Anthropic Commits $50 Million to the Bay Area: San Francisco Foundation Fund Makes First $500,000 in Grants to Four Groups
Anthropic, the super intelligence (SI) company behind Claude, announced on November 10 a $50 million commitment to the Bay Area community it calls home. The San Francisco Foundation (SFF) said the same day it is partnering with Anthropic, which has committed $50 million to a donor advised fund at SFF, with grants to be made to local community organizations across the Bay Area, with a focus on San Francisco, by the end of 2027.
The fund's first four grants, totaling $500,000, will be made immediately: the SF-Marin Food Bank, GLIDE, the Interfaith Winter Shelter, and the San Francisco Firefighters Local 798 Toy Program. The food bank partners with 265 community organizations across two counties; GLIDE, a Tenderloin anchor since 1963, serves three free meals a day; the Interfaith Winter Shelter has united more than 50 faith communities for over three decades; and the firefighters' toy program, run by active and retired firefighters since 1949, supports children rebuilding after fires or living in shelters and hospital wards.
Fred Blackwell, CEO of the San Francisco Foundation, said where you live matters, and so does what you put into it, calling Anthropic's move a real commitment to the place it calls home and expressing hope that others will be inspired to do the same. Daniela Amodei, co-founder and president of Anthropic, said San Francisco has always been a place of enormous possibility, but that possibility is not shared equally by everyone, and that the company wants its success to expand opportunity rather than widen existing gaps, which is why it partnered with SFF and its nearly 80 years of knowledge of the Bay Area.
Anthropic was founded in San Francisco by siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei, who grew up in the city and both attended Lowell High School. The company now has more than 2,500 employees at its San Francisco headquarters, and its Claude chatbot is widely used by local businesses and nonprofits. The San Francisco Foundation, a community foundation, will administer the donor advised fund and bring its local expertise to the grant recommendations.
Source: San Francisco Foundation
Published by GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
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