| Grantee | Giving Area | Program | Grant Year | Project Title | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lenora Lee Dance | Arts | NEW Program | 2017 | “Beneath The Surface” | $10,000.00 | |
| Lions Eye Foundation of California and Nevada Inc. | Foundation | Discretionary Awards (Invitation Only) | 2017 | General Operating Support | $10,000.00 | |
| Liss Fain Dance, Inc. | Arts | NEW Program | 2017 | “The Words” | $20,000.00 | |
| Literacy Lab | Education | Education Grants | 2017 | LitTab (e-readers) program | $50,000.00 | |
| Lotus Bloom Family Resource Center | Education | Education Grants | 2017 | Parent-Child School Readiness Playgroups & Family Resource Services | $100,000.00 | |
| Lovingkindness Vietnam | Foundation | Discretionary Awards (Invitation Only) | 2017 | Orphanages | $1,000.00 | |
| Luggage Store | Foundation | Discretionary Awards (Invitation Only) | 2017 | General Operating Support | $10,000.00 | |
| Magic Theatre | Arts | NEW Program | 2017 | The stage adaptation of Jessica Hagedorn’s 1996 novel “The Gangster of Love” | $20,000.00 | |
| Mandela Marketplace Inc | Foundation | Discretionary Awards (Invitation Only) | 2017 | Campaign for 1440 7th Street | $55,000.00 | |
| Margaret Jenkins Studio Inc. | Arts | NEW Program | 2017 | “Toward Forty-Five, Part I” | $19,000.00 | |
| Marin Theatre Company | Arts | NEW Program | 2017 | “How I Learned What I Learned” the last play by August Wilson | $10,000.00 | |
| Massachusetts General Hospital Research Institute | Health | Innovator Awards | 2017 | Exploring the Interaction of the IBD Virome With Innate Immune Sensors, RIG-I And MDA-5. | $100,000 | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Health | Innovator Awards | 2017 | Engineering Probiotic Organisms to Sense, Diagnose, and Treat Inflammation. | $100,000 | |
| McGill University | Health | Innovator Awards | 2017 | Interrogating Immune-bacteriophage Dynamics to Mitigate Intestinal Inflammation. | $100,000 | |
| Mission Cultural Center For Latino Arts | Arts | NEW Program | 2017 | “The Prida Project” | $20,000.00 | |
| Motivating Inspiring Supporting and Serving Sexually Exploited Youth (MISSSEY) | Foundation | Discretionary Awards (Invitation Only) | 2017 | General Operating Support | $500.00 | |
| Mujeres Unidas Y Activas | Foundation | Discretionary Awards (Invitation Only) | 2017 | Oakland Office | $1,000.00 | |
| Multi Storied Pictures | Arts | Invite-Only Grants | 2017 | “Storied” screenplay development program | $40,000.00 | |
| Muscular Dystrophy Association | Foundation | Discretionary Awards (Invitation Only) | 2017 | Research | $5,000.00 | |
| Naila Ahmed | Foundation | Discretionary Awards (Invitation Only) | 2017 | Zade Film Fund | $10,000.00 |
Arts
Our Arts Program funds dance, film, public space and theater projects that highlight important issues facing our society and local communities.
Education
Our Education Program supports schools and community-based organizations that help Oakland’s children develop literacy and social emotional skills.
Health
Our Health Program invests early in novel approaches and collaborations to advance Inflammatory Bowel Disease research.
