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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  
Johns Hopkins University Health Innovator Awards 2023 Engineered cytokine-antibody fusion protein to treat Inflammatory Bowel Disease. $150,000
Lead Liberated (formerly Educate 78) Education Teaching and Learning 2023 Anti-Racist Collective $30,000
Lighthouse Community Public Schools Education Teaching and Learning 2023 Design a Teacher Pathway & Braid Funding Streams $100,000
Lotus Bloom Education Family and Community Support 2023 Family Resource Center $85,000
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Health Innovator Awards 2023 Understanding the role of lysosomal autophagy in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. $175,000
Mayo Clinic Health Innovator Awards 2023 Metabolism controls CD4 T helper cell-induced pathogenicity during Inflammatory Bowel Disease. $100,000
Medical University of South Carolina Health Innovator Awards 2023 A Randomized Crossover Trial of Bright Light Therapy in Crohn’s Disease on Intestinal Barrier Homeostasis. $100,000
Mindful Life Project Education Teaching and Learning 2023 Mindfulness for East Oakland Schools $45,000
Oakland Literacy Coalition Education Strategic Networks 2023 Supporting Oakland Literacy Coalition’s Four Strategies for Impact $200,000
Oakland Public Library Education Family and Community Support 2023 Children’s Literacy Programming Fund $60,000
Reading Partners Education Teaching and Learning 2023 Individualized Literacy Support $40,000
Seattle Children's Hospital Health Innovator Awards 2023 Evaluating the Tolerability and Efficacy of a Whole Food Home-Blended Formula as Exclusive Enteral Nutrition Therapy for pediatric Crohn’s Disease. $150,000
Springboard Collaborative Education Teaching and Learning 2023 Springboard Summer Programming with OUSD $20,000
Stony Brook University Health Innovator Awards 2023 Inhibiting Serine Synthesis as a Novel Treatment for Intestinal Fibrosis. $100,000
The Oakland REACH Education Family and Community Support 2023 Literacy Liberator Fellowship & Advocacy $350,000
The Oakland REACH Education Family and Community Support 2023 Liberator Fellowship $105,000
The Teaching Well Education Teaching and Learning 2023 Oakland Teacher Trauma Response Program $200,000
University of California, Berkeley Health Innovator Awards 2023 A system to track host responses to the microbiota during homeostasis and inflammation. $75,000
University of California, Berkeley Health Innovator Awards 2023 An Antifibrotic Prodrug for the Prevention of Intestinal Scarring in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. $125,000
University of California, Davis Health Innovator Awards 2023 Exacerbation of colitis by impaired microbial catabolism of sorbitol. $175,000
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.