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Success Academy Charter Schools Inc. is dedicated to providing all children with access to excellent education, grounded in the belief in their potential to learn and succeed. Through high-quality teaching, supportive environments and a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, they strive to empower students to reach their fullest potential.

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Summer Search, headquartered in Oakland, California, aims to empower youth from all backgrounds by providing access to education, mentorship and opportunities for growth, thereby breaking down systemic barriers and promoting equity. The organization supports young people in discovering their purpose from high school through to career launch, resulting in significantly higher graduation rates and bachelor’s degree attainment compared to their peers from similar socio-economic backgrounds.

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For the StoryCycles take home book bag program, to provide access to books for 198 transitional kindergarten and preschool classrooms and over 3,600 children and their families.

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A grant program dedicated to investing in bold ideas by individuals at California nonprofit or fiscally sponsored arts organizations that have the potential to reshape the future of the arts sector.

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Charlotte Maxwell Clinic is a 30-year-old nonprofit providing complementary, integrative therapies to low-income and underserved women with cancer.

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Charlotte Maxwell Clinic is a 30-year-old nonprofit providing complementary, integrative therapies to low-income and underserved women with cancer.

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Located in San Francisco, California, the Exploratorium is a public learning laboratory exploring the world through science, art and human perception.

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Consisting of 30 networked sculptures that create an infrastructure of sensing and sonification. Oakland residents will become stewards to individual bells that work together to give presence to the air and climate, creating a shared soundscape across Oakland. Over six months it will create a data-set that can be used by climate scientists and public health researchers.

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A literature, performance, art, and sound project that refuses traditional audience/maker/performer relationships. La Rocco will write the third book in her experimental trilogy, which will then be re-performed by artists in various forms and media.

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Chronicles the effect of these political times on individuals, their personal stories, and the personal reaction of artists to these stories.

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A three-year capacity building grant to support marketing and public relations efforts, build the organization’s fundraising activities, as well as technology and media capabilities.

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A play set in Oakland in 1967, which uses the ambiguity and legendary mystery surrounding Huey Newton, leader of the Black Panthers, alleged police killing to shed light on contemporary experiences of African American communities.

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United Roots believes in fostering supportive conditions that empower young people to create alternative, sustainable economies, envisioning their center as a gathering place for generations and cultures. Through youth leadership, they aim to cultivate a more peaceful, creative and equitable world, while also reintegrating urban communities with nature.

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The United States Fund for UNICEF is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting the work of UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, to provide lifesaving aid and support to children around the world. Through fundraising, advocacy and awareness-building efforts, they work to ensure that every child has access to healthcare, education, clean water and protection from harm.

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To support Unity Council’s Children & Family Services department in creating a set of strategic objectives that build on and improve program performance. Effort will also assess client outcomes and impacts, and provide recommendations to improve data capture, analysis, and action planning.

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IBD patients have increased chances of developing colorectal cancer. Additionally this specific form of colon cancer is very difficult to treat. Despite numerous efforts we still do not fully understand the relationship between intestinal inflammation and the increased chance for colon cancer development. Understanding this will allow us to develop more specific and targeted prevention measures. Recently, a 3D culturing system of intestinal organoids (“”miniguts”” in a dish) has been developed. By clonally expanding single intestinal stem cells, we can obtain sufficient DNA to study DNA damage caused by or associated with chronic inflammation. The nature of this DNA damage will serve as a “”smoking gun”” that allows us to identify major forces causing IBD-associated colorectal cancer and thus to develop specific preventive therapies.

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Support for the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive for the David Wilson Program, “The Possible (working title).”

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The gut is composed of many cell types that contribute to its complex functions and ability to adapt to changing conditions associated with diet, lifestyles and the environment. Each of these factors can affect the health of the gut and contribute to intestinal disease such as inflammatory bowel disease and intestinal discomfort and pain. Many current therapies target the immune system even though the gut contains many other types of cells which are crucial for sensing chemical changes within the gut. Our UCSF team of basic and clinical scientists is exploiting modern and powerful tools to revisit important but rare cell types within the gut that communicate with the nervous system. We are using these tools to ask if a novel pathway regulates the number and function of these critical cells. Such knowledge could be leveraged to generate therapies for intestinal disorders, particularly those associated with inflammatory pain.