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ScholarCHIPS empowers youth with incarcerated parents by providing college scholarships, mentorship and mental health support to help them complete their education and build a stable future. Founded in 2010 by Yasmine Arrington during her own college journey, ScholarCHIPS fills a critical gap by offering scholarships tailored to these students’ needs and inspiring them to overcome systemic barriers to success.

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A collaborative art installation that combines video and performance in and around a shoji room HOW to FALL in LOVE in A BROTHEL explores immigrant memories, traditional routines and archival images of Korean Culture as they are morphed by 21st Century sensibilities.

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To support an Access and Inclusion Fund at SFFILM.

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Soi Dog Foundation is a nonprofit organisation dedicated to improving the welfare of stray dogs and cats across Asia.

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General funds in honor of the retirement of Rainin Foundation staff member, Juanita Gross.

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To support a five-week summer school program with daily reading instruction for 600 rising kindergarten to fourth grade students from district schools. Program includes weekly workshops to train parents to teach reading at home, teacher professional development, and coaching and home visits.

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St. Anthony’s provides essential services, health care and gateways to stability to families and individuals in need in the San Francisco area.

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The mission of the St. Francis Living Room is to improve the quality of life for low income and homeless seniors in the Tenderloin. A small part-time staff, committed Board and dedicated volunteers work to provide a safe haven for social interaction, healthy breakfast and connection to community services such as housing, health and wellness and clothing.

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St. Joseph’s Indian School is a Native American school dedicated to improving the quality of life for Lakota (Sioux) children and families.

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Furniture and fixture updates.

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To support Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Clinical Research Studies.

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Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis are part of the group called inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), a medical condition where the immune system is causing severe intestinal and colonic inflammation leading to severe complications. Former therapies rely on suppressing the immune system but modern treatments, so-called biological treatments, are blocking certain steps in disease progression or activation. Those specific therapies need to be given to each patient in a precise way to optimize the treatments and thus, avoiding non-responders or predicting complications before starting the treatment is paramount. Here we plan to develop a new assay to personalize each patient’s treatment by measuring all characteristics, so-called bio markers, of the individual patient at once by a modern technology called CyTOF and MIBI. Up to a hundred of those tests can be investigated simultaneously and thus, the physician can choose the optimal drug and better understand each patient’s disease.

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To help maintain the take home book program for 174 classrooms and 3,383 children and provide capacity building for Father Corps program staff.

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Intestinal Bowel Diseases (IBD) affect millions of lives worldwide. However, therapeutic options for IBD treatment are limited. In this proposal, building upon our previous findings, we propose to examine an important protein called ARTS, which has never-before been studied in connection to IBD. We have found that ARTS is able to coordinate the cellular suicide of intestinal stem cells; cells that are critical for maintaining and replenishing the intestinal barrier. Strikingly, in mice lacking ARTS, the induction of ulcerative colitis was blocked and mice were able to exhibit enhanced stem cell-dependent repair. In light of these exciting findings, we have established a unique synergistic team that will identify and develop novel compound inhibitors of ARTS, to promote appropriate cellular and molecular signaling and prevent excessive stem cell death. It is our hope that the results obtained from this study will be translatable for the treatment of IBD in the clinic.

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To support The Berkeley School’s program to identify and remediate learning differences at their Early Childhood Center Preschool and to share those results with professional learning communities internally and externally.

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The Bread Project offers culinary job training and placement services to those encountering employment obstacles like low income or lack of education. They provide hands-on training, assistance with job placement and collaborate with local businesses to address systemic employment barriers and foster economic independence.

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The Brotherhood of Elders Network, composed of men of African descent, advocates for and supports Black males across generations, emphasizing empowerment, cultural preservation and community well-being. With an intergenerational Leadership Council overseeing operations and volunteer committees driving ground-level efforts, the organization works to foster environments where Black males can flourish and thrive.

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The Center for Cultural Power (The Center), led by Oakland artist Favianna Rodriguez, will be launched to help underrepresented artists—artists of color, artists with disabilities, and transgender, indigenous and women artists—build their practices, engage in social movements and overcome the barriers to success that these artists have faced. In turn, the artists will usher in new narratives that will transform the status quo.

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Charlotte Maxwell Clinic is a 30-year-old nonprofit providing complementary, integrative therapies to low-income and underserved women with cancer.