to pay, while empowering the community with basic knowledge for informed decision-making and self-advocacy.

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To provide general operating support in memory of Zachary Symons-Rogers

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A Filipino Futurism Punk Rock Sci-Fi Music Play set in a diasporic, dystopian future where creativity is outlawed. “DarkHeart” immerses the audience in speculative futures, Filipino Futurism (influenced from Afrofuturism), explorations of Filipino diaspora and liberation, indigenous sciences and decolonization movements.

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Boon Tutorial Intervention Program will pilot its interventions with twelve Oakland students. Notably, its first national pilot corroborated the impact proven by the intervention program it utilizes.

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Inappropriate and chronic inflammatory responses underly the development of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD), including both ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. This process is an intertwined, inter-cellular cascade among diverse immune cells and tissue stroma. The interactions between immune and stromal cells not only propagate inflammatory responses but also regulate resolution of inflammation. Yet, we do not understand how immune cells interact with tissue stroma when intestinal inflammation occurs and resolve. We propose to first develop cutting-edge technologies that discover interacting partners of immune cells in vivo in a high-throughput and unbiased manner. We will then apply these new tools to identify the interactomes of immune cells over the course of intestinal inflammation. Funding from the Kenneth Rainin Foundation will support our program to map out the path of immune-stromal interactions from a healthy intestine to an inflamed tissue to recovery and repair. Targeting immune-stromal interactions that cause inflammatory propagation as well as the resolution will establish a new strategy to alleviate inflammation. Our long-term goal is to leverage this knowledge to switch “inflammatory interactions” to “resolving interactions” in order to restore intestinal homeostasis, which will ultimately curtail IBD and its devastating health implications.

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To lead advocacy to improve conditions for artists and arts organizations while building public support for the arts.

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Career Girls is founded on the dream that every girl around the world has access to diverse and accomplished women role models Ñ to learn from their experiences and to discover their own path to empowerment.

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To support the Center for Cultural InnovationÕs Sol Center for Liberated Work policy and advocacy program for artists.

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To support the Center for Cultural InnovationÕs AmbitioUS initiative to identify innovative and alternative models that center equity to advance equitable outcomes for artists and the field, including new and sustainable frameworks such as cooperative platforms that pool risk and rewards.Ê

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A reexamination of the Middle Eastern epic story rumored to have inspired Shakespeare’s “Romeo & Juliet.” Torange Yeghiazarian’s adaptation will experiment with Iranian performance traditions, music and movement in an ensemble-driven creative process. Unlike traditional tellings, this adaptation will center the female character, Leyli, directly challenging the erasure of women’s experience in historic literary works.

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Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Research Days explore advances in pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) research, gaps in knowledge in pediatric IBD and target areas for future pediatric IBD research.