扎克伯格喜得千金 与妻子捐99%股份450亿美元做慈善改善下一代生活

孩子的出生总能给父母带来很多冲击、惊喜和转折。美国当地时间12月1日，Facebook创始人马克-扎克伯格在自己的Facebook上宣布，华裔妻子普莉希拉·陈（PriscillaChan）上周生了女儿，取名Maxima Chan Zuckerberg（小名：Max），扎克伯格还宣布将把99%家产约450亿美金捐给一个新成立的慈善组织更大的效果，促进全球儿童的健康与发展，希望包括自己的女儿的下一代人带来更美好的生活和世界。

他说:“我和普莉希拉非常高兴地迎接我们的女儿马克斯（Max）来到这个世界。”他将成立一个以自己及太太姓氏为名的基金会“ChanZuckerberg”，捐款由此希望发挥更大的效果，成为推动让未来变得更美好的一股力量。

同时，扎克伯格附上了自己和妻子给女儿的一封信，以下是这封信的中英文版：

致女儿的一封信

亲爱的麦克丝：

你的母亲和我还无法用言辞描述你的到来带给我们对未来的希望。你新的生命充满潜力，我们希望你健康而幸福的追寻这一切。你的到来已经给予我们理由，去思考我们希望你生活的未来世界。

像所有的父母一样，我们希望你生活在比我们更好的世界。

虽然头条新闻经常集中在一些坏蛋事情，但总体而言，这个世界在变得更加美好。人类健康在提升，贫穷在减少，知识在增长，人们连接在一起。每一个技术领域的进步，都意味着你的生活将远超我们。

我们将尽我们的所能让这发生，不仅仅因为我们爱你，也因为我们对下一代的孩子们有着道义上的责任。

我们相信人生而价值平等，这也包括未来许多代的人们。我们的社会有义务在现在就做出投资，提升未来年代来到这个世界的孩子们，而不仅仅是我们自己这一代。

但是，现在我们并没有很好的将我们所有的资源，用于解决下一代将要面临的问题。一个例子是疾病。

今天，我们用于治疗的费用，是用于健康研究的50倍。这些研究，本可用于消除疾病。医药作为科学只有不到100年的时间，我们已经根除某些疾病，并在其他一些方面取得巨大的进展。随着技术的加速发展，我们真的有希望在未来100年预防，治疗或者遏制几乎所有的疾病。

今天，人们大多死于五类疾病，心脏病、癌症、中风、和传染病等。我们在这类疾病治疗方面，可以走的更快。一

旦我们意识到你这一点、乃至你的孩子们，可能不必遭受疾病之苦，那么我们大家都有责任将我们的投资用于实现这一目标。

。治疗疾病需要时间。未来的5到10年，也许看起来不会有太大的进展。但从长期而言，现在播下的种子终将生长发芽。总有一天，你和你的孩子们将体验我们只能想象的，一个不必遭受疾病之苦的世界。还有许多类似这样的机会。

如果一个社会能将更多的精力用于这些大挑战，我们将给你这一代留下一个更好的世界。

我们希望你这一代能够集中在两件事情：发挥人类潜能，和致力人生平等。

发挥潜能将拓展人生的边界。你们能否100倍的学习和经历我们这一代的人生？我们这一代能否攻克疾病，让你们这一代生活的更长，更健康？

我们能否让世界相连，让你们能够接触每一个想法，每一个人，每一个机会？

我们能否致力清洁能源，让你们发明制造我们今天还无法想象的事物，并同时保护环境。我们能否培养企业家精神，使你们能够创新创业，解决威胁和平与繁荣的每一个挑战？

致力平等则将让每一个人都能够接触这些机会，无论其国度、家庭、和成长环境。我们的社会必须做这些事情，不仅仅是为了公义和慈善，更是为了人类的伟大进步。

今天，许多人的潜力被剥夺。发挥人的潜能的唯一方式，是让每一个人的天赋、想法和贡献发挥作用。我们能否消除疾病和贫穷？我们能否给世界上的每一个人基本的医疗？我们能否构建一个包容的社会？

我们能否让不同国家的人相互理解，和平共处？

我们能否给每一个人以能力和机会 - 妇女、儿童、少数族裔、乃至今天还没有连接的人们？如果我们这一代正确投资，以上每一个问题的答案都将是Yes，而且，很可能在你这一代就实现。

这些使命，发挥潜能，致力平等，要求我们用全新的方式去实现。

我们必须做出长期的投资，25年，50年，乃至100年。大的挑战需要长远的视野，不可用短期思维去解决。

我们必须和我们所服务的人群直接接触。如果我们不能理解他们的需求，发挥潜能只是一句空话。

我们必须发展革命性的技术。很多机构投资解决这些挑战性，但进步只能来自于技术革新。

我们必须参与政策辩论。许多机构不愿如此做，但进步需要持续运动去维持。

我们必须支持每一个领域的领袖。与专家合作，远比我们自己领导一切更为有效。

我们今天必须承担风险，从中吸取经验和教训以造福未来。我们仍然在学习的早期，许多尝试的事情会遭受失败。但我们必须聆听、学习，并不断提高。

我们的个性化学习，英特网络，社区教育与健康，已经塑造了我们的哲学思维。

我们这一代成长于教室，以同样的步调学习同样的东西，无论各自的兴趣和需求。

你这一代必须自己设立目标，成为自己所希望的人 - 工程师、医生、作家、或社区领袖。技术将帮助你理解如何最好的学习，并找到自己的不足。你将在自己感兴趣的领域迅速前进，并在自己的不足方面得到最大的帮助。你将探索今天学校根本不被提供的课程。你的老师也将有更好的工具和数据，帮助你达成自己的目标。

更好的是，全世界的孩子们都将在网络上使用个性化的学习工具，即便他们不在一个好的学区。当然，让每一个人有一个公平的起点，不能只靠技术。但是，个性化学习能够给予所有的孩子们更好的教育，更平等的机会。

我们已经开始构筑这样的技术，结果鼓舞人心。孩子们不仅考试成绩提升，而且取得学习技能与信心，可以追寻自己感兴趣的任何科目。这一切只是开始，技术将快速提升你在学校中的每一年的体验。

你的母亲和我都曾教过学生，了解如何使其工作。我们需要和教育界的领袖一起努力，让世界的每一个学校采纳个性化的教育。我们需要和每一个社区接触，而我们自己则在旧金山湾区开始。我们需要构筑新的技术，尝试新的想法。我们也会犯错，并吸取教训，直到我们达成目标。

但是，一旦我们了解我们可以为你创造的世界，我们这个社会就有这样的责任去投入资源和精力，让这一切变为现实。

大家一起，我们可以做到这些。当我们这样做的时候，个性化教育将不仅帮助好学区的孩子们，也将帮助每一个有网络连接的学生。

你们这一代的许多机会，将来自让每一个人上网。

人们认为网络只是娱乐和通讯。但对世界许多人而言，网络是生命线。

如果你没有生活在一个好的学区，网络会给你提供教育。如果你身边没有好的医生，网络能够提供预防和治疗疾病的信息。如果你住处没有银行，网络还能提供金融服务。如果你生活的地方经济不景气，网络也能提供工作机会。

网络如此重要 - 每10个人接触网络，就能创造一个新的工作机会，并有一人脱离贫穷。

然而，世界上仍有一半的人，大约40亿，没有网络连接！

如果我们这一代能够让他们相连，则会有数亿人脱离贫困，让数亿的孩子得到教育，并拯救百万人的生命。

这一长期目标能够通过技术与合作予以实现。我们需要发明新的技术，让网络更加便宜和便捷。我们需要与政府、非盈利组织合作，并与社区接触、理解他们的需求。善意的人们对前进的路径会有不同的观点，合作能够让我们取得成功。

技术本身并不能解决问题。构筑更好的世界，始于构筑健康的社区。

孩子们的学习，会让他们得到更好的机会。而健康的孩子，能学的更好。

健康的孩子，始于最初 - 充满爱心的家庭，良好的营养，安全稳定的环境。

经历早期巨变的孩子，容易发展不健康的身心。研究显示，大脑发育的物理改变，会导致低下的认知能力。

如果童年不健康，则很难实现自己的全部潜能。

如果你需要操心衣食，或者担心虐待和犯罪，也很难实现自己的全部潜能。

如果你担心自己会因为肤色而被关进监狱、而不是上大学，或者你担心因为自己的法律地位而被驱除出境，或者你因为自己的宗教，性取向、性自我意识而遭受暴力，则很难实现自己的全部潜能。

我们需要理解这些相关问题的机构。这正是你母亲正在构建的新型学校的哲学。

通过与学校、医院、及地方政府的合作，让所有的孩子从一开始就有好的营养和关爱，我们将能够治理这些不平等，从而给每一个人平等的机会。

这样的新型发展模式，需要很多年的时间。这是发挥潜能、致力平等两项目标紧密相连的又一个例子。我们必须构筑包容而健康的社会，来实现这两项目标。

为了让你这一代生活在更好的世界，我们这一代人有很多事情要做。

今天，你母亲和我们承诺尽我们人生的微薄努力，帮助解决这些挑战。我在可以预见的未来将继续担任Facebook的CEO，但这些问题太重要，不能等待。现在就开始，我们有希望在有生之年看到成效。

在你开始成为我们家族一员之际，我们也开始设立Chan-Zuckerberg计划，加入全世界推动发挥潜能与致力平等的人们，帮助我们下一代的孩子们。我们最初的关注领域是个性化学习，疾病治疗，连接人们，以及构筑社区。

我们将捐赠我们所拥有的99%Facebook股票， 当前价值450亿美金，用于推动这些目标，在我们的有生之年。我们知道这是很小的一点贡献，与已经投入其中的巨大资源、天赋、与精力相比。但我们想尽我们所能。

在我们初为父母，进入人生新的篇章之际，我们感谢每一个帮助过我们的人们，让这一切成为可能。

我们能够做这些，因为背后有一个强大的全球社区。创立Facebook给了我们资源以提升下一代所生活的世界。Facebook的每一个成员，对此都有贡献。

我们能够取得一点进展，完全是因为我们站在他人的肩上 - 我们的导师、合作者、以及很多很多难以置信的人们。

我们能够致力于解决这些问题，服务社区，也是因为我们被家人环绕，朋友支持，同事帮助。我们希望你也有这样深刻而激励向上的关系。

麦克丝，我们爱你，并感受巨大的责任，让这个世界变的更好，为了你和所有的孩子们。我们希望你的生活，也同样充满爱，希望，和你给予我们的快乐。我们急切等待你带给这个世界的一切。

爱你的

爸爸妈妈

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.

• • •

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.

• • •

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.

• • •

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.

• • •

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.

• • •

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.

• • •

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