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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  
Literacy Lab Education Invite-Only Grants 2015 Three projects $424,087.00
little seismic dance company Arts NEW Program 2015 “little seismic dance company 10th Anniversary Home Season” $10,000.00
Lotus Bloom Family Resource Center Education Invite-Only Grants 2015 Parent-child playgroups $160,000.00
Luggage Store Foundation Discretionary Awards (Invitation Only) 2015 General Operating Support $10,000.00
Maitri Compassionate Care Foundation Discretionary Awards (Invitation Only) 2015 General Operating Support $1,000.00
Margaret Jenkins Dance Company Arts NEW Program 2015 “Site Series (Inside Outside)” $20,000.00
Mass Ornament Films Foundation Discretionary Awards (Invitation Only) 2015 Travel and Accommodations $5,000.00
Massachusetts General Hospital Research Institute Health Innovator Awards 2015 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 2015 Engineering Probiotic Organisms to Sense, Diagnose, and Treat Inflammation. $100,000
Mediate Art Group Foundation Discretionary Awards (Invitation Only) 2015 General Operating Support $5,000.00
Motivating Inspiring Supporting and Serving Sexually Exploited Youth (MISSSEY) Foundation Discretionary Awards (Invitation Only) 2015 General Operating Support $1,000.00
Mount Sinai School of Medicine Health Innovator Awards 2015 Exploring The Therapeutic Potential Of MUC2, A Gut-Specific Mucin With Anti-Inflammatory Properties. $100,000
Mugwumpin Arts NEW Program 2015 “In Event of Moon Disaster” $20,000.00
Muscular Dystrophy Association Foundation Discretionary Awards (Invitation Only) 2015 Research $5,000.00
Naked Empire Bouffon Company Arts NEW Program 2015 “Do What You Love” $9,000.00
National Head Start Association Education Invite-Only Grants 2015 Tool to measure parent-family and community engagement practices $356,442.00
Navarrete x Kajiyama Dance Theater (NAKA) Arts NEW Program 2015 “RACE: Stories from the Tenderloin” $20,000.00
New Leaders, Inc.  Education Invite-Only Grants 2015 Early literacy capacity and curriculum $50,000.00
New York University Grossman School of Medicine Health Innovator Awards 2015 Massively Parallel Single Cell Transcriptomics to Define Microbial-Regulated Host Circuits That Influence Colonic Inflammation. $100,000
Oakland Children’s Fairyland, Inc. Education Invite-Only Grants 2015 Talk, Read, Sing Oakland Baby Shower and Toddler Party, and Alice’s Reading Room and Toddler Story-time $32,000.00
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.