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STAT: New Report Highlights Impact of Open Source Software

Dec 3, 2024 ·

Science

CZI Awards $16 Million for Foundational Open Source Software Tools Essential to Biomedicine

Today, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) announced $11.1 million in funding for open source software projects that are...

Aug 31, 2021 · 2 min read

Grants

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Announces $450 Million to Accelerate Criminal Justice & Immigratio... Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Announces $450 Million to Accelerate Criminal Justice & Immigration Reform

Editor’s Note: As shared in the blog post below, in 2021 CZI announced that we would focus on our core work in science,...

Jan 27, 2021 · 7 min read

Science

CZI Awards $4.7 Million for Open Source Software and Organizations Advancing Open Science

Today, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) announced $3 million in funding for open source software projects representing...

Nov 19, 2020 · 5 min read

Science

Inside Philanthropy: Why Chan Zuckerberg is Devoting Millions to Open Source Software for Scientists

This piece was published in Inside Philanthropy on June 24, 2020. To an important degree, scientific research advances as a...

Jul 2, 2020 · 5 min read

Science

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Awards $2 Million to medRxiv, a Health Sciences Preprint Server and Top... Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Awards $2 Million to medRxiv, a Health Sciences Preprint Server and Top Source of Breaking...

Editor’s Note: This release has been updated as of 11/2/21. Today, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) announced $2...

Jun 18, 2020 · 6 min read

Science

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Awards $3.8 Million for Open Source Software Projects Essential to... Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Awards $3.8 Million for Open Source Software Projects Essential to Science

Today, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) announced $3.8 million in funding for 23 grants to support open source software...

May 27, 2020 · 3 min read

Science

New Single-Cell Technologies Help Scientists Understand COVID-19 Disease Progression

Editor’s Note: This release has been updated as of 7/26/22. Today, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) announced $750,000...

May 6, 2020 · 7 min read

COVID-19

STAT: Striking Down DACA Would Eliminate Thousands of Health Care Workers, Thwarting America’s... STAT: Striking Down DACA Would Eliminate Thousands of Health Care Workers, Thwarting America’s Pandemic Response

This piece was published in STAT on May 1, 2020. The health care community has a responsibility to anticipate worst-case...

May 4, 2020 · 6 min read

COVID-19

CZI Joins Other California Philanthropies in COVID-19 Relief Fund to Support State’s Undocumented... CZI Joins Other California Philanthropies in COVID-19 Relief Fund to Support State’s Undocumented Community

Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR), in partnership with California philanthropies including the Chan...

Apr 23, 2020 · 4 min read

Science

New Dataset Makes Coronavirus Research Open and Machine Readable

Editor’s Note: This release has been updated as of 11/2/21. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative collaborated with leaders in...

Mar 16, 2020 · 3 min read

Grants

CZI Names Vice President and Head of Justice & Opportunity

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is proud to announce that Mike Troncoso will lead the organization’s Justice &...

Oct 10, 2019 · 2 min read

Science

CZI announces support for protocols.io to accelerate open, reproducible science

Today, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) announced its support for protocols.io, an open access resource that allows...

Oct 2, 2018 · 3 min read

Science

CZI announces funding for ASAPbio, joins newly created Member Advisory Group

Today, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) announced that it will join a new Member Advisory Group for ASAPbio (Accelerating...

Sep 14, 2018 · 3 min read

Science

CZI Partners with UMass Center for Data Science to Accelerate Science and Medicine

Editor’s Note: This release has been updated as of 11/2/21. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has announced a new...

Jan 16, 2018 · 2 min read

Community

Supporting Bay Area DREAMERs with TheDream.us

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is proud to partner with thedream.us to help 400 DREAMers across the Bay Area, including...

Jun 29, 2017 · 2 min read

Science

bioRxiv to Help Scientists Share Research Faster

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is partnering with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to support and build out bioRxiv to help...

Apr 26, 2017 · 2 min read

Science

The Future of Scientific Knowledge

Cori Bargmann:  As we begin our science work at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, one of our first steps is to learn from the...

Jan 27, 2017 · 2 min read

Science

CZI to Boost Scientific Research with AI-powered Meta

Editor’s Note: We are sunsetting the Meta application on March 31, 2022. Please see our Medium post for more...

Jan 23, 2017 · 2 min read

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