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What Your Support Makes Possible

It allows faculty, principal investigators, and lab leaders to be able to share their precious time for the benefit of the wider science community. All the ideas in the world won’t turn into action without support in making the time and space to execute them.

We provide that support, whether it’s help developing ideas into manageable projects, operationalizing them, amplfying and sharing what works, and convening the community to keep the flywheel of new idea generation going. The more we do, the more we CAN do, with your help.

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Ways to Support Us

We are grateful for any donations of any size. If you don't want to choose, we'll make sure anything extra in General Operating support goes where it can make the most impact. Thank you!

General Operating Support

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General support for Solving For Science allows us to support our community of scientists with time, staff and resources they need to make the change they want to see.

Our scrappy staff and essential operating costs
General Seed Fund to develop and start new Projects
website and social upkeep
managing and expanding network, community

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ENGAGE Initiative Activities

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Support research scientists in improving their public & civic engagement skills and projects

The ENGAGE Workshops
Meeting the Moment newsletter & resources
ENGAGE Seed Grants to develop and start Projects
ENGAGE public engagement and civic resources

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National PROPEL Initiative

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Support a national pipeline of post-baccalaureate trainees to get the lab experience and mentorship to apply successfully for a PhD program.

Expand National PROPEL post-baccalaurate training
Seed Grants to institutions to set up programs
resources for convening trainees and mentors
Access to PI one-on-one mentorship appointments

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CONNECT initiative Activities

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Support for a variety of activities from workshops to social events to advance collaboration, collegiality, and community

Workshops to advance research collaborations
Local events to deepen institutional communities
Regional and national events to build wider inter-disciplinary connections
Seed funding for local organizers to scale community connections

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CURATE Initiative Activities

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Support the development of a knowledge-sharing platform by scientists for scientists to share information and insights faster in a trusted environment

Engineers working closely with scientists-users to develop most useful features and UX
Designers working on lab-friendly UX
Convenings or hackathons to solicit wider feedback

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Feed our Seed Fund

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Support our Idea Engine, in which we use all our facets to encourage new ideas to come forward, act as thought partners to develop to a pilot, and apply seed money to help it grow

General SEED grants to select new and promising ideas coming from members
National PROPEL seed grants to new ideas for trainee development
Seed Grants to selected ideas arising from CONNECT or ENGAGE activities

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Why It Matters

“I feel my eyes were opened to see scientific communication and connection in a differentway. This is a transformative experience.”

ENGAGE participant

“I feel educated, motivated, and empowered to do more to protect our society and make it abetter place, particularly through sustaining and science to help all communities.”

ENGAGE participant

“Inspiring, feeling of community around shared goals and concerns, lots of actionable items,exciting collaborations.”

ENGAGE participant

Thank you to all our donors and volunteers for your generosity.
We couldn’t do it without you!

Major Donors

Engage + Connect @UCSF * Anonymous * Anonymous * Anonymous * Anonymous *

board, founders, advisors

Matthew Krummel * Vincent Chan * Liz Neeley * Igor Brodsky * Ananda Goldrath * Jose Montanes-Ordovas * Andrew Oberst * Sunny Shin * Tiffany Scharschmidt * Sara Suliman * Joe Sun * Mark Ansel * Ken Cadwell * Gretchen Diehl * Keke Fairfax * Tanya Freedman * Hugo Gonzales * De’Broski Herbert * Marc Jenkins * Nikhil Joshi * Meghan Koch * Michael Kuhns * Beiyun Liu * Patrick Mitchell * Dan Mucida * Marion Pepper * Isabella Rauch * Lauren Rodda * Carla Rothlin * Ram Savan *

Contributors & Supporters

Anonymous * Michael Alexanian * Rafael Argüello * Troy Baldwin * Kevin Barry * Vasileios Bekiaris * Olivier Bernard * Angelina Bilate * Maria Cecilia Campos Canesso * Simon Cleary * Regina Clemens * Alexis Combes * Matthew Cowley * Jason Cyster * Payal Damani-Yokota * Omer Dushek * Amy Fan * Fengxia Gao * Christopher Garris * Audrey Gerard * Ghita Ghislat * Sean Gibbons * Edgar Gonzales-Kozlova * Joanna Groom * Jeremy Gunawardena * Oliver Harrison * Mark Headley * Claire Hivroz * Kenneth Hu * Jordan Jacobelli * Julie Jameson * Edward Jenkins * Owen Jiang * Yeara Jo * Halime Kalkavan * Daniel Kaplan * Michael Kattah * Mirela Kuka * Jorden Lane * Alvaro Lladser * Li-Fan Liu * Damian Maseda * Raphaël Mattiuz * Claire McIntyre * Yuxuan Miao * Ari Molofsky * Hernandez Moura Silva * Giorgia Nasi * Tim Nice * Pedro Papotto * Roham Parsa * Karin Pelka * Christopher Pennell * Ferdinando Pucci * Arjun Raj * Arja Ray * Miguel Reina-Campos * Lee Reinhardt * Joel Riley * Denise Risnik * Franca Ronchese * Michael Rosenblum * Dylan Ryan * Marwa Saad * Stefan Schattgen * Mark Siracusa * Matthew Spitzer * Tara Sutherland * Fikadu Tafesse * Elia Tait Wojno * Emily Thornton * Roxane Tussiwand * Jakob von Moltke * Haopeng Wang * Justin Wilson * Sarah Wyman *