Grants

GCP III WS Holdings, LLC

Business Expansion

Snake River Pack and Ship LLC

Business Expansion

Ventures

To increase computer literacy and technical business skills among low-income business owners through free business technology classes to help low-income people become more productive and effective in starting their own businesses.

EAP

Business Training Institute EAP Center 16-17

EAP

Business Training Institute Entrepreneurial Assistance Program Center 17-18

Seattle Griot Project

The Kwanzaa festival, held from December 29th to 31st at 2656 42nd Ave SW, Seattle, welcomes all with daily hours from 10 am to 7 pm. This free, 3-day public event prioritizes unity, self-determination, and cooperative economics within the Black community. Activities encompass small business showcases, enlightening financial literacy workshops, valuable tech training, cultural performances, and interviews for marketing. The event aims to empower, encourage entrepreneurship, bridge education gaps, and promote collaboration.

Housing & Comm Development

Butternut Bridge Farm

City of Richmond

BWD Gardens, Inc

NYC Department of Cultural Affairs

BxArts Factory, Inc.

Building Youth Techies, Engineers & Scientist (BYTES)

The Building Youth Techies, Engineers, and Scientists (BYTES) project will expose grade-school students to the emerging fields of computer programming, robotics, and digital design. Three seven-week programming courses will be offered to thirty youth between the ages of 10 and 14 at Mount Calvary Christian Center, 1412 23rd Avenue. Students will demonstrate their newly acquired skills at a community celebration.

NIAID - National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

PROJECT ABSTRACT There is a growing epidemic of immune-mediated diseases affecting pediatric populations. Candida albicans is an opportunistic fungal species that is habitually found as part of the microbiota in humans, particularly as part of a “dysbiotic” perturbed microbiota associated with increased immune-mediate inflammation disease. Clinical observations have found a strong association with C. albicans and inflammatory diseases, though it is unclear if C. albicans initiates inflammation in an already at-risk atopic individual through acute infection, or can directly influence the development of immune responses. C. Albicans can reside within the intestinal microbiota, and exposure to C. albicans in both human and mice results in the anti-C. albicans immunoglobulins, suggesting an antigen specific immune response. This project will ask how intestinal exposure to C. albicans in early life influences the developing immune system, specifically the T cell responses. Fungal species, including C. albicans induce T cell responses that produce the inflammatory cytokine IL-17, also referred to as T helper 17 cells (Th17), and presence of fungal species can induce further microbial dysbiosis within the intestinal microbiota. It is unknown whether the Th17 cells are responding to the C. albicans or dysbiotic bacterial species in the perturbed microbiota. Additionally, animal studies of C. albicans are hampered by a decreased ability to colonize the adult murine intestinal microbiota with C. albicans without antibiotic perturbation. We have developed a model of neonatal C. albicans acquisition where oral administration of C. albicans between postnatal day 7 and 10 results in stable, robust C. albicans colonization, which is associated with microbial dysbiosis, increase in systemic IL17, increase in Th17 cells in the intestine, and disrupted regulatory T cells. To expand upon these findings, we will 1) evaluate the requirement of goblet cell-associated antigen passages in the induction of a lasting IL-17 response during early life, to assess how intestinal antigens inducing IL-17 responses are introduced to the intestinal immune system following C. albicans colonization. Next, we will 2) evaluate the ability of C. albicans to induce specific Th17 cells and increase pathology during psoriasis using tetramers for C. albicans specific cells, and a chemical-contact model of dermatitis. Through these aims we will mechanistically connect preliminary data from our novel animal model to immune perturbations following C. albicans colonization. Following the completion of this project, we will understand the nature of the antigens initiating Th17 cell responses and have a robust platform to assess the consequence of increased Th17 cells and inflammatory responses following C. albicans colonization. This work has important implications in understanding dysbiosis and microbial imprinting of the immune system in early life.

Technology Access Foundation

Develop a wide area network to provide technical support, registration, and group tasks as well as a virtual institute of classes to 15 computer labs supported by TAF which serve youth of color.

NYC Department of Cultural Affairs

C4 Choral Composer Conductor Collective

NYC Department of Cultural Affairs

CABD, Inc.

New NY Broadband 15-16 Capital

Cable Communications of Willsboro Broadband Capital

NYC Department of Cultural Affairs

Caborca Inc.

Transportation Agency

CABOT TOWN OF BETTER ROADS

Putnam

Cady Brook Bridge & Five Mile River Bridge

Cocina Cultura LLC

Cafe' de olla Packaging

Disabilities Aging Ind. Living

Cahedral Square Corporation - SASH (Support and Services at Home)

Disabilities Aging Ind. Living

Cahedral Square Corporation - SASH (Support and Services at Home)

Actors' Shakespeare Project

Caitlin Corbett Dance Company 2007

Caitlin Corbett Dance Company

Caitlin Corbett Dance Company 2009

Cal Anderson Park Alliance

Activate Cal Anderson Park through a series of events for the community that also engage the community and help enhance feelings of safety and comfort in the park.