Giving Compass' Take:

• Darren Walker interviews Priscilla Chan about the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and how it uses technology to give back to communities and find human-centered solutions using technology. 

• Are there organizations in your community that are leveraging technology to solve social issues? 

• Learn more about the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. 

Priscilla Chan, Co-Founder & CO-CEO of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative on creating innovative solutions with organizers and activists to tackle complex challenges of our time.

Darren Walker: CZI, the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, which you started with your husband, in a way to actually honor the birth of your daughter. Talk about that.

Priscilla Chan: So, a little more than four years ago,  we were pregnant. We had a number of miscarriages before that. And then I think we had a very human experience of, oh my god, it's happening now, we are deeply unprepared.  And then we went into nesting mode, and then it spiraled from there. Because it was like, do we have the crib? Is the world going to be okay? And so we started thinking oh my gosh, she's coming, she's going to be raised in the world around us,  and there's so much progress in the world that needs to be made. And we want to be a part of that. So we always knew we were going to give back.

Read the full article about giving back to solve social issues at the Ford Foundation.