| Grantee | Giving Area | Program | Grant Year | Project Title | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Navarrete x Kajiyama Dance Theater (NAKA) | Arts | NEW Program | 2017 | “Buscarte (Searching for You)” and “Y Basta Ya! (Enough!)” | $15,000.00 | |
| New York University | Health | Innovator Awards | 2017 | Isolation of Novel Clostridiales Strains that Can Reverse Dysbiosis. | $100,000 | |
| New York University Grossman School of Medicine | Health | Innovator Awards | 2017 | Massively Parallel Single Cell Transcriptomics to Define Microbial-Regulated Host Circuits That Influence Colonic Inflammation. | $100,000 | |
| Oakland Leaf Foundation | Foundation | Discretionary Awards (Invitation Only) | 2017 | After-School Literacy Program | $1,000.00 | |
| Oakland Literacy Coalition, Inc. | Education | Invite-Only Grants | 2017 | Program Manager position | $60,000.00 | |
| Oakland Public Education Fund | Education | Invite-Only Grants | 2017 | Supplemental literacy supports | $33,000.00 |
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.
