Grantee | Giving Area | Program | Grant Year | Project Title | Amount | |
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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 |

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Our Health Program invests early in novel approaches and collaborations to advance Inflammatory Bowel Disease research.