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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.

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The Frick Collection is an art museum on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. Established in 1935 to preserve the art collection of the industrialist Henry Clay Frick, the museum consists of 14th- to 19th-century European paintings, as well as other pieces of European fine and decorative art.

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Friends of Fairview was created in 2007 as a 501c3 organization to provide tax-deductible benefits to individuals and companies who want to donate to the Fairview Fire Rescue Department.

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To support OPL’s Children’s Literacy Programming Fund. OPL will purchase 14,000 giveaway books for distribution through multiple programs, including but not limited to: Día (Diversity in Action) events, Books for Wider Horizons (BWH) preschool graduation giveaways, Summer Reading, Winter Bingo, and Share the Love outreach (distribution at the Oakland Housing Authority picnics, hospital waiting rooms, laundromats).

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Friends of the Lobkowicz Collections is a non profit organization that supports the mission of preserving, studying, and sharing the Lobkowicz Collections in the United States and abroad.

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A full-length work for eight dancers—all women aged over 40—featuring an original score written and performed by composer Gretchen Jude, and a set designed and constructed by visual artist Cybele Lyle.

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The first aim of this grant was to compare the motility results provided by the GutTracker Wireless Patch System with an existing FDA cleared measurement, the Medtronic SmartPill. GutTracker results are reported in terms of the frequencies and strengths of peaks in time-based frequency spectra. These were shown to be in concordance with spectral analysis of simultaneous SmartPill pressure measurements. Some of this data was used in a successful FDA 510k submission to validate this unique new measurement modality and assign the frequencies to either the stomach, small intestine and colon. The second aim involved tests with volunteers where stimulant drugs were administered while they were being monitored. Some, but not all, colonic stimulants were found to produce strong peaks in the spectral region believed to be colonic based on the SmartPill testing. The result led to an understanding that the system can objectively examine the effect of drugs.

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The intestinal microbiota is the collective term used to described the microbial community living in our intestine and playing important roles. However, the intestinal microbiota is also playing a central role in the development of many chronic inflammatory diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). We previously reported, in mice, that the consumption of dietary emulsifiers, a food additive broadly used by the food industry to improve texture and extend shelf life of processed food, is able to detrimentally alter the intestinal microbiota, promoting the development of intestinal inflammation. In the current research project, we propose to test the impact of dietary emulsifier on human microbiotas from IBD patients, including IBD patients carrying pathogenic bacteria, named adherent-invasive Escherichia coli and known to be involved in disease susceptibility. We predict that IBD microbiotas will be very prone to disturbance by emulsifiers and that such disturbances may initiate/drive intestinal inflammation. The study of the impact of dietary emulsifiers on IBD-derived microbiota may advance a general paradigm of understanding non-genetic factors that can drive IBD development and promote disease flares. Moreover, our studies may result in dietary advice for those at risk of or suffering from IBD.

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A solo show which takes an unflinching and personal look at the Syrian refugee crisis.

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Sycamores, formerly known as Hathaway-Sycamores Child and Family Services, has been dedicated to supporting individuals and families in Southern California for over a century, offering vital care and services during challenging times. With a rich history dating back to 1902, Sycamores continues to provide innovative and impactful behavioral health programs, positively affecting over 18,000 lives annually,

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Marin Humane proudly welcomed Hopalong to their family, as Hopalong Animal Rescue officially joined in July 2021. Leveraging their network of foster homes, connections to shelters statewide and adoption outposts, Hopalong aids Marin Humane in bringing joy to more lives than ever.

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A three-year capacity building grant of $105,000 to support additional staff, expand the organization’s board and grow revenue to support increased programming opportunities.