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  1. Mapping The Brain’s Microbiome: Can Studying Germs In The Brain Lead To A Cure For Alzheimer’s?

    Could it really all come down to infection? Two scientists and a team of researchers are trying to find out. Harvard researchers, Dr. Rudolph Tanzi and Robert D. Moir, PhD, are heading up a team, funded by the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund and the Good Ventures Foundation, that has taken on mapping the microbiome, the population of microorganisms, some helpful and some pathological, that exists inside the brain.

    Forbes

  2. Philanthropy Awards, 2016

    Through their Good Ventures Foundation and the Open Philanthropy Project, Moskovitz and Tuna have set a great example for other emerging donors by not only revealing grants in a timely fashion, but also explaining the thinking behind grantmaking in blog posts.

    Inside Philanthropy

  3. Philanthropy in Silicon Valley: Big Bets on Big Ideas

    The founders of Silicon Valley’s technology companies, many of whom have amassed huge fortunes at a young age, tend to look at their philanthropic giving much as they do their companies: They study a problem, explore a number of ways to attack it and eventually invest heavily to scale up the ideas they think will be winners…

    The New York Times

  5. More Philanthropists Should Think Like Venture Capitalists

    In the private sector, no one thinks that great investments are easy to find. A 2010 study found that the median private equity or venture capital fund requires more than three investment team members reviewing 80 companies for a year to close a single transaction. For-profit investors who find one truly great deal per year are considered stars in the field. Recently, I spent the day with the team at Battery Ventures.

    Forbes

  6. Wringing the Most Good Out of a Facebook Fortune

    Sitting behind a laptop affixed with a decal of a child reaching for an apple, an illustration from Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree, Cari Tuna quips about endowing a Tuna Room in the Bass Library at Yale University, her alma mater. But it’s unlikely any of the fortune that she and her husband, Facebook co- founder Dustin Moskovitz, command — estimated by Forbes at more than $9 billion — will ever be used to name a building.

    Chronicle of Philanthropy

  8. Young Silicon Valley Billionaires Pioneer New Approach to Philanthropy

    Tuna and Moskovitz were in their mid-20s in 2010 when they became the youngest couple ever to sign on to the Giving Pledge, the campaign started by Bill Gates and Warren E. Buffett to encourage the world’s billionaires to commit to giving away most of their wealth. They had little experience with philanthropy, but they believed that the bulk of the money Moskovitz had made — estimated to be $8.1 billion by Forbes — should be returned to society in their lifetimes. The question was how.

    Washington Post

  9. A Facebook Co-Founder and His Wife Use Effective Altruism to Shape Giving

    Effective altruism is still a niche movement, made up primarily of a small number of philosophers, techies, and financiers who structure their work or their giving—or both—to achieve the most good possible. But it’s a niche that happens to include a young couple who may eventually give away billions of dollars. Dustin Moskovitz, a co-founder of Facebook, and his wife, Cari Tuna, are organizing their foundation, Good Ventures, to adopt the principles of effective altruism.

    Chronicle of Philanthropy

  10. Another Facebook Co-Founder Gets Philanthropic

    Some advice for nonprofits that want a piece of the Facebook fortune: Get yourself on GiveWell‘s list of effective charities. Good Ventures, the new foundation started by the 27-year-old Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, is beginning to give away its money to nonprofits recommended by the charity-evaluation group.

     

    Chronicle of Philanthropy