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Court 13 Arts, a New Orleans-based nonprofit, was founded by Benh Zeitlin in 2015 to support Louisiana artists, inspired by the collaborative spirit behind the film “Beasts of the Southern Wild.” Dedicated to fostering creativity through education and public programming, they aim to build a community-based culture of art and filmmaking, anchoring Louisiana talent for long-term benefit while serving as a platform for artists to develop sustainable careers.

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A three-year grant to support The Matchbox @ Crowded Fire, a new play development program which actively supports the creation of high quality contemporary theater through commissions, in-house workshops, an annual free public reading series, a Resilience & Development (R&D) LAB, and a Playwright Residency.

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An innovative dance piece, which will explore parallels between Rumba and Hip-Hop dance forms, like Turfing and break dancing, through a series of public performances at sites in and around Laney College in Oakland.

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A one-night journey down the Las Vegas strip. The play wrestles with the question of our responsibility to tragic events that don’t directly affect our lives.

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A three-year grant to support its Cutting Ball Variety Pack, an experimental works festival that will allow artists to collaborate, experiment and grow the avant-garde canon.

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A site specific ritual based performance project that addresses issues of displacement, well-being, and the sex trafficking of black women and girls in Oakland.

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Destiny Arts Center believes that art and movement gives young people a vehicle for self and community expression. Founded by Black and Queer dance and martial artists in 1988, Destiny uses movement-based arts to uplift youth voice, supporting pathways for young people to express themselves, advocate for justice and equity, fight against the systemic racism that continues to impact Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and build a community where everyone feels seen, valued and free.

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Downtown Streets Team builds Teams that restore dignity, inspire hope and provide a pathway to recover from homelessness.

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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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To support gathering data and conducting research that will inform how resources can best be used to expand equitable access to high-quality early care and education programs that serve families furthest from opportunity in Oakland.

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East Oakland Youth Development Center (EOYDC) works to develop the social and leadership capacities of youth and young adults (ages 5 to 24) to prepare them for employment, higher education and leadership. EOYDC is a community-based solution for solving social injustice and inequality, and a national model for youth development.

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For five Education for Change elementary schools to support improving core instruction and literacy supports for 900 transitional kindergartners to first grade students and their teachers. Funding includes: transitional kindergarten to first grade focused literacy coaches, tutor resources and a facilitated monthly professional learning community for site leaders and teachers to support data analysis and application of evidence-based literacy practices that help children secure the skills they need to be on track for reading success. Funding also includes support for 28 OUSD schools to receive SEEDS of Early Learning professional development for their transitional kindergarten teachers.

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A three-year grant to support San Francisco Trolley Dances, an annual civic event featuring new site-specific works by professional and community-based dance companies. In partnership with San Francisco’s transit agency, the three-day festival supports the creative growth of choreographers and dance artists and develops new audiences as viewers travel on MUNI streetcars to see dance embedded within hidden corners of the city.

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A performative adventure that explores questions of complacency, intervention, and voyeurism, through active audience participation in the development of the work itself.

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Family Dog Rescue rescues dogs of all breeds, backgrounds and personalities in California, providing care, medical treatment and behavioral assessment before finding them the loving homes and second chance they all deserve.

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A contemporary dance about dying and the acute, isolating loss suffered by survivors of the deceased. Exploring the paradoxical nature between grief’s ubiquity and its singularity, the work responds to what feels like an increasingly incomprehensible and desensitizing reality where every day, in some way, we hear news about death.

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Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) can be a devastating illness. For reasons that are not clear, the cells that line the intestine in patients with IBD mount inappropriate immune responses toward the harmless bacteria that normally inhabit our gastrointestinal tracts. Treatments for IBD therefore involve suppressing immune responses to limit the damage caused by this immune hyperactivation. These medications have many complications, particularly in children who may be more susceptible to the infectious complications associated with their long-term use. The goal of our research is to facilitate the development of new therapies for IBD that specifically limit the hyperactivation of intestinal immune responses. We have identified a novel regulator of inflammatory responses in the cells that line the intestine and in this proposal we explore the mechanism by which this receptor acts to suppress deleterious immune responses. We hypothesize that these discoveries will offer important insights into the pathophysiology of IBD and will suggest a new therapeutic strategy for this disease.

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Inflammatory bowel disease is a debilitating chronic disease associated with inappropriate accumulation of white blood cells in the bowel. This causes tissue damage and is associated with pain, diarrhea, tiredness and weight loss. There are some effective drugs available that reduce the inflammation, but many patients will not respond to therapy. We have identified a protein that is responsible for regulating the movement of blood cells into the bowel to cause inflammation. In non-injured individuals the process of inflammation is well controlled, but in patients with IBD loss of function of our protein means that inflammation gets dysregulated and causes tissue damage. We want to test blood from patients with IBD to understand how components of this regulatory pathway are altered, and more importantly to use human cells and mouse models to test whether administration of compounds that recreate the missing pathway can resolve the inflammation and help heal the damaged bowels in patients.

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Will investigate American masculinity from transgender and queer perspectives, giving voice to ‘outsider’ experiences of masculinities.