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Search current and former Kenneth Rainin Foundation grantees in the Arts, Education and Health to learn more about what we fund.

Grantee Giving Area Program Grant Year Project Title Amount  
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
Oakland Unified School District Education Invite-Only Grants 2017 Core instruction and literacy supports $1,850,000.00
Pennsylvania State University Health Innovator Awards 2017 Macrophages, Homeostasis of Enteric Neurons and Post-IBD Neuropathy. $100,000
Phillips Exeter Academy Foundation Discretionary Awards (Invitation Only) 2017 General Operating Support $5,000.00
Phoenix Charter Academy Foundation Foundation Discretionary Awards (Invitation Only) 2017 General Operating Support $5,000.00
Playworks Education Energized Foundation Discretionary Awards (Invitation Only) 2017 East Bay Office $5,000.00
Pratibha Parmar Foundation Discretionary Awards (Invitation Only) 2017 “My Name is Andrea” (pka Fury & Tenderness) $10,000.00
A site specific dance in Bayview-Hunter’s Point where three dancers are on top of a roof and one dancer is dancing on a wooden block with a briefcase.

Arts

Our Arts Program funds dance, film, public space and theater projects that highlight important issues facing our society and local communities.

A young Black girl smiling while she looks down at an open book, reading.

Education

Our Education Program supports schools and community-based organizations that help Oakland’s children develop literacy and social emotional skills.

A female scientist in the lab looking into a microscope.

Health

Our Health Program invests early in novel approaches and collaborations to advance Inflammatory Bowel Disease research.