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A series of live, theatrical, site specific rituals by performance collective For You (Erika Chong Shuch, Ryan Tacata and Rowena Richie), in collaboration with elders from Little Brothers—Friends of the Elderly. The Welcoming will serve as a historic reentry into a distant world in the wake of COVID-19.

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“SEEDS of Learningª is a professional learning framework designed for adults caring for and teaching young children, offering training, coaching, and professional learning communities to develop essential skills in three- to five-year-olds for success in kindergarten and beyond. Tailored for educators, caregivers, and site leaders working with children aged 3Ð5, SEEDS offers flexible training options to accommodate diverse learning communities, whether in-person, virtual, or e-learning formats.

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The Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano is a nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting hunger in California’s Contra Costa and Solano counties by collecting donated food and distributing it to those in need through a network of community-based organizations. They also offer nutrition education programs to promote healthy eating habits and self-sufficiency among their clients.

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To provide general support, in memory of Brian Igoe.

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To support the production and launch of the Climate Storytelling Playbook for Screenwriters, including additional capacity for the production, promotion and distribution of the final product.

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A dance and multidisciplinary storytelling project exploring the continuum of slavery into the post-Civil War convict lease system, and convict labor into modern day mass incarceration.

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Pain is a major component of inflammatory bowel diseases, increasing the suffering of patients and decreasing their quality of life. However, the underlying cellular basis for pain in IBD and the role of pain-mediating neurons in driving gut dysfunction are not well known. Our goal is to characterize the role of neurons that mediate pain in IBD, and to determine whether inhibiting or activating these neurons leads to changes in the gut that can treat pain and inflammation.

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To build the capacity of Family Engagement Action Teams of teachers, parents, administrators, after-school staff and SEEDS of Learning coaches at ten Oakland SEEDS of Learning school sites.

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Accumulating data supports the concept that IBD has a preclinical period that may be amenable to early diagnosis and intervention. Understanding the molecular underpinnings of this preclinical period in disease pathogenesis offers new opportunities in risk prediction and prevention. We have recently reported the first data from a large study using longitudinal pre-diagnostic samples from the US Department of Defense Serum repository, the PREDICTS study, where we assessed the predictive value of a panel of antimicrobial markers and a proteomic panel (>1100 proteins). Additional –omics data including glycan profiles, metabolome and exposome are currently generated on these same samples that span from up to 5 years before diagnosis to first clinical symptoms and confirmed diagnosis. We will integrate these massive multi-omics datasets to develop machine-learning (ML) based models predictive of future progression of CD and UC years before diagnosis, and to discover driver biomarkers and biological processes responsible for disease initiation. This will be achieved by constructing time-varying disease-specific networks capturing the associations across all biomarkers measured at different years before diagnosis available through the PREDICTS initiative. We will make all results publicly available via a user-friendly web-platform to facilitate the easy query, exploration and utilization of these data.

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A performance project created by inkBoat, interdisciplinary artist Ann Carlson and The Oakland Zoo. Ones focuses on the relationship between humans and nonhuman species to help us consider our own humanity and collectiv

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The Internet Archive visual arts residency is organized by Amir Saber Esfahani, and is designed to connect emerging and mid-career artists with the archiveÕs collections and to show what is possible when open access to information meets the arts. The residency is one year in length during which time each artist will develop a body of work that utilizes the resources of the archiveÕs collections in their own practice.

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The Sohn Conference Foundation is dedicated to the treatment and cure of pediatric cancer and supports cutting-edge medical research, state-of-the-art research equipment and innovative programs. The Foundation raises its funds through the renowned Sohn Investment Conference in New York City and a number of premier investment conferences around the world.

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A multimedia performance created and performed with and for the community of Oakland, which weaves together storytelling with theater, dance and music. Placing real-life stories of local residents at the heart of the project, SPACES stands opposite the notion of “us vs. them,” bringing focus back to our communities, one story at a time.

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To facilitate anti-racist training for cohorts of school instructional leaders. The training encourages leaders to engage their staff in and hold them accountable to a community of practice that builds trust, allyship and instructional problem solving.

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To integrate literacy and intensive social-emotional supports with strength-based parent engagement and case management. They will provide year-round programming, which includes four weeks of Afro-centric literacy-focused summer programming.

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To support Kidappolis, an academic mobile app that targets low-income and emergent bilingual families. Literacy Lab will also distribute free books, providing parents and caregivers with learning content to support their child’s language development and early literacy.

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To build infrastructure to support the San Antonio Family Resource Center, a hub of research, training and knowledge sharing resources for the greater community.

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Centers stories by people who have survived incarceration. Actors from Returned Citizens Theatre Troupe will spark deep community dialogue about some of the most pressing issues of our time such as systemic racism, the injustice of the carceral system and the challenges of COVID with audiences that include the general public, other people who have survived incarceration and system-impacted youth.

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A performance by Megan Lowe and Brenton Cheng that challenges traditional ideas of male/female duets and deconstructs tropes often associated with Chinese heritage. Tangram lifts up the leadership and innovation of Chinese descendent artists in contemporary Bay Area dance and improvisation.