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Berkeley Community Scholars empowers Berkeley youth who face racial, economic and other barriers to achieving their college dreams by providing a unique experience of scholarships, advising, mentoring and a community of support.

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The Black Cultural Zone Community Development Corporation (BCZ) innovates, incubates, informs and elevates community-driven projects that allow our people and culture to thrive.

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An initiative to preserve the murals and protest/demonstration art from across Oakland. By providing administrative assistance for deinstallation, registration and storage.

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The Black Organizing Project is a Black multi-generational member-led community organization working for racial, social and economic justice through grassroots organizing and community building in Oakland, California, and across the Bay Area.

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In partnership with Super Stars Literacy to provide remote guided reading instruction using AmeriCorps Reading Tutors for children at district partner schools.

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To fund a book access program that allows students to choose books they are most excited to read, with level guidance from their teachers, and keep them for their home libraries.

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An examination of the mental health impacts of anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies on undocumented families. This loose adaptation of Arthur Miller’s Death of Salesman tells the story of Lorna, the matriarch of a Filipino American family coming to terms with their differing immigration statuses, senses of freedom, and familial estrangement.

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Californians for the Arts is the only comprehensive, multidisciplinary organization focused on advancing and building public awareness of the value and impact of arts, culture and creativity across the state.

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Campaign Zero is an American police reform campaign launched on August 21, 2015. The plan consists of ten proposals, all of which are aimed at reducing police violence.

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Castle of our Skins is a Black arts institution dedicated to fostering cultural curiosity and celebrating Black artistry through music. In classrooms, concert halls and beyond, Castle of our Skins invites Black heritage and culture exploration, spotlighting both unsung and celebrated figures of past and present.

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An initiative that acts as an experimental arm of the philanthropic sector. AmbitioUS is a set of activities to enact a new, values-based economic ecosystem; to afford ownership among those who have been excluded by conventional systems of for-profit and nonprofit support; to center on artists and cultural work that root enabling financial systems; and to act in common cause with others to help artists and all those who share their challenging gig conditions of low wages, unpredictable income, high debt, few assets and little credit.

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This immersive artistic experience will include site-specific, multimedia performances at and around the Ping Yuen housing complex in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Through performances, community programming and exhibitions, And the Community Will Rise will explore the legacy of and significant role that residents in Chinatown public housing play in ensuring the social, political and cultural integrity of San Francisco in the face of gentrification and displacement.

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A dance performance choreographed by Keith Hennessy and Ishmael Houston-Jones, will create a queer futurist encounter where race and masculinity are destabilized, creating the ground for new forms of solidarity, desire, and community. A diverse queer cast of Bay Area dancers will chart trajectories of gay liberation, queer visibility, and racial justice through many eras of social-political struggle.

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To provide rapid cash assistance to Head Start families to support basic needs (food, rent, diapers).

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To support 20% of the position cost for the Director of Art Spaces at the City of Oakland Office of Economic and Workforce Development.

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Founded in 1967, Clausen House assists those with developmental and intellectual disabilities in participating in society, fully and effectively, on an equal basis with others.

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Crohn’s colitis that does not respond to medical therapy is treated surgically with removal of the colon and rectum and creation of a permanent end ileostomy. This can be devastating for some patients and is fraught with potential surgical morbidity, and even disease recurrence in the small intestine in a third of patients. Mesenchymal stem cells target pathways of inflammation important for Crohn’s disease and are being increasingly utilized for the treatment of perianal fistulizing Crohn’s disease. We are herein delivering mesenchymal stem cells with endoscopic injection into the colon wall at the time of colonoscopy to treat inflammation of the colon and rectum related to Crohn’s disease that is not responding to medical therapy in order to avoid surgical intervention.