Left to right: Kati Berk (Education), Jire Bademosi (Justice & Opportunity), Maryel Ley (Education), Fiona Griffin (Science), and Darnell Cadette (Community) reflect on our 2018 journey.
2018 Annual Letter

What We're Hopeful For

Left to right: Kati Berk (Education), Jire Bademosi (Justice & Opportunity), Maryel Ley (Education), Fiona Griffin (Science), and Darnell Cadette (Community) reflect on our 2018 journey.
PRISCILLA CHAN & MARK ZUCKERBERG
CO-FOUNDERS AND CO-CEOS

Hello friends,

Today marks the three-year anniversary of one of the most important weeks of our lives. In the span of just a few days, we welcomed our first child, Max, into the world, and announced a new philanthropic organization, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, dedicated to making the world better for her generation.

As any new parent will tell you, holding your child in your arms gives you a new appreciation for your parents, and their parents, and their parents’ parents. And in those early days with Max, we found ourselves thinking about family a lot.

We gathered some of the best thinkers of our time — the brightest technologists, scientists, policy experts, and advocates — and began to point their work at some of the biggest challenges that we face as a society.

We named Max after two of Mark\’s great-grandfathers. They both came from families living in Eastern Europe in the late 1800s that heard there was more opportunity and more tolerance in America. So they traveled with what little they had to the United States. They fought hard to make a living and build a better life.

Priscilla comes from a family of immigrants, too. Her grandparents were living in Vietnam when the war broke out in the 1950s. They believed in something better for their children. They didn’t know exactly what it looked like, but they knew it was out there. So they hired a boat. In the dead of night, they stood on a dock, and watched their children float off into the great unknown. It’s one of the bravest things a parent could do — and an act of almost unreasonable hope.

Once we welcomed Max, that distant history became very palpable examples of the extraordinary sacrifice that people are willing to make for their children and for a better future. We knew that we existed, and she existed, because of our family members — people who had so much faith that a better future was possible, that they risked everything to pursue it.

Of course, we haven’t faced anything nearly so difficult in raising our daughters Max and August. In so many ways, we are much luckier. But we also share the conviction that a better world is out there — for our children and for everyone’s children. A world where lives aren’t needlessly destroyed by disease. Where every student can learn in a way that makes sense for them. Where justice and opportunity reaches everyone, not just the lucky few.

When we started the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, we had only an initial idea of how we might get to that place. But we knew it was possible. And our families taught us that the only way to find it was to start looking for it — to do whatever we could to chart a course toward a better future.

So that’s what we did. We gathered some of the best thinkers of our time — the brightest technologists, scientists, policy experts, and advocates — and began to point their work at some of the biggest challenges that we face as a society.

Of course, we are still a long way off from the world we’d envisioned. But we’re more optimistic about our journey than ever before — because we’re making real progress.

Consider just a few of the milestones our team and partners have achieved this year across our three focus areas here at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative:

Science: We’ve launched new collaborations and tools to accelerate biomedical research — including some big steps forward on the path to helping cure, prevent or manage all disease by the end of this century.

To aid in the fight against infectious disease, the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub launched Chan Zuckerberg ID (formerly IDseq), an open source, cloud-based tool that can help researchers identify emerging diseases from a blood sample. This has the potential to transform our ability to detect and respond to outbreaks around the world. We’re now teaming up with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to train global health workers to use this powerful new tool.

Most of us probably know someone who’s suffered from a neurodegenerative disorder like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, or ALS, but researchers still don’t fully understand the cellular and physiological processes that cause neurodegeneration — and there are few treatments. This year we launched the Neurodegeneration Challenge Network to bring together scientists who study basic biology, clinicians, engineers, and computational biologists — and equip them with the tools and resources they need to better understand the underlying causes of these devastating diseases. We hope this will lead to new treatments, preventive measures, and hope for those affected.

One of our biggest bets to help diagnose and treat disease is supporting the Human Cell Atlas, a global, collaborative effort to map every cell type in the healthy human body. We’re supporting interdisciplinary networks of scientists, researchers and engineers who will develop tools and technologies to build out and interpret the findings being collected. We hope that these networks will accelerate progress toward a first draft of the Atlas being completed, and toward these transformative technologies being widely available to the entire biomedical community.

Education: We are working with partners across the U.S. who are jumpstarting that same kind of innovation in education, too.

We’re continuing to invest in groundbreaking school models that advance the academic, social and emotional development of students. One of our key partners, Summit Public Schools, has pioneered a personalized learning approach that has expanded to almost 400 schools across the country — with promising results. The Pasadena Independent School District in southeastern Texas started piloting the Summit Learning Program in 2015. In the past two years, seventh graders there who were the furthest behind their peers made a 17 percent gain on the state math assessment — and a 20 percent gain in reading. Another partner, Valor Collegiate Academies in Tennessee, outperformed its peers statewide for the fourth year in a row.

We also worked with the College Board to double the number of Black, Latinx, and female students taking Advanced Placement Computer Science and to help them provide free, personalized SAT prep to nearly half of SAT takers across the country.

Justice and Opportunity: If we want to take luck out of the equation for more people, we need to understand the systemic barriers that hold people back and take action to address them.

So, this year, we supported the launch of Opportunity Insights, Harvard’s new research and policy institute. At Opportunity Insights, Raj Chetty looks at how the neighborhood a person grows up in impacts their future success. He and his team will use data to literally map the real-world impacts of inequality, so we can develop smarter policy.

We were proud to support the launch of Eviction Lab, the first-ever nationwide evictions database to map housing insecurity and its impact. We also backed efforts in our home state of California to improve housing affordability, including the passage of Prop 1, which will help build affordable housing for veterans, working families, people with disabilities, and people experiencing homelessness.

Our criminal justice reform and tech teams also partnered with the new Philadelphia district attorney, Larry Krasner, who’s reforming Philly’s justice system, to learn how we can use technology to help his team — and hopefully, prosecutors across the country — build a more humane justice system.

Building that better system will also require lessening the burden of carrying a criminal record. Today, an astounding 70 to 100 million Americans have them — and it can hold them back for a lifetime. Long after they’ve paid their debt to society, a criminal record can prevent them from getting jobs, securing housing, and more. Already, Pennsylvania has passed a law that helps lessen this burden. This year, we launched a bipartisan effort to encourage other states to follow suit.

Finally, we invested in our own backyard — our new hometown of Redwood City. Over the past year, through our Community Fund, we partnered with 41 local organizations working to address the most urgent needs of at-risk and vulnerable individuals or families on the San Francisco peninsula.

You can learn more about all of our work this year on our new website. We hope that doing so will give you the sense of hope we feel.

It’s easy to feel pessimistic when we are reminded daily of the challenges ahead of us — to think that progress has stalled, or that things are getting worse instead of better. But the truth is, sometimes it’s hard to see when we’re on the path to a better future, because that path doesn’t come with a map. It never has.

With the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, we’re proud to venture with hope into the great unknown — alongside the entrepreneurs, scientists, wild optimists, teachers, advocates, and engineers who inspire us every day. We can’t wait to see what 2019 brings.

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2018 Milestones
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february

science
We announced the Neurodegeneration Challenge Network to support new scientific collaborations aimed at fighting diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and ALS.
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education
February 23, 2018 | Master P fitted a student with a pair of glasses at Vision to Learn’s celebration event. Photograph by Gil Fortis

april

August 2, 2018 | Tarage Baker, staff member at BronxConnect worked with Lorenzo Bishop on his job applications. BronxConnect, a grantee of the Communities Thrive Challenge, runs alternative to incarceration, anti-gun violence, re-entry, and employment programs for young adults in the Bronx, New York. Photograph by Julian Bracero

Through the Communities Thrive Challenge, 10 organizations across the U.S. received $1M each to improve economic opportunity in their communities.

Initiative
Justice & opportunity
Partner
The Rockefeller foundation
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Justice & opportunity
Explore the Eviction Lab database to learn more about evictions across cities and neighborhoods in the U.S.

june

Justice & opportunity
We partnered with Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner to assess new ways to harness tech to facilitate change in the criminal justice system.
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Technology
June 15, 2018 | Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg welcomed Phil Smoot and Jonathan Goldman, who joined Sandra as CZI’s technology leaders.
Advocacy & Movement Building
August 12, 2017 | Amanda Nguyen, founder of Rise, a civil rights non-profit that supports survivors of rape and sexual assault, in her Washington D.C. office. Photograph by Ting Shen

july

Mark Zuckerberg, CZI and FWD.us Co-Founder, and the late Celso Mireles, Co-Founder of the AZ Dream Act Coalition and a passionate immigration reform advocate, at a FWD.us hackathon to build tools and apps that support dreamers. Photo courtesy of FWD.us.

Our partners at FWD.us helped pass state legislation to reduce unfair sentencing, made a data-driven case on the economic impact of DACA, and helped reunite families separated at the border.

Initiative
Justice & opportunity
Partner
FWD.US
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CZI
September 9, 2018 | Bubbles floating in front of the  San Mateo County History Museum in downtown Redwood City for Kidchella, a local event for families.
Justice & Opportunity
August 21, 2018 | Aly Tamboura, Justice & Opportunity, with Nigel Poor, a co-host of the podcast Ear Hustle, at San Quentin Prison.
Illustration by Nicholas Slate

The Community Fund supported 41 local organizations working on advancing solutions for pressing community needs in the Bay Area.

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Community
Program
Community Fund
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august

Education
September 19, 2018 | Ms. Tricia Berry’s students come together to close out their weekly Circle practice at Valor Flagship Academy in Nashville, TN. Photograph by John Edmonds
Justice & opportunity
Community-led ballot wins advance housing and criminal justice reforms in California, Louisiana, Florida, and beyond.
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Justice & opportunity
We partnered with Code for America to reshape access to critical government services.
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september

October 24, 2018 | During Ms. Quinn’s 2nd period science “Seed Project”, students Emery Tullos, Abrielle Zuniga and Erin Gomez work directly to measure the height of plants grown with different types of liquids, light, and soil at Bondy Intermediate School in Pasadena, Texas. Photograph by Elias Williams

The Summit Learning Program expanded to serve 72,000 students and grew to over 380 schools across the country.

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education
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summit learning program
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Science
$13 M
We pledged over $13 million to open science, investing in ASAPbio, Protocols.io, and our new Imaging Scientists Program.
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Science
We launched an open call for grants to support groups of scientists around the world working to map all cell types for the Human Cell Atlas.
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Technology
September 27, 2018 | CZI Co-Founder Priscilla Chan speaks at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
Science
October 4, 2018 | Carly Cheung, scientist at the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub in San Francisco, shows Sandra Chipuka and Ernestine Dada Johnson, TechWomen's Emerging Leaders, tools used in the BSL-1 lab.

october

Chan Zuckerberg ID (formerly IDseq) has already demonstrated its ability to detect disease in the field, identifying the mosquito-borne viral chikungunya disease in the spinal fluid of patients at the largest pediatric hospital in Bangladesh.

We teamed up with the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub to launch Chan Zuckerberg ID — a new tool that aims to help fight diseases in real-time.

initiative
science
partners
Chan Zuckerberg Biohub
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Read more
Justice & Opportunity
The Opportunity Atlas is an initial release of social mobility data, the result of a collaboration between researchers at the Census Bureau, Harvard University, and Brown University.
education
We partnered with the College Board to double the number of Black, Latinx, and female students taking AP Computer Science.
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november

November 15, 2018 | David Plouffe, Head of Policy & Advocacy at CZI (left) Mark Holden, General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Koch Industries (center) and Neera Tanden, President and CEO of the Center for American Progress (right) discuss Clean Slate policies at a bipartisan convening in Washington D.C

We joined 25+ organizations in launching the bipartisan Clean Slate Initiative, to support policies that give formerly incarcerated people a fair chance.

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Justice & Opportunity
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various
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december

education
We invested in college and career readiness, by supporting RaiseMe, Handshake, and Trilogy Education.
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We teamed up with BAYCAT Studios, a mission-driven, youth-led video production studio in San Francisco, to reflect on our 2018 journey and what makes us hopeful for the future.
We teamed up with BAYCAT Studios, a mission-driven, youth-led video production studio in San Francisco, to reflect on our 2018 journey and what makes us hopeful for the future.
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february
CZI’s Ben Barres Early Career Acceleration Awards are named for the late Ben Barres (pictured), an American neurobiologist and fierce advocate for young scientists, women, mentorship, and diversity in science.
CZI’s Ben Barres Early Career Acceleration Awards are named for the late Ben Barres (pictured), an American neurobiologist and fierce advocate for young scientists, women, mentorship, and diversity in science.
We announced the Neurodegeneration Challenge Network to support new scientific collaborations aimed at fighting diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and ALS.
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CZI’s Ben Barres Early Career Acceleration Awards are named for the late Ben Barres (pictured), an American neurobiologist and fierce advocate for young scientists, women, mentorship, and diversity in science.
CZI’s Ben Barres Early Career Acceleration Awards are named for the late Ben Barres (pictured), an American neurobiologist and fierce advocate for young scientists, women, mentorship, and diversity in science.
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February 23, 2018 | Master P fitted a student with a pair of glasses at Vision to Learn’s celebration event. Photograph by Gil Fortis
February 23, 2018 | Master P fitted a student with a pair of glasses at Vision to Learn’s celebration event. Photograph by Gil Fortis
Vision To Learn provided its 100,000th pair of glasses.
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February 23, 2018 | Master P fitted a student with a pair of glasses at Vision to Learn’s celebration event. Photograph by Gil Fortis
February 23, 2018 | Master P fitted a student with a pair of glasses at Vision to Learn’s celebration event. Photograph by Gil Fortis
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August 2, 2018 | Tarage Baker, staff member at BronxConnect worked with Lorenzo Bishop on his job applications. BronxConnect, a grantee of the Communities Thrive Challenge, runs alternative to incarceration, anti-gun violence, re-entry, and employment programs for young adults in the Bronx, New York. Photograph by Julian Bracero
August 2, 2018 | Tarage Baker, staff member at BronxConnect worked with Lorenzo Bishop on his job applications. BronxConnect, a grantee of the Communities Thrive Challenge, runs alternative to incarceration, anti-gun violence, re-entry, and employment programs for young adults in the Bronx, New York. Photograph by Julian Bracero
Through the Communities Thrive Challenge, 10 organizations across the U.S. received $1M each to improve economic opportunity in their communities.
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August 2, 2018 | Tarage Baker, staff member at BronxConnect worked with Lorenzo Bishop on his job applications. BronxConnect, a grantee of the Communities Thrive Challenge, runs alternative to incarceration, anti-gun violence, re-entry, and employment programs for young adults in the Bronx, New York. Photograph by Julian Bracero
August 2, 2018 | Tarage Baker, staff member at BronxConnect worked with Lorenzo Bishop on his job applications. BronxConnect, a grantee of the Communities Thrive Challenge, runs alternative to incarceration, anti-gun violence, re-entry, and employment programs for young adults in the Bronx, New York. Photograph by Julian Bracero
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The Eviction Lab built the first-ever nationwide evictions database to map housing insecurity and its impact.
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Explore the Eviction Lab database to learn more about evictions across cities and neighborhoods in the U.S.
Explore the Eviction Lab database to learn more about evictions across cities and neighborhoods in the U.S.
Explore the Eviction Lab database to learn more about evictions across cities and neighborhoods in the U.S.
Explore the Eviction Lab database to learn more about evictions across cities and neighborhoods in the U.S.
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june
We partnered with Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner to assess new ways to harness tech to facilitate change in the criminal justice system.
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June 15, 2018 | Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg welcomed Phil Smoot and Jonathan Goldman, who joined Sandra as CZI’s technology leaders.
June 15, 2018 | Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg welcomed Phil Smoot and Jonathan Goldman, who joined Sandra as CZI’s technology leaders.
Our technology team grew to 141 engineers, product managers, designers, and data scientists, along with new leadership.
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June 15, 2018 | Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg welcomed Phil Smoot and Jonathan Goldman, who joined Sandra as CZI’s technology leaders.
June 15, 2018 | Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg welcomed Phil Smoot and Jonathan Goldman, who joined Sandra as CZI’s technology leaders.
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August 12, 2017 | Amanda Nguyen, founder of Rise, a civil rights non-profit that supports survivors of rape and sexual assault, in her Washington D.C. office. Photograph by Ting Shen
August 12, 2017 | Amanda Nguyen, founder of Rise, a civil rights non-profit that supports survivors of rape and sexual assault, in her Washington D.C. office. Photograph by Ting Shen
We supported a movement worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize nomination: Rise founder and grantee Amanda Nguyen was nominated this year for her unique approach to advocacy in the civil rights space.
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August 12, 2017 | Amanda Nguyen, founder of Rise, a civil rights non-profit that supports survivors of rape and sexual assault, in her Washington D.C. office. Photograph by Ting Shen
August 12, 2017 | Amanda Nguyen, founder of Rise, a civil rights non-profit that supports survivors of rape and sexual assault, in her Washington D.C. office. Photograph by Ting Shen
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july
Our partners at FWD.us helped pass state legislation to reduce unfair sentencing, made a data-driven case on the economic impact of DACA, and helped reunite families separated at the border.
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Mark Zuckerberg, CZI and FWD.us Co-Founder, and the late Celso Mireles, Co-Founder of the AZ Dream Act Coalition and a passionate immigration reform advocate, at a FWD.us hackathon to build tools and apps that support dreamers. Photo courtesy of FWD.us.
Mark Zuckerberg, CZI and FWD.us Co-Founder, and the late Celso Mireles, Co-Founder of the AZ Dream Act Coalition and a passionate immigration reform advocate, at a FWD.us hackathon to build tools and apps that support dreamers. Photo courtesy of FWD.us.
Mark Zuckerberg, CZI and FWD.us Co-Founder, and the late Celso Mireles, Co-Founder of the AZ Dream Act Coalition and a passionate immigration reform advocate, at a FWD.us hackathon to build tools and apps that support dreamers. Photo courtesy of FWD.us.
Mark Zuckerberg, CZI and FWD.us Co-Founder, and the late Celso Mireles, Co-Founder of the AZ Dream Act Coalition and a passionate immigration reform advocate, at a FWD.us hackathon to build tools and apps that support dreamers. Photo courtesy of FWD.us.
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September 9, 2018 | Bubbles floating in front of the  San Mateo County History Museum in downtown Redwood City for Kidchella, a local event for families.
September 9, 2018 | Bubbles floating in front of the San Mateo County History Museum in downtown Redwood City for Kidchella, a local event for families.
We moved to Redwood City and grew to more than 250 team members!
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September 9, 2018 | Bubbles floating in front of the  San Mateo County History Museum in downtown Redwood City for Kidchella, a local event for families.
September 9, 2018 | Bubbles floating in front of the San Mateo County History Museum in downtown Redwood City for Kidchella, a local event for families.
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August 21, 2018 | Aly Tamboura, Justice & Opportunity, with Nigel Poor, a co-host of the podcast Ear Hustle, at San Quentin Prison.
August 21, 2018 | Aly Tamboura, Justice & Opportunity, with Nigel Poor, a co-host of the podcast Ear Hustle, at San Quentin Prison.
Inside San Quentin State Prison, Prison University Project changes people’s lives, while award-winning podcast Ear Hustle tells their stories. We’re backing both.
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August 21, 2018 | Aly Tamboura, Justice & Opportunity, with Nigel Poor, a co-host of the podcast Ear Hustle, at San Quentin Prison.
August 21, 2018 | Aly Tamboura, Justice & Opportunity, with Nigel Poor, a co-host of the podcast Ear Hustle, at San Quentin Prison.
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Illustration by Nicholas Slate
Illustration by Nicholas Slate
The Community Fund supported 41 local organizations working on advancing solutions for pressing community needs in the Bay Area.
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Illustration by Nicholas Slate
Illustration by Nicholas Slate
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August
September 19, 2018 | Ms. Tricia Berry’s students come together to close out their weekly Circle practice at Valor Flagship Academy in Nashville, TN. Photograph by John Edmonds
September 19, 2018 | Ms. Tricia Berry’s students come together to close out their weekly Circle practice at Valor Flagship Academy in Nashville, TN. Photograph by John Edmonds
We supported Valor Collegiate Academies, where economically disadvantaged students inverted the achievement gap for their fourth straight year.
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September 19, 2018 | Ms. Tricia Berry’s students come together to close out their weekly Circle practice at Valor Flagship Academy in Nashville, TN. Photograph by John Edmonds
September 19, 2018 | Ms. Tricia Berry’s students come together to close out their weekly Circle practice at Valor Flagship Academy in Nashville, TN. Photograph by John Edmonds
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August
Community-led ballot wins advance housing and criminal justice reforms in California, Louisiana, Florida, and beyond.
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August
We partnered with Code for America to reshape access to critical government services.
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September
The Summit Learning Program expanded to serve 72,000 students and grew to over 380 schools across the country.
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October 24, 2018 | During Ms. Quinn’s 2nd period science “Seed Project”, students Emery Tullos, Abrielle Zuniga and Erin Gomez work directly to measure the height of plants grown with different types of liquids, light, and soil at Bondy Intermediate School in Pasadena, Texas. Photograph by Elias Williams
October 24, 2018 | During Ms. Quinn’s 2nd period science “Seed Project”, students Emery Tullos, Abrielle Zuniga and Erin Gomez work directly to measure the height of plants grown with different types of liquids, light, and soil at Bondy Intermediate School in Pasadena, Texas. Photograph by Elias Williams
October 24, 2018 | During Ms. Quinn’s 2nd period science “Seed Project”, students Emery Tullos, Abrielle Zuniga and Erin Gomez work directly to measure the height of plants grown with different types of liquids, light, and soil at Bondy Intermediate School in Pasadena, Texas. Photograph by Elias Williams
October 24, 2018 | During Ms. Quinn’s 2nd period science “Seed Project”, students Emery Tullos, Abrielle Zuniga and Erin Gomez work directly to measure the height of plants grown with different types of liquids, light, and soil at Bondy Intermediate School in Pasadena, Texas. Photograph by Elias Williams
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September
We pledged over $13 million to open science, investing in ASAPbio, Protocols.io, and our new Imaging Scientists Program.
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September
We launched an open call for grants to support groups of scientists around the world working to map all cell types for the Human Cell Atlas.
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September
Priscilla celebrated the role of women in tech at the Grace Hopper Celebration, including our own female tech leaders, who now make up 39% of our tech leadership team (46% of our tech team are also women).
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September 27, 2018 | CZI Co-Founder Priscilla Chan speaks at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
September 27, 2018 | CZI Co-Founder Priscilla Chan speaks at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
September 27, 2018 | CZI Co-Founder Priscilla Chan speaks at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
September 27, 2018 | CZI Co-Founder Priscilla Chan speaks at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
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October 4, 2018 | Carly Cheung, scientist at the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub in San Francisco, shows Sandra Chipuka and Ernestine Dada Johnson, TechWomen's Emerging Leaders, tools used in the BSL-1 lab.
October 4, 2018 | Carly Cheung, scientist at the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub in San Francisco, shows Sandra Chipuka and Ernestine Dada Johnson, TechWomen's Emerging Leaders, tools used in the BSL-1 lab.
The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub invested $13.7 million in groundbreaking biomedical research.
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October 4, 2018 | Carly Cheung, scientist at the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub in San Francisco, shows Sandra Chipuka and Ernestine Dada Johnson, TechWomen's Emerging Leaders, tools used in the BSL-1 lab.
October 4, 2018 | Carly Cheung, scientist at the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub in San Francisco, shows Sandra Chipuka and Ernestine Dada Johnson, TechWomen's Emerging Leaders, tools used in the BSL-1 lab.
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October
Chan Zuckerberg ID has already demonstrated its ability to detect disease in the field, identifying the mosquito-borne viral chikungunya disease in the spinal fluid of patients at the largest pediatric hospital in Bangladesh.
Chan Zuckerberg ID has already demonstrated its ability to detect disease in the field, identifying the mosquito-borne viral chikungunya disease in the spinal fluid of patients at the largest pediatric hospital in Bangladesh.
We teamed up with the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub to launch Chan Zuckerberg ID — a new tool that aims to help fight diseases in real-time.
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Chan Zuckerberg ID has already demonstrated its ability to detect disease in the field, identifying the mosquito-borne viral chikungunya disease in the spinal fluid of patients at the largest pediatric hospital in Bangladesh.
Chan Zuckerberg IDhas already demonstrated its ability to detect disease in the field, identifying the mosquito-borne viral chikungunya disease in the spinal fluid of patients at the largest pediatric hospital in Bangladesh.
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October
Opportunity Insights, a newly launched research institute at Harvard, will help us better understand inequality across the country.
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The Opportunity Atlas is an initial release of social mobility data, the result of a collaboration between researchers at the Census Bureau, Harvard University, and Brown University.
The Opportunity Atlas is an initial release of social mobility data, the result of a collaboration between researchers at the Census Bureau, Harvard University, and Brown University.
The Opportunity Atlas is an initial release of social mobility data, the result of a collaboration between researchers at the Census Bureau, Harvard University, and Brown University.
The Opportunity Atlas is an initial release of social mobility data, the result of a collaboration between researchers at the Census Bureau, Harvard University, and Brown University.
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October
We partnered with the College Board to double the number of Black, Latinx, and female students taking AP Computer Science.
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November 15, 2018 | David Plouffe, Head of Policy & Advocacy at CZI (left) Mark Holden, General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Koch Industries (center) and Neera Tanden, President and CEO of the Center for American Progress (right) discuss Clean Slate policies at a bipartisan convening in Washington D.C
November 15, 2018 | David Plouffe, Head of Policy & Advocacy at CZI (left) Mark Holden, General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Koch Industries (center) and Neera Tanden, President and CEO of the Center for American Progress (right) discuss Clean Slate policies at a bipartisan convening in Washington D.C
We joined 25+ organizations in launching the bipartisan Clean Slate Initiative, to support policies that give formerly incarcerated people a fair chance.
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November 15, 2018 | David Plouffe, Head of Policy & Advocacy at CZI (left) Mark Holden, General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Koch Industries (center) and Neera Tanden, President and CEO of the Center for American Progress (right) discuss Clean Slate policies at a bipartisan convening in Washington D.C
November 15, 2018 | David Plouffe, Head of Policy & Advocacy at CZI (left) Mark Holden, General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Koch Industries (center) and Neera Tanden, President and CEO of the Center for American Progress (right) discuss Clean Slate policies at a bipartisan convening in Washington D.C
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We invested in college and career readiness, by supporting RaiseMe, Handshake, and Trilogy Education.
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