{"id":30678,"date":"2025-06-28T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T09:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=30678"},"modified":"2025-06-28T09:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T09:24:13","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-and-priscilla-chan-narrow-czis-focus-to-science-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=30678","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan Narrow CZI\u2019s Focus to Science Efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At a Silicon Valley off-site meeting<\/a> in February for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan were asked to reassure their staff about their philanthropy\u2019s approach to diversity, equity and inclusion.<\/p>\n

Dr. Chan, a pediatrician, spoke first. She told employees that words such as D.E.I. would be de-emphasized internally, according to four attendees, who were not authorized to speak publicly about the confidential meeting. But, Dr. Chan insisted in lengthy remarks, the charitable organization\u2019s commitment would not change.<\/p>\n

Then Mr. Zuckerberg, Meta\u2019s chief executive, chimed in. Their philanthropy was going to hire the best talent for the job, he said bluntly.<\/p>\n

Within days, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative ended<\/a> diversity-based recruiting and laid off or reassigned employees who ran diversity initiatives, scrubbing its website of all references. A few months later, a school for low-income students<\/a> that Dr. Chan had founded announced it was closing. The philanthropy also axed its work in housing, its most progressive remaining project.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The moves capped a startling retrenchment for an organization that had once set out to be a sprawling left-of-center philanthropic endeavor. Mr. Zuckerberg, 41, and his wife, Dr. Chan, 40, had started the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative in 2015 using the wealth from their social networking empire to form a \u201cnew kind of philanthropy\u201d and pledging to fix American education, transform U.S. public policy and \u201ccure all disease.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur hopes for your generation focus on two ideas: advancing human potential and promoting equality,\u201d Mr. Zuckerberg and Dr. Chan wrote in an open letter about the effort to their newborn daughter, Max, at the time. They added, \u201cWe must participate in policy and advocacy to shape debates.\u201d<\/p>\n

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At a Silicon Valley off-site meeting in February for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan were asked to reassure their staff about their philanthropy\u2019s approach to diversity, equity and inclusion.Dr. Chan, a pediatrician, spoke first. She told employees that words such as D.E.I. would be de-emphasized internally, according to four attendees, who were not authorized to speak publicly about the confidential meeting. But, Dr. Chan insisted in lengthy remarks, the charitable organization\u2019s commitment would not change.Then Mr. Zuckerberg, Meta\u2019s chief executive, chimed in. Their philanthropy was going to hire the best talent for the job, he said bluntly.Within days, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative ended diversity-based recruiting and laid off or reassigned employees who ran diversity initiatives, scrubbing its website of all references. A few months later, a school for low-income students that Dr. Chan had founded announced it was closing. The philanthropy also axed its work in housing, its most progressive remaining project.The moves capped a startling retrenchment for an organization that had once set out to be a sprawling left-of-center philanthropic endeavor. Mr. Zuckerberg, 41, and his wife, Dr. Chan, 40, had started the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative in 2015 using the wealth from their social networking empire to form a \u201cnew kind of philanthropy\u201d and pledging to fix American education, transform U.S. public policy and \u201ccure all disease.\u201d\u201cOur hopes for your generation focus on two ideas: advancing human potential and promoting equality,\u201d Mr. Zuckerberg and Dr. Chan wrote in an open letter about the effort to their newborn daughter, Max, at the time. They added, \u201cWe must participate in policy and advocacy to shape debates.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30680,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30678"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30681,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30678\/revisions\/30681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}