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To support organizational capacity-building for Demonstration Gardens to deepen work their work in UN Plaza, to improve green infrastructure, interim art installation and community activities.

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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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Nourishing Community Wealth Co-Cap Conference which brought together over 200 local and national innovative cross-sector professionals to engage in conversation and highlight community wealth building innovations. The conference examined a broad range of models and innovations for investment, ownership, and support of local businesses and entrepreneurship that centers equity and prioritizes the local community.

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Commonweal’s mission is to provide a forum for civil, reasoned debate on the interaction of faith with contemporary politics and culture.

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Oakland Life-Safety Loan Fund aims to create long-term and permanently affordable safe spaces for the arts to thrive in the Bay Area. The fund will provide tenant improvement loans for life/safety upgrades to qualified live/work, art practice, and community event spaces serving Oakland artists. The program is supported by technical assistance from Safer DIY Spaces.

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Community Works seeks to transform justice through programs and policy rooted in humanity and healing.

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An immersive performance on the USS Potomac which seeks to deconstruct the white male body’s expression of power and challenge its role in American democracy.

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A performance festival seeking to decolonize gender through Indigenous performance. A collaboration between Javier Stell-Frésquez and CounterPulse, Weaving Many Spirits will prioritize interactivity and culturally specific protocols, transforming CounterPulse into a time-based container for radically traditional Two-Spirit Indigenous futurity.

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Colorín Colorado San Francisco will include community workshops and work with artists with developmental disabilities to create sculptures exploring their journeys as immigrants. The sculptures will be placed at San Francisco sites that are significant to the Latinx community. They will be animated by music, dance and poetry, bringing culture and the arts to life.

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Will serve as a regional hub for artists of all disciplines and community investors dedicated to social change through creative practice.

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Uses multimedia video, soundscape and scenic magic to tell the stories of three young black men as they journey across the unknown. Co-Produced by Custom Made Theatre and the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, Esai’s Table addresses the crucial need for representation and identity in the era of #blacklivesmatter.

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Set in a climate-ravaged San Francisco and challenges the patriarchy and classism present in Strindberg’s original Miss Julie. This is the inaugural play in Cutting Ball Theater’s new commissioning program, which is committed to ethical, progressive alternatives to antiquated masterworks in the field of theater.

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Individuals with mutations in the receptor for IL-10 suffer from very early onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease. These patients are typically unresponsive to conventional therapies and have a poor long-term prognosis. The only available curative therapy is bone marrow transplantation from a suitable donor, which carries significant risks and often is not available. We propose to use gene transfer into the patient’s own stem cells to restore IL-10 signaling and provide an alternative treatment option for these patients. Our preliminary studies indicate that this gene therapy approach can prevent the development of the disease in a mouse model which mimics the disease symptoms observed in human patients. The team of investigators has deep expertise covering the diverse aspects of this project, with expertise in gene therapy preclinical development, clinical translation and in Inflammatory Bowel Disease and IL-10 biology.

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A new choreography by Leyya Mona Tawil in collaboration with local dancers, visual artist Dena Al Adeeb, and composer Sholeh Asgary. Noise & Nation will be featured as part of the Arab.AMP festival, which focuses on experimental live art from the Arab diaspora, celebrates the plurality of Arab voices, and challenges identity legibility.

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Earthjustice is the premier nonprofit public interest environmental law organization. They wield the power of law and the strength of partnership to protect peopleÕs health, to preserve magnificent places and wildlife, to advance clean energy and to combat climate change.

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To support East Bay Agency for Children’s (EBAC) early childhood education program at the Hawthorne Family Resource Center. This program will include Parent-Child Education Support Program and EBAC’s early childhood education program, La Academia.

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East Bay Center for the Performing Arts engages youth and young adults in imagining and creating new worlds for themselves and new visions for their communities through the inspiration and discipline of rigorous training in world performance traditions.

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A program that fosters risk-taking, rigor and radical critique on the role of political activism, cultural work and art in society. LAIR focuses on supporting primarily artists of color to look beyond traditional art practices to expand their vision, creating a space for artists and audiences to engage in meaningful dialog on some of the most pressing issues of our time including xenophobia, policing, racism, sexism and classism.