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Z Space will develop two new pieces by Bay Area native Austin Dean Ashford, an emerging solo performer whose work focuses on re-claiming classical euro-centric stories for Black audiences through rap, song, beatboxing and ukelele.

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To support business development and collaboration with citywide literacy partners. This development support will position 3Ls to expand and sustain its comprehensive community literacy model.

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ARC provides funding and logistical support to ensure Southerners receive safe and compassionate reproductive care including abortion services. Through education and leadership development we build power in communities of color to abolish stigma and restore dignity and justice.

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A community art and research project that explores the impact of COVID-19 on Latinx health outcomes in San Francisco’s Mission District. The project will feature a multimedia performance and video installation to address health disparities and high COVID-19 infection rates in the Latinx day laborer and domestic worker communities.

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In partnership with Black Cultural Zone and Asé Arts, Afro Urban Society will create a series of townsquare-style performances, outdoor workshops, cross-cultural community conversations, visual installations and a short spoken word dance film at Liberation Park. They seek to highlight the journey and unique experiences of diverse Black populations in Oakland, provide space for artists of African descent to create and develop work in intentional and supportive settings, and strengthen bonds across various Black communities in the Bay Area.

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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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Apple of Discord Productions, founded in 2006, specializes in creating impactful media rooted in community engagement, focusing on themes of youth and community healing, empowerment and social upliftment.

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For general support.

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To support the Artist-in-Residence Program at Artist as First Responder, a philanthropic and interactive arts platform that acknowledges, engages and financially supports Black, Indigenous and other Artists of Color.

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A dance performance that unites ancient traditions with emerging technologies to explore humanity’s fragile relationship to our waters and oceans.

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To host Orton-Gillingham training for leaders in Aspire, Oakland Unified School District, Education for Change Public Schools and Lighthouse Community Schools. This cross-org collaboration will expand the expertise of our city’s literacy leaders and, hopefully, increase each organization’s capacity by sharing knowledge and resources citywide.

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For the MediaMaker Fellowship program and general support.

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To support the Bay Area Arts Advocacy and Policy Seminar and the Civic Imagination Convening.

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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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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.