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Curve magazine, launched in 1991 as Deneuve, has evolved into AmericaÕs leading lesbian magazine under the guidance of founder Franco Stevens. Ahead of its 30th anniversary, Franco reimagined Curve’s role, founding The Curve Foundation to empower and support the LGBTQ+ community through storytelling, leadership development and archival preservation, ensuring the continuity of LGBTQ+ women’s culture and history.

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A song-creation and hula project that will celebrate the untold stories of people of African descent who came to Hawaiʻi as a direct result of colonization and enslavement. The piece celebrates the legacies of Hawai’i’s historical figures of African descent to ensure the history of marginalized people are not erased and their stories are told.

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A piece conceived in and for a COVID and post-COVID world, exploring the nature of our relationship to the character of light, home and the passage of time – through the collection of a year-long data time-lapse of spectral footprint (or color) of light in homes worldwide. The data will be transformed into a live visual, music and physical installation piece to answer the question – what is the color of domestic light?

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Supports the operations, media, and advocacy of the 23-24 Literacy Liberator Fellowship, which provides literacy skills, leadership skills and support in onboarding as tutors—Literacy Liberators—in OUSD.

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Supports the 22-23 Literacy Liberator Fellowship, which provides literacy skills, leadership skills and support in onboarding as tutors—Literacy Liberators—in OUSD.

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The PeopleÕs Conservatory empowers young artists, particularly from Black and Brown marginalized communities, to create meaningful art that addresses social issues, fostering cultural awareness and positive change. Through a curriculum rooted in ethnic and cultural studies, students develop their artistic voices and become leaders in their communities.

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Supports OUSD, Education for Change and Aspire schools to implement equitable and restorative practices through individual coaching and mindfulness training for leaders and educators.

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The Unquiet Professional is a organization committed to recognizing and honoring our nationÕs Gold Star & Surviving Families, Veterans and military families by providing rewarding and purposeful opportunities to heal from the wounds of war.

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The Unquiet Professional is a organization committed to recognizing and honoring our nation’s Gold Star & Surviving Families, Veterans and military families by providing rewarding and purposeful opportunities to heal from the wounds of war.

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To research and prototype shared services for the field.

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A dance film based on an original poem aiming to uplift a love story out of violence, defying the common spectacularization of blackness and amplifying the devotion of two people to each other, survival and joy. Using stillness and minimalism, the piece invites witnesses to settle into a space of imagination, curiosity and receptivity.

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TRiO Plus is creating an Affordable Housing Marketplace to support teachers of color in living where they work, aiming to enhance student performance by fostering diversity among educators and addressing housing barriers. By prioritizing recruitment and retention of Black, Latine and other teachers of color, TRiO Plus seeks to improve outcomes for Oakland’s diverse student population.

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Ubuntu Theater Project creates transformative theatrical experiences that inspire compassion and reveal our shared humanity through collaborative productions. Partnering with local institutions like Oakland School for the Arts and Laney College, UTP provides affordable training and professional opportunities to bridge the opportunity gap for Oakland’s diverse artists, fostering a supportive community for aspiring and established professionals alike.

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The Union City Police Department is the law enforcement agency responsible for ensuring public safety and enforcing laws within Union City, California. They work to protect and serve the community through crime prevention, investigation and community engagement initiatives.

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To administer The Rainin Arts Fellowship.

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To support basic and clinical scientists in developing novel cellular and immuno-therapies in multiple myeloma under the direction of Dr. Tom Martin and Dr. Jeff Wolf.

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The microbes that flourish within our guts are central to many aspects of human health. Which microbes are present can dictate susceptibility to a number of acute and chronic diseases, including IBD. This proposal will use a mouse model with a defined and stable set of bacteria to probe how mice interact with specific members of their microbiota in health and during disease. First, each microbe will be tested for its ability to elicit an immune response in healthy mice. Once we have established the baseline response in normal healthy mice, we will use chemicals to disrupt the gut lining to elicit an inflammatory response, or we will disrupt genes known to limit intestinal inflammation. We will then investigate how immune recognition of the microbiota changes under these altered conditions. This system will enable us to track responses to the microbiota with unprecedented precision and will provide clues regarding which microbes drive immune activation during dysregulated responses to the microbiota. Such studies will pave the way for future work aimed at manipulating responses to key members of the microbiota responsible for inflammatory diseases of the gut.

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In Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), inflammation of the digestive tract lining results in the development of chronic ulcers appearing throughout the intestines, colon or rectum. Although symptoms of IBD can be managed through the use of corticosteroids, complete disease remission is rare, often leading to surgical intervention. High expression of the transcription factor HIF-1_ is a key feature of regeneration in the Murphy Roths Large mouse, an inbred laboratory strain displaying remarkable regenerative capabilities. Recently, our team demonstrated enhanced regeneration of acute and chronic tissue wounds in adult mice following transient therapeutic upregulation of HIF-1_ using the experimental drug DPCA. Previous studies of HIF-1_ in IBD have been limited to preventative therapy and have not explored fibrosis inhibition or regeneration. Therefore, we hypothesize that transient upregulation of HIF-1_ can inhibit fibrosis of IBD lesions. We propose to study the effects of DPCA on 1) fibrosis in a human intestinal organoid (HIO) model; and 2) lesion development in a murine TGFb-induced model of intestinal fibrosis. This project will contribute to the development of a new clinical treatment for IBD, as an alternative or adjunct to existing therapies that focus on resolving inflammation, but do not address fibrosis.