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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.

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World premiere production of sAiNt jOaN, (burn/burn/burn), a production by Lisa Ramirez in collaboration with youth-based Youth Uproar Theatre Company and Focal Point Films. This modern retelling of the Joan of Arc story follows several teenage girls in Oakland as they discover and unleash their power through activism as youth uprisings force a national reckoning and evolution.

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The microbes that flourish within our guts are central to many aspects of human health. Which microbes are present can dictate susceptibility to a number of acute and chronic diseases, including IBD. This proposal will use a mouse model with a defined and stable set of bacteria to probe how mice interact with specific members of their microbiota in health and during disease. First, each microbe will be tested for its ability to elicit an immune response in healthy mice. Once we have established the baseline response in normal healthy mice, we will use chemicals to disrupt the gut lining to elicit an inflammatory response, or we will disrupt genes known to limit intestinal inflammation. We will then investigate how immune recognition of the microbiota changes under these altered conditions. This system will enable us to track responses to the microbiota with unprecedented precision and will provide clues regarding which microbes drive immune activation during dysregulated responses to the microbiota. Such studies will pave the way for future work aimed at manipulating responses to key members of the microbiota responsible for inflammatory diseases of the gut.

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Funds will be used to support activities by Vital Arts and the Northern California Land Trust to secure seed funding and investment for launching operations, enlisting important community leaders as advisors, and developing communications to spread awareness of the program and its benefits for artists and property owners.

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Gut inflammation alters the bacterial communities in the gut (the microbiome), and these disruptions are thought to make inflammation even worse. Understanding and derailing this cycle could provide new avenues for IBD therapy. Although we know that inflammation can change “who’s there” in the gut microbiome, this project will determine whether harder-to-measure changes within the microbiome also impact the cycle of inflammation and microbiome disruption. Specifically, we will study whether episodes of inflammation cause these bacteria to change by altering their genetic instructions or how those instructions are read out. If successful, the study will uncover new measurements that we need to collect in order to understand how an individual’s microbiome responds to flares of inflammation and remission in IBD. In the future, this understanding will help us design microbiome-based therapies equipped to persist in the inflamed gut and break the cycle of microbiome disruption and inflammation that characterizes IBD.