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For Chromebooks that will help families access home learning and video telehealth services.

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For the launch of Kidappolis, a personalized mobile platform that scaffolds parent learning to support print and digital literacy skill-building and reading fluency for Oakland’s early learners through LitLab tools and services. The platform also connects families to safety-net service partners including homeless shelters, food banks and health clinics.

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For developmental playgroups, workshops for families, and early screenings for children birth to five. Funding will also support leading family resource center professional learning communities in the region and offering services to other birth to five providers.

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To provide necessities to homeless individuals in Washington, DC.

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The Luggage Store, also known as The 509 Cultural Center, is a nonprofit arts organization whose mission is to foster community through multidisciplinary arts programming that promotes diversity, inclusion and dialogue among the diverse cultural communities of downtown San Francisco. They aim to reduce inter-group tensions and stereotypes through exhibitions, performances, education and public art initiatives.

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A play which mythically addresses domestic violence and what happens when systems fail. This Montana-gothic macabre comedy, rooted at the intersection of justice, greed, and blood, confronts the nature of necessary evils and unlikely bonds.

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Global Moves, features collaborations with artists from China, India, Israel and the United States. Led by choreographer Margaret Jenkins, the artists will explore the current waves of isolationism and xenophobia, utilizing cultural texts as prompts to make a work of hope and unity.

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Humans evolved with, and continue to harbor, trillions of microorganisms living inside or on our bodies. As a result, these microbes play fundamental roles in our health. The last 20 years of research has focused almost exclusively on our resident bacteria. New technologies have enabled identification of viruses within the intestine, i.e. “the virome”. Moreover, recent studies indicate that the gut virome is significantly altered in patients with IBD, and that viruses can have a protective function in mice. However, the contribution of the virome to a healthy gut and how changes in virus composition impacts gut inflammation is almost completely unknown. Here, we propose to identify components of the human intestinal virome that shape our immune system in the context of health and IBD. This work will identify protective roles for the intestinal virome – a contrast to the misconception that all viruses are harmful.

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To support Dr. Kevin Elias’ ovarian cancer research.

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Mindful Life Project is an educational nonprofit that supports schools nationwide through highly impactful mindfulness based social emotional learning programming.

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In collaboration with SEEDS of Learning, to support over 800 transitional kindergarten through third grade students to develop critical social-emotional tools for self-management, focus, and metacognitive skills. The program includes weekly mindfulness lessons for teachers and students to implement inside and outside the classroom.

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Mindful Life Project is an educational nonprofit that supports schools nationwide through highly impactful mindfulness based social emotional learning programming.

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A text-based movement performance choreographed and directed by Sara Shelton Mann exploring short stories of local community members developed through a year-long workshop process. 7 Excavations aims to begin a conversation in the artist community around addressing and treating trauma while holding space for healing and compassion.

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A new outdoor vertical dance production investigating Indigenous forest practices, featuring the songs, voices and stories of Ohlone elders, as well as Augmented Reality digital art created by American Indigenous youth. Talking Roots: Trees of Witness will engage an extensive network of Indigenous artists, scientists, elders, schools, urban youth and audiences from throughout the South and East Bay.

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Precise manipulation of diet and gut microbiota is a novel and non-invasive therapy for IBD which is of great interest to patients. Enteral nutrition provides a clear example of a dietary intervention improving clinical outcomes such as mucosal healing. However, previous studies in IBD have altered several different dietary components at once making it challenging to identify specific dietary factors with quantifiable, causal roles in IBD. Identifying these dietary ingredients that influence disease will allow us to compose a broader range of precise and clinically effective diets for IBD with better patient tolerance and adherence than enteral nutrition. In animal models, we screened over 30 defined diets to identify that protein and fiber in combination influence gut leakiness and inflammation. We will profile the effect of these diets on the mucosal immune system and leaky gut in healthy individuals and patients with moderate ulcerative colitis

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The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) formed in December of 2014. It was created as a space for Black organizations across the country to debate and discuss the current political conditions, develop shared assessments of what political interventions were necessary in order to achieve key policy, cultural and political wins, convene organizational leadership in order to debate and co-create a shared movement wide strategy.

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A series of performances, public artworks, workshops and forums in San Francisco and Oakland. Y BASTA YA! will shine a light on the experiences of Latina women with regard to invisibility, labor rights, domestic violence and sexual abuse.

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As a non-collecting institution, the museum actively collaborates with artists, designers, museums and universities, as well as design venues and practitioners to create inspirational experiences in the world of craft and design for visitors of all ages.

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A full-length dance and music program featuring the innovative hula choreography by director Patrick Makuak_ne and showcasing several of Hawaii_s most culturally renowned m_h_ (transgender) artists and performers. The project celebrates the renewed appreciation and acceptance of m_h_ artists as a vibrant cultural force whose impact and influence have been obscured and disparaged due to colonialism and imported religiosity.