2019 Annual Letter from Priscilla & Mark

A Future For Everyone

Our mission is to find new ways to leverage technology, community-driven solutions, and collaboration to accelerate progress in Science, Education, and within our Justice & Opportunity work.

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Education

Five Reasons to Become an EdTech Engineer

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Science

Driving Progress Against Rare Diseases

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Justice & Opportunity

Partnership for the Bay’s Future Celebrates First Year Progress

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Community

CZI Community: Our Work Starts Here

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Recent News

Annual Letter from Priscilla & Mark

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Education

Elmo and Priscilla Chan Visit The Primary School

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Community CZI Announces 2020 Community Fund Recipients
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Hear from the people and voices staying close to the work

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Fact

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.

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Source : Oklahoma Department of Corrections
CZI

Celebrating National Mentoring Month

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Justice & Opportunity

Transforming Prosecution

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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
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Technology

How Tech Can Help Tackle the Toughest Challenges

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Education

How Tech Helps Teachers Strengthen Relationships with Students

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Science

IDseq: Tech to Detect Infectious Disease

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FACT

As many as 7,000 rare diseases affect 400 million people globally.

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Source : National Institutes of Health and the World Health Organization
Science Working to Solve a Family’s Medical Mystery
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Community

In Service of My Community

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Science

Building Computational Capacity for Researchers

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Education

SXSoundbites: What We Heard, Saw & Experienced at SXSW

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Education

Valor Collegiate and the Power of Circles

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Justice & Opportunity

A Q&A With Clean Slate Supporters

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Justice & Opportunity

Aly’s Criminal Justice Reform Perspective: Informed by Experience

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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.

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Source : Human Cell Atlas

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?

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Priscilla Chan
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Education

Building Technology From a Teacher’s Perspective

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Advocacy & Movement Building

Behind the Movement with Pabitra Benjamin

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Advocacy & Movement Building

Amanda Nguyen’s Blueprint for Social Change

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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Helping to Bridge the Access Gap: Atlanta University Center

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

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Chenglin Wu
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Community In the Community: Ecumenical Hunger Program
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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.

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Loren Hinkson
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Fact

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.

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Source : The National Mentoring Partnership
Annual Letter

Letter from Priscilla & Mark

This year, we wanted to introduce you to a few CZI family members and partners who are powering progress and highlight some of our favorite moments and milestones.

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