In an editorial for Science, Alliance President France Córdova explains how "foundation leaders are taking bolder actions" to increase equity in science funding and solve global problems.

Alliance President France A. Córdova was recently recognized by Research!America with the Geoffrey Beene Foundation Builders of Science Award. In a conversation with Research!America President Mary Woolley, France discussed her career and the role of private philanthropy in medical research.Watch the conversation here.

The following note from Board Chair Harvey Fineberg appeared in the Alliance's 2021 annual report, which recaps a banner year for the Alliance that saw it add six members and complete 84 advising projects to inform more than $127 million in science funding. Marked by the appointment of France Córdova as our president, 2021 was a…

To mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the Packard Foundation's Xiao-Wei Wang and Natalie Lake asked three Packard Fellows about how they are advancing science, not only through their research, but also by appreciating the value of inclusion. Read more here.

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced 20 grants totaling nearly $5 million aimed at empowering innovative, systemic change-focused partnerships between Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) and other educational institutions to build, expand, or enhance effective, equitable pathways into STEM graduate study by Black, Indigenous, and Latina/o students. Read more about this landmark investment on Sloan's website.

The Science Philanthropy Alliance is thrilled to welcome its newest senior science advisor, Thomas R. Cech. Cech is a distinguished professor of biochemistry at University of Colorado Boulder and recipient of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering work with RNA. You can read more here about Cech's background.The Alliance’s esteemed senior science…

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative co-founders and co-CEOs Dr. Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg announced that they are doubling down on their commitment to accelerating biomedical science and advancing human health with an ambitious new effort to observe, measure, and analyze any biological process throughout the human body — across spatial scales and in real time. Read…

In our year-long series on the influence of discovery science on the world's pandemic response, author Susan Reslewic Keatley explores how high-throughput technologies have sped up science in transformative ways. Stepwise tasks once done only by the deft hands of scientists, such as pipetting liquids from one test tube to another, have in recent history…

Lorelle Espinosa, program director at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and co-chair of the Alliance's DEI shared interest group, recently wrote in Inside Philanthropy that "[Sloan] and others are responding to the fact that philanthropy is failing to rise to one of the most important challenges of our day, but that there is a way…