Programs
What we are building
The foundation is starting small on purpose. Each program below states where it stands today; none of them is a promise of funding until a call is published.
- Planned
Open Research Grants
Small grants for teams working on one of the four agenda areas. The first call has not opened yet; details will be published here when it does.
- Planned
Foundation Fellowship
Support for researchers who want to work on a public-interest problem while staying connected to their field. Fellowship terms are being developed.
- Planned
Research Access Fund
Support for travel, data, compute, and publication costs, the small expenses that too often decide whether a project continues.
Before a call opens
A program is opened when there is a published call with criteria, a budget, and a review process behind it. Until then we would rather say plainly that the work is planned than invite proposals we cannot fairly review.
If you are working on something in the agenda, write to us anyway. Understanding the problems is how the first call gets designed.
Contact the foundationPrinciples
Principles
The same rules apply to every program, whatever it funds.
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Public benefit is the test
We ask what a project makes possible for people, not how impressive it sounds in a summary.
- 02
Open by default
Methods, code, and results are published unless there is a specific, stated reason not to.
- 03
Rigor without gatekeeping
Careful work can come from anywhere. We review ideas on their merits and publish the criteria we use.
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Humility about what AI can do
We are skeptics as well as advocates. Some problems will not yield to these tools, and saying so is part of the work.