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The Paden School community in Alameda provides students with the opportunities to learn in ways that support their individual learning styles, helping them realize their strengths, work with their challenges and fulfill their potential.

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To aid staff at ten Oakland public housing agencies in addressing pressing needs for residents with children. This effort includes assessing the devices and technology needs for distance learning, curating accessible learn-at-home resources for families, and providing technical assistance to housing agency staff. And, in partnership with Reading with Relevance, they will offer literacy support that centers social emotional development and culturally affirming books.

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For the Reading with Relevance Pilot, a standards-aligned program to provide relevant, culturally diverse books to support children’s reading comprehension, vocabulary, and social-emotional learning.

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People’s Kitchen Collective (PKC) operates in Oakland, California, blending art and activism through food-centered political education, drawing on the diverse backgrounds and migration stories of its members. They use immersive experiences rooted in family recipes to honor shared struggles and advocate for radical hospitality as a means to address pressing social issues.

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From 2014-2020, The Flight Deck was a home for multidisciplinary artists to present work, share resources and practice radical acts of imagination in the heart of downtown Oakland. Through PianoFight’s “Reimagining Business Models in the Arts” research project, they are developing an Oakland Cultural Space Cooperative. This business will network, preserve and activate cultural spaces, with the goal of sustaining culture makers of color who are facing displacement.

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To support formerly incarcerated changemakers at Planting Justice (PJ) in re-designing PJ’s Holistic Re-Entry program to meet an expanded re-entry workforce due to COVID-19.

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Raissa SimpsonÕs PUSH Dance Company builds vibrant contemporary dances to gain a deeper understanding of the challenges attributed to mixed heritage. PUSH is best known for integrating cross-cultural issues, mixed race/ Multiracialism and exploring the digital divide.

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To operationalize, assess and review access for priority communities for the Foundation’s New & Experimental Works (NEW) Program.

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A dance performance which digs into our complex relationships with our digital shadows—the indelible traces of ourselves we leave behind with every online purchase, app use, web search, and photo upload. As these shadows grow with our increasing dependence on technology, so do questions of intimacy and identity, privacy and control.

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To support delivery of their birth to five early literacy program at 18 clinics in Oakland. Pediatricians are trained to speak with families during well-child visits about the importance of reading aloud and interacting with children. Families also receive a free book at each visit.

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To support enrollment and service to 700 unduplicated students at reading centers across Oakland with twice weekly, 45-minute literacy tutoring sessions.

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Relevant Radio is a radio network in the United States, mainly broadcasting talk radio and religious programming involving the Catholic Church.

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An evening-length dance performance which explores how women support each other. This dance, featuring nine women of varying ages, backgrounds, and training, will dig into the struggles of women achieving safe and fulfilling lives.

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Addresses Black Male identity and the ways in which it shrinks and/or diminishes over the course of a man’s life. This work illuminates what cultural and modern-day Black Male identity consists of through an examination of his relationships in sharp relief with stereotypes or uninformed generalizations.

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NOD2 (nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain-containing protein 2) is one of the most prominent risk factors in Crohn’s disease (CD), but the chemical mechanisms by which NOD2 mutations gives rise to CD is unclear. NOD2 is a proposed sensor of bacterial cell wall fragments that when mutated results in intestinal inflammation. However, the specific commensal bacteria that activate NOD2 and mechanism(s) by which NOD2 detects cell wall fragments at the molecular level is unknown. To elucidate how NOD2 senses gut bacteria and their cell wall fragments, we will evaluate specific commensal bacteria in mouse models of CD NOD2 mutants and determine the structure of cell wall fragments in complex with NOD2. Our collaborative studies provide a unique multi-disciplinary and synergistic approach to address the molecular mechanisms of NOD2 CD mutations. Understanding these fundamental mechanisms of NOD2 should afford new opportunities to design novel therapeutics targeted at NOD2 mutations in CD.

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To help Ruby’s fulfill its mission during Covid-19, to encourage and support artistic development through personal creativity, exhibitions, classes and the resources provided by a shared learning facility.

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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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For the purchase and distribution of approximately 400 tablets and laptops for prekindergarten through third grade SEEDS students to access digital learning from home.

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Shotgun Players is a company of artists determined to create bold, relevant, affordable theatre that inspires and challenges audience and artist alike to re-examine our lives, our community and the ever-changing world around us.