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Council on Foundations (COF) supports over 900 member organizations in the United States and around the world to build trust in philanthropy, expand pathways to giving, engage broader perspectives, and co-create solutions that will lead to a better future for all.

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CounterPulse is a dynamic movement of experimental art that sparks personal transformation and builds enduring community. They provide space and resources for emerging artists and cultural innovators, serving as an incubator for the creation of socially relevant, community-based art and culture.

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CubaCaribe’s mission is to preserve, promote and present the vibrant cultural and artistic traditions of the Caribbean and its Diaspora.

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Oakland-based Cut Fruit Collective will use development funds to instigate a research and development process investigating the heritage and histories of Oakland’s multicultural and multigenerational Asian American and Pacific Islander immigrant community. Centering music as a connecting medium, the project aims to reimagine temporary public art as a participatory act of cultural memory, healing and intergenerational exchange.

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To support the expansion of an early literacy initiative engaging fathers and caregivers through interactive storytimes, literacy kits and learning circles.

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A new full-length work for dance artists Leyya Mona Tawil and Zari Le’on, with an interactive live score by musician St Celfer, premiering at The Lab in February 2027.

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Dancers’ Group serves artists, the dance community and audiences via programs and services that are as collaborative and innovative as the creative process itself. They lead as both a service organization and a presenter of performance opportunities. This hybrid engagement maximizes their impact in San Francisco and beyond and supports a vision of the region’s dance community as diverse, resilient, resourced and artistically vibrant.

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Founded in 2007, David Herrera Performance Company prides itself in providing visibility, agency and exposure of a diverse Latinx American experience within an American context. Rich in theatricality and immersed in nuanced, visceral movement, the company makes its statement by weaving dance, storytelling, music and media into a textured conversation between Latinx cultures and a multicultural audience.

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With an intention to create art that aims to illuminate the human soul, Dazaun Soleyn (he/she/they) has presented work in the Bay Area since 2013. He received a BFA in Modern Dance Performance and Choreography from the University of South Florida and continued his dance education at the Alonzo King LINES Ballet Training Program. Recently, Dazaun graduated from California College of the Arts with a Masters in Architecture (MArch).

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A new multi disciplinary ritual performance experience that utilizes sacred myths, stories, folk wisdom and Yorubá/Lukumí divination technologies to respond to the current environmental climate crisis through a process of community and land listening, prayer and embodied oracle practice.

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Detour Productions is a San Francisco–based immersive dance-theater ensemble centering queer and People of Color communities through performance, film and education. We create works that collide dance, drag and theater into bold, maximal forms—devising worlds for artists and audiences to inhabit together.

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Diamano Coura is a not-for-profit community African arts organization with a cultural focus. Located at the Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts in the City of Oakland, the Company is dedicated to the preservation, education and appreciation of traditional West African music, dance, theater and culture through public benefit ventures.

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In collaboration with community class members, company members, artists and Senegalese cultural practitioners, Diamano Coura will design and host a tanebeer to celebrate Senegal’s Independence Day on Saturday, April 4, 2026, to revive Senegalese Sabar in Oakland. 

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Dimensions Dance Theater, Inc creates, performs and teaches dance that reflects the historical experiences and contemporary life of the African Diaspora through an African American lens.

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To support the San Francisco Disability Cultural Center in honor of Alice Wong. The San Francisco Disability Cultural Center is a virtual and in-person gathering space for disability communities.

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An intergenerational outdoor activation project created and performed by dNaga Dance Co. and members of the GIRL Project community weaving spoken word, dance and live music to center the female voice and uplift a community of kindness.

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Dohee Lee Puri Arts is the producing organization of performance artist, Dohee Lee. Their mission is to create and tour multi-disciplinary, community performance rituals under the direction of Dohee Lee. They utilize art to heal fractured relationships in the urban environment–relationships between humans and the land and between individuals and their communities.

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An interactive performance driven by audience choice that allows participants to learn about, discuss, envision and practice individual and collective healing.

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Continued support for the Little Steps to College program, which offers early literacy and wraparound family services for families in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood.