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Berkeley Repertory Theatre is a Tony Award-winning regional theatre in Berkeley, CA, that presents exhilarating new plays and innovative productions of dramas and comedies in their Roda Theatre and PeetÕs Theatre. To navigate the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and enhance its traditional fundraising efforts, the Theatre initiated the Resilience Campaign, a five-year, $20 million initiative aimed at sustaining the organization and providing assistance to its staff and artists involved in stage productions and community outreach efforts.

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An Afrofuturistic theatrical adventure that takes place in a newly divided United States. Follow the Ibeji (twins) Kehinde and Taiwo as they negotiate freedom, love and happiness in a new independent Black nation.

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The Black Mamas Matter Alliance (BMMA) is a Black women-led cross-sectoral alliance that centers Black mamas and birthing people to advocate, drive research, build power and shift culture for Black maternal health, rights and justice.

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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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A multi-media theater collaboration between lead artist videographer/photographer Joan Osato, writer Sunhui Chang, director Ellen Sebastian Chang and Story Center. To be presented as a part of San Francisco Magic Theater’s New Performance Program, the boiling centers a search for home, identity and redemption in America amidst a history and tradition of violence.

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A new collaboration between deaf choreographer Antoine Hunter, Capacitor Performance and Gallaudet University’s TinkerLab. In Cross-Polliination an interdisciplinary cohort of deaf and deaf-blind electrical engineering and dance students will deconstruct and apply strategies of deaf communication through dance, design and interactive technologies to explore new modes of communication.

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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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Carlos Albizu University is a private, non-profit institution offering undergraduate and graduate programs primarily in psychology, education and human services with a focus on cultural competence and diversity.

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Collaborative Classroom is a mission-driven, nonprofit organization committed to ensuring that all students become readers, writers and thinkers who learn from, care for and respect one another.

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This two-year oral history and performance project will center Oakland’s Swan’s Market, a culturally vibrant and historic venue at the intersection of four diverse Oakland neighborhoods. The project’s first phase will begin with a nine-month workshop with Oakland high school students to build skills and develop performances. That will be followed by live and self-paced performances and exhibits that engage themes of the importance of identity and place in creating a sense of belonging, and the multiple roles youth can play in designing urban landscapes.

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This project engages multilingual and multiracial Chinese and Latinx immigrant communities through the creation of flags representing power and resilience. The flags will be unveiled as a procession in San Francisco’s Lunar New Year Parade to illuminate immigrant culture in the public sphere. Communities will be engaged through multilingual workshops co-developed with community partners, drawing on their memberships and tenants.

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It is now well recognized that IBD develops as a result of complex gene-environment interactions. Since there is no cure for IBD, treatment has focused on alleviating the symptoms. A better understanding of the fundamental mechanisms that drive the development and progression of IBD would allow for the design of more specific and effective treatments. Bacteria that naturally live in our intestine (called the microbiota) have been definitively linked to intestinal inflammation, but how this relationship is regulated is not well understood. Epigenetics refers to modifications that allow genes to be turned on or off and we have found unique epigenetic changes that occur in the intestine in response to signals from the microbiota. Further, we have identified similar epigenetic differences in intestinal cells of pediatric IBD patients. Based on these findings, studies in this proposal will use samples from pediatric IBD patients and mouse models to define how these newly-identified epigenetic changes are regulated by intestinal bacteria. We will also determine whether these targets enable us to predict patient prognosis and employ animal models and human intestine grown in culture to decipher their function. We anticipate that these studies will direct new approaches for preventing and treating IBD.

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A performance project choreographed by Sarah Crowell and Keith Hennessy using both dance and community process to explore racialized harm and potentials for racial healing. Tell addresses the crises of racial mistrust and political polarization, serving both Black and diverse audiences who are seeking optimistic, rigorously honest and socially engaged live art.

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Code Tenderloin is a workforce development non profit that aims to secure long term employment for underserved communities in San Francisco.

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Cotuit Center For The Arts’ mission is to be a welcoming home for Cape CodÕs artists, performers, students and audiences, working together to make the creation and experience of art accessible, nurturing and thrilling to all.

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An immersive performance by OYSTERKNIFE interrogating Afro-Diasporic lineages inside the Christian church, using Igbo masquerade, church mime, experimental video and choreography.

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This project will culminate in a large-scale outdoor Drag performance event, celebrating the living oral, dance and embodied tradition of the queer community from which Drag arises. The Show will be specifically committed to examining the ways that institutional white supremacy and racism are manifested, mimicked, enacted and/or complacent within the Drag community. The project will take place adjacent to CounterPulse’s facility in San Francisco.

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Creativity Explored is a studio in San Francisco that partners with artists with developmental disabilities to celebrate and nurture the creative potential in all of us.