7,102,000,000 USD
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative was founded in 2015 to help solve some of society’s toughest challenges — from eradicating disease and improving education, to addressing the needs of our local communities. Its mission is to build a more inclusive, just, and healthy future for everyone. Across their work in Science, Education, and within local communities, the organization pairs technology with grantmaking, impact investing, and collaboration to help accelerate the pace of progress towards this mission.
Science:
- Support the science and technology that will make it possible to cure, prevent, or manage all diseases by the end of the 21st century.
- Foster collaboration between scientists and engineers, develop new technologies, and build support for basic scientific research.
Education:
- Ensure that every student — not just a lucky few — can get an education that’s tailored to their individual needs and supports every aspect of their development.
- Every teacher will be equipped with the tools and research they need to help get them there.
Community:
- Support work to create greater opportunity for communities in the Bay Area and across California, which includes flexible, responsive grantmaking; capacity building for local organizations; and partnerships around key issues, like housing affordability and homelessness.
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative seeks to support scientists, research projects, and programs that make a long-term impact on important biomedical problems. The organization will evaluate this work through internal analysis and through expert advice.
They will evaluate the quality, productivity, reach, and scholarly collaboration of the programs and individuals they support. The organization will apply these criteria when making overall commitments to new and existing research programs, when reviewing individual grant applications, and during ongoing reviews of supported research through mandatory progress reports, investigator meetings, and lab visits.
Scientific Output
The organization will evaluate scientists, research projects, and programs by the new knowledge that they produce, emphasizing the quality, robustness, and rigor of that work. Evidence of productivity includes:
- Datasets
- Protocols and methods
- Software and code
- Scientific reagents and resources used by other groups
- Preprints
- Published papers
Tools and Resource Dissemination
The reach of science through its dissemination, data re-use, resource sharing and adoption of tools will be measured. Evidence of reach includes:
- Deposition in open community repositories, including but not limited to:
- GitHub for software code
- Addgene for plasmids and other reagents
- Protocols.io for methods
- JAX for mice
- bioRxiv and arXiv for preprints
- Clinical and public health application
- Commercial development
- Citations of resources and papers
- Links, forks, pulls, and maintenance of software code
- Requests for reagents and resources, and their further use by the community
Collaboration
The organization will evaluate contributions to collaborative communities. Evidence includes:
- Leadership and participation in collaborative research projects
- Co-authored publications, protocols, and software code
- Career success of trainees and staff scientists associated with the research
- Acknowledgments for contributions to community resources and datasets
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