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,…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

For Issues in Science and Technology, the Sloan Foundation's Evan Michelson and Adam Falk argue that, for philanthropy to shape science in the coming decades, it will need to adopt…

For the Fall 2021 issue of the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Alliance board member Elizabeth Good Christopherson joined other leaders in science philanthropy and communications to outline the need and…

A note from Alliance board chair Harvey V. Fineberg, M.D., Ph.D.Valerie Conn is stepping down from her position as president of the Science Philanthropy Alliance. After nearly six years at the…