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East Bay Agency for Children (EBAC) improves the well-being of children, youth and families by reducing the impact of trauma and social inequities. EBAC’s transformational programs help children, youth and families recover from trauma; build upon existing resilience to protect against long-term harm from past or future exposure to adversity; and when possible, prevent exposure to adverse childhood experiences.

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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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To support 15 elementary schools. School leaders, teachers and coaches will work intensively to boost instruction in transitional kindergarten to first grade. As a learning community, one of the key goals is to strengthen Oakland’s understanding of effective long-term, sustainable strategies that will result in all children reading successfully by third grade.

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The fellowship program brings together insightful and energetic leadership and emerging models in a convergence of participatory practice and action learning to strengthen the Bay Area’s arts and culture sectors.

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A new site-specific outdoor and indoor traveling dance journey, celebrating Epiphany Productions’ 20th Anniversary. The new work will acknowledge the transformation taking place in San Francisco, with displacement and rejuvenation occurring side by side and profoundly altering the city.

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An admission free site-specific dance festival and educational program. Bay Area choreographers will perform at 6-7 sites, and tour guides will ensure a safe journey for festival viewers along the MUNI Metro Train from Castro to Montgomery Station.

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An experimental drama inspired by the life of the playwright’s great grandmother, about a madam and single mother who tries to raise her daughter right, amidst the struggles of her Barbary Coast Chinatown brothel. The play is a survival tale and will be available in English, with Chinese narration; accessible in either language.

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A queer history performance walking tour unearthing and elevating San Francisco’s LGBTQ community. The work will feature dance, theater, drag, poetry, and live music while sharing the stories of San Francisco’s unsung queer ancestors.

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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 duet choreographed and performed by Liane Burns and Charles Slender-White to the entirety of Holly Herndon’s album of the same name. Platform will investigate ideas of homogeneity, social media echo-chambers, individuality, and extreme unison.

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A three-year capacity building grant of $105,000 toÊincrease staff capacity for pursuing national opportunities, grow revenue to support an increased number of projects and increase local and national visibility to widen the pool of work opportunities.

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A project utilizing truly collaborative approaches to make solo performances. Over a 12-month period, three core members of foolsFURY (Debórah Eliezer, Michelle Haner, and Brian Livingston) will jointly develop one solo performance piece for each artist.

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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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The aims of this grant project were to develop two basic ideas that were just past the proof-of-concept stage, into functional computer code to perform processing of the large raw datasets supplied by the GutTracker wireless patch system, intended to form the first steps in the future standard data analysis. The first step was a cleanup phase in which large amplitude artifacts are identified and removed from the data in such a way as to minimize effects on subsequent Fourier transform spectral analysis and alignment with absolute time. The second step provided normalization across data sets to accommodate differences in signal strength between subjects arising from variations in skin condition and body dimensions, allowing the absolute strength  of motility measurements to be compared among subjects. Both aims were achieved, resulting in workable code bases that have been in routine use.

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George Mark ChildrenÕs House, located in San Leandro, California, focuses on quality of life and continuity of care for children with illnesses that modern healthcare cannot yet cure, or for those who have chronic medical conditions.

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A three-year grant to support the Artist in Residence (AIR) Program, which provides four to ten week long residencies for six to eight artists annually.

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So far, most research on the microbiome in IBD has mostly focused on gut bacteria. However, there is increasing evidence to support that other members of the microbiome, such as viruses, may also have an important role. Herein we plan to study the role of viral exposures in IBD development. A major challenge of this type of study is to disentangle what is cause, and what is consequence of the inflammatory process. However, having access to a unique cohort of pre-clinical samples, where we were able to gather thousands of samples from patients with Crohn´s disease and ulcerative colitis, years before their diagnosis, as well as matched healthy individuals, addresses some of the challenges. Acquiring mechanistic information into preclinical disease can therefore potentially uncover key pathogenic events. In this unique cohort, we will use also a unique method, recently described, called the VirScan. This is a very sensitive and specific assay, that has the ability assess all viral exposures that happened throughout the life span of an individual. By combining this unique technique in a distinctive cohort, we hope to be able to identify whether there are specific viral exposures that may act as triggers for the development of IBD.

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Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) affects women during their reproductive years and 25% become pregnant after an initial diagnosis of IBD. New data suggest that babies are born not-sterile, and bacteria, also known as microbiome, are passed from the pregnant mother to the fetus in the womb. The make-up of these initial bacteria significantly contributes to the development of newborn’s immune system and may affect the risk of diseases later in life. While it is well established that patients with IBD have an altered microbiome, no data exist on the types of bacteria passed from pregnant women with IBD to their babies or on the role these bacteria play in the development of baby’s immune system. Therefore, we propose to transplant the stool of newborn babies born to women with and without IBD to germ-free mice, known to have underdeveloped immune system, and characterize the changes in their immune system before and after the transplantation. We will also track particular bacteria that were successfully engrafted into germ-free mice and determine their effect on the maturation of immune responses. This research could inform future clinical trials of microbial manipulation during pregnancy as a possible strategy to prevent IBD risk transmission.