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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.

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To preserve the only black box theater in Oakland and allow the space to continue to serve a very diverse performing arts community.

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Pine Street Inn partners with homeless individuals to help them move from the streets and shelter to a home, and assists formerly homeless individuals in retaining housing.

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To support programs, including the nursery and work with the Sogorea TeÕ Land Trust.

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An immersive, multimedia work by Flamenco dancer and choreographer Tania Leullieux, artistic collaborators Adrian Arias and Jose Luis de la Paz, and the Presidio Theatre. Solace explores displacement and cultural survival, addressing the rising sea levels resulting from climate disruption.

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Explores Black indigeneity, isolation, gendering and connection to time and place through restorative dance practices found in Black Futurism. In partnership with choreographer and Black dance scholar Dr. Halifu Osumare, EMME Ya will draw on traditional dances and feminist rituals of Mali’s Dogon people and expand upon Africanist principles of improvisation.

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Supports dancers, choreographers, teachers, and administrators whose work is based in the exploration and expression of the African diaspora in the San Francisco Bay Area. In its first round, the relief fund supported a total of 26 Black/African American/African-descended artists.

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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.