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To support nationwide coordination, communications, and advocacy.

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Founded in 2001, NAKA Dance Theater creates experimental performance works using dance, storytelling, multimedia installations and site-specific environments. NAKA builds partnerships with communities, engages people’s histories and folklore and expresses experiences through accessible performances that challenge the viewer to think critically about social justice issues. Recent themes include racial profiling and state brutality, genetic modification of native crops, the commodification of water, cultural colonization and the human response to overwhelming disaster. NAKA brings together and creates rapport among diverse populations, encouraging dialogue and civic participation.

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To support trainee travel for conferences and professional development in IBD research associated with Dr. Dan Littman’s project.

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Northern CA Grantmakers (NCG) mobilizes philanthropy to build healthy, thriving, and just communities in Northern California toward a vision that philanthropy redistributes resources, capital, and power back to historically marginalized communities leading transformative change.

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To support the development of a new puppetry storytelling program that builds early literacy, storytelling and social-emotional learning skills for children and informal caregivers in under-resourced Oakland communities.

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The Early Learning Symposium empowers a diverse group of early childhood professionals, including teachers, directors, family child care providers and informal caregivers through collaborative learning, innovative strategies and community connections across Oakland.

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Oakland Theater Project’s mission is to create exquisite theatrical experiences to inspire compassion and forge bonds across socio-economic and racial barriers.

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Oaklash is an Oakland-based arts nonprofit that produces large scale Drag performance events, facilitates mutual aid and provides mentorship to emerging queer and trans leaders in nightlife.

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A new evening-length performance that utilizes Drag, music, dance and theater to tell a story of trans identity and Chinese-American heritage.

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A performance experiment in social contracts, audience expectation and theatrical framing where the performers are replaced by audience members.

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Parangal’s mission is to give tribute to Philippine heritage by preserving and promoting ethnic attire, music and dance through research, workshops and performances. They aim to serve as a bridge, inspiring and connecting Filipinos in diaspora to their roots to give them a sense of pride and identity, while educating diverse communities to foster awareness and appreciation of Philippine culture.

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pateldanceworks (pdw) engages with futuring queer, decolonial worlds through dance performance, community improvisational practice and dance writing mentorship in pursuit of liberation, generating spaces of care and belonging. Their commitments to equity and anti-racism are integral to their creative process, administrative work, audience experience and performance making.

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Transforming philanthropy by elevating the field of grants management and empowering grants management professionals to lead the way in operationalizing equity-centered, values-driven grantmaking practices.

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From March 24-26, 2025, members of the PEAK community joined together in New Orleans to lead, build on momentum and constructively engage to transform philanthropy and dismantle systems that disenfranchise people throughout our nation.

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“Fruits of Liberation” is a culminating activation amplifying the abolitionist teachings of 1000 recently planted fruit trees throughout deep East Oakland. Using interactive art, food sovereignty and storytelling workshops, lead artists Kate DeCiccio and El Sobrante-based organization Planting Justice will create four pop-up installations that convene neighbors to strengthen collaborative networks of tree care and food sharing.

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This grant supports the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) to evaluate a recent state grant, the Literacy Coaches Reading Specialists Educator Training grant.

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Described as “emotional and kinetic” (San Francisco Bay Guardian), PUSH Dance Company performs vibrant contemporary dances, providing audiences an opportunity to examine issues of identity and intersecting cultures that surround and affect us all.

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Queer Cultural Center promotes social justice and the creative and finanical development of queer artists and culture makers. They steward artists whose programs nourish, connect and mobilize Trans & Queer communities in San Francisco and its diaspora.