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Mindful Life Project is an educational nonprofit that supports schools nationwide through highly impactful mindfulness based social emotional learning programming.

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To provide weekly 25-minute whole classroom and small group mindfulness sessions to support students. Lessons connect everyday student experiences and deliver mindfulness-based social-emotional skills through trauma-informed and culturally relevant methods.

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General support for neighborhood public art on parking meters.

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MISSSEY is dedicated to preventing girls and gender-expansive youth from falling into sexual exploitation and violence while also aiding those currently experiencing exploitation to exit such circumstances. Additionally, they provide ongoing support and partnerships to help these individuals avoid re-entering exploitative situations and live liberated from harmful relationships.

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A new evening-length performance piece by My-Linh Le and Mud Water Theatre, an Oakland-based dance collective that centers turfing. Mud Water will explore cross-racial and cultural solidarity, focusing on themes such as belonging in the face of gentrification, deportation and police brutality as well as our individual relationship to land, space and our physical bodies.

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Established in 2005, the North Of Market Tenderloin Community Benefit Corporation (TLCBD) focuses on improving the Tenderloin neighborhood through clean and safe programs, expanding its services and impact over the years. With a renewed emphasis on community-led initiatives and advocacy, TLCBD aims to transform the Tenderloin into a vibrant community for all, particularly addressing disparities highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBDs) are typified by bouts of inflammation-induced epithelial damage and repair. By take cues from their microenvironment or “niche”, intestinal stem cells (ISCs) direct these fluctuating pathological and reparative states in IBD. Yet, we do not understand which cells comprise the inflamed ISC niche and how they switch on programs of repair. To track evolving ISC niches, we are proposing the development of a new cutting-edge Niche-labeling system. Our ultimate goal is to understand how ISC niches change over the course of disease and leverage this information to reprogram an “inflammatory ISC niche” into a “regenerative ISC niche” and achieve lasting remission in IBD.

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Funds will be used to engage consultants and experts in nonprofit  property development, refine strategic priorities, and determine a long-term revenue plan to create this physical film hub.

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To engage over 50 local organizations for learning, networking and partnering, and leverage these connections to ensure that Oakland’s youngest learners have access to quality early education and opportunities for future success.

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To make information and resources available to the public and provide opportunities for families to engage with literacy.

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To offer a mix of programming to increase educational outcomes for students. The Hub will feature online and in-person development in literacy, math and technology for students in kindergarten through twelfth grade.

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To provide coordination and logistic support for the Oakland Early Learning Symposium, a city-wide collaborative effort. The Symposium offers formal and informal early childhood educators and providers the opportunity for professional development that is unified, evidence-based and responsive. The Symposium offers formal and informal early childhood educators and providers the opportunity for professional development that is unified, evidence-based and responsive.

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To provide training to young men of color, who are on a path to becoming teachers, to help current classroom teachers facilitate early childhood literacy development. The project also provides early learners, who are mostly Black and Brown, with classroom role models that reflect themselves.

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A process-based dance-form by artist Dia Dear. ∑nake (unlearning) dance centers lived experience with chronic illness and disability and mindfulness practices for trauma healing while exploring the adaptability and intelligence of the physical body. It seeks to develop models of crafting accessibility into the artistic process for chronically ill artists with changing abilities.

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To support the creation of play groups and reading programs in social service organizations and increase access to early mental health interventions and family navigators. They will also expand parent engagement by changing organizational practices within direct service agencies, increasing culturally competent, whole-family centered learning environments, and making it easier to access childcare services.

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The renewal funding will enable Partnership for Children & Youth (PCY) to sustain its Reading with Relevance (RWR) program, delivering a culturally diverse curriculum to families in public housing, fostering reading comprehension, vocabulary, and social-emotional learning. Under PCY’s HousED Initiative, our support facilitated the training of 500 public housing staff in out-of-school literacy development and social-emotional learning through RWR.

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This effort includes assessing the devices and technology needs for distance learning, curating accessible learn-at-home resources for families, and providing technical assistance to housing agency staff. And, in partnership with Reading with Relevance, they will offer literacy support that centers social emotional development and culturally affirming books.

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A multidisciplinary, collaborative series of performances, workshops and experiential sessions with queer Asian performance, textile and visual artists, experimental composers, and costume designers that generates a ritual portal—a doorway across generations and geography, a metaphorical opening of the earth returning us home.

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A new science fiction shadow theater work created by playwright Eugenie Chan, shadow puppet artist/director Larry Reed and composer/instrument inventor Paul Dresher. Inspired by Chinese science fiction writer Cixin Liu’s work, Heterotopia is a speculative fable that explores vital issues of our time including race, gender, identity and the environmental degradation of the planet.