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2018 Annual Letter

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A New Housing Partnership for the Bay’s Future

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Education

Valor Collegiate and the Power of Circles

CZI Community

CZI Community: Our Work Starts Here

“A loving, thriving home is safe and stable. It’s free of partner violence. Oppression is addressed. Equity is achieved.”

Colsaria Henderson

Executive Director, CORA

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Oklahoma’s female incarceration rate is over 2x the national average. Learn how The Last Mile helps people in prison build skills and opportunity for the future.

Source : Oklahoma Department of Corrections

Justice & Opportunity

Reimagining Justice, Together

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Your income as an adult is directly affected by what neighborhood, and even what city block, you grew up in. Even moving three blocks away as a kid makes a big difference.

Source : Opportunity Insights

“We are in a unique position to build a philanthropy with a great engineering team to help our partners scale their social change faster.”

Mark Zuckerberg

Co-Founder

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“With the birth of our first daughter, the question became even more clear: Why can’t we point the promise of new technologies and fresh ideas, more squarely at the challenges that will shape the future for all of our kids?”

Priscilla Chan

Co-Founder

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Science Working to Solve a Family’s Medical Mystery

Justice & Opportunity

Aly’s Criminal Justice Reform Perspective: Informed by Experience

Fact

There are roughly 37 trillion cells in the human body, but we don't yet know how many cell types. Once we do, we’ll have a foundation for studying every human disease.

Source : Human Cell Atlas

Education

Building Technology From a Teacher’s Perspective

Advocacy & Movement Building

Amanda Nguyen’s Blueprint for Social Change

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Helping to Bridge the Access Gap: Atlanta University Center

“We all have different backgrounds and areas of scientific expertise - by collaborating, we'll make progress faster.”

Chenglin Wu

Nilsson Lab, SciLifeLab/Stockholm University

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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion On Preserving Dreams & Taking Luck Out of the... On Preserving Dreams & Taking Luck Out of the Equation

“When it’s implemented well, technology can be an amazing equalizer, allowing access to goods and services for people who previously would have been at a huge disadvantage for getting them.”

Loren Hinkson

Civic Digital Fellow, Coding It Forward

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At-risk students with mentors are 55% more likely to enroll in college and 130% more likely to hold leadership positions than their unmentored peers. Explore the Whole Child Approach to education.