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To support their new virtual platform, Reading Partners Connect. Their student-tutor pairs work together twice a week using Reading Partners’ curriculum, a series of research-based lesson plans.

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Opportunity Build students commit to 10-12 weeks of learning and preparing for success in the construction trades. Following up to 325 hours of classroom instruction and hands-on training with retired union tradespeople, graduates receive a full year of employment and job retention supportÑentirely free.

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A two-year mentorship program for young female-identified Black playwrights including advisory meetings with established playwrights and readings leading to a finished full-length play for each mentee.

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A theatrical performance work written by A. Smiley, which will take the form of a pseudo-documentary filmed serial podcast. Taking place in Bayview Hunters Point and the Hunters Point Shipyard, DWTMMS will center on the experiences of Black, Indigenous and People of Color Native San Franciscans in the face of a devastating pandemic, gentrification and the current fight for the Black community in Bayview to retain and restore their place in San Francisco.

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A series of interactive experiences, ceremonies and performances instigated by Snowflake Calvert (Yaqui, Tzotzil Mayan) in collaboration with Yaqui elders Zamora and Pennie Opal Plant, which responds to the needs and interests of relocated and displaced Indigenous people in California who no longer live on their ancestral lands and those who wish to better understand their neighbors within a context of settler/Indigenous relations and the colonial histories of the United States.

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For program support, including cultural revitalization, education and land cultivation projects.

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Southern Exposure (SoEx) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting diverse visual artists through innovative programming, including exhibitions and educational initiatives. Founded in 1974 as an artists’ collective, SoEx has evolved into an independent nonprofit that prioritizes inclusivity, particularly for Black, Indigenous, people of color, queer, nonbinary, trans, and immigrant artists.

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To support Oakland Unified School District in providing a five-week summer literacy program for up to 1,200 kindergarten through third grade students and their families. The program includes home visits, reading instruction, family reading workshops and coaching to improve teachers’ instructional practice.

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To support PRECISE, a national platform to (1) deeply characterize people with many pain conditions, (2) use that data to inform patients and clinicians on best treatments and (3) use AI guided targeting of digital behavioral therapies.

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An experimental, multimedia dance film and performance project, which reinforces techno music as an inherently Black American invention by examining its origins and locating its syncopated, complicated and paradoxical rhythms in the Black dancing body.

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Summer Search, headquartered in Oakland, California, aims to empower youth from all backgrounds by providing access to education, mentorship and opportunities for growth, thereby breaking down systemic barriers and promoting equity. The organization supports young people in discovering their purpose from high school through to career launch, resulting in significantly higher graduation rates and bachelor’s degree attainment compared to their peers from similar socio-economic backgrounds.

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To help maintain the StoryCycles Take Home Book program for 151 classrooms and 2,880 children, and family-focused Early Learning Everywhere programs with community-based organizations.

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To provide operational support for The Bread Project to further their ability to remain a leader in workforce education and job placement for low-income, unemployed residents of the Bay Area.

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The East Bay Artists Pandemic Relief Fund was created in response to the COVID-19 induced economic shutdown that forced many businesses to close, including those in the arts and culture sector.

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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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To support the capital campaign of The Greenhouse Project.

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Indira Allegra’s evening-length dance and installation-based performance exploring the choreography of indecision—the everyday movements, tics, utterances and moments of quiet associated with not knowing what to do next. The multidisciplinary project will be composed of Allegra’s original sculpture and choreography alongside videos and interviews collected by the artist, documenting indecisive moments enacted by people in public space.

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This is a one-year pilot of a funder collaborative intended to invest in communities of color with the values outlined in its North Star Statement: We commit to amplifying the voices, power, arts, and cultures of people of color and other vulnerable communities in the Bay Area, particularly those living at or near poverty, to advance equitable community well-being. The collaborative intends to use each member’s institutional knowledge and interests at the intersection of the San Francisco Bay Area, equity, and arts and culture, to align resources toward increased long-term impact and to institutionalize equitable practices. 

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Tides Foundation will oversee a Collective Action Fund for the newly formed Bay Area Cultural Funders for Equity (BACFE), aiming to amplify the voices and cultures of marginalized communities in the Bay Area through collaborative funding efforts. BACFE, a one-year pilot initiative, seeks to invest in communities of color by leveraging institutional knowledge and resources to advance equitable community well-being, with success measured by both short-term collaboration and long-term impacts on low-income BIPOC communities.