为庆祝女儿降生，Facebook CEO马克-扎克伯格及其华裔妻子普里西拉-陈表示，将向一家新的慈善组织捐出他们所持99%的Facebook股份，价值达450亿美元。
你没看错，450亿！美元！
他们表示，将用这笔钱改善个性化学习，提高疾病治疗系统，以及建立更强大的社区。他们说，希望女儿在更好的世界里长大。这或许才是一个父亲，对女儿最伟大和最无私的爱！
扎克伯格同时在Facebook贴出给女儿的一封信，一起来读读吧：
一封致女儿的信
亲爱的麦克斯，
我和你的母亲对于你的诞生所带来的对未来的希望难以言表。你的新生活充满了希望，我们祝愿你可以健康、快乐，这样你就可以充分探索。你已经给了我们充分的理由仔细考虑我们希望你住在怎样的世界。
像所有的父母一样，我们想要你在一个比我们现在更美好的世界里成长。
虽然新闻头条总是关注着哪里出了问题，但从很多方面看，我们的世界正在变得更好。
卫生水平在提升、贫困人口在减少、知识在累积、人与人彼此联通，各领域的技术也在发展，这都意味着，你的人生应该比如今我们的生活更加显著地美好。
我们会尽我们所能让这一切发生，不仅仅是因为我们爱你，更因为我们对于下一代的所有孩子都有一种道德责任感。
我们相信人人生而平等，未来几代人也一样。我们的社会有责任为那些即将来到社会上的人改善生活而投资，而不仅仅是为了现在的人们。
但现在，我们并没有总是将资源用在解决你们这一代将面临的问题上，没有给你们创造最大的机遇。
以疾病为例，我们用在治疗患者上的费用，是我们投资在避免你们从根源上得病的研究上的50倍。
药学作为一门真正的科学仅仅发展了不到100年，然而我们已经见证了许多疾病的治愈，以及在治疗其他疾病上的可喜进步。随着科技的加速发展，我们有望在未来的100年间预防、治疗和处理所有或是大部分剩下的疾病。
如今，有许多人因心脏病、癌症、中风、神经退化疾病和传染病这五类疾病而死，我们可以加速在这些疾病以及其他疾病上的进展。
当我们意识到你们这一代和你的子女一代有可能不用再受到这些疾病的困扰，我们都有责任将我们的投资向未来倾斜更多，以实现这一可能。你的母亲和我想尽我们的努力。
治疗疾病需要时间。五年或十年的短时间内，我们所做的可能难见成效。但是在更长远的未来，现在播下的种子会成长起来，终有一天，你和你的孩子会看见我们只能想象的世界：一个没有疾病的世界。
像这样的机会还有很多。如果一个社会把更多的力量集中在这样重大的挑战上时，我们能为你们这一代创造一个更好的世界。
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我们希望我们的下一代能够关注两个观念：发掘人类潜力和促进人类和平。
发掘人类潜力关乎不断拓展人生卓越的极限。
你们的学识和经验能否超越我们今天的百倍吗？
我们这一代能否治愈疾病，让你们活得更长寿也更健康呢？
我们能否将整个世界连接，让你们可以接触到每一个想法、每一个人和每一个机会呢？
我们能否使用更多的清洁能源，让你们在保护环境的同时发明今天无法想象的东西呢？
我们是否可以培养出企业家精神，让你们能够创建各种企业、迎接各种挑战，以促进和平和繁荣呢？
促进平等就是保证每一个人都能接触到这些机遇——无论他们在什么国家、家庭和境遇中出生。
我们社会必须这样做，不仅仅是为了正义或是慈善，而更是为人类的伟大进步。
今天，我们的潜能远远不及我们本应拥有的。发掘我们所有潜能的唯一途径就是沟通这个世界上所有人类的智慧、想法和贡献。
我们这一代能否消除贫困和饥饿吗？
我们能否为每一个人提供基本的医疗保障？
我们能否打造包容和热情的团体？
我们能让所有民族的人们和平共处，互相理解么？
我们这一代能否真正赋予每一个人权利？赋予妇女、儿童、代表性不足的少数族裔、移民和那些还未被连接的人权利？
如果我们这一代能够做出正确的投资，以上每一个问题都会迎刃而解——而且很有可能是在你我的有生之年。
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这个使命：发掘人类潜力和促进人类平等需要一个新的方法来使所有人都向这个目标努力前进。
我们一定要进行25、50甚至100年的长远投资。艰难的挑战往往需要很长的时间，很难用短期思维解决。
我们一定要直接接触那些我们所服务的人。我们只有在了解他们的需求和愿望的时候，才能够真正给予他们力量。
我们一定要为改变而夯实科技。许多机构在这些挑战上投资了资金，但在生产力上的最大进展来自创新。
我们一定要参与到政策制定中，形成辩论机制。很多机构不愿意这样做，但是进步必须要靠不断的运动来支持。
我们必须支持每一个领域当中独立且强有力的领导者。实现这一使命，与专家合作要比光是我们自己倡导更为有效。
我们必须承担今天的风险，为更美好的明天吸取经验和教训。我们尚处于学习的早期阶段，许多无效的事情已经尝试过了，但是我们会倾听、学习，并不断完善。
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我们经历了个性化学习、接入互联网以及社区教育，以及监控状况，塑造了我们的人生观。
我们这一代人在教室中成长，我们都是以同样的速度学习同样的东西，我们的兴趣或需求被忽视。你将会获得让你掌握如何用最好的方式学习以及应该将注意力放在何处的技术。在感兴趣的科目上，你学业进展会突飞猛进；在最难懂的领域中，你可以尽可能多的获得帮助。你会探索到今天的学校里未涉及的领域。你们的老师也会提供更好的工具和数据来帮助你实现你的目标。
更棒的是，即使没有居住在一个好的小区，全世界的学生仍然可以在互联网上运用个性化的工具。当然，让每个人拥有公平的起点不仅仅是在技术方面，但是个性化学习确实给了所有孩子一个可行的方法，来实现更好的教育和更公平的机会。
我们正在开始开发这样的技术，而且已初见成效。学生不仅在考试中获得了更好的成绩，他们还有了足够的技巧和信心来学习任何他们想要学习的知识。这一切只是刚刚开始，在你的学校里，技术和教育将迅速提高。
我和你的母亲都教过学生，我们知道要付出什么样的努力才能让这一切实现。这项技术会与教育界的领袖人物合作，这会使全球所有的学校都采用个性化教育的方式。这项技术会参与到社区教育当中，这也正是我们开始了旧金山港湾区（San Francisco Bay Area）的社区项目的原因。这项技术会开发新的技术并尝试新的想法。同时它也会犯错，从中吸取教训，并达到最终的目标。
只要理解了我们能为你们这一代创造的世界，我们就有责任，全社会共同努力投资未来，使其变为现实。
齐心协力，我们就能实现。当我们实现之时，个性化的学习不仅会帮助好学校的学生，也会帮助为任何一个能上互联网的人提供更平等的机会。
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对你们这一代人来说，更好的机遇往往来自于让每个人都连接互联网。
人们常常认为互联网只是为了娱乐和交流，但是对于世界上的大多数人们来说，互联网是一条生命线。
你们这一代的很多机会都会来自于互联网。人们常常认为互联网只是为了娱乐和交流，但是对于世界上的大多数人们来说，互联网是一条救生索。
当你周边没有好学校的时候，互联网为你提供了教育；当你周边没有医生的时候，互联网为你提供了如何预防疾病、抚养健康的孩子的讯息；当你周边没有银行的时候，互联网为你提供了金融服务；当你的经济状况不佳的时候，互联网为你提供了工作和机会。
互联网实在是太重要了，每十个能上互联网的人当中，就有1个摆脱了贫困，并创造了1个新的工作岗位。
但是世界上仍然有超过半数——40多亿的人不能上网。
如果我们这一代使得他们能够上网，我们就可以帮助数以百万计的人们脱离贫困。我们也可以帮助数以百万计的孩子获得教育，帮助数以百万计的人们远离疾病。
技术和合作可以带来另一个长远的成就。它能够帮助新技术的发明，从而使得互联网的成本更低，并连接到偏远地区。它能够与政府、NGO和公司合作。它能够参与到社区当中，了解他们的需要。在我们成功之前，不同的人对于未来更好的发展有不同的见解，我们会为此做出更多的努力。
但是，齐心协力就能成功，并创造一个更平等的世界。
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技术本身不能解决问题。创造更好的世界需要从创造强有力和健康的社区开始。
当孩子们学习的时候，意味着他们有着最好的机会。当他们健康的时候，他们学得最好。
健康是个很早就需要关注的问题，有爱的家庭、良好的营养和安全、稳定的环境对于孩子的健康来说都很重要。
早年受到过创伤的孩子通常无法得到心智和身体的良好发育。研究表明大脑发育的改变导致他们的认知能力下降。
你的母亲是一个医生和教育家，所以她及早意识到了这一点。
如果你没有健康的童年，那么你很难发挥出你所有的潜能。
如果你必须要为食物和房租发愁，或是担心被虐待和人生安全，那么你很难发挥出你所有的潜能。
如果因为自己的肤色，你担心自己相比考上大学更容易锒铛入狱；或者你因身份是否合法的问题而担心你的家庭会被驱逐出境；又或者因为你的宗教、性取向或者性别认同，你担心会面临暴力，那么你很难发挥出你所有的潜能。
我们需要让整个社会体系认识到这些问题之间是相互联系的。这就是你母亲所构建的新型学校的需要贯彻的理念。
通过与学校、健康中心、父母联合会和当地政府的联系，通过保证所有孩子从小就被好好喂养和照顾，我们开始把这些不平等现象联系起来。只有这样，我们才能开始一起给每一个人平等的机会。
实现这个目标还会花上很多年，但这是另一个证明人类的潜力提升与促进公平之间是怎样紧密联系在一起的例子。我们想要实现任意一个目标，我们都要先创造包容和健康的社区。
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为了让你们这一代生活在一个更好的世界，我们这一代可以做的事情太多了。
今天，我和你母亲承诺，用我们毕生的精力，为解决这些挑战尽微薄之力。我会在接下来的很多很多年里仍然会担任Facebook的CEO，但是这些问题太过重要，等不及在我们老了或是你长大之后再开始了。在现在这样一个年轻的年纪开始，我们希望在我们这辈子中看到一些复合收益。
当你成为陈-扎克伯格（Chan Zuckerberg） 家族的下一代接班人时，我们也要启动了“陈-扎克伯格行动”（Chan Zuckerberg Initiative），为了下一代的孩子，和其他人一起发掘人类潜力和促进人类平等。我们倡议的领域会着重在个性化教育、治疗疾病、连接人们和创建包容的社区。
我们会在接下来的人生中捐出Facebook99%——现在价值大约是450亿美元的股份来完成我们的使命。我们知道相对于其他已经投入到这些问题上的所有资源和才智来说，我们所尽的只是绵薄之力。但我们希望以我们所能，与他们共同努力。
在接下来的数月中，当我们适应了新家庭的生活节奏，并从产假中恢复过来后，我们会分享更多的细节。我们非常理解你们对于我们为什么以及如何做有很多的提问。
当我们已为人父母、进入了人生下一篇章时，我们想要对使得人类进步和人类平等成为可能的所有人致以崇高的敬意。
我们之所以能做这样的工作，只是因为在我们身后有一个强大的全球社区。创建Facebook为下一代创造了能使世界更美好的资源。Facebook社区中的每一个人都在这个工作中尽了一份力。
站在为之奉献的专家——我们的导师、伙伴和很多难以置信的人们的肩膀上，我们才得以实现这样的进步。
同时，因为身边有爱的家庭、支持的朋友和很棒的同事，我们才维护好了这样一个社区并完成这样一个使命。我们希望你们也能在各自的生活中有这样深厚而美好的感情。
麦克斯，我们爱你。我们体会到了巨大的责任感，要使你和所有的孩子所居住的世界变成一个更好的地方。你给予了我们爱、希望和喜悦，我们希望你的生活也能充满相同的爱、希望和喜悦。我们迫不及待地想要看到你给这个世界所带来的美好。
爱你的，
爸爸妈妈
A letter to our daughter
Dear Max：
You mother and I don't yet have the words to describe the hope you give us for the future . You new life is full of promise,and we hope you will be happy and healthy so you can explore it fully. You've already given us a reason to reflect on the world we hope you live in.
Like all parents, we want you to grow up in a world better than ours today.
While headlines often focus on what's wrong, in many ways the world is getting better. Health is improving. Poverty is shrinking. Knowledge is growing. People are connecting. Technological progress in every field means your life should be dramatically better than ours today.
We will do our part to make this happen, not only because we love you, but also because we have a moral responsibility to all children in the next generation.
We believe all lives have equal value, and that includes the many more people who will live in future generations than live today. Our society has an obligation to invest now to improve the lives of all those coming into this world, not just those already here.
But right now, we don't always collectively direct our resources at the biggest opportunities and problems your generation will face.
Consider disease. Today we spend about 50 times more as a society treating people who are sick than we invest in research so you won't get sick in the first place.
Medicine has only been a real science for less than 100 years, and we've already seen complete cures for some diseases and good progress for others. As technology accelerates, we have a real shot at preventing, curing or managing all or most of the rest in the next 100 years.
Today, most people die from five things -- heart disease, cancer, stroke, neurodegenerative and infectious diseases -- and we can make faster progress on these and other problems.
Once we recognize that your generation and your children's generation may not have to suffer from disease, we collectively have a responsibility to tilt our investments a bit more towards the future to make this reality. Your mother and I want to do our part.
Curing disease will take time. Over short periods of five or ten years, it may not seem like we're making much of a difference. But over the long term, seeds planted now will grow, and one day, you or your children will see what we can only imagine: a world without suffering from disease.
There are so many opportunities just like this. If society focuses more of its energy on these great challenges, we will leave your generation a much better world.
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Our hopes for your generation focus on two ideas: advancing human potential and promoting equality.
Advancing human potential is about pushing the boundaries on how great a human life can be.
Can you learn and experience 100 times more than we do today?
Can our generation cure disease so you live much longer and healthier lives?
Can we connect the world so you have access to every idea, person and opportunity?
Can we harness more clean energy so you can invent things we can't conceive of today while protecting the environment?
Can we cultivate entrepreneurship so you can build any business and solve any challenge to grow peace and prosperity?
Promoting equality is about making sure everyone has access to these opportunities -- regardless of the nation, families or circumstances they are born into.
Our society must do this not only for justice or charity, but for the greatness of human progress.
Today we are robbed of the potential so many have to offer. The only way to achieve our full potential is to channel the talents, ideas and contributions of every person in the world.
Can our generation eliminate poverty and hunger?
Can we provide everyone with basic healthcare?
Can we build inclusive and welcoming communities?
Can we nurture peaceful and understanding relationships between people of all nations?
Can we truly empower everyone -- women, children, underrepresented minorities, immigrants and the unconnected?
If our generation makes the right investments, the answer to each of these questions can be yes -- and hopefully within your lifetime.
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This mission -- advancing human potential and promoting equality -- will require a new approach for all working towards these goals.
We must make long term investments over 25, 50 or even 100 years. The greatest challenges require very long time horizons and cannot be solved by short term thinking.
We must engage directly with the people we serve. We can't empower people if we don't understand the needs and desires of their communities.
We must build technology to make change. Many institutions invest money in these challenges, but most progress comes from productivity gains through innovation.
We must participate in policy and advocacy to shape debates. Many institutions are unwilling to do this, but progress must be supported by movements to be sustainable.
We must back the strongest and most independent leaders in each field.Partnering with experts is more effective for the mission than trying to lead efforts ourselves.
We must take risks today to learn lessons for tomorrow. We're early in our learning and many things we try won't work, but we'll listen and learn and keep improving.
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Our experience with personalized learning, internet access, and community education and health has shaped our philosophy.
Our generation grew up in classrooms where we all learned the same things at the same pace regardless of our interests or needs.
Your generation will set goals for what you want to become -- like an engineer, health worker, writer or community leader. You'll have technology that understands how you learn best and where you need to focus. You'll advance quickly in subjects that interest you most, and get as much help as you need in your most challenging areas. You'll explore topics that aren't even offered in schools today. Your teachers will also have better tools and data to help you achieve your goals.
Even better, students around the world will be able to use personalized learning tools over the internet, even if they don't live near good schools. Of course it will take more than technology to give everyone a fair start in life, but personalized learning can be one scalable way to give all children a better education and more equal opportunity.
We're starting to build this technology now, and the results are already promising. Not only do students perform better on tests, but they gain the skills and confidence to learn anything they want. And this journey is just beginning. The technology and teaching will rapidly improve every year you're in school.
Your mother and I have both taught students and we've seen what it takes to make this work. It will take working with the strongest leaders in education to help schools around the world adopt personalized learning. It will take engaging with communities, which is why we're starting in our San Francisco Bay Area community. It will take building new technology and trying new ideas. And it will take making mistakes and learning many lessons before achieving these goals.
But once we understand the world we can create for your generation, we have a responsibility as a society to focus our investments on the future to make this reality.
Together, we can do this. And when we do, personalized learning will not only help students in good schools, it will help provide more equal opportunity to anyone with an internet connection.
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Many of the greatest opportunities for your generation will come from giving everyone access to the internet.
People often think of the internet as just for entertainment or communication. But for the majority of people in the world, the internet can be a lifeline.
It provides education if you don't live near a good school. It provides health information on how to avoid diseases or raise healthy children if you don't live near a doctor. It provides financial services if you don't live near a bank. It provides access to jobs and opportunities if you don't live in a good economy.
The internet is so important that for every 10 people who gain internet access, about one person is lifted out of poverty and about one new job is created.
Yet still more than half of the world's population -- more than 4 billion people -- don't have access to the internet.
If our generation connects them, we can lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. We can also help hundreds of millions of children get an education and save millions of lives by helping people avoid disease.
This is another long term effort that can be advanced by technology and partnership. It will take inventing new technology to make the internet more affordable and bring access to unconnected areas. It will take partnering with governments, non-profits and companies. It will take engaging with communities to understand what they need. Good people will have different views on the best path forward, and we will try many efforts before we succeed.
But together we can succeed and create a more equal world.
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Technology can't solve problems by itself. Building a better world starts with building strong and healthy communities.
Children have the best opportunities when they can learn. And they learn best when they're healthy.
Health starts early -- with loving family, good nutrition and a safe, stable environment.
Children who face traumatic experiences early in life often develop less healthy minds and bodies. Studies show physical changes in brain development leading to lower cognitive ability.
Your mother is a doctor and educator, and she has seen this firsthand.
If you have an unhealthy childhood, it's difficult to reach your full potential.
If you have to wonder whether you'll have food or rent, or worry about abuse or crime, then it's difficult to reach your full potential.
If you fear you'll go to prison rather than college because of the color of your skin, or that your family will be deported because of your legal status, or that you may be a victim of violence because of your religion, sexual orientation or gender identity, then it's difficult to reach your full potential.
We need institutions that understand these issues are all connected. That's the philosophy of the new type of school your mother is building.
By partnering with schools, health centers, parent groups and local governments, and by ensuring all children are well fed and cared for starting young, we can start to treat these inequities as connected. Only then can we collectively start to give everyone an equal opportunity.
It will take many years to fully develop this model. But it's another example of how advancing human potential and promoting equality are tightly linked. If we want either, we must first build inclusive and healthy communities.
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For your generation to live in a better world, there is so much more our generation can do.
Today your mother and I are committing to spend our lives doing our small part to help solve these challenges. I will continue to serve as Facebook's CEO for many, many years to come, but these issues are too important to wait until you or we are older to begin this work. By starting at a young age, we hope to see compounding benefits throughout our lives.
As you begin the next generation of the Chan Zuckerberg family, we also begin the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to join people across the world to advance human potential and promote equality for all children in the next generation. Our initial areas of focus will be personalized learning, curing disease, connecting people and building strong communities.
We will give 99% of our Facebook shares -- currently about $45 billion -- during our lives to advance this mission. We know this is a small contribution compared to all the resources and talents of those already working on these issues. But we want to do what we can, working alongside many others.
We'll share more details in the coming months once we settle into our new family rhythm and return from our maternity and paternity leaves. We understand you'll have many questions about why and how we're doing this.
As we become parents and enter this next chapter of our lives, we want to share our deep appreciation for everyone who makes this possible.
We can do this work only because we have a strong global community behind us. Building Facebook has created resources to improve the world for the next generation. Every member of the Facebook community is playing a part in this work.
We can make progress towards these opportunities only by standing on the shoulders of experts -- our mentors, partners and many incredible people whose contributions built these fields.
And we can only focus on serving this community and this mission because we are surrounded by loving family, supportive friends and amazing colleagues. We hope you will have such deep and inspiring relationships in your life too.
Max, we love you and feel a great responsibility to leave the world a better place for you and all children. We wish you a life filled with the same love, hope and joy you give us. We can't wait to see what you bring to this world.
Love,
Mom and Dad
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