Search Grantees

Abstract or Project Description

Abstract or Project Description

A collage-style play by Charles L. Mee in collaboration with Creativity Explored and RAWdance. Utopia unites artists of dissimilar, rarely intersecting mediums and different abilities in collaboration to craft a dynamic, multi-disciplinary performance.

Abstract or Project Description

“An act of insistence of black female original genius.” This is the next iteration of the multi-year House/Full of Blackwomen, which addresses issues of displacement, well-being and sex trafficking of black women and girls in Oakland. The New Chitlin Circuitry will be a site-specific ritual performance project reclaiming and highlighting the creative labor and foundational influences Black women have birthed in all arenas.

Abstract or Project Description

A dance production which responds to the growing blatant assault and discrimination of communities who dare to speak languages other than English in public. The project explores the use of non-English or mixed-English languages as a tool for community building, cultural perseverance, and as resistance to racism, xenophobia, and toxic nationalism.

Abstract or Project Description

This project will be a site-specific installation and performance elegy for five Oakland youth killed before the age of 30. THE BLACK (W)HOLE will examine Black culture as a vehicle for resistance and spiritual renewal, creating public rituals that affirm cultural memory and allow for mourning and healing.

Abstract or Project Description

A multi-media project which reflects on mental health and self-care through the perspective of artists from throughout the Asian-American community. QUAKE will incorporate contemporary dance and theater with new technologies to explore generational trauma, space making for catharsis and rest, and healing.

Abstract or Project Description

A new work developed in a weekly lab that incorporates elements of audience participation, performativity and improvisation. This constantly evolving piece will involve the audience from the beginning of the process through social media, as well as engage members of the Tenderloin community through somatic exercises, visualization and expressive writing.

Abstract or Project Description

To support East Bay Agency for Children’s (EBAC) early childhood education program via their Family Resource Center. This program will include the Parent-Child Education Support Program and EBAC’s early childhood education program, Little Steps to College.

Abstract or Project Description

For five Education for Change elementary schools to support improving core instruction and literacy supports for transitional kindergartners to second grade students and their teachers. Supports will include literacy coaches, tutor resources and facilitated professional learning communities for site leaders and teachers.

Abstract or Project Description

The Ella Baker Center organizes to shift resources away from prisons and punishment towards opportunities that make our communities safe, healthy and strong. Named after civil rights hero Ella Baker, they mobilize Black, Brown and low-income people to build power and prosperity in our communities.

Abstract or Project Description

A free, public art festival presenting dance and multidisciplinary arts performances by 14 local artists of color within Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve in Oakland. Local artists of color, predominantly Black and Brown womxn, will activate specific sites throughout the park with live dance and multidisciplinary arts performances.

Abstract or Project Description

A vaudevillian exploration of the psychological impact of an American legacy of anti-Asian legislation and sex trafficking on three generations of a Chinese American family.

Abstract or Project Description

An intimate contemporary dance performance, which explores how dissociative behaviors and altered states of consciousness can be useful for queer identity formation. Split will be performed by one dancer and for one audience member at a time, underscoring the individual experience of dissociation and identity formation.

Abstract or Project Description

There is still no medical cure for inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) and the clinical management is challenging. In particular, differentiating between Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) and predicting the clinical course or the response to therapy is difficult.
In this study, we aim to characterize tissue samples from IBD and control patients with a new diagnostic approach using infrared (IR) light and providing a molecular fingerprint of the disease. It is our goal to identify specific diagnostic fingerprints for CD and UC, for the prediction of the clinical course and the treatment response in patients. Finally, we will use a laser-based technique to obtain areas with specific molecular fingerprints from the tissues. Such material will be analyzed for all expressed genes with so called next-generation sequencing to determine the molecular changes associated with disease-specific fingerprints. Thereby, we hope to identify new diagnostic tools and targets for future therapy.

Abstract or Project Description

To provide additional LTE-connected tablets for Oakland TK students to use for Distance Learning.

Abstract or Project Description

A dance theater song cycle offered as a site-specific tour that progresses through public and privately-owned spaces of West Oakland. Rules and agreements of space use, spoken and unspoken, are constantly colliding with the very personal but also socially embodied experience of race, gender, sexuality, histories, physical abilities, age, ancestry, and financial inequities. Audiences are invited to consider how each of us is responsible for creating welcome and engendering belonging.

Abstract or Project Description

2020 FURY Factory Festival of Ensemble and Devised Theater, a gathering of performing artists from the Bay Area and beyond. Featuring performances, panels, and workshops, the FURY Factory is a West Coast hub for the ensemble theater movement and works that push the boundaries of what theater can be in the 21st century.

Abstract or Project Description

There is a clear unmet need for ulcerative colitis (UC) patients – only a quarter of UC patients achieve remission with present therapies. Currently, there is no standardized way that studies are conducted for UC, and each study is doing things slightly different, which makes the results hard to compare and slows drug development. The FNIH Biomarkers Consortium Mucosal Healing for UC Project will harmonize the ways in which UC studies are completed across industry and academia to find the best common practices and the best measurements that signify that patients are in remission. The results of this project will be made publicly available so that the larger GI community has access to the findings and can implement best practices in order to speed the development of new treatments for patients. FDA has encouraged the evaluation of histopathology in UC clinical trials to make the claim of “mucosal healing” (MH) as a treatment goal. However, there is no community consensus on the definition of MH. There are challenges to achieving a standardized assessment of histologic disease, including: heterogeneity in collection of mucosal biopsies from study to study, lack of validated histology scoring systems and absence of standards for definitions of histologic improvement. This slows UC drug development and limits treatment options for patients. A consortium-based approach bringing together academics, industry and non-profits is needed to define and standardize MH and correlate the measurement with long-term patient outcomes. This project will: develop the definition of MH that establishes the prognostic utility of this measurement, establish best practices for collecting data to validate these measures and provide the collective voice of the community to promote acceptance by health authorities.

Abstract or Project Description

To support Oakland Public Library’s Literacy Programming Fund. Oakland Public Library will purchase 14,000 books for distribution through multiple programs, including but not limited to: Día (Diversity in Action), Books for Wider Horizons preschool graduation giveaways, Summer Reading, Winter Bingo, and Share the Love outreach (distribution via the Oakland Housing Authority, hospital waiting rooms and laundromats).

Abstract or Project Description

Friends of the Lobkowicz Collections is a non profit organization that supports the mission of preserving, studying, and sharing the Lobkowicz Collections in the United States and abroad.