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The Legacy Film Festival on Aging, which celebrates resilience and the meaningfulness of life, faced challenges including the COVID-19 pandemic and its executive director’s stroke but has triumphantly returned for its 10th edition, offering 38 films exploring the wonders and challenges of aging in a virtual format from May 24 to May 31. With themes ranging from caregiving to civil rights, the festival, founded and led by Sheila Malkind, aims to engage audiences of all ages in discussions about living meaningful lives as they grow older.

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Support for Shambhala Boston.

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A feminist thriller by playwright Anna Moench about that moment when girls realize the male gaze has been watching all along, and decide they are going to do something about it. Inspired by a real-life incident at a Christian mission in Southeast Asia, the play delves into the lives of four young Korean American women faced with a choice.

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Sogorea TeÕ Land Trust is an urban Indigenous women-led land trust based in the San Francisco Bay Area that facilitates the return of Indigenous land to Indigenous people. Through the practices of rematriation, cultural revitalization and land restoration, Sogorea TeÕ calls on Native and non-native peoples to heal and transform the legacies of colonization, genocide and patriarchy and to do the work our ancestors and future generations are calling us to do.

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An interdisciplinary ecofeminist theatrical production for vocalists and dancers celebrating the beauty of Black American women while acknowledging the limits of human resilience. The work is built upon previously published poetry of Black American women to create a loose, thematic story arc that will honor ancestral wisdom and invite women to claim agency over their own bodies

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Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU), located in Manchester, New Hampshire, is a private university known for its diverse undergraduate and graduate programs, including online courses, emphasizing innovation, affordability and accessibility in higher education. It offers discounts of up to 30% for U.S. Active Duty, National Guard, Selected Reserve members and their spouses.

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To support their five-week summer programming with Oakland Unified School District. Over 1,500 participants in Oakland will receive 2.5 hours of Springboard instruction as well as 30 minutes of SIPPS (Systematic Instruction in Phonological Awareness, Phonics, and Sight Words) throughout the program.

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SPUR is a nonprofit organization uniting people across political spectrums to address major urban issues in the San Francisco Bay Area. Through research, education and advocacy, they work towards creating a more equitable and sustainable region.

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To support research for children with cancer.

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To support safety improvements at St. Mary School.

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To purchase furniture and fixtures.

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Patients with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) can experience many years of inflammation and remission in the gastrointestinal tract. As a result, the intestines can undergo a structural change known as fibrosis, which narrows the inside. This narrowing is a major, and sometimes life-threatening, health issue for patients because it can block the passage of digested food and stool. Unfortunately, the only treatment for this condition consists of invasive surgical procedures to either widen the opening or remove the affected areas of the intestine. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop less invasive therapies such as drug-based treatments. Preliminary studies carried out in our laboratory have pointed to a potential role for the molecule serine, an amino acid, in the development of intestinal fibrosis. For example, we have found that serine is produced in areas of fibrosis in the intestines of IBD patients and in our mouse model of intestinal fibrosis, suggesting that it may play a role in the development of this condition. The work proposed in this application will determine if in fact serine is largely responsible for intestinal fibrosis and establish methods to limit its production and thus prevent fibrosis development. Carrying out the proposed work can lead to the development of novel treatments for intestinal fibrosis and significantly improve the lives of patients with IBD.

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Support for Bay Area programming.

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Pieces of Home. In collaboration with Marina Fukushima, Surjit Nongmeikapam and Mercy Housing, this project will create an intergenerational and multi-disciplinary performance that engages questions of transforming and repurposing urban spaces for affordable housing in San Francisco’s Mission Bay neighborhood. The project takes place within context of Mission Bay’s history as both “terrain vague” (empty, abandoned, marginalized and ambiguous space) and the site of immense industrial, commercial and residential development. With the participation of residents of 691 China Basin apartment complex, the development phase will begin with outdoor environmental research and indoor movement workshops.

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To continue its literacy programming in preschool and transitional kindergarten classrooms.

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To support their community and school-based early learning programming in Oakland. In 2022-2023, Tandem aims to grow services in Oakland and provide high-quality early learning experiences for children ages birth to five. This includes adding new StoryCycles classrooms, deepening community-based early learning programs and offering families greater access to high quality books and materials.

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In partnership with artists and the Oakland community, this project will illuminate, explore and celebrate the contributions of the Black Panther Party and African American community to Oakland’s Temescal neighborhood. This project’s development will begin with a series of community gatherings and conversations to elevate the voices of the Black Panther Party and Black business owners, residents, former residents and artists. Artist team-building workshops and collaboration events will build upon and help co-create the historical memory, cultural knowledge and public understanding of the Black Panther Party and Temescal’s identity and community.

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Within the David Ireland House, this project will create a physical space to gather intergenerational stories, images and visual ephemera focused on trans joy and creative resilience. Primarily serving the trans Latinx community in San Francisco’s Mission district, the development process will include hosting weekly conversations with community organizations, artists and community members around trans self-representation, reaching out to the wider translatinx community and prototyping expansion into the production phase.

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To support the East Bay Relief Fund for Individuals in the Arts.