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Grant Partners

The Arts Get an Emergency Lifeline In Oakland

July 25, 2025

Written by Sarah Hotchkiss for KQED, originally published on July 16, 2025. Nine philanthropic foundations have joined forces to fill a funding… Read More »

This Public-Private Partnership Is Using Arts and Culture as a Catalyst for Racial Justice in Oakland

April 16, 2024

One of Oakland Bloom’s chefs, Kit Lam with her father and mother. her father gave out free hand drawn calligraphy prints for visitors. (photo… Read More »

Eight Questions for Ray Colmenar, President of the Akonadi Foundation | Inside Philanthropy

September 19, 2023

Martha Ramirez | August 24, 2023 Raymond Colmenar is the president of the Akonadi Foundation, an Oakland-based grantmaker dedicated… Read More »

MAY Grant Partners in the News

June 19, 2020

YOUNG WOMEN’S FREEDOM CENTER Car Rally Protesters to Santa Clara Co. Jails: ‘Free Them All’By Kyle Martin | 5/29/20 About 200 people joined… Read More »

Journalism Funders: Ways to Uphold Your Diversity and Inclusivity Values During COVID-19

April 16, 2020

Medium Jenny Choi | 4/16/20 There has been an influx of emergency funds created across a wide variety of sectors in rapid response to the crisis,… Read More »

Funding Racial Equity and Justice in the COVID-19 Era and Beyond

April 14, 2020

Inside Philanthropy Julia Travers | 4/14/20 Photo JENNIFER M. MASON/SHUTTERSTOCK Black people and other people of color are disproportionately… Read More »

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