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Color of Change helps people respond effectively to injustice in the world around us. As a national online force driven by 7 million members, they move decision-makers in corporations and government to create a more human and less hostile world for Black people in America.

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Common Future fights for a world where all communities across racial differences have the economic independence and power to steward their own restoration and healing.

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CURYJ (pronounced ‘courage’) unlocks the leadership of young people to dream beyond bars. They look to young people to lead the way in transforming our communities by investing in their healing, aspirations and activism.

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Community Kitchens’s mission is to build new sustainable, equitable and community-centric foodways that are driven by the voice of the people.

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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.

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“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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.