# Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

> The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative was founded in 2015 by Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg to help solve some of society’s toughest challenges — from curing or preventing disease to improving education and addressing the needs of our local communities. We provide the operational support across our areas of work.

## Key Pages

- [Our Leadership](https://chanzuckerberg.com/about/leaders/)
- [Annual Letters](https://chanzuckerberg.com/about/annual-letter/)
- [Investing Our Endowment](https://chanzuckerberg.com/about/investing-our-endowment/)
- [Science](https://chanzuckerberg.com/science/)
- [Education](https://chanzuckerberg.com/education/)
- [Community](https://chanzuckerberg.com/community/)
- [Grants](https://chanzuckerberg.com/grants-ventures/grants/)
- [Ventures](https://chanzuckerberg.com/grants-ventures/ventures/)
- [Newsroom](https://chanzuckerberg.com/newsroom/)
- [Blog](https://chanzuckerberg.com/blog/)

## Recent Stories

- [Celebrating 10 Years of Big Bets and Big Breakthroughs](https://chanzuckerberg.com/blog/10-year-look-back/)
- [Ambrose Carr: 4 Strategies for Scaling Biological Data for AI-Based Discovery](https://chanzuckerberg.com/blog/ambrose-carr-biological-data-ai/)
- [Accelerating AI in Biology With Community-Driven Benchmarks](https://chanzuckerberg.com/blog/ai-biology-community-benchmarks/)
- [4 Ways Protein Monitoring Could Change the Way We Stay Healthy](https://chanzuckerberg.com/blog/continuous-protein-monitoring-inflammation/)
- [Scaling Proven Learning Practices](https://chanzuckerberg.com/blog/scaling-proven-learning-practices/)
- [A Model for Collaborative Scientific Impact](https://chanzuckerberg.com/blog/neurodegeneration-challenge-network-impact-report/)
- [Reasoning With Cells](https://chanzuckerberg.com/blog/rbio-reasoning-ai-model/)
- [Our Future in Imaging Comes Into Focus](https://chanzuckerberg.com/blog/future-imaging-new-biohub/)
- [Building Trust in AI for Education](https://chanzuckerberg.com/blog/ai-developer-tools-trust/)
- [Teaching AI To Think Like a Cell](https://chanzuckerberg.com/blog/teaching-ai-think-like-cell-gremln/)

## Recent Posts

- [The Chan Zuckerberg Community Fund, Supporting Local Nonprofits, Is Now Open](https://chanzuckerberg.com/newsroom/czi-community-fund-open-2026/) - Applications for the CZ Community Fund, an annual grantmaking program supporting nonprofits in San Mateo County, California, are open through June 5.
- [CZI Announces Investments in East Palo Alto and Belle Haven](https://chanzuckerberg.com/newsroom/investments-east-palo-alto-belle-haven/)
- [Chan Zuckerberg Community Space Night Market Uplifts Local Entrepreneurs](https://chanzuckerberg.com/newsroom/holiday-night-market-2025/) - The Holiday Night Market returned with handcrafted goods, flavorful treats, and a lively space where community members supported local entrepreneurs.
- [R&D World: CZI, NVIDIA Expand Virtual Cell Push With Open Models and Benchmarks](https://www.rdworldonline.com/czi-and-nvidia-expand-virtual-cell-push-with-open-models-and-benchmarks/)
- [CZI and NVIDIA Accelerate Virtual Cell Model Development for Scientific Discovery](https://chanzuckerberg.com/newsroom/nvidia-partnership-virtual-cell-model/) - Core to this collaboration is an effort to scale biological data processing to petabytes of data spanning billions of cellular observations, enabling next-generation model development.
- [TIME: Why AI Companies Are Racing To Build a Virtual Human Cell](https://time.com/7324119/what-is-virtual-cell/)
- [Inside Precision Medicine: Shana Kelley — Instrumented Tissues for Monitoring Human Body in Real-Time](https://www.insideprecisionmedicine.com/multimedia/podcasts/behind-the-breakthroughs/shana-kelley-instrumented-tissues-for-monitoring-human-body-in-real-time/)
- [Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Announces 2025 Community Fund Grantees](https://chanzuckerberg.com/newsroom/2025-community-fund-grantees/) - The Community Fund supports organizations working across San Mateo County to increase access to the building blocks of economic well-being.
- [Ground Truths: Shana Kelley — Biosensors To Track Proteins and Inflammation in Our Blood in Real Time](https://erictopol.substack.com/p/biosensors-to-track-proteins-and)
- [VentureBeat: CZI's rBio Uses Virtual Cells To Train AI, Bypassing Lab Work](https://venturebeat.com/ai/chan-zuckerberg-initiatives-rbio-uses-virtual-cells-to-train-ai-bypassing-lab-work/)